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Original poster

Biscuits - WIBU?

190 replies

Notmytelescope · 09/11/2019 18:25

So for starters I accept this is a ridiculous, petty thing but I’d appreciate some outside perspective.

The backstory: On Thursday DH went shopping and bought a packet of biscuits ( nice ones with stem ginger in - the kind that come in a box...).

Friday AM before I went to work there was almost the whole packet left. DH was at home all day.

Saturday AM, I fancied a biscuit with my coffee and they were all gone. I called him a greedy piggy.

Sat PM I rumaged in the freezer for some cookie dough I had stashed away and there was enough for 6 small ‘biscuit muffins’. Come tea time I shared these with the DCs. I said DH couldn’t have one as he’d eaten all the biscuits yesterday. (DH has a habit of always eating anything if is opened)

He is now sulking and not talking to me. I think he is being ridculous and I am pissed off with him for his over reaction. Or am I being harsh?

Who is being unreasonable?

OP posts:
statetrooperstacey · 09/11/2019 18:27

You are, I hope you didn’t say that in front of your children!

TheReluctantCountess · 09/11/2019 18:29

Really? Just buy some more biscuits.

NoHummus · 09/11/2019 18:29

You are, for treating your husband like a child. Hmm

Mrstwiddle · 09/11/2019 18:30

Yes, you’re being unreasonable. Buy two packs of biscuits next time and hide one away.

CalmdownJanet · 09/11/2019 18:30

God I'd pissed off if my dh said I couldn't have one as I had eaten the others. He's not a child you reprimand, you sound like his mother tbh. That said eating all the biscuits I accept is annoying.

This is why I love that I married a savory person, I am sweet toothed, I won't eat all the crisps and he won't eat all my biscuits, wedded bliss Grin

Chiliprepper · 09/11/2019 18:31

You are so in the wrong. He probably shouldn’t have eaten them all, but he’s an adult, that’s his prerogative!

Tableclothing · 09/11/2019 18:31

If DH tried telling me what I could and couldn't eat he'd get pretty short shrift.

insanepizza · 09/11/2019 18:31

YABU for being the biscuit police

SlightlyStaleCocoPops · 09/11/2019 18:32

They're biscuits ffs.

Original poster
Notmytelescope · 09/11/2019 18:33

To be honest I am fed up of there never being any biscuits cos he has always finished them before I get a look in. I am fed up with having to hide food too. I guess I just feel that an adult should be able to have some self control,

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DragonontheWagon · 09/11/2019 18:34

If my husband to.d me I'd been greedy and wouldn't let me have a biscuit, I'd be very childish you're treating him like a child and throw a full on tantrum just so he'd get the message.

ParkheadParadise · 09/11/2019 18:35

Can't believe you only bought one packet😦😦
On a food shop I spend ages in the biscuit section.
I do have a sweetie and biscuit cupboard that needs to be full at all times😂😂😂

Original poster
Notmytelescope · 09/11/2019 18:38

@parkhead I didn’t do the shopping - he did. Yes if he wanted to have a whole packet to himself he should have bought 2 so the rest of us could have one.

Aren’t the kids allowed to have some biscuits too? I shared mine with them cos they’d also missed out.

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Puffinhead · 09/11/2019 18:39

I’m with you OP, I’d be really annoyed

jay55 · 09/11/2019 18:39

It's a vicious cycle isn't it, he eats all the biscuits, you get understandably pissed off, he feels shit and so eats all the biscuits.

MumW · 09/11/2019 18:39

I feel your pain. It's the same in this house. I hate it when I go to get something from the cupboard/fridge and it's not there - especially if they are ingredients purchased especially for a particular recipe/meal.
I have to find ever more ingenious ways of hiding my chocolate and special biscuits.

MrsGrindah · 09/11/2019 18:43

I think biscuits have way too much importance in your house! Kids haven’t “ missed out “ on them at all.Sugary shite they don’t need and you made some biscuit muffins ( whatever they are) with them anyway.

turnthebiglightoff · 09/11/2019 18:44

YABU. Very. Just buy more biscuits next time. Food policing is pathetic.

justthecat · 09/11/2019 18:48

This is why you have a hidden stash 🙄

CSIblonde · 09/11/2019 18:50

I wouldn't monitor his eating, you're not his Mum. Just stock up & have a separate stash he doesn't know about: always best if you have a finish the whole packet merchant.

Bluetrews25 · 09/11/2019 18:50

But surely if an adult knows that the others in the family are going to want their share, isn't it a bit mean to scoff the share for 3 other people?
I think you'd get different responses if it was your 13 yo DS who had done this!

Royallyscrewed · 09/11/2019 18:54

Next time just buy another pack and hide them in a box of something no one will bother with-I currently have a chocolate orange hidden in an empty box of brown rice because my lot are gannets and will eat everything as soon as the shopping is unpacked.

Mylittlepony374 · 09/11/2019 18:54

YABVU.
Stop treating your husband like a child.

BeckyButters · 09/11/2019 18:55

I think anyone who eats a full packet of biscuits in one day has a problem.

I'm with you OP.

Hugsgalore · 09/11/2019 18:56

I'd be really pissed off if my husband called me a "greedy piggy" and told me in front of my children I wasn't allowed a biscuit. Yabu