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?

I don't understand why people tolerate this crap.

We don't steal each others snacks here - which doesn't mean we don't share, we do share plenty of it, but we ask first!

DP would never eat all of something that was specifically mine, nor vice versa, because its just fucking thoughtless, a demonstration of 'I care little for your feelings, me first and fuck everyone else'.

We also communicate about the shared stuff, so he wouldn't eat the last of something without telling me or without being willing to go get more (depending on whats practical at the time). We know what items are designated for particular meals, or as ingredients in cooking, what each other is vaguely planning on making for the week... so theres never a time when one goes to the cupboard to get something only to find its all gone.

Not to say we're perfect cos we're fucking not and he can walk past a filthy sock on the floor umpteen times and not think to pick it up, and my desk looks like a bombs hit it no matter how many times he helps me tidy it (I can't actually tidy all of it myself, limited arm mobility!). But food thieving 'oops I ate all your snacks' shizzle, we just do not do.

I think it's time to make some home made snacks

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2017083-He-has-eaten-a-fat-ball?page=2&reply=45590708

Well good for you, but how would you propose stopping this behaviour, because I am at a loss to know?

Chocolate concrete sounds lovely!

I don't know how you stop it - I stopped it with my Dad and my sister by ... not living with the greedy snack theiving fuckers any more.

Or a greedy woman.

We each have a snack shelf, then it is clear what is special (birthday chocolate, florentines) and what isn't (bars of dairy milk, hobnobs)

Same situation when you're at the restaurant and you order side salad and he orders chips. I need to ban him from ordering chips when I've ordered salad because I eat half his chips.

@CookStrait "Or a greedy woman."

Who are you suggesting is greedy?

It is!! It was one of my favourite puddings at school. Minus that shitty pink custard they served with it. I really need to see if I can make a decent gluten free version of it now

That pink custard was bloody vile.
Thinking back,how was it possible to make vile custard nationwide?.

Op I think you should buy double of everything... ive just been reading a thread where the hubby/partner is potentially lying about an only fans account he has set up that apparently was set up years ago for 'sport'... I'd say yours is a keeper!! Your welcome !!

Things like this fuck me off, my husband does this too - it really does give me the rage - SAY YES WHEN I GODDAMN ASK YOU IF YOU WANT ANYTHING.

@Thevelvelletes primary school put me off custard and all milky desserts for life. I can still remember my first ever school dinner and the custard was disgusting, thick and lumpy and the layer of skin on it 🤢 the thing was pretty much every other thing they made minus stuff like porridge and tapioca was pretty decent. Although when they introduced the food waste containers to scrape left over food in. I'm surprised I ever ate a meal again in school, and those that mashed the custard and chocolate pudding together 🤮 especially when it was mixed in the food waste along with mash and gravy and god knows what else

Did you just say, "don't criticise your husband cos at least he doesn't watch porn?"

7.30 this morning DH came back from the shop with 4 cans of cream soda as a treat, one for each of us. I didn't fancy soda for breakfast so left mine on the table. Came to drink it at 4pm and he's drunk it - apparently I "left it for 4 hours so it was getting warm and disgusting and he couldn't let that happen".
We have a fridge.

This drives me nuts, I tend to buy low sugar treats for myself husband is trying to gain weight then even though say I’ve bought him full fat yummy yoghurts, he’ll have my low calories shitty ones! Haha

I’m 50/50. Either LTB or buy double snacks.

This infuriates me, my husband grabs a handful of my sweets or crisps and goes, oh what did you buy them for their horrible, then proceeds to stuff his face with them. He also claims he doesn’t like chips but scoffs mines.

Hide your snacks!

I must be lucky. DH never steals my snacks, he will always ask. He doesn't take anything that he hasnt bought / asked for himself. He wont even eat regular foods like eggs / ham without asking because he thinks il need it for the kids. I have to tell him just eat the bloody food its for everyone. But not snacks, id be livid with a snack thief! I know you say its lighthearted but sorry its just inconsiderate and selfish. Traits I personally couldn't live with in a partner.

Mine eats mine and his own!
Go to supermarket we have some shared and some ondividual but even of he hasnt eaten all his he will start having or asking for mine!

Even worse when your other half steals your snacks - and shares them with the dog!

The snacks we have in the house are for sharing, the problem is I'm quite capable of having things in the house for more than 5 seconds. And someone else 'sees something, eats something'. So I have a 'hiding place'. He knows where it is but it's out of sight out of mind, so he never gets anything from it. He will say sometimes 'do we have anything nibbly / for pudding / chocolate' and I'll go to the hiding place and produce something. It took a while to come to this solution, before that I'd get frustrated when things I was looking forward to (sharing with him) vanished.

I would literally lock them up