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?

It's one thing to buy something, discover you don't like it and throw away some and then it's completely different buying something while fully knowing you'll only nibble on the good bits.
It's weirdly indulgent and OTT, despite it only being 99p worth of biscuits.

This is one of those threads that only happens in MN world isn't it?!

YANBU OP, you're a grown woman, eat what the fuck you like.
I say this as a woman who, even when not pregnant, orders a beef chowmein from the Chinese and removes all the beef when it arrives.

For me, it's not the price, it's the wanton waste of food.
I would have thought by now you'd have wondered whether there was anything you could do with the left-overs.

It's not a one-off where you might look back and think "oh bugger, I could have kept those for a cheese cake base" but something you've done for years and years.

It's a little bit wasteful, but it's not as if there's realistically any food value in a few bits of broken biscuit. Your DH is going to have to learn to live with a degree of waste, in a few months' time he is liable to have a child with a propensity to throw food around.

I agree that people getting sanctimonious about this or looking for eating disorders are being way OTT. I wonder how many would condone setting light to £8+ worth of goods on a regular basis? That's what happens when you smoke a packet of cigarettes.

Eat the nice bits and throw the scraps away, nothing else makes sense anyway, so just do it and enjoy. Hormones give most people cravings, even if it's suddenly Disgusting to acknowledge them.

icimoi I feel that way about fireworks. Might as well just light a £20 note and throw it in the air.

thankfully, we are not smokers and avoid anything to do with fireworks like a plague

All this over a pack of bloody biscuits .
Do not apologise to him, next time just make sure that you hide the evidence.

Does not compute.

If she'd said 'I bought a 99p pack of biscuits and ate all of them and DH was mad' everyone would be saying 'your dh is an asshole'.

But because she didn't, it's horrifying? Isn't it just the same? ALL junk food is wasteful, because we don't need it, we just eat it for pleasure. What does it matter if we don't eat all of it? She might as well have, it's just that the final location of some of the biscuits was the bin instead of the loo.

Anyone calling it U and wasteful, do you seriously never ever throw away anything? Do you never eat anything you don't need in order to survive?

OP has a strange habit with biscuits. Lots of people have strange habits. It makes her happy. NO BIG DEAL.

Whaaaat?! four pages of McVities talk and no one's offered you a yet OP??

Probably they think you'll just strip it and sell it for parts.

Have another . Just eat round the middle bit.

I do think you're bloody odd to do this, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be having a discussion about this if I caught my other half doing it, but only in a 'that's interesting, you crazy biscuit decimator' kind of way. Maybe I would have suggested sticking them on the bird table.

I think your DH is being OTT losing his biscuits over this though, and at 35 weeks he should have pre-broken them just as you like them for you anyway, and made you half a cup of tea for you to dunk your crumbs in.

Assuming that the 99p wasn't meant to last you til the end of the month or go to something important, then no need for any of the stress as far as I can see. And the crazy parts of MN that think you have an eating disorder or are the most terrible person ever are overreacting. Can you honestly say nothing goes to waste in your house??
Also, I don't particularly think its odd. Crack on as far as I'm concerned!

High five - you eat your biscuits how you like!

I was reading this thread almost in horror until Bianca came along and spoke some sense.

All that angst over a packet of 99p biscuits! It's like the chicken lasting 10 days and feeding the 5000 all over again.

You should of put them out for the birds!
And by the way, why have I never seen these cheap factory floor biscuits??eh??

Oh I don't know. I'd be really annoyed if my dh or children did this with a packet of biscuits. Its incredibly childish isn't it? I'd find it irritating rather than making me properly angry though. Perhaps he's channelling anger about something else?

OP: I'm heavily pregnant, I have a wee funny habit which my husband is being a total knob over, involving me not eating some of a 99p packet of biscuits

MN: think of the sheer extravagant waste of it all. Eat the rest like a normal person or we will think you have an eating disorder.

Couldn't make it up. < breaks open pack of biccies >

I cannot believe people are judging this grown woman. She is not harming anyone is she? I am sure you all do strange things at home..

Your husband sounds like a bully.

This thread is completely mad.

She bought the biscuits, they're her biscuits. She can eat them how she wants.

I appreciate that we live in a privileged society and as such must all feel extremely guilty all the time, make cake bases out of regurgitated asparagus chunks and recycle our underarm hair to make coats for baby birds, but seriously?

I wouldn't care if DP did this with a packet of biscuits. I do stranger things of an evening, I'm sure.

I'm guessing that this is just a trigger and your DH is pissed off at something else?

Bloody hell, it was a 99p bag of biscuits. Can't believe you're getting stick for being wasteful.

I bought a box of Pringles once and didn't eat them all. Looks like I'm going to hell.

Tell your DH to grow up.

I can understand both sides. I get the crazy hormone craves that make you do weird shit, but I absolutely hate wasting food.

It's hardly a huge deal though. I'd just show some empathy for your DH's understandable strong feelings on the topic and just both get over it.

OP I hearby internet diagnose you with a very specific biscuit related eating disorder.

It is quite frankly disgusting and appalling and you should be very, VERY ashamed of yourself.

If the baby is a boy, will you call it Gary Baldy just to piss your DH off?

Please say yes

I appreciate that we live in a privileged society and as such must all feel extremely guilty all the time, make cake bases out of regurgitated asparagus chunks and recycle our underarm hair to make coats for baby birds, but seriously?