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?

*bargain

You didn't irritate me at all Starling .

I was being a bit arsey and playful about other people and you got caught in the crossfire.

It's very nice of you to apologise but there is no need.

I can tell the difference between the kind of eggs you're talking about and Basics or even standard supermarket free range eggs. But just not enough to justify the price.

Meat is even more obvious. I don't have to buy Basics meat and wouldn't buy some supermarket standard range - beef definitely not but I'd buy pork, lamb and chicken.

I'm happy to eat vegetarian or vegan but I wouldn't give up complete protein. I like meat and it's easy to get nutrition from it.

My dad and an aunt were born three years after their brother and sister in the early part of the 20th century. In that time the family fortunes changed dramatically and they had a much better diet.

My dad was 6ft. My aunt was about 5ft 5ins. The elder uncle was 5ft 6ins and the other aunt was 4ft 10ins.

Sorry if I came over as judgey about the yogurts. But I think it's worth mentioning as some people just don't realise....yogurt has been sold as a "healthy food" for so long that people don't know.

There are 12g of sugar in a large pot of Petit Filou....which is about a tablespoon..that's a lot for a one year old.

No but I'm very specific. If I need a certain amount I'll tell him. He usually knows the situation - if he's going to a convenience place he'll get a smaller cream if we're out but he knows I'm going to get a larger one the next day. If I'm not going out the next day I'll tell him and he'll get 2/3/4 or whatever I need.

Opposite problem here... I asked DH to pick up a pint of milk yesterday on hi way home from work. He bought 4 pints of milk, 3 big bags of candy, a multi pack of crips, 4(!) punnets of strawberries, some oranges, a carton of chocolate milk and some stickers for DS

He also stockpiles things. We have 42 tins of baked beans in our house at the minuet, and half the house don't even eat them!

The point about petit filous is that it's about the nutritionally weakest fromage frais you can buy. There are plenty that are organic and sweetened only with fruit.

Agree about raisins though. Nature's wine gums.

That's your point about Petit Filou and I might agree with it DisappointedOne.

It wouldn't be my yoghurt of choice but a lot of children like it and on balance, I don't think it does a great deal of harm.

But people didn't leap on this thread or others to give helpful tips about nutrition or flavour.

They did it because they are sanctimonious bores.

As part of a good, balanced diet, petit filous is fine.

MN does make me laugh.

OP: am I justified in being irritated by this inconvenient thing DP does?

MN: You feed your child sub standard yoghurt?!?!

I keep banging on about the Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Range.

I promise you that I don't work for Sainsburys but I like a lot of it.

I loved their rhubarb yoghurt with clotted cream but you can't get it any more.

Maybe people died in joy but with clogged arteries.

I am a regular consumer of Sainsbury's Basics low fat natural yoghurt which costs about 50p for 500ml.

You can dollop it on fruit or meat or just eat it neat.

I used to utterly useless with gettinf quantities correct - either way too much, or not enough/borderline.

A pal gave me this tip which Ive used ever since - put handfuls of the raw veg on the plate, so it looks whrn you would serve it-then multiply by number of people eating /portions you need. Adjusting for appetites - when cooking for my teenage nephews - i arrange a sample plate piled high, then multiply by 2. Then a usual adults samplr plate-really simple and effective!

We were fairly poor a couple of years ago. DHs idea of budgeting on a food shop was to not get things like fruit or mini cheddars to go with lunches. This drove me nuts as whilst the big shop looked cheaper we would then have to buy other stuff when out to avoid being hungry!

I think sometimes other people's minds just work a bit... differently.

Fruit is incredibly expensive and goes off very quickly.

Limited no....1.50 for a bag of apples...one per day in a lunch. They don't go off...bananas can be bought for under 50p! Nectarines a pound a bag! That's not expensive and they last a week.

I don't get why we're talking about fruit...I must have missed something

But I don't think it's particularly expensive either if you stay away from berries. And buying those frozen works out cheap too.

Mine religiously buys what he's been told AND THEN GOES CRAZY! Crisps, biscuits, artisanal pickles, liqueur. And if the DC go too, who knows what they'll come home with....

My DH is a hoarder and he buys thousands of everything. Problem is he loves shopping and I hate it. So Iwrite on the shopping list things like;

Potatos x 4 individual
Breadsticks x 1 box
carrots x 2 individual AND I MEAN IT!!!!!!

etc. Otherwise he comes home with mountains of food and it goes off. He has a fairly loose relationship with best before dates too. (A low point was eating a can of thai chicken curry that had a BB of 1998..... he ate that last year.

Oh cheesy that's my MIL to a tee. I'm grateful I don't live with her, but I do worry DP will get more like her as he gets older. He's terrible at throwing stuff away, but I keep on top of it. But at MIL's it's just overwhelming. Things like 50 bottles of olive oil all out of date, and she will just buy more and stick them in front, then not finish them, then buy more...

She scoffs at me when we're there for checking the use-by dates before letting the kids eat stuff, like I'm a silly modern softy. But it's frightening – I regularly find things like butter and cheese that are years out of date.

Interestingly just like DP, it really isn't about being tight or frugal. She's loaded and spends vast amounts of money on food. Just incredibly unwisely and inefficiently.

Ah! I like berries. And melons and pineapples.

I saw a box of cherries in M&S the other day that was £14

Oh and gooseberries and blackberries.

Summer is expensive. But I agree you can get cheap frozen berries and whizz them up with plenty of that dratted sugar.

Oh DH is terrible at throwing stuff away too. He goes away alot for work and I chuck out three things a day when he is gone. I have to be a bit conservative as otherwise he would notice and gets anxious about it. I HATE the waste, but we have things like prawns in our freezer that pre-date ME living in this house (10 years) and which have gone through a few defrostings. 3 things a day - he never notices.

Frozen fruit has been a godsend for me. LOVE them... cheaper, and does not go off. Perfect for muffins and smoothies.

Limited Oh so do we...but you know...budget and all that. Saying that, Pineapples are often on offer, as are strawbs and bluberries and DH picked about a tonne of cherries the other day in a public lane...there are ways and means.

I saw a box of cherries in M&S the other day that was £14

indeed

DP is definitely on the hoarder side of shopping. When we were cleaning out his flat for him to move in with me we found over 20 bars of soap... plus another 6 in his desk draw at work.

He's also a big softie, so if he's sent out to hunt for dinner he'll come back with puddings, sweets, whatever he knows the kids/I would love - generally the day after a big shop so I find myself with 12 chocolate mousses to get through in one week (DS1 and 2 are happy to help with that kind of problem)

Our local LIdl has amazing cherries right now.... quite cheap, amazingly delicious.