Is MIL's slice of cake a bit stingy? (Picture)

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MIL is a lovely women really, but positively enjoys being frugal and detests any excess in all its forms.

She's baked us a lovely cake, but is determined for it to last for as long as possible. She is the master slice cutter and won't let anyone else near it.

AIBU to be a bit disappointed with the size of this slice?

(Everyone disappeared into the other room, so I was able to take this sneaky photo with handy scale provided by new pound coin!)

Lol! Next time bring your own cake

I would need a lot more

She's BU for cutting it like that if she wants it to last a long time.

My Mum was similarly frugal. Battenberg slices were about half a cm thick.She used to slice bread so thinly you could see through it.

There is a distinct possibility that I might cry if presented with this.

Just say mmm that was delicious, can I have another slice....

And wait for the AIBU to think my DIL is a greedy pig

The miserable woman.

She forgot to put the chocolate on.

OP - you posted the wrong photo. Please replace the photo of a crumb with a photo of the slice

you should all just form an orderly queue and say 'Please MIL, can I have some more?', a la Oliver Twist - as many times as necessary to get a whole slice each .

My sister in law divided a quarter slice of a Tesco vanilla cheesecake into three pieces and gave a piece each to me, my husband and little boy a piece each - it was literally two bites. She put the remaining three quarters of the cheesecake back in the fridge, presumably for them to have when we went home. I felt quite insulted. So, yes - that slice of cake IS stingy!!

That's the size of slice I'd take for myself. How much would you have had then?!

Being on Weightwatchers this looks about what they suggest a portion should be. Obviously I disagree which is why I had to join Weightwatchers 😂😂

About the size I'd eat but I don't have a sweet tooth.

ElsieMc Soo many things wrong with your post -- you made gingerbread and flapjacks and the gingerbread was more popular.

1. Gingerbread is cake and obviously more toothsome than flapjacks which are essentially gooey biscuits (although i do appreciate a good FJ too but gingerbread comes first, obvs.)
2. Flapjacks are never wasted -- they keep perfectly well for several days in a cake (or biscuit) tin as long as they were not dry as dust in the first place.
3. The person who snuck into the kitchen and ate the crumble topping was paying you a complement - it was clearly crispily delicious and they just had to have a smidgen more. Then another smidgen, and whoops, gone. Just bung a bit more custard on the leftover apple. And enjoy.

Is she calorie controlling the entire family?

I'm impressed that she can cut a slice that small. My DMIL is the same but she was used to rationing in the war!

In any scenario other than this being served with coffee after a 3 course meal this is extremely mean!

I actually laughed out very loud on my own in the kid hen just looking at that picture.

I would have said "that's not a slice MIL, that's a crumb!"

I'd be too embarrassed to offer somebody a slice that small unless the cake had to be shared by many people.

Surely a slice that small is entering negative calories territory by the time you have expended the energy to eat it.

Yes that's not even nearly enough!
I baked brownies yesterday with Ds1 and they were utterly amazing. After me and the kids had one each there were 6 left. I took them in to dh and offered him one and stupidly left the tub there. Next time I looked, they were gone! All delicious 6 of them! He said weren't they for eating?
I doubt I'll be able to make them that good again. Greedy shit.

OMG!! That is minuscule!!! Joke slice!!

Making cake "last" is not good. I would rather everyone had a large slice on the day it was baked once a week, than a tiny slice of increasingly stale cake over a few days.

Does she live with you? I wouldnt be putting up with not being allowed to do something in my own home and tbh I would turn down cake than eat that meagre offering.

Does she say "Well you dont NEED....XYZ?" by any chance? That is the favourite phrase of my very stingy mother!

I don't think portions were small in the past, smaller perhaps but cake was a treat not a daily expectance (is that even a word?)!

This portion has had me sniggering for ages, and we were all slim as teenagers and young adults in the 80s and had a pudding every day.

This is laughable. My BFs parents will eat dinner on an evening that consists of half a Cornish pasty and half a can of peas. I shit you not, however they will consume a bottle of wine or ten beers plus half a bottle of brandy each..... a day.

V small but good for the waistline 😉