Food portions and how to laugh this off??

[PenisPortions]

Help me dear mners, my dh is gaslighting me into accepting his penis portions and I need your stories of similar craziness to help me laugh it off..!

In laws came round, we had two large steaks for dinner. MIL wasn't keen on steak so we made her a stuffed pepper and sides so she was catered for and happy. FIL wanted half of one of the steaks, fine. Dh asked what I thought about that and I said yes fine we'll just share the rest. Dh looked confused for a bit and I said I think it's enough between the two of us to share the remainder.

FIL cooked the sides, DH bbqed the steaks (i was in with the baby), and I come out to see three plates of food. Two have half a steak on them and the third has a whole steak, which dh had claimed as his plate.

I was like ummm are you not splitting it? He said yes I did, and I kind of laughed in disbelief saying no you've given yourself twice the amount of food as me! He got really defensive, said this was what we agreed (not true), and got cross. I told him I was going to even things out, so cut off some of his, and he was so grumpy about it, saying he'd said he wanted a full one and I agreed to that. No "I'm sorry I misunderstood and under catered for you, let's split it like grown ups".

It is such a stupid little thing but keeps playing on my mind, what on earth was that?! Please tell me stories of similar imbalances that your partners have tried to get away with to help me put it into perspective.

OP has asked for other stories. My grandmother used to serve all the men first. My solution was to offer to be the person who handed out the food and made sure I gave the women theirs first!

When I used to stay at my ex-MIL my husband would always be given a beer with his meal, but I wasn’t allowed any alcohol because women shouldn’t drink, except maybe special occasions. 😂

Funny my ex MIL was similar, women were allowed alcohol but somewhat grudgingly 😂

Hi everyone! I went away for a day and now we're 500 replies in, talking about bowel cancer... and the post title has been changed?! Yikes.

Just to put a spanner in the works, in laws with us for dinner tonight again (its complicated, they're staying in our area for a few months so lots of meals together, some planned, some less so), and we were all well catered for.. UNTIL fil makes the comment "wow penisportions you're a real carnivore aren't you" with raised eyebrows..!

We're on the other side of the world from most of you lot, so it's late at night right now.

I hope someone told him it’s rude to comment on other people’s food! And I wonder how many times he’s had another living being literally living off him?

Ooooooooooooooh no @PenisPortions thats not on...

'When you've breastfed a small human, you'll understand how much it makes you need xyz...'

'It is considered rather rude to comment on what others eat.... '

Did your DP apologise for being a twunt over the steaks? Does he accept he was a twunt at all?

MiL tried that game about 25 years ago. We were staying the weekend and on the Saturday morning planned to have a late breakfast of bacon rolls. There wasn't space for all the bacon in the pan so she did DH's and FiL's first and, just as I was expecting mine and hers to be started, she said 'I'll just make the men another one before we have ours'. Having stood by while they stuffed themselves with bacon roll, I was so hungry I let out a loud yelp, like a dog that's had its tail stepped on, and 'the men' were shouting at her that they were happy to wait. Glad to say it never happened again.

Fucking hell, what you do in that case is keep the bacon warm in the oven while you do a second batch and then everyone can eat at once.

'Yes Dear FIL and you're an arsehole...more steak?'

@shearwater2 I know, it didn't make sense!

It's great you are healthy, but eating red meat remains an independent risk factor for bowel cancer (ie when you account for other factors such as some of the ones you listed, it still increases cancer risk). Your risk sounds pretty low from your lifestyle. Correct position for going to the toilet is great, as it reduces constipation and other functional disorders, but is not associated with lower cancer risk.

This thread can't take any further twists.

Just say with wolf-like grin: “ Yeeees! All the better to EAT you!”

If you're sharing steaks you need to slice them all and serve them like they're supposed to be like that (e.g. on noodles, warm steak salad)

😂😂
With that crowd I might start just bringing a plate to my room.

I eat steak. I guess I can say I live dangerously.

Pls have massive salad.

Is there any other kind?

That made me laugh. My own DD is the same. She'd bite your arm off for more dumplings. Now I just make 3X the standard amount so everyone gets plenty. She takes more than her dad now that she's 17. He's 'meh' about dumplings so doesn't want as many. Dont even get me started on her and roasties. She's pretty slim too.

I can sort of see why the person cooking would want to be finished doing everyone else’s before making their own, so they could sit down and relax, but definitely yours should have been done before “the men” got seconds!

It’s down to knowing what everyone regards as “the best bit” and making plenty of that, or if it’s in limited supply, distributing that bit fairly. Bigger people can fill up on the bits less in demand.

Often it’s the meat aspect of a meal, but if it’s dumplings then it’s dumplings.

My much younger female cousin used to have such a thing for roast potatoes I remember my uncle (in law) rightly always making sure she had plenty as a child. It was a revelation to me as I’d been used to the “dad gets the first pick” style. I always make sure my own children get the bits they like of a meal!

Also I think it’s really important girls in a family know they’re as entitled to their preference as anyone else.

jeeeeeeessssuuussss what a sad existence you have if you have to write in & ask for similar stories to make you feel better about the fuck up over a bit of meat 🤦‍♀️

Why did you only have 2 steaks for 3-4 people?

My husband hasn't had a job for 6 months (was made redundant). He starts a new job soon.
While he was not working, he did the weekly food shop whilst I was out at work.
At the weekend he said "so what day are YOU going shopping next week". I laughed and said I wouldn't be doing the food shop every single week anymore (happy to do my fair share though, lkke every other week) He replied with "you will give me a few weeks off though won't you?". I told him he'd had 6 months off!
Previous to this, I have been the main food shopper for almost 20 years. Apart from a few times, I was maybe too sick to go 🙄

If he’s gonna do things like this, in future you’ll have to do that thing where he plates the meals up, but then you choose which one you want 😏