To wait until the "communal" treats are finished before starting on mine?

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We still have a mountain of treats from Christmas. Chocolates etc given to us a a family. And they go up to he treats drawer for general consumption, they are known House Treats.

No tabs kept. Nobody takes notice of who eats what, and its generally, "you snooze you lose." with House treats.

But! We also all have our own tuck boxes in the house which are never taken by anybody but the owner, although we do offer to share and will do swaps/trades etc. (Binary Residence Trade Co. rules are complicated and adhered to fiercely )

Anyway, I know that DS 13 has almost munched his way through his tuck box, and DH has made a rather impressive dent. I have had some treats, but as I'm a better person I can err to the side of Fat Glutton, I have rationed mine and the tin's still pretty full of good stuff.

So, AIBU to "save" my treats, and focus on the House treats and then, when they're low and all that remains are the Rich Tea fingers and the mint humbugs, bring my box out and eat them in front of DH and DS?

Disclaimer : This is fucking Lighthearted

Are you getting an equal portion of the House Treats? Or are you getting more because the others have eaten their personal stash?
(portion control / even distribution is a big thing in the Parlabane residence)

YANBU at all! 😃

Let them chose one each then munch away! If they moan you can point out that they didn't share ANY with you and you, therefore, have the moral high ground.

hmmmm I think that comes under the category of Quite Devious if I am honest.

dh used to do this with the Quality Street....dive in with gay abandon eating anything and everything, knowing full well he would be the only person who wanted to eat the toffee penny or the toffee finger

I wouldn't know who gets more.

Should we base it on weight... Calories... Pieces...

It's very complicated

You would be unreasonable not to do this.

This strategy is fraught with risk of jealousy so it behooves you to hide your tuck box until it is near depletion.

Nobody ever takes form another box... For there would be no mercy!

MsHomeSlice then your DH is an amateur.

Surely he covered his tracks by having a toffee penny every 4th or 5th chocolate??

rules are complicated and adhered to fiercely

I love that ^^ and actually did laugh out loud

Surely this is just good sense? I'd be questioning the intelligence of the rest of the family for eating their own sweets first.

Very good tactics (much like the teacher leaving the Bountys in the thread before Christmas )

candle

Are you suggesting I let them choose one of MY treats???

The greedy fuckers would take the best stuff!

FordFiesta

We'll, clearly DS got my looks and DHs brains.

Did I ever mention, my DS is bloody gorgeous???

Yes, although would stealth eating add to your enjoyment and make you look forward to the darlings being out of the house? If so, go with that.

No, no... No... They can't be trusted to just blithely choose a treat from MY box.

All treats from Tuck are only offered for immediate consumption, or as part of a trade negotiation.

OMG, I need to instill this in this house. DH is not above stealing my crisps and chocolate.

House Treats are fair game. Save yours til last.

Christ, I'd need locks, pit-traps and a highly trained honey badger as a guard to set something like that up in our house... YADNBU but you are potentially surrendering all chances of favours, cups of tea in bed, footrubs etc as long as you're smugly stuffing your chops while they huddle round a handful of value peanuts...

I love this! If I didn’t live alone I would definitely implement individual tuck boxes (I grew up on Enid Blyton books where tuck boxes contained magically vast amounts of cake... but they did share it except the naughtiest girl).

It’s not your fault that they are too stupid to come up with the same plan!

YANBU. Survival of the fittest.

In aldis one day my OH summed up perfectly how consumption goes in our house, i said to him which chocolates do you want this week, his reply dosent matter cos you will eat them all anyway

Your plan sounds perfectly reasonable.

My special Hotel Chocolat treats are hidden in my room, and I am happily sharing the communal stuff

maybe I'm a greedy guts but why would you eat your own personal supply when there are acceptable communal goodies on offer.

Fancy eating all your stash then expecting the communal treats to still be there. What a bunch of noobs.

This sounds like a very devious plan.

If I was your DS/DP, I would not stand to see you bring out your treats after all the other treats are gone.

I expect that the unspoken rule that no one takes anything from anyone else's tuck box won't be a rule for long...

All our treats go into a central pot. Everyone is welcome to everything.

But then OH and I are far more interested in Stilton than chocolate.