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?

Why buy things you don't like in the first place to eat though, just because?

Crikey, I only read page one, OP, thinking it might be light-hearted!

I think its far more distasteful (pun) to see the posters piling in slagging you off. I think they might be the ones with a mental "disorders".

Eat your bloody biscuits how you like.

Food waste, my arse. Why, exactly, are unneeded calories better off in my tummy than in my bin?

Eat more shit, seems to be the message here.

Yep, I love meat pie but often find the crust too heavy so I leave it. Better than forcing myself to eat it.

Dp was the beneficiary of my food waste yesterday. He scored a soggy Yorkshire and a sizeable chunk of roast chicken.

I dunno. He'd already eaten his own big meal and he's hardly fading away.

Eat it, bin it. I don't see how it affects anybody else. It was a restaurant meal.

Wait to your children behave like that.
Then you learn the pain your DH feeling .

I had no idea that it was possible to just like certain bits of biscuits!

I don't think you are unreasonable for partial biscuit eating tbh but I assume your DH found out because you put the discarded bits back in the biscuit tin - which if it is the case is a bit rank

Upshot is most people have some sort of weird food thing, I have to eat the caramel on a twix then the biscuit bit for example and DH will only eat a mushroom with a steak - it's hardly a food disorder and only on here are posters going to get stressed about 99p biscuits

Your body is just not designed to cope with huge hits of sugar like that.

Of course the human body is designed to be able to eat a packet of biscuits without collapsing.

This thread is amazing. It is also making me really want a biscuit.

Exactly Morris

It’s no more wasteful to bin food that you don’t want or are too full to eat than it is to eat it when you don’t want it or are already full.

What would your DH prefer OP – that you ate all of the biscuits and felt sick?

As the OP has discovered, it’s often cheaper to buy a bigger pack and throw some away than it is to buy smaller packs.

I often throw away biscuits after one bite if I decide I don’t like it, or find that it has gone soft. In those circumstances, it’s not enjoyable or worth the calories.

I also bin quite a lot of fizzy water because I like a little splash in wine and the cheapest way to buy it is the 2 litre value bottles for about 20 pence. I might only use a quarter of the bottle before it goes flat. Perhaps the OP and I should be lined up and shot for our wanton wastefulness

I suppose if you really wanted to not waste the biscuits, could you break a bit off to eat and then make the rest into rocky road or cheesecake to force down your DHs throat?

Am agog at some of the responses here! OP, don't justify yourself to your DH or anyone else for that matter. I'm betting the posters piling in to have a go aren't completely virtuous in the food-waste department. It makes me want to take to my biscuit tin, lick them all and then chuck them out in protest actually. Fucking hell - if only I could be half as perfect as some of you lot.

So OP is expected just to buy packets of the biscuits she likes and eat those? Which would mean buying a packet of jammie dodgers, a packet of bourbons, a packet of custard creams and so on and so on.

Surely it's the variety she's craving and she's found the the cheapest/least wasteful way to scratch that particular itch?

You lot are bonkers sometimes.

We feed our fridge more often than not - one serving for dp, one serving for ds, one serving for me and oh, there's some left over, one serving for the fridge (forgotten/unused chilli, bolognaise, curry, whatever).

Eat more shit, seems to be the message here

No, just don't buy so bloody many in the first place if you can't stop yourself from nibbling an entire bag of biscuits is the message here.
There's an old saying "eyes bigger than your belly" that seems to fit the bill here

So OP is expected just to buy packets of the biscuits she likes and eat those? Which would mean buying a packet of jammie dodgers, a packet of bourbons, a packet of custard creams and so on and so on

Nooo, you're spectacularly missing the point. Nothing wrong with buying a great big bag, but pretty disgusting to half chew the entire bag than ditch the rest! Either you want the biscuit or you don't. That's not a normal eating habit.
Christ I must be bored. WTF am I discussing biscuit eating for, I'm sure I've got more pressing things I could be doing lol

how very dare you.

op, you are a terrible human being, how could you indulge of such wanton waste of biscuits, disgusting, despicable behaviour.

just think of the widdle baby jesus crying because you threw away the arse end of some broken biscuits you didnt fancy a cheeky nibble of.

OH THE HUGEMANATEEEEEEEEES! SHAME, SHAME. FIE I SAY FIE ON THEEE

get thee to a confessional and confess your biscuity sins that the bisquit panda may flagellate you unto death, throw yourself onto the mercy of the angel cake thou art a knave!!

wailey, wailey, wailey, wailey.

SHAME ON YOU!

he's being a twat, and so are most of the posters on this thread. good lord.

I do this sometimes with jaffa cakes.im not gone on the spongy bits but I am quite partial to the orange jelly and chocolate part.

she's not eating a whole bag of biscuits. she's eating the parts of the biscuits she likes/craves and buying cheap packets to do so. makes complete sense to me (a la bottles of fizzy water mentioned upthread).

two words: asparagus. tips.

eh? eh? anyone with me?

It's a heavily pregnant woman with a hankering for the bits of biscuits that she likes. Hardly the crime of the century.

No! Thou shalt eat all the fucking biscuits lest the god of biscuity food waste doth smite thee.

Scream, 'Just choose the biscuits you DO want'. The OP has explained that she fancied bits from different biscuits, rather than a whole pack of for example bourbons.

It's surely less wasteful to discard little bits of some biscuits than to buy a whole pack of about five different kinds and only eat a couple of biscuits from each one?

But you're not wrong, this is a rather bizarre way to be wasting spending time. I'm not enjoying my current project and am desperately procrastinating.

So is it that by just eating the bit of a biscuit that you wanted, you got through a whole bag & there was nothing left for anyone else?

I'd be pissed off at that tbh, because I would have wanted biscuits too

I think I would not have eaten any cake with a biscuit base that the OP made with her discarded biscuit pieces. All that drool and snot mixed in with the leftover biscuit pieces.....

If I cut crusts off bread - to make naice sandwiches - the crusts go out for the birds. When I cut the 'nasty' bits out of liver or kidneys, they go out for the birds. Thick middle bits in cabbage or lettuce leaves go out onto the garden (where they cannot be seen).

I'm one of those who was brought during rationing time where absolutely nothing was wasted. A foot of string, the paper wrapping of butter or margarine, paper with nothing on one side, used envelopes, boxes containing a ream of A4 paper are all kept.

exactly curly

i hope none of you cut the stalks of your broccoli either, or the end off your carrots. disgusting wanton wastefullness.. they could be cooked in some watery broth along with the magic mumsnet chicken to feed the ravening hoardes that are picketing your house for disgusting levels of biscuity evils!

DD scrapes the chocolate and orange bit off a Jaffa cake and dumps the cake bit. I am a bad parent .

...brought up ....