DH steals my snacks ...

[lightsandtunnels]

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?

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

He sounds irritating as fuck."

Yes. Or one where we all laugh together about ways to manage our man as if he's an extra child.

And anyone who queries the premise is lacking a sense of humour and a fun sponge.

It really won’t help forcing a grown man to say what snacks he likes, he’ll just eat his and also eat OP’s. It also then becomes OP’s job to supply his snacks.

Yes, the managing advice has started.

I know… I can only assume he thinks it needs eating up <sigh>

He wouldn't and doesn't do it on purpose, and is considerate and generous about food generally. He's just got this massive un-repairable blind spot around fancy houmous.

This is quite true.
I love nuts 😁

Morning sunshine!

Have a nice day.

@bloodyplumbing "Morning sunshine!

Have a nice day."

I rest my case! 🤣

I do this.

Wife: Do you want anything for lunch?

Me: No

Wife: >makes a beautiful lunch with lots of crisps etc<

Me: >Steals half the crisps<

Yeah, I mostly do it to be a dick :)

To be fair, I was wandering round the supermarket the other day behind a couple of late teenage lads, and overheard their lengthy, detailed complaints about the phenomenon of girlfriends who claim they don't want anything from the takeaway and then steal half your food. I gather it's a known Thing.

I put them in the salad drawer. Safe in there. Salad dodger.

We buy 2 or everything. He knows not to touch my chocolate 😂 and if I do offer it's once piece and that's it 😂

People keep nuts and potatoes in the fridge?

Hope the sunshine's on you today!

@bloodyplumbing "Hope the sunshine's on you today!"

It will be. Because I'm in a relationship with an adult man who cares about me and wouldn't dream of "stealing my snacks"... .

That is certainly the measure of a good man...

I mean everyone should use this as a barometer of who to have a relationship with.

I bet all cheats and violent men started with snack stealing

My partner ate my daughters fancy bar of chocolate that someone bought for her as a gift….he thought it needed eating because it was in the bottom of the fridge (?) and he was doing us a favour as it was taking room up 🙄 there’s a difference between own brand rip off milky ways and a fancy expensive bar of choc and he knows it the greedy bastard.
I’m annoyed all over again now 😡

What you need to do is buy an extra snack. One you are less fussed about put that prominently in the fridge/ cupboard and hide u your actual snack until you want it

DH does this but with the "annoyance upgrade" of complaining about said snack while/after eating it.
He will scoff my artisanal crisps while complaining they are too salty or my expensive chocolate while saying its too sweet.
Well nobody bloody made you eat it

My sister disparages Pringles, which I indulge in maybe six times a year.

Last month we went on a brief holiday together; I had my favourite Pringles in my bag. Settled in to enjoy them while watching telly and she held out her hand. She ended up devouring more than half the tube.

We have another weekend jaunt coming up & I've already set aside two tubes so that I can hand over one to her. Even though she "hates" them.

I was thinking along those lines too!

See also: people who insist on "trying" (repeatedly…) your expensive, difficult-to-obtain, dietary-requirement-meeting foodstuffs and commenting on how they're not as good as the normal stuff. Well, no, my [something]-free/no-added-sugar/specialist-diet [food item of whatever type] probably won't taste very good to you, but they're what I can have, I paid a stupid amount for a limited quantity, and you could pop over the road and get yourself a packet of Oreos for a quid if you were that desperate.

Edited to add: this can sometimes backfire on them if they're unfamiliar with the consequences of excessive sugar-free toffee consumption.

😂

This is infuriating. I would hide the things that aren't fridge. Even the fridge stuff I would hide under stuff. Pity you have to resort to that

@lightsandtunnels

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

I can lend you mine...

Also regarding the lockboxes - if you buy one, don't get the transparent ones as they're a reminder that you have snacks and he doesn't. Use the middle three numbers of your sole bank account (if you have one) or your NI number two employee number as your lock code. It used to be housemates who "borrowed" my snacks. 🌹

Indeed, just another show of male entitlement. They often take their kids stuff too.

Yeah I’ll be honest these threads never seem funny to me either. Why is it some men can’t think beyond “me want, me have, sod everyone else”