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?

Round pieces of red and yellow peppers for replacement connect four discs!
This is turning a bit 'viz top tips'

Dairylea triangles painted with tipex make an ideal 'mini brie'

MaryWestmacott have my very first for sheer sanctimony, and for using the ludicrous expression "food behaviour".

I take custard creams apart and sandwich them so they have double filling. The spare outsides get binned.

YANBU.

I think it was your 99p to waste how you please. Loads of people choose to buy scratch cards and end up with an expensive piece of card to throw away. Others like to throw away crusts, eat half a meal at a restaurant and let the remainder go back to the kitchen, only eat a certain colour smartie, chuck the coffee Revel in the bin, leave the coconut Quality Street in the tin until the whole thing gets binned two weeks after Xmas.

I imagine your OH has a new in his bonnet about your eating habits generally and has decided to zero in on the biscuits to make his point. Next time bash the leftovers with a rolling pin and either make cheesecake or chuck em out for the birds.

*bee

So you bought a cheap pack of biscuits and only ate the nicest bits?
Sounds fine to me.

Did the pack contain any of those pink wafers? Love them, haven't had one in years.

You know, I would be more concerned about your DH's food issues.
If he struggles to throw food away to the extent of forcing himself to eat it all, I would worry that he would force your children to clear their plates, which can result in problems with knowing when you are full and potential weight issues.

I'm afraid I have no opinion on this- just chipping in to ask GnomeDePlum if I could please have your chocolate crumb cake recipe? I am on a tight budget/ relearning to cook and it sounds delicious/ frugal. If it is a secret, you could message me?

Actually OP, I will say that I do think you DH is over reacting by still being annoyed this morning. However, it is quite wasteful, sorry.

I think you are all missing the point. OP said that she only ate the outside of a bourbon - for that alone she is being vvvvvu. How is it even possible to do this?

YANBU. I don't think it's particularly weird and certainly not an eating disorder ; you sound very aware of when and why you do it. And it was 99p, FFS. People waste more than that all the time.

I have every sympathy for your DH's past and growing up like that must have been very tough, but he really doesn't need to take it out on you.

Just one thing: YABU to only want the outside of the bourbons.

Oh, x-post. Great minds, Janner!

TheBatteriesHaveRunOut You could teach your children how to cut potatoes and make stencils from them.

You know - cut a potato in half and then carve a pattern on the cut edge. Dip cut edge into paint and gently stamp it onto paper. Oh! A good idea for Christmas decorations here. Print angels or stars.

I don't think it's strange at all

Eww, I'm with your DH, sorry. What a waste! So you nibble the outside off the bourbon creams, then leave the half eaten chewed rest. Nibble the middle out of the jammy dodgers so you;ve presumably got a half chewed, drooled mess that gets chucked in the bin afterwards.
Rank, and wasteful! Regardless of how much it cost. I also don't know what your pregnancy has got to do with it if you're saying you've done it all your life

If it makes you feel better OP you should see the way I eat a burger.

Take top roll off.. eat it first.

Eat the meat second

Last roll third.

I don't waste it but I have a lot of strange ways of eating.

YANBU!

It's going to a very long life spent with someone who strops around over a packet of biscuits and wakes up with the huff still, the next day .

The poster who was "shocked". You must lead an extraordinarily sheltered life.

OP, you failed to eat every crumb of a 99p pack of biscuits, so you 'wasted' some.
You are heavily pregnant

No, it's not the fact that she 'wasted' some. It's that she half ate the middles of all of them, then chucked them. Just choose the biscuits you DO want, instead of covering the entire packet in drool and rendering them inedible ,boak>

I've been hiding in NotSayingImBatman's bin for almost an hour

No sign of a beef joint yet

redviolin I can sort of understand your DH being a little bit upset by it, but at some stage he needs to look at his life & relationship with food now. We all have things from our childhood that shape us (though admittedly his is more powerful than most) but as an adult you have to look at those things that are affecting your life and determine if they are adding value to your life or taking it away.

He really needs to spend some time working through this before you have your baby, because weaning babies is the biggest waste of food ever and toddlers/small children aren't much better. If he is getting this bent out of shape over a 99p packet of biscuits he's really, really not going to cope with the baby once it's weaning :(

As for some of the posts on this thread - WTAF - it's a 99p packet of biscuits, choosing which bits to eat and which to leave is not an eating disorder/shocking/dreadful/disgusting or anything like it.

Thank fuck there are some normal people here as well :)

Just choose the biscuits you DO want, instead of covering the entire packet in drool and rendering them inedible ,boak>

What does it matter?

It's not like she put them back in the biscuit barrel

I think you're a bit weird and I think your OH is probably a bit weird too. But I don't really care about the 99p or the wasted biscuits although I'd always find a way to make use of them - I loathe waste. What I'm wondering is if you totted up or took any note at all of how much sugar that little binge cost you? Might be worth doing sometime if you want a wake up call. Your body is just not designed to cope with huge hits of sugar like that.

I've just eaten a quiche for lunch with salad. I left the pastry though as it was too thick and calorific and I only really like the filling. Is that considered shockingly wasteful? Serious question.

No idea where you live though RedViolin I've never seen them here (SE), though we don't even get pickled onion walkers crisps down here fgs, I have to get my 'fix' oop North! I used to love it when my Aunty got broken biscuits off of the milk man - might have to see if they do them still :) I once got a box from The Range, but it wasn't the same.