He bought chicken burgers

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Lighthearted. Yesterday dh went to do food shop. Two lists - one for supermarket, the other for our local butcher. The butcher list had two items on it: chicken and burgers. I wanted a whole chicken and some beef burgers. He bought chicken burgers - items were listed on separate lines as were the supermarket items but somehow he claims it read chicken burgers. Aibu to despair?😫

Real reasons why you need to go shopping with your partner 🤣🤣🤣

I put corn flakes on shopping list.

He came back after a considerable absence with corn for making popcorn and a packet of chocolate flakes.

In his defence, cornflakes is normally one word!

My DH bought cornflour home instead of self raising flour once, I needed the self raising for a cake 🤦‍♀️ "can you not use that instead?" He asked after I told him he bought the wrong item 🤣 erm...no.

My late DM had a home help/companion who came once a week and did shopping etc. DM wrote B/Rolls (bread rolls) on her shopping list. The lady returned with toilet rolls and her explanation was she thought it meant Bog Rolls. She was rather posh so not sure what she thought my DM was like

@Wellysock 😂😂😂 yes this happens in our house a lot 😂

He might have wanted chicken burgers and intentionally mis-read it?

Many, many moons ago my Mum left money for my brother with a note that read "Please buy milk"

He bought 12 pints in glass bottles 🙄

As I child I remember my dad and I going to the supermarket with a list my mum had made, and didn’t understand one item ‘salad ung’. We racked our brains but no idea and returned home to ask mum what it was. My mum was a nurse at the time and the medical term for any kind of cream was unguent, so salad cream = salad ung. She couldn’t believe we didn’t know what it was..

@PunishmentSnart she went out shopping with her mum, saw a sign and yeah. Donkey purchased. She does also have a house goat, sheep, cats, dogs and horses so it's not unusual...

I do wonder what other people would make of our shopping list if it fell into the wrong hands.

Sainsbury's scallop and prawn bisque pots are known in this house as 'Prawn Bastards' and the dog has McAdam's dry food aka 'Shit Biscuits' (for background, he prefers their wet food and always looks so disappointed when we alternate).

The system works for us (we know what we mean) but recently my husband has started rolling up his sleeves and joining the throng at Waitrose's yellow sticker fridge of an evening, delighting in presenting me with his spoils; brandishing his 9p pack of reduced carrots like the true hunter-gatherer hero he is. Our freezer positively glows with the amount of yellow in there.

While I'm open to an eclectic mix on my plate, I'd prefer if it didn't contain Covid from negotiations and wrangling with the other sticker aficionados that are milling about there, hence the list. However, the yellow sticker pull seems almost irresistible to him, and we all need a hobby during lockdown don't we?

Like the OP's, dinner time has certainly become more 'surprising' since my husband took over shopping duties.

@QueenPawPaws she sounds amazingly quirky - I want to steal your friend! I can imagine drinking wine with my friends and a goat strolling in...

Look to you lot with your fancy husbands who go to do the shopping!

My highly intelligent and very high earning DF once took home a mango and 3 bottles of wine from a supermarket so he could get free parking, my DM remarked that maybe he could have called and asked if anything 'more useful' was needed, his reply was he faniced a mango and wine is always useful

Loving your Df this is so funny

One Sunday about 2pm h said he fancied roast chicken and would pop to the supermarket to get one. He came back with a big frozen one.

Another time I said get some easy stuff for dinner like a chicken to roast and some veg and he spent £65. He bought lobster as a starter (we only have starters on special occasions) and a Cook beef Wellington. He bought crab claws ‘as nibbles’. We’d just had a conversation about tightening our belts as we were in the overdraft. He genuinely thought he was ‘saving us money’ because when we go to a restaurant it costs more than that. It was over half our weekly food budget.

His nickname at home is ‘taste the difference’ because he buys the taste the difference range in everything. If he goes to the shop it’s 3 times what I spend.

My dad is similar. Shopping by buying things which ‘look nice’ rather than what fits the budget, is on the list or even go together.

When I met h he said he was into fusion food. I said like what? and he said he eats a chicken Kiev with his pot noodle. Sadly he wasn’t joking!

There is a suggestion here that shopping is a woman's job, isn't there? That would be fine, if we didn't have to work and do homeschooling too. But since we are not living in the 1950's, men need to start to contribute a whole lot more.

I always leave my list out in the kitchen, adding to it until I leave for the shops. DH often adds a few 'extras' of his own that I never notice until I'm in the shops... yesterday's offerings were clit clamps and a willy warmer 😂

I was only going to Wilkos!

I once asked my husband if he would go out and buy a birthday cake and some candles. Those were the only two items I asked for.

He came back with a birthday cake and a massive pack of those long white tapered candles that you put in holders and have on a fancy dinner table. I said how on earth am I going to fit them in a cake

I've just asked him if I could put this story on here and he said yes but still maintains that it was my fault for not specifying birthday candles to go with he birthday cake he was buying

This thread is brilliant. After a crappy week I'm sitting here with tears literally running down my face.

Dh and I were once in another town shopping and decided to get the car washed. We ended up buying a new car.

Love the one about the candles 🤣🤣

honestly I would normally explain my shopping list to DH before he leaves. We usually go through it a couple of times, I mean we laugh a bit as he knows I'm pedantic like this to ensure his dinner isn't a surprise of his making, like... YOUR CHICKEN BURGERS! hahaha

@ILovesPeanuts

My late DM had a home help/companion who came once a week and did shopping etc. DM wrote B/Rolls (bread rolls) on her shopping list. The lady returned with toilet rolls and her explanation was she thought it meant Bog Rolls. She was rather posh so not sure what she thought my DM was like

Oh dear I'm afraid I'd definitely make that mistake!

It sounds like Amelia Bedelia

DH did manage to wash the load when I asked him to do this when I was on my first day out after having ds. By the time I got home I didn't check and it was the next morning when dh asked about a clean shirt for work that I realised all of his shirts were still in the washer soaking wet

he expected a woman who had literally just given birth to make sure his shirts are cleaned and ironed?

@RB68

I put baking pots once and he came back with cake cases...

Now that shows quite a high level of independent thought and problem-solving ability. I'm impressed.

Once asked DP to grab some of the lemon and lime fizzy pop that asda do, we bought it regularly as it was only 50p and like to have a glass of something fizzy with our evening meal, so it was something he was used to buying. He came back with a single lemon and a single lime 🤦‍♀️