Anyone else's Dh do this?

[IdoEverythinginthishouse]

Gave Dh a simple food shopping list to get and he's came back with a few bits of the list and loads of random crap that we never eat? My freezer is now full with it and we haven't got full ingredients for at least one meal for the week! Aibu to be pissed off?

How hard is it to do a food shop with less than 20 things on the list

I think the plan is that you give up getting him to do the shopping since he always gets it wrong. Does he, by any chance, also fail at operating the washing machine? How is he with a vacuum cleaner?

Yanbu to be pissed off, I don't get why an adult can't shop I mean it's easy

Look at list
Find item ( if certain brand etc isn't available pick another)
Put item is basket/trolley
Pay

No my dh doesn't do this, he can cope with shopping and looking at a list

Competent incompetence. He knows very well what he is doing, and he is doing it badly in order to not be asked again.

When is he planning on getting the rest of the stuff? Can you send him out to a spar to get the rest of it otherwise no food on the table for any of you?

Sounds like deliberate incompetence to me.

Send him back out for the remaining items on the list, and/or it is his responsibility to ensure that the random crap is sensibly consumed.

I suspect he is highly educated with a good job.

I also suspect he cannot operate the washing machine or get the children dressed because that is also women's work.

Send him back to get the rest. He'll soon learn that you take no hostages!

My Dh does the opposite. Sent off with weekly shopping list - I don't write down fruit for the fruit bowl or salad, which we eat with virtually every meal, so he doesn't buy any. I am baffled that he can walk past all the apples, oranges, bananas, lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers and not think, "Wait a minute, we always buy these." Probably my fault, he is a very literal person and sticks ridgidly to the list.

I never ask DH to do the shopping - he does get everything on the list but buys about 3-4 of each bloody item so i never have space to store it and it goes off before it gets eaten! Do it all online now and much simpler

No, my dh does not, he does buy food however food that he knows we all like.

Origamioverload - mine's the same. If it isn't on the list he doesn't buy it.

Mine's not too bad, but doesn't tend to think in full meals so what he picks up can be a bit haphazard.

However he doesn't complain if he has to go again so I'm not too fussed.

Nope. He also doesn't need to be 'sent, with a list'...

How odd - all the men I know who are tasked with food shopping stick rigidly to The List and never deviate or get hooked by aisle end BOGOF deals

Nope. He also doesn't need to be 'sent, with a list'

I go shopping with a list just incase I forget anything. If I were to send my OH to the shops I would give him a list too.

What's the problem with that?

No, my DH does most of the cooking so he tends to do the meal planning/list making too (I generally order it online). Don't think it's a 'man thing'.

Did you ask him why half the shopping is missing? My guess is that he has done it on purpose so he doesn't have to do it again. I'd send him out again for the missing items

Nope that would be me .
Unless I have a list I'm useless at shopping.
I get distracted and overwhelmed by all the choice so come home with random ingredients that don't comprise a whole meal. But still spend the same!
I am also a fully grown highly educated woman.
DH does the shopping.
I'm good at other stuff.

No, he doesn't. DP does all the food shopping in our house with no input from me. I will occasionally do an Ocado delivery if we're having guests to stay or for parties, etc.

Agree send him back out again, to finish the job, call it a 'training opportunity'

Mine will come back with the items he goes out for (mostly) or something as similar as he can find. However if it is for just a couple of items, meals or snacks, there will always be a couple of other things for me that I used to like and haven't wanted for a couple of years and which he ends up having to eat otherwise they get left until they rot.

If I am not shopping I have to e.mail a detailed list and make it very specific otherwise I find some odd items that appeared to him to be what was on the list but are actually of no use at all.

I also type it in the order it appears in the store and with photos otherwise he will get the right make and size but the wrong flavour. Sometimes even a photo of the store shelf from a previous trip needs to be included to prove it is actually there.

No my DH doesn't do this. He is a grown up.

My DH used to do this spend £100 in the supermarket full bags but struggled to get a single meal out of it. He has learned came back with tea after a coating an old lady in the shop and asking for guidance bless him!

My DH does this. I have no idea why... but it fucks me off no end. I doubt it is because he is male, he is just an incompetent fool.

I really thought the whole 'useless husband' narrative was just a stereotype from a bygone era. Not that it still happened in actual real life!

I have to send pictures of items such as coriander, spring onions or peri peri marinade if I dont then I end up with parsley, red onions and some jerk meat rub