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Who IBU. No food in the house

54 replies

PsychotriaElata · 10/08/2019 13:35

According to my DC and DH there is never any food in the house.

So last night is an example. DH said he was going to be late home and I was gong out. I fed the DC and he came home early. He ordered a pizza as there was "no food in the house". My DC and DH fridge gaze all the time and come out wit this statement nearly every day.

IMO if there was a problem in the world I could live off my store cupboards for a month I reckon. I buy fresh most of the time and cook from scratch most nights but still get this comment.

Apart from what I am cooking from scratch tonight and tomorrow this is what is available the cupboards and fridge: fresh ham, cheese, sandwiches, a litre of yoghurt, fresh fruit, popcorn, pasta with pasta sauces in freezer, bread, tins of soup and beans. These are not our regular meals, they are quick fixes that I use once or twice a week or for lunch. We don't have loads of treats e.g. chocolates and crisps at home but do eat them when out.

So who is BU? Is there no food in my house?

OP posts:
HennyPennyHorror · 10/08/2019 13:38

Sounds like me and my shopping. My DC also say there's no food. That's when they're looking for crisps and biscuits.....I ignore them. I DO sometimes buy crisps/icecream etc but not enough for daily. More like once or at most twice a week.

CrazyOldBagLady · 10/08/2019 13:41

Sounds like plenty of food to me so I expect they mean snack food. Have you asked them what they are expecting to find in the fridge that isn't there?

SpoooyGhost · 10/08/2019 13:41

Depending of the ages of your children I can understand this statement.

Your DH is big enough to see ingredients and put a meal together. No problem ordering a pizza if you fancy one have have the money, but it sounds like he's blaming you for buying it. Just tell him he doesn't have to pretend he can't make a sandwich to justify a pizza.

AuditAngel · 10/08/2019 13:45

In my house “there’s no food in the fridge” is code for either “I can’t see anything I fancy” or “i’ve Eaten all the easy stuff now we actually have to cook stuff is left” although this far into the holidays it is getting slim pickings.

Kids and I go away next Friday, DH on Monday so just need enough to see us through this week, including packed lunches for 1

RezCowgirl · 10/08/2019 13:46

"No food in the house" usually means "there's nothing I can eat right this very second which doesn't involve some work".

ems137 · 10/08/2019 13:48

My kids and husband would say the same of that was our fridge/cupboards. What they would really mean was there was no "grab n go" type snacks. I've started buying ready cooked sausages, chicken etc so it's not all crisps and biscuits.

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 10/08/2019 13:48

That is the sort of thing young children say when what they actually mean is there are no crisps, chocolate, cake, biscuits, icecream etc. Your DH is far too old to be engaging in such childish behaviour.

practicallyperfectwithprosecco · 10/08/2019 13:49

My teens are constantly moaning there is no food in house and I'm starving them!

Current choices 3 different cereals, bread, cheese, ham, tomato's, yoghurts, breadsticks, humous, soup, beans, pasta, various frozen things plenty of fruit in a fruit bowl- hardly think we need food parcels!

However no crisps, biscuits, cake ( will make some later) or ready prepared fruit!

I did tell them they are quite welcome to walk to the shops but they weren't impressed with that suggestion.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 10/08/2019 13:49

It's 'grab and go' food that they crave and mean. Tell your family to perhaps get to is and make enough of this for the whole family, for the whole week - and there will then always be 'food in the house'.

Also, your husband should have bought enough pizza for everybody to have - if not then, as 'grab and go', to save you a job.

Drives me nuts too.

Fruitchouli · 10/08/2019 13:50

My DC will stare blankly at the heaving fruit bowl, fridge full of yoghurts, cheese, sandwich ingredients etc, plenty of bread and quick fixes - pasta & sauce, instant noodles, eggs, beans ...and loudly declare ‘there is nothing to eat’.

It’s code for ‘I want pizza or a takeaway’. I say the same thing I’ve been saying since they were toddlers. If you’re really hungry you’ll eat what’s in!

TickleMyFanny · 10/08/2019 13:52

Sounds like a them problem!

adaline · 10/08/2019 13:52

What they mean is there's nothing they can just grab and eat.

So, no crisps, cuppa soups, biscuits, crackers, cocktail sausages, mini pizzas etc.

Fatted · 10/08/2019 13:53

My DH does this. No food in the house is actually code for no food he can actually be arsed to cook or eat.

He will regularly nip out to the shop to buy something he fancies failing to realise we actually have it in already, he just had to look in the cupboards.

HaileySherman · 10/08/2019 13:56

Eh, same goes on in my house. Just means they're being lazy and/or unimaginative. You have my sympathy.

Nautiloid · 10/08/2019 13:59

They are cross that there is no food, only a bunch of ingredients to make food.

This is not your problem.

I'd probably try to compromise in your shoes and grab some cereal bars or something.

Bumbags · 10/08/2019 14:02

Why don’t you buy what they want then?

A few packets of biscuits and crisps wouldn’t hurt.

PyongyangKipperbang · 10/08/2019 14:06

Why don’t you buy what they want then?

The 50's called and asked for their sexism back.

Fizzpopwhizzbang · 10/08/2019 14:06

I don't blame the kids for saying this, it's a pretty standard mantra when everything pre-made is gone. But it sounds like your DH is being very lazy. It's fine to order a pizza if you especially fancy one but it sounds like he did it to protest the lack of food in the house. Tell him to get off his arse and cook something. Pasta and sauce takes so little effort...

ChicCroissant · 10/08/2019 14:11

Agree that there is no grab-and-go food there, which is what they are looking for.

pinkstripeycat · 10/08/2019 14:11

AuditAngel

In my house “there’s no food in the fridge” is code for either “I can’t see anything I fancy” or “i’ve Eaten all the easy stuff now we actually have to cook stuff is left”

Same as my house but only from DH, even if I’ve been shopping that day. DCs (12 & 13) always manage to make themselves a meal if they’re hungry. I think DH wants a menu to be able to choose from and a waitress to bring it to him! Maybe at his parents but not in our home

Expressedways · 10/08/2019 14:13

Your DH is being childish. If can’t be arsed to cook and/or fancies a pizza then that’s fine but he should just bloody well say so.

QueenoftheBiscuitTin · 10/08/2019 14:15

In our house that means there's no unhealthy snacks. I ignore them.

justasking111 · 10/08/2019 14:19

DS teenage yesterday, what can I eat. Open the bloody fridge it is full of food I replied.

OrianaBanana · 10/08/2019 14:19

If your DH is unsatisfied with the food that’s in the house then he is perfectly capable of buying some that he does like himself.

P1nkHeartLovesCake · 10/08/2019 14:22

Sometimes you just want to eat something nice and you have nothing in I would class as nice, I’d be disappointed living with you.

Sometimes you don’t want to make food, you just want something you can open and eat.

Yes you have food in, but it doesn’t tick my nice box