Do i tell my wife?

[Bookriddle]

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!

My husband eats all the snacks, even the kids ones for school. So I hide them! I also use a weetabix box that he'll never look in. Fed up of there being nothing for the kids to eat 😂

@SimonJT

My partner has a secret stash of those small bars of dark chocolate from aldi, they’re in the back of a fridge pack of cola. I found them a few months ago, there were four, so I bought some spares and sometimes popped another 1/2 in there. It took him about three weeks to twig that the number of bars wasn’t going down even though he was eating them.

That's sweet! Others have also suggested secretly topping up the OP's DW's stash. That sounds like good fun.

But then we never raised them to view certain foods as treats to be fought over and hidden in secret stashes. That is what is disordered about it, there should be no such thing as a food that is a treat. It is all food. Setting up a Pavlovian reward/treat behaviour in yourself is disordered and a bad attitude towards food.

I'm afraid you are wrong - 100% wrong.

It is definitely not all food. A Lindt bar or a bag of Maltesers are clearly superior snacks to a chunk of raw lettuce or celery. If my DH/DC have chomped all the chocs, I'm hardly going to be mollified by them chucking some carrot sticks and hummus at me and saying, "Well, it's all food, isn't it?"

It's a trap, OP.

Your DW is having a midlife crisis. I'm sorry to say she is bored of all your little habits and wants to leave you, but she doesn't feel she can justify leaving because you aren't all that bad.

So she has left this appealing stash where you will find it and raid it. Then she will come on Mumsnet asking for relationship advice. We will all tell her to LTB because you cannot be forgiven for eating the snacks. She'll have everyone's sympathy and can dump you in good conscience.

Let me polish your fucking halo @PlanDeRaccordement

She should have hidden it in the vegetable drawer instead, nobody goes searching there for goodies.

@ImnotCarolineHirons

Let me polish your fucking halo *@PlanDeRaccordement*

Thank you, but it is divinely self cleaning.

Aslong as you add some surprises in the future knock your self out

I like to have a secret stash too... for those occasions when the other half has eaten all the good stuff and I get a craving.... my other half has found them previously and eaten it on the basis that I hadn’t eaten and I was furious as he eats most of the snacks and I hide some just for those rare occasions when I want to satisfy my cravings... leave her stash alone start making your own stash

You never saw it.

While I do find this funny, I feel smug enough to say that my son never snaffled food, but always asked, right up to the present day. He's 33 now. ( Except a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label, which went unnoticed till the following Christmas).

It's very bad for you to eat at that time, regardless of what it is. Wait until breakfast.

Haha yes he certainly sounds like he is 😂

@FleetwoodRaincoat

It's very bad for you to eat at that time, regardless of what it is. Wait until breakfast.

Why is it bad?

I used to hide chocolate when son had lots of friends coming round. Always used to forget where though and discover it when hiding the next lot.

Why on earth would she stash her snacks in coco pops? I hide mine in a bran flakes box... nobody eats them!!

This year, does it matter??

If I didn't have a little stash, I'd never get a look in. Leave her stuff alone!

Leave it alone.... wanting something nice for herself once in a while does not make her a greedy bustard.

There is literally nothing stopping you from making you're own stash.

YABVU. Stop acting like a petulant entitled child.

You wake up to raid the cupboards? No wonder she tries to hide something for herself.

My husband is a greedy bastard. Eats all snacks/biscuits in house.

I also have my own secret stash hidden away from the greedy bastard.
If I came home to find the greedy bastard had found and ate my stash I would honestly fuckin leather him.
I'm getting the rage just imagining finding my stash empty.
Maybe I'm just hangry. Off to have a secret snack.

There is literally nothing stopping you from making you're own stash

You need self-control to have a stash, though. For obvious reasons. The need to have a stash arises from people with self-control living with people with no self-control.

Add some that you know she loves

Keep away from women's chocolate. Disgraceful behavior 🤣

If I want to have sweet treats in the house I have to hide them very well because my husband can't control himself he is the first to admit. We got a policy of buying desserts and ice cream on the day we plan to eat it. So sometimes, not often I will put away a chocolate bar to have a nible when I have a craving.