DH steals my snacks ...

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AIBU? (light hearted, but actually fuming)

DH doesn't like snacks. Well, that's what he says anyway!
Today we went to our local refillable shop, I bought a small bag of dark chocolate covered brazil nuts. Thinking I'd enjoy them this evening.

'Do you want anything?' I asked him.

'No, I'm OK thanks.'
Perfect, small bag, about twenty brazils.
Just went into the fridge. More than half of them are gone!
'You've eaten my brazils!' I wailed at him.
'Oh, I only had a few, err a couple.'
Fuming.

What makes it even worse (for me) is that I know he'll have just gone into the fridge, grabbed several, chucked them in his mouth and seconds later they'd have been gone. No bloody appreciation for the deliciously bitter but sweet chocolate enrobed around a fresh, crunchy and creamy brazil nut. I wanted to put them into my lovely handmade bowl I bought on holiday and look at them all shiny and beautiful and savour them slowly whilst watching Masterchef.

He does this all the time with packets of crisps that he says he doesn't want, then eats half of them or what I've left in the bag for the next day for myself, mini pork pies from M&S when he 'hates pastry.' Don't even get me started on the chocolate hob nobs I bought on Friday that he 'doesn't like' yet managed to gobble half the packet in the time it took me to have a shower last night.

AIBU? Think I might just LTB. Or should I just get double of everything next time?

Ugh I feel you OP my partner does this also, with juice and snacks I buy.
I ALWAYS ask him what he wants from shop, he will always say nothing. Sometimes I get him something anyway

He calls me selfish if I get annoyed if he drinks my juice or snacks. It's not the sharing that annoys me, it's that he deliberately says he doesn't want anything.
He'll always tell me off for fizzy juice also, but then proceeds to drink mine when I buy and will loudly exclaim how terrible it is when he does drink... so frustrating

Big enough, just need to find the spade ...

haha great idea!

I thought I had - pork pies - greedy sod that he is! Though I know he doesn't like salt and vinegar crisps - they are my only safe snack!

I actually do keep stuff in my car too! Might move a few things in my make up drawer though - good idea!

well that would be karma ...

😂
Hiding the snacks seems to be the only way forward in this case!

Taking this with the lightheartedness it’s meant, I’ve voted YABU because I am that partner in my relationship, so I’ll give you the other perspective. Snacks are so much more appealing when my husband and is eating them, it’s as if I remember how nice they are. Same with food at restaurants, he has to choose first otherwise I want bits of his. Luckily he doesn’t mind (and just always gets large portions). There must be something scientific or psychological about why things are more appealing when someone is eating them v’s in the cupboard. Forget “what do you want from Tesco?”, the answer is usually “nothing” and he comes home with something yummy I’m grateful for.

Buy a lockbox and paint the following on the side

These snacks will make your voice high and squeaky and cause your moobs to grow.

Should stop him.

YABU for keeping them in the fridge.
Much nicer when eaten at room temperature ;)

My DH thinks yours is a "bit sweary" (or at least he would if I showed him this thread.)

I think you should tell him that eating too many Brazil nuts will make him "insert health scare of choice" and the only way to be safe is take laxatives and shit it all out
then give him laxatives

(Selfish Prick....)

You need an empty box of Tena Lady as a secret wardrobe snack stash.

By shops own brand cheap crappy snacks for the cupboard as a decoy and yours go in the tena Lady box!

We have labelled boxes for snacks.

His, Hers, Kids.

If you touch my snacks, I’ll touch you.

When they force down something that they don't really like because it's the easy option

I don't buy it very often because it's pricey, but I really enjoy a particular brand of houmous. DP thinks it's "slimy". But he'll still trough it down, having completely failed to notice the cheaper everyday houmous that's most likely in the fridge alongside it that he actually prefers (along with myriad other snack/lunch/topping options). I wouldn't even slightly begrudge him sharing if he liked it too, but he's bloody tolerating it, and if I'm lucky, commenting afterwards on its textural failings. Every time, he apparently forgets my previous explanation that I buy it as an occasional treat for myself in addition to usual options, assumes instead that unfortunately we must've accidentally bought the slimy houmous again, and decides it'll have to do, manfully disposing of large amounts of it.

But he does do all the cooking, so I suppose the odd bit of houmous rage is a reasonable price to pay.

Keep your snacks in the back of the vegetable drawer in the fridge.

I genuinely don't understand how threads like this can be taken as funny or "lighthearted"

Is this one of those threads where we’re supposed to be find a greedy, thieving man sweet?

He sounds irritating as fuck.

Next time put them in the salad drawer part of the fridge! He won't look there.

So do I but they never work on my kids. Buy something they love and they still want mine. Im betting OPs not so 'D' H has a similar radar and would go straight for the good stuff.

Stbxh used to do the whole I don't want any snack foods then eat them all gaming late at night. Note he's now my ex.

That makes literally no sense to me. Even if you've only bought the 'slimy' houmous why not just eat something else. Very rage worthy.

I love the Brazil nuts with the 'yoghurt' coating, that's more like white chocolate really. They have to be savoured! The worst part is as he claims he doesn't like anything, you're not able to preempt what he'll steal and buy more of it!
Next time you are getting something he's pinched, just say 'well you ate nearly all of them last time, so I don't know why you're claiming you don't like them? if I get these FOR ME, what do you want? The same, or..? Don't allow him to say he wants nothing!

Buy double whatever you would buy for yourself, enough for both of you. And when buying point out he will want something later so get something now. Put more spuds on his plate for dinner if he's getting hungry later...

Snacks tend to be a free for all here, people pick what they like, but then everyone gets some if they fancy it, picker probably gets most, if we're being good the original picker gets left the last one/bit as well.

I read the OP with the lighthearted and maybe I've woken up cross but ... isn't this just another example of menz getting their women partners to do the emotional labour for them?

Hold the line, don't let them.

We don't actually have lockable boxes but do each have a cupboard (well part of ) which counts as personal. It's taken a good few decades but he respects my stash now.

When my OH says "he's ok" if I ask him if he wants anything. I get it anyway just incase. 9 times out of 10 he did want a treat and it saves him having mine :) he wouldn't eat mine without asking if it was ok however. I would just get double and also put them a little bit more discreetly. Hide things out of reach. Out of sight out of mind :)