Be honest...

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...if you're eating cereal on the sofa and dont have any plans to leave the house, you would just shove the spoon into your mouth without any regard for the milk spilling down your front right? Or is it just me?

DP looked at me shocked as he was leaving because my Tshirt was covered in milk, but my point was the Tshirt was dirty anyway. He says hes going to buy me a giant bib for my birthday...

By that logic you would just piss your pants because they're going in the wash anyway!

Even my 5 year old gets embarrassed when she spills food down her clothes. Why would anyone enjoy being a slob?

But... How? What's wrong with your fine motor skills that you can't just eat it without getting covered in milk?

My Ex husband used to eat like that - please note - he is my EX husband!!!! The eating was only part of the reason he didn't seem attractive any more

I put the Tshirt in the wash after eating!

But then did you get straight in the shower? I wouldn’t do it myself but you have my sympathy. I can kind of imagine living a good so much you slightly want to bathe in it. It just wouldn’t be cereal and milk for me. Chocolate bath?

I would OP and do milk is difficult to keep on the spoon and if it's going in the wash after what does it matter? I especially wore dirty jeans to KFC last night because I knew they'd get grease and beans all over them 😂

When eating I aim to get as much of the food as possible into my mouth - the plate ends up looking very clean.

So my eating style may be not pretty when I'm on my own and I may lick various containers, fingers etc. If I split food on anything, it would go straight into the washing machine with the next load and if I spilt milk on me I'd wash it off immediately.

Think I must have modelled my table manners on the cat when I was a child.

Sorry, I’ll try that again...

But then did you get straight in the shower? I wouldn’t eat like that myself but you have my sympathy. I can kind of imagine loving a food so much you slightly want to bathe in it. It just wouldn’t be cereal and milk for me. Chocolate bath?

Majority of posters needing to find a grip here.

It's a lighthearted thread and I get what the OP is saying. She's not saying she can't eat nicely, she's not saying she does it in public and it's not "fucking vile".

OP you are not the only one! ✌🏻✋🏻

Op I'm with you!

I have a big hairy beard which often gets covered in milk when I have cereals :)

If your not going out and no one sees you then it doesn't matter how you look!

Im glad to know I'm not alone!

On couch, knees up, bowl propped between tummy and thighs, one hand to steer the spoon, the other to browse mumsnet- theres going to be some spillage!

And whoever said spilling the milk on their chin annoys them - me too!!!!

um no. God no.

haterz

To me this is like asking

"If you're drinking coffee on the sofa and don't have any plans to leave the house, would you let the coffee splash all over your hair?"

Like... No, because... How? Why??

By that logic you would just piss your pants because they're going in the wash anyway!

Plenty of people used that sort of logic in the "do you wee in the shower?" thread recently so sure, why not.

I have dysmetria( thanks to a neurological condition) and for this reason I avoid soup/ milky cereal, fortunately for me, my dh doesn’t think I am a disgusting slob or a pig! He will actually spoon feed me when it comes to eating soup etc but I avoid it mostly because of my need to cling on to what dignity I have left.

I happily eat porridge at home, but would not feel comfortable eating anything when out, for all the above reasons. I realise this is meant to be light hearted about the OP. However the descriptions are not pleasant to read when your body is physically unable to ‘eat properly’. I guess I should be happy to have an excuse then.......

Off to google Wipe clean smocks and troughs Oink....

Yeah, grim, but if you're good with it, you crack on.

You really have to ask? How silly and skanky.

busybarbara

By that logic you would just piss your pants because they're going in the wash anyway!

Plenty of people used that sort of logic in the "do you wee in the shower?" thread recently so sure, why not.

That is very true. Any of them care to agree with this behaviour?

Um, no! The t-shirt might go in the wash but I wouldn't want to walk around smelling of stale milk all day 🤮

Plus, I don't like spilling shit down myself, it goes against a lifetime of trying not to. Another vote for 'your DH must find that a massive turn-off', I know I would if it was reversed...

Maybe women are allowed to be a bit grim and unsexy sometimes since men have been doing it for literally the whole of human existence.

Eh this isn't about gender, don't be daft. It would be equally grim if it was a man, very few grown adults are ok with eating and spilling shit down themselves.

Honest to god. No matter how grim someone posts they behave in here there is always someone who wants to say it's all good. "Yeah girl you go, you stop that milk all down you till your partner comments you need a bib."

It's mind boggling.

I think it’s a big stretch to turn this into a feminist issue!

WTF, your eating habits are seriously disgusting. Are you a toddler not yet past the age of dribbling?

There's a new invention just out so you may not have heard of it yet - it's called a napkin In the absence of a napkin a couple of squares of kitchen roll would suffice.

since men have been doing it for literally the whole of human existence.

Not any men I know, maybe you need to find nicer men.