or is DH over this packet of biscuits?

[redviolin]

I was at home alone last night, DH was out. I am 35 weeks pregnant and feeling a bit picky/faddy about food. Was craving biscuits, went to our corner shop and bought one of those Mc Vities "factory floor" packs where they put all the different types of biscuits in one big bag for 99p.

I watched TV and selected bits of the biscuits to eat: the jammy bit of the jammy dodgers, the outside of the bourbon creams. When the cookies didn't contain enough chocolate chips I'd discard one and eat another. I've done this all my life with cheap biscuits - mainly the night before my period when I'm feeling a bit low, but it's more of a few times a year thing - not a chronic habit to buy packs of things, eat part of them and throw the rest away.

Anyway, I was left with even more "bits" of biscuits, not really anything anyone can salvage, so I decide to throw them away.

DH got home and saw inside the bin (biscuit graveyard) and went mental at how wasteful I am and how I must have an eating disorder. I said I knew it looked like that but really I was just being a bit indulgent and wanted the variety and as it was a cheap pack I wasn't wasting money etc.

He has woken up this morning still pissed off about these bloody biscuits. DH grew up in another country during food rationing, so I understand where he is coming from, but surely he can give me a break at 35 weeks?

Hmm. His reaction seemed a bit OTT imho.
And it is only a packet of biscuits after all.
But its an odd habit isn't it. And although the YABU-ers here are being accused of pearl clutching I think the balance would have tilted the other way if the aibu was concerning the biscuit-wasting behaviour of a dd/ dsd/ ds etc.

Oh, and bourbons are not nice, so yabu to include them in your binge.

For those asking why I only eat the outside of the bourbon biscuit:

It's because I find the chocolate cream covers too much of the surface area of the biscuit. For a biscuit that size, the cream should have a similar ratio of cream to biscuit that the jammy dodger has. So when I unsandwich the bourbon, the inner chocolate cream often leaves remnants on the two outside slabs, so I get the intense but occasional sweetness of the cream, countered by the starchy (but still sweet) taste of the biscuit.

Total over reaction. The whole bag cost 99p. You ate what you fancied, let's say half, and the crumbly remnants went in the bin. So you didn't waste 99p, just some crumbly off cuts.

Absolutely no reason for getting knickers in a twist.

Red no, no I get that. I just can't picture how you can get the second biscuit off the cream.

I have a Booths!

Coumarin I scrape it off with a knife, making sure I leave just enough, like a partially buttered piece of bread.

It's therapeutic.

There's tools involved now? I'd quite like your bourbon cream remnants. It's the best bit imo.

Totally bemused by the abuse the OP has had, I have to say.

When that pregnant, all bets are off, surely. I've read threads on here about mumsnetters inhaling kitchen sponges and licking the inside of washing powder boxes.

Nibbling a few biscuits and throwing them away is tame in comparison.

Coumarin, you beee-yatch . Will you be a raspberry-cake mule for me?

Hmm possibly... How much are we talking here?

Oh op I'm totally with you

I've been known to just eat the cream off the custard creams and give the biscuits to the bin birds

I've eaten a whole packet of bourbon cream & no biscuit

why don't you spread nutella on the other, "naked" biscuit?

99p jars are sold at Tesco.

problem solved!

you can call it Nutella Biscwidge!

Definitely not BU.. Of course you should eat what you fancy at 35 wks pg, ridiculous to suggest otherwise or that a few half eaten biccies is so wasteful lol

YAB MASSIVELY unreasonable to buy such cheap biscuits tbh.

This thread is utterly bonkers

What should the op have done - eaten the rest of the packet, even if it was bits of biscuit she didn't like?

It was a treat for herself. She ate the bits she liked and left the rest. How can that possibly be wrong?

Not leaving food and having to eat it all because it's there is disordered eating in a way. I think OP was sensible. I suppose if I was thinking straight I might have put it out for the birds, or left it for DP if he was that bothered, but it's basically the tail end of a 99p late pregnancy snack. The average household throws away far, far more and far worse every week. (I mean not that that's OK, but this is not that serious IMO)

I mean people go to the pub and spend far more than 99p on a pint, which it's highly unlikely they "need", and often leave a bit of it.

Eh I don't see the issue. Your a grown woman, enjoy your biscuits!

You bought a cheap packet of biccies for you to eat not to share (that only cost 99p)

You ate what you wanted of them and discarded the rest. Your biccies your choice.

It's not different from buying a cake and deciding you don't want to eat the raisins so picking them out!

its got nothing to do with anyone else your dh had no fu**ing right to berate you for it!

As for the people giving you such a hard time I hope you've never wasted anything ever because you judging seems severe! I mean have none of you ever thrown anything away ever!

Has no one ever left any food on their dinner plate.

YANBU and YABU. Getting in a strop over that was ridiculous and childish. I don't rate the way you eat your biscuits much higher, BUT that's nothing to do with me, isn't hurting any one and I have plenty of strange eating habits too.

I can understand your DH's behaviour though. I grew up under rationing and frequent food shortages (I'm guessing DH comes from a similar background/country). When you were given food, especially luxuries, you ate it and you liked it, even if you didn't actually like the food, you appreciated the fact that you could have the food- that was the bit you would enjoy, even if you couldn't enjoy the taste. Seeing people waste food still pains me, the limitations have had such an affect on my eating habits. I store a lot of cans etc and can't have the fridge and cupboards empty at all, even if I know that, logically, it's unlikely we'll have a food shortage here or have rationing, it still makes me feel more secure and happier. I remember the empty shelves, no bread, no milk, etc, and although I do curb my annoyance/irritation when my DH wastes food, even a very small amount, or my DC do, I can understand why he reacted like he did.

Oh, only a couple of packets in case I don't like them much.

This sounds to me like a MARVELLOUS idea. Where can I buy one of these 99p packets of biscuits?

Btw, I'm 38 weeks pregnant.

Red, i hope your dhs childhood fears become something he can put in the past. Being frugal is good, being fanatical is bad, and if it becomes something he berates the children over, well. That will need solving.

The poor hungry little boy in his head makes me so sad.

zing

LOL this thread is hilarious.

Oh the sanctimony!

Ben I was pg I used to lick the flavour of Doritos and then give the soggy flavourless Doritos to the dog.

And Doritos are even more expensive than factory biscuit bits.