Who gets the treats?

[Coolcoolcool]

Please help settle a marital debate.
I’m currently wfh. Husband is in the office. He gets frustrated when I eat more than my ‘share’ of treats from our cupboard whilst at home e.g. I had more mini eggs out of the tube than he did, or yesterday I finished off a pot of posh yoghurt, when he had only had a little bit. AIBU to think that because I wfh I am going to be eating proportionately more food in the house than he is? He obviously buys lunch when he’s at the office and I don’t lay claim to 50% of that! We share finances equally so it’s not a money thing.
So
YABU - save the treats for a 50:50 allocation
YANBU - he can buy his own mini eggs!

(Probs should be eating less treats in general, but that’s a whole other thread 😂)

I might start numbering threads that affirm why I'm so happy to be single by choice and give a brief reason. I reckon I'd be up to about 632 by now and the reason on this one would be "I take total ownership of my own mini eggs and yoghurt which I often eat in bed".

Proper treats like mini eggs need to be shared absolutely fairly. They are not food they are treats Normal food you can eat as much as you like. If it is special yoghurt (fruit corner type)and he likes it too then eating more than your share is poor. If it's normal , boring yoghurt then buy enough that you can eat what you want and so can he.
We have a bar of chocolate each as a treat each week. If you eat all of it in one go you cannot just ear the other person's bar.

I grew up with a brother with type 1 diabetes. My youngest son was diagnosed with it at 14. It is burned on my soul that you never ,ever eat the last one of something that someone having a hypo might need in an emergency. The last mini egg is never eaten until there is a replacement in the house. The last small bag of haribo is the hypo bag until there is a replacement.

It depends.

Nothing worse than living with a greedy guts who troughs all the treats and doesn’t leave any for anyone else.

Do you polish things off?
My DH does. If I open something nice, and eat a few, he’ll mill the rest.
So, he ends up eating most of the treats. It’s annoying, when I go looking for something, it’s all gone...

He sounds like a laugh! How can anyone live their life like that!

Another thread with grown adults complaining about eating "treats"

Try eating grown up food.

@rainbowmash

Another thread with grown adults complaining about eating "treats"

Try eating grown up food.

Are we not allowed chocolate when we get past 18?

What about chocolate liqueurs?

Who draws the line about what chocolate is grown up or not? Are mini eggs out but smarties OK? What about m&m's?

I keep my childish chocolate in the glove box in my car. Often mini creme eggs

This sounds so childish. Like a house share rather than a loving marriage. Your husband needs to get a grip! Is he counting the mini eggs for Petes sake?

@Coolcoolcool

Nothing wrong with you eating more or less what you want in your own home, that has come out of the family budget - within reason. I mean, try to leave a bit for your husband, and replace stuff before it runs out. That's the considerate thing to do.

However, if (for example,) your DH had some chocolates as a GIFT for his birthday, (really nice ones that he loved, and wanted to take his time eating and savouring and enjoying,) and you sat there stuffing your face with HIS chocolates, leaving very few for him; that would be different. You'd be nothing more than an entitled, greedy, selfish, glutton.

Hope that helps.

I'm feeling miffed at lack of mini eggs in my house, now.
(nobody bought any ,who can I resent for that, hmmmm)

Hmmm DH can be a bit of a gannet and it's frustrating if we have say a bag of 9 small packs of mini chocolate fingers, I go to have one less than a week later and they're all gone. As long as you don't just hoover everything up and leave nothing for him I wouldn't be counting mini eggs