Never get to finish my snacks

[SnackyLady]

Bit of a lighthearted one (but I'm also a bit annoyed!)

So sometimes in the evenings me and DH will have snacks after dinner, like some biscuits or some crisps or something. Not every night but some evenings as a treat.

Whenever we buy snacks we each specifically buy what we want for ourselves. So if I want chocolate I will get the type of chocolate I want and won't share that. Same with DH, he will get what he wants and I would not have any of that because it was for him if that makes sense. So we both have our individual snacks and that's fine. A lot of the time I won't finish all of mine, for example the other day I really fancied some Doritos, had about half a bag and then put it away.

Also worth noting that DH stays up later than me by a few hours.

The problem is the next day / evening I'll be thinking ooh lovely I've got crisps left I'll have one now and they're all gone because DH has eaten the rest of mine after I've gone to bed.

It's just annoying to me that I never get to eat all my snacks? I bought the crisps for me to eat. Don't get me wrong I don't begrudge him food, but if he wanted Doritos then he should have said and he could have had his own bag. This has happened a few times and it's just irritating me that none of my snacks will last until the next day.

Am I justified in being irritated by this?

Hid the snacks. It’s the only way. Take them up to bed with you and keep them some where secret.

That is irritating. Have you told him not to do it? If DH and I have snacks and pit the leftovers back in the cupboard we'll say "I'm saving these for later" so the other knows not to touch it or "there are some leftover in the cupboard if you want any" so then they're fair game.

Of course usually the DC get to them first regardless!

PP beat me to it, make a point of taking them to bed with you.

Out of interest, have you asked him not to do it? Or asked him to share whatever he's bought for himself one time? If not, I'd do that and if he appears perplexed, explain you thought the rules must have changed as he's taken to sharing all of yours 😏

Places to hide chocolate include inside an empty tampon box....
Ime.

I haven't said anything about it because I don't want to embarrass him. When I was looking round for my Doritos and i asked him if he had seen them he went a bit red and mumbled that he had eaten them. This is his reaction every time I ask where my snacks have gone so I would feel guilty making him feel bad by saying don't eat my snacks!

I think I will just have to start taking them up to bed with me!

So he gets mumbly....but keeps doing it?

I would tell him that either he better prepare to spend all of his disposable income on extra snacks, to snacktisfy the both of you... or he starts sleeping with one eye open

I'd make him go out and buy replacement snacks-if he wants to pig out on your snacks he can replace them

When you are buying your snacks (not his) buy two of them. Or hide yours!

Why should you feel guilty? He’s eating your snack food, he should feel bad.

YANBU - my DH does this to me all the time and it's really irritating.
I have to make a conscious effort to hide snacks I want to have later. But sometimes I hide them too well and forget where I put them
He always apologises and says he'll buy me some more but still, just so irritating!

This is his reaction every time I ask where my snacks have gone so I would feel guilty making him feel bad by saying don't eat my snacks!

Bugger his feelings! You've asked him more than once where your snacks have gone, and yet he keeps doing it. He's obviously not concerned about your feelings, just embarrassed at being caught.

My dh is like this. He's like a bloody food hoover. Hide the food!

Fuck not embarrassing him, he should be embarrassed! He’s a grown up I assume?

Tell the greedy sod to stop troughing your snacks.

Food hoover is exactly the right term for it 😂

FFS you are married. Just bloody tell him to not eat your snacks.
He fucking knows they're yours, that's why he looks embarrassed!

Call him out on it every time and when shopping tell him to get extra snacks for himself so he doesn't need to eat yours.

I feel you OP. It really annoys me when I buy food that's clearly for my tastes and husband bloody finishes it without letting me know.

If we have a bar of chocolate to share after dinner I make sure it's split in half and we take our own share otherwise he will always eat more than half.

It's so annoying. I don't think they think about these type of things do they?

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Tbh I'd say why the fuck do you keep eating my snacks I was saving that. Stop it.

But that's my marriage

Under the veg at the bottom of the fridge if you wanna hide anything , or cupboard stuff you need your own secret place

Why would he feel bad being asked not to eat them?

We do this all the time, I put stuff away and say 'saving that for later' or 'don't want that would you like it', OH knows and doesn't eat it if I'm saving for later.

He clearly feels something when he gets caught out, so I don't see the need to save his feelings by asking him not to hoover up your saved snacks!

The thing is if we are sharing something he is very considerate of making sure we both get equal amount.
It just seems that as soon as I'm in bed all the snacks are up for grabs!

Haha I definitely need to get one of those cages 😂😂

I just hide mine

DH used to do this and it really pissed me off! I kept telling him not to and he kept ignoring me.

So I started openly helping myself to enormous handfuls of his crisps all the time, crunching them loudly. He soon got the message

I hide frickin everything 😂
I generally have a dog and toddler standing in front of my face when I sit eating anything. Anything I treat myself too, I hide away from dp, otherwise he’d have it too.
As a previous poster said, the vegetable/salad draws at the bottom of the fridge are good, be sure to put a big cauliflower, pack of salad on top to conceal. Or the cupboard with flour, pasta etc in..o push it right to the back, he has discovered his before though, so I may need to move my next stash to the cupboard under the stairs..honestly, wtf 😂