AIBU to tell DH I’ve decided not to buy cheese and biscuits this year

[WeeMadArthur]

Because there is always so much food around at Christmas ( thanks to MiLs very generous Christmas and Boxing Day spreads which provide us with leftovers for days and we always end up stuffing ourselves) only to weaken going past all the lovely cheeses in the supermarket and end up having a shelf full of cheese in the fridge?

I wish I could help myself, I KNOW that we will all eat far too much over the Christmas period and at some point we will look at each other and agree we shouldn’t have bought the cheese and biscuits. I manage to survive on just cheddar the rest of the year so why do I feel an uncontrollable need to have at least five different cheeses in the fridge at a time when we also have the most food, cake and nibbles around?

[PussGirl]

I've decided to sacrifice the Christmas pudding this year - no-one ever has room for it after the cheese & biscuits.


Couldn't 't sacrifice the cheese though - no way

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Are you mad??!

[GreenBea]

Currently the make-up of my blood is about 93.7% cheddar. I can't wait to do the 'Christmas' shop and buy the rest of the cheese. Think I'm doing Goat's Cheese and Red Onion tarts for starters on Christmas Day. And I'm hosting NYE and there will be the obligatory cheese board. I'd go as far as saying I could sack chocolate off for cheese.

[caringcarer]

You must be scrooge. Buy some cheese, lots of it. Your poor dh.

[MrsExpo]

..... and, of course, you’ve bought the obligatory box of selected crackers to go with all this cheese —you won’t eat— ..... you know ..... the ones you never buy at any other time.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I’d swap DH for a wheel of Stilton right now.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I always have a box full of cheeses in the fridge. Yum.

[MrsExpo]

ARGH .... !!!! —why won’t my iPad do strikethrough— ......

.... goes off for cheese and crackers to work it out ......

[NotUmbongoUnchained]

Honestly I’d divorce you!

I’m lactose intolerant but one a year I cheese binge and then I just suffer

[ListenLinda]

The only cheese I can eat this year is cheddar, so suck it up for us pregnant ladies and buy ALL the cheese OP.

Then come back and tell me what you have bought so I can turn green with jealousy and hate you a little bit

[Angie169]

Thank the cheese gods , Christmas is saved in the MadWeeArthur house hold

ATM i have a large ( but getting smaller rapidly ) block of mature chedder, two different English blue's and a a German strong hard , and German blue.
A couple of packets of crackers , some Braburn apples and the Pie'ce De Resistance my home made pickles .
IMO anyone that likes cheese with 'stuff' in should be taken outside and shot !



ok maybe a little harsh bit why in gods name do they do that to cheese ? , we should set up
The
Royal
Prevention
of
crulty
To
Chesse.

no cheese should have that barbaric treatment !

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Mrsexpo - it’s becausw your iPad is helpfully inserting en dashes instead of em dashes (longer dashes used in typography).

I’m not sure how to use it but it is bloody annoying when you don’t want them.

[DeezMutts]

It’s work to roule in this house

[AlpacaLypse]

CHEEEEEESSSSSEEEEE!!!!!

YY those peculiar cheddars with various bits of fruit and/or spices are not proper cheese.

Boxing Day is my favourite day of Christmas. Christmas Eve and Day are spent zapping between mutually incompatible relatives and doing a lot of smiling nodding and eating frankly disgusting home made mince pies. Boxing Day we have actual chosen FRIENDS of mine, DP, and in latter years our two young adult DDs. Cheese crackers and port is a very important part of this. And a very silly parlour game.

[Andro]

There is never any cheese in this house, it's the one thing that is totally banned. My PiL are visiting until the New Year...there will be no cheese and biscuits for them (or any of my other guests over the festive period).

OP, yanbu to not buy cheese!

[XmasPostmanBos]

dh wants camembert, I don't think anyone will like it but if I bake it and he likes it but doesn't eat it all, is that it done? one use only?

Yes it would not be the same. You could make some mini camembert parcels with filo or puff pastry.

[XmasPostmanBos]

There is never any cheese in this house, it's the one thing that is totally banned.
But WHY????

[Dagnabit]

This thread is pure cheese porn....

[TherightsideofHERstory]

Cheese rules

[chocolateworshipper]

Don't forget that Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Cheesus of Nazareth, so buying cheese is traditional.

Have a gouda Christmas.

[Andro]

XmasPostmanBos

I'm allergic; even contact needs hospital attention, ingestion can kill me. It sucks for my DH and DC, they all love cheese - thankfully they love me more.

The whole thing can - and has - caused a few issues in the past when we're hosting (I've lost count of how many cheese based hostess gifts I've received).

[GummiberryJuice]

@XmasPostmanBos Thankyou see now I like the sound of filo parcels, need to put some more thought into this I think

[MrsJayy]

Don't forget that Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Cheesus of Nazareth, so buying cheese is traditional

Or the little baby cheesus

[DorisDances]

Crikey, you'll be saying next you're not getting after eight mints....

[Aftereights91]

We're skint this year so have had to cancel the cheeses :( I shall make do with cheddar instead