or is DH over this packet of biscuits?

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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?

theres a guy by us, called 'The biccie man' who sells boxes of broken biscuits out of his van in a layby.

we always buy a box at christmas.. its great!

Here are some examples of the over-reactors, who have amused me no end:

That sounds demented. And yes, it's wasteful. (that's the first post after the OP)

That's a chronic habit, and a very strange one

What you did was very childish and wasteful

This does sound like an eating disorder at the best and sheer madness at the worst.

I think that's pretty rank habit TBH

...these are the posts on which I base my posts. I find them utterly daft. Hence the pisstaking.

IT's not just those posts, I mean, it's those sort of posts.

People think it's funny because it costs so little.
It's not about the 99p biscuits, it's about the behaviour.

The inability to choose a treat, the chase for the next good bit, the disregard for waste - none of these sit right.

I spend my life chasing for the next good bit!

In a way we all do.
But we try to leave the biscuits out of it.

theres a guy by us, called 'The biccie man' who sells boxes of broken biscuits out of his van in a layby.

Biccie Man? Sounds like the worst superhero ever.

Skulking around in a layby selling........................biscuits!

there were these too,

Wasteful at best and I won't say what at worst.

It sounds pretty disgusting actually.

He was probably quite shocked , I am too.

I think you were very wasteful

well, it is very wasteful...I can't imagine eating biscuits like that. It does sound most odd.

it is wasteful and I would have been very annoyed with my DDs if they did this

It's weirdly indulgent and OTT

For me, it's not the price, it's the wanton waste of food.

he's the best superhero when you drive past him with a car full of drunks on your way back from a concert!

I think what struck me wasn't the number of YANBU to YABU - I didn't keep a tally. It was the sheer vehemence of those that thought it wasteful etc being so forceful and judgy in their replies.

It does sound a bit bonkers OP! But surely not the crime of the century!

I have a nosy question...those of you who are saying they grew up with rationing...what part of the world are you from and what age are you?

Oh, and for those looking for this wondrous product...farm foods is your friend!

There are some serious oddballs on MN tonight! She's "weird " for eating half a packet of biscuits?! So she chucked the manky, left over bits - so what?!

Eating any biscuits/chocolate/crisps etc in this country is wasteful - full stop - as the vast majority of us are overweight and should eat less crap! There is no logic whatsoever in those saying it's a "waste". The waste comes at the point of purchase - so unless you've never consumed a single thing that your body didn't actually need, then you're being hypocritical to call it wasteful.

Leave the poor OP alone! And sorry, OP but your DH sounds like an uptight, controlling twat!

@ squoosh

Biccie Man? sounds like the worst super hero ever

OP - I used to be very sick when pg.
ate a nice meal then threw it up. i even puked up expensive restaurant food and things like strawberries & blueberries. So wasteful of me, don't you agree?

your DH overreacted. I'm not saying pg people can have a "get out of jail free card" for everything, but food related weirdness is definitely part & parcel of being pg.

if it bothers him so much just tell him that it's best if you don't go down the road of hiding from him what you eat/don't eat That could actually lead to proper problems.

And I think that saving up the scraped biscuits to use as a cake base is a good idea.
or find recipes online how to use them up.
but if you can't be bothered to save them then chuck them. he needs to calm down

Should have spent a fiver on the m&s chocolate biscuit selection. No waste then :-)

I'll say it again: It is impossible to have a discussion involving food on MN without it descending into utter madness although sense now seems to have prevailed.
Personally, I never ever waste any foodstuff- all my jewellery is made from vegetable peelings and I have a rug crafted from leftover spaghetti hoops.
I'm currently working on an installation for the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern created from leftover cat food. There really is no excuse for waste, you just need a little imagination.

I have been horribly wasteful this pregnancy, with my last 3 I had HG and couldn't even taste my own saliva without vomming until my stomach bled.
Let his time I have managed to be relatively normal as long as I eat every hour and eat what I fancy at the time, sometimes this is a slice of bread, sometimes it's a wedge of pear. Quite a few times though DP has brought me up some toast when I wake up and I've nibbled the edges before leaving it, now I know I should have made a marmite toast bread pudding or similar. I am going to hell.

Just having a quick look this morn and nearly died laughing at 'inability to choose a treat' that has set me up for the whole day! Utter madness!!!!
'The chase for the next good bit' lol lol lol you're killing me! NURSE!!!!!!

'The chase for the next good bit' sounds like someone committing crimes because they're so desperate for a hit of smack.
Not someone rooting around in a pack of biscuits to find a custard cream.

Quillpen what is the difference between "greakish fancies" and regular french fancies?

Red do you throw away the chip- deficient cookies? That would be very odd imo.

I loved the 'inability to choose a treat' too, really loved it.

Andy please post photo of your veg jewellery.

Doh. "Freakish"

Yabu. If no one wants left over biscuits in our house we feed them to the birds not the bin.

Sugar rush for humans - bad, the human body can't cope with massive sugar loads .
Sugar rush for birds - fine, because it avoids waste .

MN is very peculiar some days.

Fiendish Fancies are orange. Next is frosty fancies for xmas, they are white. I run my life by the french fancy calender.