To insist that I’m right and DH is wrong

[GoBrookeYourself]

Lighthearted!

I’m trying to drink more liquids and I’m aiming for 8 glasses a day; I had porridge for my lunch today and always like it milky so used more milk. When I mentioned to DH that this counted as one of my 8 glasses of liquid a day, he said it doesn’t!

His logic is that it counts in cereal because you can SEE the milk but not in porridge because that’s ‘like counting the milk you use in cakes or cooking’.

Who is BU? (Please say him or I’ll never hear the end of it)

Again- lighthearted!

I think he has a point. If for whatever reason you are trying to increase your fluid intake, it's disingenuous to "count" the milk and you're cheating yourself. Yes, technically its fluid, and doesn't stop because it's added to food.

But you're actively trying to increase your intake, and while today you might have dutifully measured a whole extra 1/2 cup, tomorrow you approx it, then the next you cook it off a bit longer so its more thick. Now that 1/2 glass you're counting, well isn't.

You've set a clearly measurable goal to yourself of 8 GLASSES not 6 actual drinks, 1 cuppa soup, 1/2 glass extra milk in your cereal and gravy on your roast dinner.

Thank you all for your responses, mixed bag! I’m mainly trying to drink more because I’ve had really cracked lips due to a cold I started with a few days ago and I’m not great with liquids at the best of time

DH is now sitting here all smug he even did the loser sign and asked me how the sour grapes tasted haha! Time to LTB if he keeps this going for much longer

Cats can have their fluid allowance for the day in food! but unless you have whiskers and a tail it doesn't apply to you.

In care homes, people are regularly on fluid monitoring charts and gravy, custard and extra milk in porridge or on cereal most definitely counts

It definitely counts. I teach food and it’s in the exam spec about certain foods counting towards your water goals. Like an orange or cucumber are high in water!

If you were a baby having a cleft palates repair, we could found milky porridge as fluid.

In care homes, the fluid used in cereal/porridge etc is classed as fluid intake.