To have my own eggs?

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DH asked for eggs with some other bits so he could cook.
I ordered them from co op. Anyway he's cooking now and he's taken my Burford browns. AIBU to say he should leave mine alone and crack on with the co op free range ones?

His excuse he saw them and they looked better and I can get some another time. But he isn't actually going to go to the shops for them.

In my defence I do share them with my toddler.

YANBU. We only use Burford Browns for breakfast, not in cooking.

He probably took the ones with the shortest date? Definitely need to rethink your egg management - no more His and Hers, all Burford Browns.

WHITE MUNCHIES?????????
🤮 PP: I promise if any wind up here you can have them all!

I must admit though, nice eggs do make a difference. We have our own hens so get lovely fresh ones and if we run low we use shop bought ones in cakes and things and save ours for poaching (DH and me) and Dippy (DS12).

I hide my burfords. It really gets my goat if he uses the burfords or the leghorn eggs.

My husband hardboils eggs and frys until the yolk is solid. He does not appreciate their superior taste, so why should he eat them? He wouldn't like i if i cracked open one of 'his' bottles of wine and guzzled it down with a box of chocolates.

Lucky you even got eggs!

Have you done a taste test, out of interest? It's the kind of thing I'd love to care about but in reality probably haven't got the headspace for it! Washing my face regularly is a bit of a stretch right now!

In future ... you will know to put his in the BB boxes and keep yours safe. 😁

Haha, lol, I do this to my DH. I make cakes with his precious overpriced Burford bloody Browns. Mwahahaha.

YABU. I’m with your DH.

I'm currently eating dh's donut so I might be slightly biased but please don't ltb. Us food stealers are good people!!

(In my defence I haven't touched Dc's Halloween chocolate though it's trying to seductively calling out to me every night)

Eggs you have eggs? And two different types? Good Lord OP, They are as rare as hen's teeth in this neck of the woods. Can't get them for love nor money.

Because he doesn't care what type of eggs he has and they are bloody expensive and I can't get them at our new supermarket

Can’t say I notice any difference from one egg to the next but not having to share food is a big reason that I’m currently single.

If anyone lays a finger on my duck eggs...

Some people can though.

For those expressing confusion and extolling the moral superiority of a household where everything is for everyone and it's all lovely sharing loveliness… do you not have experience of anything in your life where there are special, more expensive versions of things that should only be used when the extra expense will make a difference, and not be "wasted" on things that won't benefit from it? Like, I dunno, I wouldn't use an expensive, high-quality specific-hobby screwdriver for levering open a tin of paint or broddling down the drain, I wouldn't grab an expensive bottle of someone's favourite beer bought for relaxing in front of a film to slosh into a pie filling without asking them, I wouldn't take a pricy sable watercolour brush because it was too much faff to go and get my pollinating brush or I fancied using the sable one, and I wouldn't use expensive eggs that someone had bought in specially to have softboiled or something in my general cooking.

Hide the good eggs OP

Well he does care, because he said they looked nicer and used them. I would never buy one standard of food for myself and expect my husband to eat a lower quality. So YABU.

Why? Do you not think people in developing countries ever nick their partners food without asking? I'm sure it pisses them off too.

This is why I'm glad I'm single.

I'm not sure it's about one person getting a higher standard than another person, more about one application benefiting more from an expensive egg than another application.

It sounds like whatever the DH is cooking might be slightly improved by nicer eggs, but depending what it is, the improvement could well be barely noticeable. He didn't think it was worth specifying fancy eggs for it, so normal eggs will obviously be fine. Whereas OP clearly feels the normal vs. fancy difference is noticeable enough for what she wanted to use eggs for, enough that she did think it was worth the extra.

Using the fancy eggs for cooking in this situation is much like asking someone to pick you up any old block of chocolate to make cornflake cakes, and when they come back with that plus a bar of their favourite artisan chocolate for eating as is, deciding that the fancy stuff looks nicer for your cornflake cakes and they can just eat the cooking block.

This. I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t buy the same eggs for everyone.

Maybe think outside your own narrow little box?

My own DH likes to cook and a lot of his recipes are trial by error.

He uses the cheaper eggs in his recipes rather than the Burford Browns in bis cooking because he’s not a twat.

This.

@HuggsBosom and what has that to do with the OPs scenario? Her husband shouldn't get a choice of eggs because your husband can't cook?