to tell DH to stop eating !!

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For tea tonight we had a cottage pie (he had a decent portion size) and since then he has eaten 5 bread rolls with bacon in (that's 10 slices of bacon) and 4 sausages on the side. He started snacking on (thick) slices of cheese and crisps almost straight after dinner. I can hear him back in the kitchen just now in and out the cupboards.

AIBU to tell him to stop!!! I know he's an adult but it really pisses me off that I buy food and it gets eaten straight away.

No matter what portion size I make for tea it's never enough. For example in a chicken curry he moans if there's no less than 4 chicken breasts in. I probably eat 1/2 a breast (not a massive meat eater). Mince based meals need to be made with the big packs (750g).

He does pay half the food bill but I'm really trying to budget (low income at the moment).

Note - he is in no way overweight, he's 6ft1 and skinny.

I would shop and eat separate and buy your own food. I would resent shopping, cooking and washing up after someone who moaned and made a mess.

Has he got worms or did you marry a teen?

That is not good. Try to get him to talk to a GP. It might be a sign of a worm. Not good.

Does the food run straight through him or something?

Not being sarcastic there, but when I had a massively overactive thyroid that was what happened and no amount of food was sufficient. The hunger was indescribable and constant, regardless of whether I had just eaten a large meal or not. The weight loss was also dramatic. I was even skinny.

There could be other reasons too. He should see his GP.

Is he in his 20s with a physical job like labor? Otherwise, this truly is an insane amount of (unhealthy) food. Heart attack food, to be precise.

That does sound like a lot. Splitting the food bill in half doesn't sound fair either.

I have teenagers, and the way to stop them taking food is just not to buy it in the first place.

I'd get worming tablets and just put it in his food. It may make a difference.

He needs to see the gp if hes eating that much and not overweight. Is he feeling hungry all the time?

diabetic ?

Half the food bill?? More like 90% I should think.
at worming tablet

That's it normal. let him buy his own food and I'm. she he'd stop eating three whole cows daily.

He's bored not hungry he needs a hobby

That's a ridiculous amount of food. He needs to see his doctor and in the mean time pay 90% of food bill and do the shopping.

You've only described 2500 calories or so - so that would be about right if that's all he's eating and is completely sedentary, assuming he's not sedentary, he could easily be needing another 1500 where's he getting him from?

If you are short of money, then you might need to change what he's eating, but as part of a daily calories it's not completely insane.

That's not normal.

Is he very overweight? Does he not eat much during the day, so he thinks he's allowed to completely pig out during the evening. Dinner plus five bread rolls plus ten slices of bacon plus four sausages plus cheese and crisps... that's actually quite disgusting.

Depends, does he eat this amount in this amount of time every day? What does he do for a job?

I'm afraid that that would utterly disgust me tbh.

That's just about two cooked meals in an evening plus snacks!

But that's only from tea time onwards Fred, I imagine he's having breakfast and lunch too?

YANBU OP. That's a lot of food to eat in a couple of hours. My DH would snack and snack (although not to that extent) if we had it in the house so we've just stopped buying it. He agrees with this, he admits he eats it 'because it's there'.

Is he doing very physical work? The food bill needs to be split differently. Can you work out how munch more then you he is consuming?

Go vegetarian and introduce him to lentils and chick peas

Yanbu. That is an obscene amount of food and really quite disgusting and greedy. It's a lot of stodgy carby food too; cheese, crisps, bread...will he not opt for fruit/veg based snacks?

Also shop daily and keep cupboards bare. If he wants extra sausages, bacon, bread he can buy them himself

That is a huge amount of food. I'd just put it to him that seeing as he eats the majority of the food he can pick up the majority of the bill. Or go shopping himself. Does he know how much things cost? (Seriously, if he doesn't do the shopping he might not realise how expensive meat is.)

My DH could do that, we say he is part Labrador and does not know when he is full. Last few months we have really worked on it. Water or crisp bread when rooting through cupboards. It was a habit. He has lost 11lbs in two months and is really proud of himself.
I know your DH not over weight but I will happen, did slowly to mine. Is there anything else worrying him?

I would find DH eating like that a massive turn off tbh. DH eats a small breakfast, normal lunch and dinner plus a small supper like toast or a sandwich. Snacks are fruit, yogurt or the occasional chocolate bar.

I sympathise. My dh is exactly the same and is also very slim and tall. He won't eat lentils or any type of pulses to bulk meals out and won't eat anything unless there is some sort of meat in it. One whole chicken does us one roast dinner (me, dh and dd aged 12). One pack of 4 big chicken breasts is one meal. Otherwise he is in and out of the cupboards later on making ham toasties and tuna sandwiches!