to wonder why my non-stingy DP does this?

[CherryBonBon]

2 adults and 2 hungry DC in the house.

If I ask him to pick up something from the shop on the way home from work he will bring home the smallest available quantity of everything unless I specify otherwise.

If I ask for milk I get a pint. A pint lasts us a day, max.

Yesterday I asked for Petit filou for 1 year old DS who eats 1-2 large pots after dinner every day. DP brought home 4 pots total .

Why, just WHY! Does anyone else's partner do this?

Mine's the opposite too. His multiple buying is worse if we can't get any in the first shop (so buying twice as much in the next shop makes up for that )

I once needed cloves to make mulled wine. All sold out in shop 1 so DH went to the eye-wateringly expensive organic shop and bought TWO FULL BOXES. I will die before those cloves are used up. In fact if we are nearing the end-of-days or experiencing the zombie apocalypse do note there's a handy stockpile of cloves in South-West London should we all be needing them

I'm like your DH but my mate is like you...she buys so much! Also....2 pots a day of that shit petit filou is not good.

Sylvanian My DH doesn't feel his life is complete if he hasn't left some small offering on the plate when finished. Even if it's just one bean. Or one chip. Or a pea. It actually makes me quite quite murderous!

FarFrom :o What's WRONG with them?! It's the must baffling thing. What difference does it make to finish the last bit? Gah!

Meh about the petit filous though. I stressed a lot about fussy DD's paltry diet, but when I told GP she would eat petit filou (and a few other things) they said it was not bad and not to worry. Yes there's sugar in it, as in a lot of stuff. Raisins are probably worse and people stuff them down their toddlers like there's no tomorrow.

And herethere, you're in luck, cloves are probably very effective against zombies you know.

I have one of those husbands I put it down to an utter lack of common sense.

Just the other day,while I was out, I phoned to ask if we had enough milk in the fridge or if I needed to buy some. Yes, he says. Enough for a couple of cups of tea, and child #1 in the evening was what there was.

And he'll bring home half a dozen eggs and one pint, if they're on the shopping list and I don't specifically stipulate quantities.

Slightly off topic OP, but thank you! I thought my 1yo was unique in her ability to put away 2 large petit fileu after a meal!

2 large pots of fromage frais for a one year old!

Oh God! The childhood obesity klaxon has gone off.

Interesting. Do the DPs who buy small quantities have experience of living alone? I think the bulk buying tendencies may be because of growing up in a large family and the largest size being the norm?

It was only a matter of time limited.

People would do well to remember that the OP is the only person on this thread who has complete visibility of the child's diet.

I do the cooking but my husband prepares veg for the meals; he will ask how many onions, and I'll say, oh, one (meaning a spanish onion) he will rummage in the veg rack, ignore the spanish onions, pull out one shallot and chop that.

I do get quite sarcastic now and ask when did onions get rationed or are we cooking for a small mouse instead of 3 hungry adults? We have an allotment, we have always got large onions in the house but he can't seem to fathom that the onion-rich spag bol or lasagne actually contains onion.

My ex was the same. I asked him to put the veg on for Sunday dinner (I was busy with daughter) and meal was for 8 adults and 1 child - it was all prepped and all he had to do was turn the ring on - he removed the full steamer from the ring, dumped it on the floor, rummaged for a saucepan and put a handful of frozen peas on to boil.

Which I discovered when I went downstairs with daughter to see my family sitting there with sliced roast beef and about 3 peas each looking like When I asked him why he didn't just turn the steamer on he said "you didn't say and all I could find in the freezer was the peas" yes that's because all the fresh veg had been prepped and was in the steamer!
(Which he had sat and watched me prepping)

Love the judgy pants being hoiked over petit filou. Some people need to get a life...

Could you not ask him, and just wait until you run out again. And then maybe point out that buying just one pint/4 yogurts means that it only lasts one day and that maybe, buying enough to last until the next shop might be a better thing to do?

But do you realise how much sugar there is in Petit Filou herethereandeverywhere?

I'm not entirely sure but I believe that it's so much that there's hardly any room in the pot for anything else.

Sugar is a POISON and making us all GROSSLY OBESE. In turn that is putting an intolerable strain on our precious NHS.

Even if the OP made her one year old go for a bracing five-mile walk, which I believe is entirely reasonable for someone who can barely walk and has been enjoyed by some MN children, even as foetuses, that would probably not negate the pernicious effects of the Petit Filou which is second only to Polonium 210 in its severity.

At least Polonium 210 makes you thin before you die.

Actually, I think those foetuses have it easy.

Why not winkle them out from the dark, cosy womb with a crochet hook and make them slither alongside you in the wind and rain before scooping them back in?

YANBU.... My DP, despite many requests not to do so, always buys the cheapest available meat and eggs, unless I very clearly specify "free range organic". We aren't by any means poor, and I think it's worth paying extra for good quality humanely reared meat etc, and in theory he agrees but left to himself he just buys nasty crap.

limitedperiod you are very funny (if a little gross)

I can tell the difference between Sainsbury's Basics and standard meat and their Taste The Difference range.

But I can't tell the difference between their Basics eggs and their free range or organic ones.

If I was on a tight budget and needed to feed my family cheap protein, I'd buy the Basics eggs every time. Same with meat.

My husband will stop for milk on the way home from work... and come back with three carrier bags bursting, drives me mad.

Yes, but we're not on a tight budget. We get Clarence Court eggs, and you really can tell the difference.

Good. But some people are. Off to Google Clarence Court eggs.

My DS was reared on petit filou. He's a genius.

My op does the exact same,leaves 1 solitary pea in the packed. Either cooks for 5 thousand or little sparrows.

Also will ring him and ask him for something he comes back with it.I find out its a bogof and he only buys 1.

Yes, and it's great that there are cheaper options for people who need them or want to use them. But some of the meat especially is pretty grim, and eggs from many basics ranges are produced in an intensive way that I disapprove off. DP agrees, and we can afford to make that choice, but it's like he can't help himself.

We like the Burford Browns best.

I'm sorry if I irritated you with my post, limited. I don't look down on people who have to buy basics food... We were very poor when I was a child and young teen, so that's pretty much what we always ate when I was growing up. But now I can afford to do otherwise and prefer to do so, because I do think it tastes better and I also like to eat stuff which has been produced ethically. It wasn't meant as a judgement on those who can't afford to do so, it was just a throwaway comment about my DP.

I don't like asking DH to go and get something from the supermarket as although he will buy a sensible amount of it, he will also buy 3 million loaves of bread (some of which will go off before we've eaten them), some buns, crisps, sweets, biscuits etc. I'm slightly overweight; he's normal but starting to put on a bit of weight. All the teenage DCs are technically 'underweight' but I really don't want them eating that quantity of crap. DD often steers him out of the 'snacks' aisle when we are doing the main food shop.

DH doesn't bulk buy and doesn't on skimp on sizes.......but he impulse buys which is worse.
If I ask him to stop off for something on way home he'll get that......and seven other things. For example Friday I asked him to pick up butter, somehow forgot it when shopping, anyway he comes home with said butter......and 3 X 2lt of fizzy drinks, they were on special, 5 pies, they were only €1 each, punnet of strawberries reduced as they were on there last legs and 2 large french sticks that were on the reduced bakery shelf........all these things I DIDN'T NEED........I had been shopping that morning, I told him this, the only thing I needed was butter, I told him this, please ONLY get butter, I pleaded this.......but he can't pass up a "bragain"........EVER