Should I have given the pizza to DD1 or 2?

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I know this is so petty, but I'm just wondering. DD2 ordered me and her pizza as DD1 was out for dinner. I had some left over the next day and DD1 said can I have that, I said yes okay. Then DD2 got up and asked if there was any pizza left and I said oh I think DD1 had that, it was still in the fridge, so DD2 had it. DD2 now thinks I should be murdered lmao (okay slight exaggeration but yes, didn't go down well).

I'd also be upset if someone ate my leftovers. I usually purposefully save some to eat the next day, because most of the time a takeway pizza (or Chinese, curry etc) is just about enough food for two meals and I look forward to having the rest of it for lunch or breakfast the next day.

Cold leftover pizza the next day is my favourite part, I usually eat sides when we first order and save the pizza for the next day. If your daughter bought the pizza and chose to share with you, that's her pizza to do so. You were in the wrong to give it to someone else. My parents used to do this all the time and I hated it. I had very little money of my own, I would buy something and specifically save some so it went further and I had a treat later and would come back to find it gone.

They are both unreasonable. Why would anyone want to eat congealed day old pizza?

Cold pizza next day is the best. Anyway OP, I wouldn't be too bothered, it's a bloody pizza. However I think the one who bought it should have been asked as it's their pizza.

My ds (who is very possessive over food he has bought) would have been fuming!
Although he would have made a point to say 'please don't eat that as I will be eating it tomorrow'.

Family fridge so family food. DDis always leaving leftover pizza/Chinese that she paid for and we all go for it next day!

If your daughter buys herself food you just eat because its in the 'family fridge'? Is she supposed to keep food she buys for herself in her bedroom to go off so shes actually allowed to eat it?

If you buy it, it is yours. This is how rows start in shared accommodation. Taking what someone else bought and eating it yourself. Some would call it stealing.
Get them ready for uni life by labelling what you are not to help yourself to.

Yes it's just politeness. I will check with my youngest that they definitely don't want something and won't be going back to it before I scoff their leftover chocolate which is weird in itself.

Dd2 is being especially petty I think

But she asked if there was any pizza left. OP said she thought DD1 had eaten it. However she hadn't so it was still in the fridge. DD2 ate it. Maybe she thought DD1 had changed her mind. If DD1 had been so bothered she should have put her name on it. As PPs have said, if it's in the fridge it's family food.

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Right?? The comment about ‘DD is used to it’ is horrible too. Imagine not being able to put food you’ve bought in the fridge because your locust family will pile on it!

Whoever gets there first gets the leftovers. Dd1 was too slow to get it, so dd2 got it.

if it's in the fridge it's family food.

But surely it’s polite to ask before taking something from the fridge? If you didn’t buy something you obviously know it’s not yours so it should just be common sense to ask if it’s earmarked for anyone else.

Oh I’ve just had to order pizza (all to myself) now.

In reply to your post, i think DD1 will need to get over it (as note else she can do really!)

'If it's in the fridge, it's family food' is a stupid rule, seeing as most families only have one fridge, where else is she supposed to keep it?

Or have we identified a new 'only on MN' where it's the norm for adult DCs to have their own fridges if they don't to lose their leftover takeaway to 'family food'?

Yes BarbaraofSevillle, they’re probably kept in the utility!

You had leftover pizza? (misses point)

Family fridge = free for all ??!!!

If it’s DD1 who is pissed off then SIBU

DD2 paid for the pizza, and got to the leftovers first (I’m assuming it wasn’t a race to the fridge!)

Leftovers are fair game imo, and since the one who ate them is the one who paid for them, DD1 doesn’t have a leg to stand on!

I guess we can’t have takeaways so never leftovers. The children would never normally have bought their own food.
Two fridges but both family ones. If you want something kept, you say “Please don’t eat my pizza/cake/raspberries as I want them later”. Much better than an arguement later.

I love left over pizza, I'd have been annoyed. Still get annoyed when DH eats my left over pizza 😂

Wasn't yours to give away, you should buy her a pizza to make up. 🙂

Family fridge so family food. DDis always leaving leftover pizza/Chinese that she paid for and we all go for it next day!

That's terrible, what an awful attitude to have! It's OK behaviour because she's used to her rude greedy family "going for it" the next day?

Ffs there are people out there in the world who wouldn't even get to know what a pizza smells like. Get a grip. A whole friggin thread about who the leftover pizza should have gone to? You all feeling ok?? I'm sure it's not the first and most definitely not the last time someone who'll eat someone else's food if they all live together. Try to live a life more meaningful. Before you know it... it will be over.

A. The pizza was nothing to do with dd1 - she didn't order or pay for it
B. She wasn't bothered enough to go and eat it straightaway
C. Dd2 got there first

Simples

Said from someone posting from an expensive electronic device of some sort, connected to the interent, presumably sitting in a comfortable house with clean running water on tap.

FFS there are people in the world who'll never get to know what having any of this feels like. Get a grip yourself.

Oddly enough yesorno, people can have feelings on little things as well as life changing things. How do you know that their lives aren't as meaningful as yours? Do you truly believe that this pizza is the only thing happening in OP's life? People can start threads on whatever they liked, they don't all have to be serious or intense or about "meaningful things".

DD2 paid for it. It's hers.
And essentially not yours to give away.

I also buy pizza and extras, eat the extras hot and fresh and the pizza the next day with an amazing special sauce that the restaurant sells!