After all the Mother’s Day posts I thought I’d break them up a bit with my ridiculous problem.
I have an average size fridge freezer and every week I toddle off to do a weeks shop just before closing time so I can snap up some yellow label bargains.
I fill the fridge and spend ages organising it with the food with the nearest use by date at the front, meat on bottom shelf etc… and then stand back and look at it with pride. I even have a little meal plan on the front so ingredients won’t get eaten that are needed for the evening meal.
I apologise if this sounds smug and that I’m bragging about my superb organisational skills but it’s actually because we are skint and it means that I can budget for the week and not waste any food.
Tesco seem to have bought more watermelons that they can sell recently and have started to have an excess of them.
DP works near to a Tesco express and calls in before closing when he finishes work every evening to see what yellow label offerings they have and every evening they have an abundance of watermelons for less than £1 each. He’s rather partial to watermelon and usually we can’t afford full price so he comes home with at least a couple, this is all well & good but he then tries to jam them in the fridge!
He does actually start to eat them but he then wraps up the remaining melon in cling film and shoves it back in the fridge - often with an intact one. They don’t fit in the fruit bowl and I don’t want them lined up on the worktop like I’m in a melon themed bowling alley. My heart sinks when he comes home triumphant every evening and proudly shows me his melons (this is a sentence I could never see myself writing 😂)
I’ve got to the point where just the sight of them is making me feel absolutely livid and I’ve had them roll out of the fridge and land on my toe more than once. I’ve tried to ask him to only buy one at a time but he looks so disappointed and he’s in fear of the supply drying up.
I never thought I’d ever have to seek advice on such matters but does anyone have any storage solutions?! We live in a small house and he’s the only one who eats them. I can’t even stand the smell of them and with having misophonia I banish him to another room to eat them because the slurping of the juice and wet squelching sound when he cuts them makes me want to clobber him to death with them.
These melons are ruining my life and I curse Tesco for over ordering - who can afford £3 in a cost of living crisis for a piece of fruit?!
WIBU if I called it a state of crisis and begged him to limit his intake? Or should I just ride out the storm and let him enjoy his melons knowing that there is likely an end in sight when Tesco get their act together?
I am very much aware this is a first world problem and to start with I got a warm glow seeing him so happy (he’s easy to please) but enough is enough now.
This has been going on for at least a couple of weeks and I’m worried about weaning him off them as well if it carries on. He’s spoiling himself for other fruit and an apple or pear isn’t going to hold the same appeal as it once did when this is all over 😂.