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To have cried because I'm hungry

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Mouseville65 · 12/08/2018 14:41

(Light hearted)

Ok ok its not really that I'm hungry, more so that DP ate my lunch, which he shared with DSS because they were hungry but gave absolutely no thought what so ever to the fact I may be hungry too.

In the grand scheme of things this is soooo silly but I had a tantrum and I cried!

DP is currently at the shop buying me something tasty to eat ... it better be good 🤣

Please cheer me up by sharing your adult tantrums :)

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MadMags · 12/08/2018 17:37

Call me a humourless biatch if you like, but in recent weeks I have lost at least a stone, due to lack of food.

Can't you use your fiver to buy food? I'm not being flippant, I'm genuinely saying if you've lost a stone, but you have a fiver to donate to someone on the internet, then use it to buy food!!!

FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast · 12/08/2018 17:45

I have done Mags..:) x

MadMags · 12/08/2018 17:47

Glad to hear it! If you need support, start a thread and maybe someone can help. Hugs.

Shockers · 12/08/2018 17:58

OP, I banged my knee and cried like a baby today.

It didn’t hurt all that much; I just have a lot going on and it was an excuse to bawl.

Hope Tuesday goes as well as possible, whatever it is Flowers.

FourFried, whereabouts are you? x

Shockers · 12/08/2018 18:11

@FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast- I can’t work out how to PM- I’ve only ever answered them before Blush.

Could you PM me please? I have a few vouchers that I can’t use and I’d love to know that they hadn’t been wasted (they were sent for my birthday, and I appreciate the the thought, but we’re just too rural for them to get used). It would give me great joy to pass them on!

FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast · 12/08/2018 18:21

that is very kind of you Shockers...have PMd you x

SendYouUpInFlames · 12/08/2018 18:43

I haven't been for a run today, But I was starving before me tea!!

People who are able to buy food, also do get hungry you know :S what a strange comment.

SaucepanMan26 · 12/08/2018 18:45

Ffs, the thread was lighthearted. I've been on both sides. Sometimes we eat like royalty (as much as you can when the children refuse anything but beige freezer shite) and other times I dont eat just so they can.
If anyone ate my leftover pizza I'd be fuming Grin

Sparklesocks · 12/08/2018 18:46

I get quite grumpy if I’m hungry too OP. It seems a bit childish but I can’t help it! I definitely start losing concentration and can get a bit snippy - but I don’t mean to!

Brigante9 · 12/08/2018 19:01

I’m not good when hangry, DH has learnt that although he might not need to eat regularly, I definitely do. He knows I get antsy, so offers to make/stop for food if we’re travelling. Probably related to when I literally had no money, no food and had to rely on leftovers from friends. I was abroad and lost a shit ton of weight.

@FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast

Love that film. Please find your nearest food bank. I know what it’s like to be genuinely hungry and not know when you’ll next have food.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/08/2018 20:03

@Mouseville65 - I had a total adult tantrum December 27th, a few years ago. I had planned the food for Christmas and the week after - roast goose on Christmas Day, cold glazed gammon on Boxing Day, and on the 27th, I was going to make a sticky asian goose thing, with the leftover goose meat - and when I went to the fridge to get the meat and shred it into the marinade, half of it was gone!!

It turned out that ds2 had decided to have a delicious cold roast goose sandwich for his lunch, without checking I’d there was any plan for the leftovers.

I was beside myself, furiously angry and in tears - I can only put it down to the culmination of all the work and planning involved in a family Christmas - I don’t usually overreact so badly - and I do accept it was utterly unnecessary and ridiculous - not least because we had plenty of food in the hose, and dh was easily able to put together a salad with cold goose and cold gammon.

Dh had to take me out of the kitchen, and ply me with gin and tonic before I could calm down - and the family have never let me forget it! Blush

MNHQ
EstherMumsnet · 12/08/2018 21:28

Hello everyone,

We can see that this thread was meant to be lighthearted, but if there are folk on here who can't afford to eat, let's also be kind. And while this is all lovely we did think we should post our usual warning that not everyone on the internet is who they say they are – and remind folk not to give more to another poster, either financially (in cash or gifts) or emotionally (in time or care and support) than they'd be prepared to lose if things went wrong.

Sorry to hijack your thread briefly there, OP. We hope your dh got you something nice to eat!

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Mouseville65 · 12/08/2018 21:58

@EstherMumsnet he got me a terry's chocolate orange birthday cake ... he's very much forgiven 🤣🤣

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Hedgehog80 · 12/08/2018 22:01

I cried with hunger a few months ago when in hospital after dc5.......
I’d forgotten to pack snacks and the hospital food was dreadful. At 11pm I was absolutely starving and went to ask was there anything at all I could have. The loveliest midwife made me tea toast and jam it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten

Chartreuseveil · 12/08/2018 22:38

Tantrums and adults should never be uttered in the same sentence

RoseTheHatt · 12/08/2018 22:41

Nocuts - I also forked my DH in the hand for nicking food off my plate. I too was pregnant at the time 😳

Connebert · 13/08/2018 06:22

Well said EstherMumsnet. Although changing the thread title to be more inline with the actual OP, who, to be fair, qualifies it straight away, would probably help a lot.

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Mouseville65 · 13/08/2018 09:12

@Hedgehog80 I agree that there is no better toast than the one they serve after you've given birth :)

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WillowRose79 · 13/08/2018 10:04

After me and my fiancé got engaged we had a long haul flight back- I had just come on my period but we went out for lunch. Went to a nice place in London but then fiancé tells me we have to queue and order our food. I was jet lagged and hormonal and just started crying right in the middle of the restaurant- I didn't want to queue! he told me to get a glass of wine and sit down and he'd do everything- got a bottle and the food was great but yeah massive over reaction!

llangennith · 13/08/2018 10:22

I just get listless when I'm hungry and didn't know about 'hangry' till I had DC. When they were small I soon learnt that if they weren't fed promptly my normally well behaved 3DC would turn into monsters. Every morning after breakfast I prepared packed lunches for us all so on any trip to the park etc as soon as a child started showing signs of impending hanger they would be fed and watered. Saved my sanity.
And I'd know better than to eat someone else's leftover pizza!

CountArthursgroupie · 14/08/2018 17:58

@flametrees empty boxes of anything left in the fridge/freezer/cupboard, all bad but a Cornetto box? turns into the Incredible Hulk

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