Do i tell my wife?

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So ive not long woke up and decided to have a midnight snack, for some reason i was craving coco pops and remembered we had a box in the cupboard!

So i have gone and opened the box up and its full of snacks(no coco pops) some of the stuff is from the weekly shopping that i thought disappears quite quickly and stuff she obviously buys here and there!

Aibu to not mention to my wife i have found her hiding place for snacks and just help myself whenever i fancy a snack!

Don't be a snack wanker, buy and build your own stash.

Snack wanker

I have a stash but it's out in the open and my family just don't touch it as they know it's mine and they know they've already eaten a larger share than I take for myself. Usually it's treats from home that are difficult to get here, outside the UK. My family aren't knobbers and understand it would be unfair of them to get all the treats from home just because I eat less than they do.

Hiding a stash in a cocopops box is ridiculous. She really should try a laundry / cleaning tin under the sink 😂

Surely it would be better to hide snacks in an empty All Bran box, you know, that no one is ever going to look in?

But why is she hiding food? Unless it’s from children, that’s extremely weird.

Consider yourself lucky it is a secret snack stash. I have a secret bank account.

Oh, and I knew a friend who purchased secret stuff. She kept it in the airing cupboard in a huge Tampax box.

I get that this is meant to be light hearted so I would probably pop In other snacks she likes but not say anything. What's her favourite chocolate that's not in there? Surprise her but don't say a word!

@Lifeisforalimitedperiodonly I’d consider that sensible tbh
I don’t have a snack hiding place; but I have an emergency account. My grandad left my Nan after 45 years and she’d have been screwed without some independent money- it happens

Agree that she needs to hide things because you eat far more than your fair share.

I think it’s fine to have the occasional thing but do replace it and get your own stash.

DH and I have our own treat stash shelves at home.

I can’t believe you called your wife a greedy bastard

1. Why cal anyone your married to a horrid name?
2. If she’s having to hide food. It’s probably the reason I do. I occasionally buy myself a nice snack. Go to eat it and it’s gone without anyone telling me. It’s a real low to call what your wife has had to do I assume. Which is hide snacks because someone keeps eating them!

1. Why wouldn’t you just talk to her? Ask her why? Don’t call her names. Say I’d like a secret stash. Or even a stash. Work something out. You are married after all!

This whole thread is weird. I don’t understand why anyone would need a secret stash of snacks. That just sounds like something a person with a disordered attitude towards food would do. So I have voted YANBU to tell your wife you found the secret stash. Hopefully you can help her develop healthier attitude towards food.

What adult that isn’t unwell, pregnant or breastfeeding requires a midnight snack?!

DH has a ' not so secret' stash of food because I tell him to his it from me . I have no control around sugary snacks on particular. If I ever find it ) which I have once or twice I usually sneakily eat something and then always confess shamefacedly a bit later or sometimes replace it . DH rolls his eyes and laughs.. It is sort of a joke between us but I do have what I think of as an eating disorder and of I lived on my own would not have any of the snack food he has in the house or I only have very small quantities at a time .
So we have a sort of loose agreement that he hides excess snack.food and I don't go looking ( which I don't, just a couple of times I've found them by chance ) .

If you’ve never brought your favourite snack & hid it under something or the back of the cupboard, you’re lying 😂

Especially do you’ve grown up so thy siblings or have kids!

Christ OP don’t admit on here that you stole something, because if your Mrs complains on here about it you’ll end up with a divorce 😅

Some people on here are unbelievable with how serious & negative they are all the time 😳

@oohyoudevilyou

It never takes my family long to catch on to my stashes...they tend to help themselves from it for a few days until I notice and have to find another one. I don't know if it's just one sleuth that finds and raids it, if they work cooperatively, or independently but concurrently. Bastards.

**Especially if you’ve grown up with siblings or have kids! Bloody autocorrect

I've eaten late after getting in - in fact in uni days I would get in and make a fry up at 2/3 am - but waking up at midnight and going downstairs for a bowl of co co pops?! Very weird.

I have a secret snack stash. It is for the kids packed lunches, otherwise we get to midweek and there is nothing left to put in them!

@WhereverIGoddamnLike

The only reason people usually have a secret stash is because they live with a greedy bastard and they never get a look in with the snacks.

This is it entirely. I live with three extremely greedy DH and teenage DSs, if I don't occasionally hide stuff I know that I won't get a look in and it will be gone before you can blink.

You should buy start contributing to the secret stash - don't say anything, but at least once a week, secretly buy a nice treat and add it to the cocopops box without letting her know that it is you. Create your own secret stash elsewhere (which can include actual cocopops) - if she finds it, she can start secretly adding treats to your stash.

Do not eat from someone else's stash though. That is not fair.

OP - you say the food "disappears quickly", but that isn't because she is greedily eating it up, is it, because the food is still there in the box? She is taking either her whole share or a portion of her share to keep for her future self, not depriving you of your share.

I have a box in which I do this - my family know where it is as it is not hidden and they also know they are not to touch it under any circumstances. This is because any "communal" snacks are eaten up in three days regardless of how much is bought, and I prefer to eat a small amount of treat food each day or save it until the weekend. If I didn't reserve some, then they'd eat mine up too because whilst out it is still "communal" eg fair game - they'd say "I thought you didn't want any" when in fact I just don't want to eat a whole week's worth right now. Because I know I can trust them to respect my reserved snack box I am also open to polite requests to share treats in exceptional circumstances/at the weekend just before they are replaced although then everyone is clear that they are eating from my share and it is a favour not a right. If they stole from the box I would lock the box and keep the key on me, and there would be no requests!

Its not bizarre. Otherwise teenagers steal bloody everything before ive had a chance to eat it.

this.
even if its a secret stash to hand out at regular intervals and to ensure that my DS gets some as otherwise DD will take the lot.
likewise puddings in the fridge.
She has PDA/ASD and its easier to hide and replace than to have the absolute breakdown if she is accused of taking more than her fair share.
Last week I bought 4 noodle snacks for her for the lunchtimes that she wasnt at college (as she had requested them, not because I think they are the healthiest lunch n the planet) and after the shopping was delivered she had eatedn all 4 on the Sunday night, so started munching through DS's main meal dinners the following day.
Snacks literally disappear within moments.

A stash wouldn’t stay hidden in a coco pops box for long.

This can’t be a real thread.

If it is, then yes, tell your wife and take the whole stash for yourself as she deserves punishment for thinking a coco box was sufficient.

NO mum would EVER put a stash in a chocolate cereal box-NONE!

She is taking either her whole share or a portion of her share to keep for her future self, not depriving you of your share.

Or she is taking it all.