First world problem but I'm so annoyed! DH is a pig

[PonyPals]

Lighthearted but still annoying.

DH found a stash of snacks (mainly crisps) and I told him he can have one pack as the rest are for our day out to the water park.
Well I am packing everything as the park is tomorrow and he just informed me that he ate more than one packet. Just checked and In actual fact he ate everything!!!!

He is in supermarket right now replacing it but jeez such piggy behaviour!

AIBU to find another hiding spot and never ever tell him!

I agree with OP, he is an absolute pig.

The fact that you have to hide food from him is weird, and the fact that he can't control himself and gobbles several packets at once is revolting behaviour.

Jesus, I think some of you have lead very sheltered lives of you think someone eating a few packets of crisps makes them an 'absolute pig'.

@Shinyletsbebadguys

I suppose it depends ,hard to tell tone. If I told DP that snacks were for DC for something he wouldn't touch them. If I told him he could only have one pack and that's it he would be bemused at why I spoke to him that.

If I ever used the phrase "piggy behavioir" he would wonder who in hell had stolen me and replaced me with an asshole.

I would have found this lighthearted as an annoyance until you repeatedly used the term pig and piggy , that's a truly disgusting phrase to use about anyone.

Maybe she just said aye just one though so we have enough for tomorrow ?

Agree on the pig thing though

No, I’d be mad. You weren’t controlling his eating you were literally telling him not to eat those snacks you’d specifically put aside for a trip?

It's clear that many posters have never had to live with someone who eats whatever they want with absolutely no consideration for the rest of the family.

My father would eat components of dinners intended for 3 people, would take basically all my birthday cake, stole my lunches, would eat things even though I'd explicitly said to him "please don't eat that, it's for X" or "I've bought four - two for you, two for me".

Count yourself lucky you've never had to hide food just to make sure it lasts longer than 24 hours.

Just this week I had to buy my mum some more snacks (she's on a particular diet so can't just have normal crisps, for example) and damn right I hid them for her when I got home otherwise he'd have the lot, just like he did with the last ones.

OP, don't listen to those who have no experience of this. He WBU to eat all of them (and not replace them until asked) when he knew they were set aside for a day out. Even if he hadn't known they were set aside, it's rude as fuck to eat all of something and not offer anyone else in the family any.

@Tisforptarmigan

I agree with OP, he is an absolute pig.

The fact that you have to hide food from him is weird, and the fact that he can't control himself and gobbles several packets at once is revolting behaviour.

Your language is revolting. The word 'gobble' aside (truly a disgusting word used to be offensive), the ridiculous notion that a grown adult of either sex being labelled as 'an absolute pig' for choosing to eat more than one packet of crisps at a time is just so judgmental.

OP they're only crisps, theyre readily available everywhere and are easily replaceable (as evidenced by him, well, replacing them). If you'd made something that he'd eaten all of but... it's just crisps.

I agree policing anyone's food is unacceptable but that's not what OP has done here. He was told they were for a specific purpose and I wouldn't expect to have to keep replacing food if I had already had the forethought to buy them in advance. If he hadn't found them would he have gone out and bought some because he wanted some crisps? Probably not. He just ate them because they were there and that is greedy.

You have to laugh at MN sometimes. Threads full of 'gosh, no, I have 14 Pringles at Christmas and then don't eat carbs til May, I'd be so STUFFED if I ate an apple too!' and 'a size 14 is morbidly obese, we've all lost sight of a normal diet, I run 58 miles a week and only eat sprouted mung beans on alternate days' posts. Then suddenly OP is a controlling monster for not wanting her DH to eat an entire multipack of crisps saved for the whole family on a day out because that isn't greedy and she shouldn't make such a fuss!

OP, get a better hiding place. My DH wouldn't but I grew up with a brother like this and it's enraging. My DM would find things months later. I still in my 40's get treats at Christmas he hates like Turkish delight, not that I see him but it's tradition, as it was the only way I ever got anything.

@WunWun

Jesus, I think some of you have lead very sheltered lives of you think someone eating a few packets of crisps makes them an 'absolute pig'.

Agreed ! And he's replacing them too, so it's a non problem. They're not even going till tomorrow !!!

I am baffled.

How is it controlling to cater for a particular event and ask that the provisions for that event not get eaten?

How far does it go, this carte blanche to help yourself? If I make a sponge cake with a view to icing it the following day for a DC birthday cake, is it controlling to tell DH he cannot eat it?

If I make a dozen sausage rolls to take to a Christening buffet am I allowed to ban the family from eating them before we get there?

Women frequently budget, shop and plan for meals for the whole family, for the week. Why is it OK for the man to then eat his way through anything he fancies without reference to the plan?

OP isn’t controlling his eating- if he’d said that he wanted crisps and was going out to buy some, sure she’d have been happy to let him crack on. If their household agreement is that OP organises the shopping, I’m sure she’d have bought him some.

The issue isn’t crisp deprivation, it’s a complete disregard for the fact that OP had done the planning and buying ahead for a family outing, and him helping himself created another job. Why should OP have to keep redoing household tasks she’s already finished?

"I bought those for our trip to the waterpark, and since I put in the time and effort to get our food together for the trip, I'd prefer you didn't eat these. If you want some crisps, you know where the supermarket is. Have at it."

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

I am baffled.

How is it controlling to cater for a particular event and ask that the provisions for that event not get eaten?

How far does it go, this carte blanche to help yourself? If I make a sponge cake with a view to icing it the following day for a DC birthday cake, is it controlling to tell DH he cannot eat it?

If I make a dozen sausage rolls to take to a Christening buffet am I allowed to ban the family from eating them before we get there?

Women frequently budget, shop and plan for meals for the whole family, for the week. Why is it OK for the man to then eat his way through anything he fancies without reference to the plan?

Quite

It is annoying DS likes a treat which I buy only to find OH has scarfed them all so now we put them in the office in a cupboard where he would never think to look. DS is not greedy and they last in there.

Presumably OP has done all the work to organise the family day out and the only thing requested of piggy husband is not to eat all the snacks intended for everyone on day out. Piggy hubby couldnt even manage that. Its a clear case of LTB .

Lol he's an adult and he is also replacing them. He's not a child you hide treats from. As long as he replaces it then its no big deal!

@smoothchange

You told a grown adult he could only have one packet?

He is replacing them, I don't see the issue at all. He is allowed to make his own choices and eating more then one packet doesn't make him a pig.

Exactly. You'd be annoyed if someone ate a whole pack of some special foodstuff that was expensive, hard to come by and that you were keeping for a specific occasion but crisps?

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I have Australian friends and family on Facebook and follow a couple of Aussie tourism pages.

I'm so sick with jealousy at the weather and the freedom I caved yesterday and snoozed them all for a month.

But more snacks ?!??

@FlyingByTheSeatof

But more snacks ?!??

Why should she?

*buy more snacks and find a better hiding place

I cant imagine hiding food or rationing it. We have free reign to food and neither DH nor DCs would eat everything (probably as its freely available). Also I wouldnt buy in advance and say "one packet", I would just check a few days before I was going and buy more. If I do ever buy snacks for holidays/days out they go in a "holiday" box and nobody would touch it. Or if they did they would ask beforehand so I could replace it.

A ‘stash’? Who are these people who hide food? Usually women, mothers, with OHs who eat them all without thinking that they may have been meant for something/one else!

It's bloody tiresome to be the one who has organised something only to find at the very last moment that someone else has eaten, used, taken away whatever it was that had been organised.

It's nothing to do with telling an adult how much they can/can't eat. It's about every adult thinking about the family unit rather than just themsleves!

@HarrysWife

I cant imagine hiding food or rationing it. We have free reign to food and neither DH nor DCs would eat everything (probably as its freely available). Also I wouldnt buy in advance and say "one packet", I would just check a few days before I was going and buy more. If I do ever buy snacks for holidays/days out they go in a "holiday" box and nobody would touch it. Or if they did they would ask beforehand so I could replace it.

You do know that your 'holiday box' is the equivalent of OPs 'stash, don't you? The stuff you would expect nobody to touch... not really free rein, freely available etc!

@Cissyandflora

If they were Cheezels how could he help it? Not his fault.

Or those bugles!

Oh man those are moorish!