Baked 23 cookies, dh ate 8 of them

[27Bumblebees]

I baked some cookies after dinner, like I do most weekends so the kids had some slightly less unhealthy snacks to go in their lunch boxes and to just have in the house. At the end of the night I went to put them in a container from the cooling rack and only 14 remained. I had one, so dh took 8 of them in the two hours since I cooked them! What kind of shitty self control is that.

I feel more pissed off that I took a little bit of time to do something nice (mainly for the kids, we're adults, we don't need bloody biscuits), and he's just gone for it with no respect for anyone else. Only apologised when I called him out for it. Ugh.

Have you actually met any men??
They are adult male humans ( most of the time😝) in case you haven’t..

If you doubled your quantities you would have more biscuits.... just a thought.
You would be traumatised in this house!
You can barely put a lemon drizzle out to let the syrup soak in without someone snaffling half of it.

Honestly, make another batch. Next time, double up.

I ate a whole box of jaffa cakes a couple of Sundays ago whilst waiting for an update of the brilliant 'car parked in OP's driveway during the village fete' thread

I'm not sure how long it took, it just happened m'lud 😖

Laughing at OP thinking cookies are 'healthy'. Even though I dont subscribe to the thought of a 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' food but OP seems to think such a thing exists and her 'homemade' cookies are so much better or different than shop bought

And noticing a trend on here, perhaps over the last year, whereby being 'greedy' is the most awful thing in the world now, if husband is greedy, or child is greedy, this must be put a stop to!!!

Someone made a good post some pages back, apologies cant scroll through and find it, where has the idea come from that enjoying food is a moral failing?

Greed is good!!!

They're teaspoon sized - hardly massive!

I get it... it's when selfish and greedy to eat more than your fair share in that situation, particularly when kids' lunchboxes are involved.

You were doing a chore - preparing food for the kids' lunchboxes - and he undid your work.

I agree. So many comments that OP should make more today - her DH should make more (especially since I imagine he'll eat more cookies today). Or get involved in sorting lunchboxes, since OP is doing some baking for them every weekend.

I don't agree with posters who would lose respect and attraction etc, but I would find this annoying, especially if it meant I ended up being the one sorting something else for lunchboxes.

It is a bit greedy of him and I’d be a bit annoyed. On the upside it’s a credit to your baking

thank you for the recipe. I will give it a go. I’m normally rubbish at cookies.

Were they small? It takes a few to get taste buds going. Then my hand has no control.

I can't imagine living in a world where treats are just for kids!

its easy. bake a bigger batch.

If he was only allowed a certain number then perhaps you should have made that clear?
Homemade stuff in our house is open to takers, we might say 'don't eat them all' and make sure we all get one/some, but food is to be eaten.

LTB

You've still got loads left. And unless you've got a zillion kids, no one is going to miss out. It's fine. Greedy, but fine.

Ok 8 in one go is a lot. On the other hand would they not be a bit stale for the lunchboxes at the end of the week? When I was a kid I wouldn’t have noticed but now i do.

My husband is fussy so all I’d need to do is put a pinch of spice in the mix and he wouldn’t eat them.

"We're adults, we don't need bloody biscuits"??

No one "needs" biscuits, like no one "needs" chocolate but they taste good to children and adults alike.

Take it as a compliment to your baking!

So the children in that school are not being served that cake with pink icing and coconut sprinkled on top ( used to be called Tottenham cake where I lived) optionally covered with pink custard!

Tell your school that they are denying the children their cultural heritage. They are supposed to be teaching British Values and if Tottenham cake with pink custard isn’t a British Value then what will they do next? Cancel the maypole dancing?

It'll be the same joyless world where adults don't celebrate birthdays!

Thank you for the recipe! I'm going to make these

On the other hand would they not be a bit stale for the lunchboxes at the end of the week?

Biscuit tin?

I live with 3 of them. None of them would eat 8 biscuits, even the one that’s still growing like a weed 🤷‍♀️

I love the suggestion of a weigh in the next day with the children watching 😁

Imagine it the other way round - man weighs wife in front of kids after she eats a few biscuits!

Ah but dried fruit = 1 of your 5 a day.

8 biscuits = almost 1.5 days' worth.

(Biscuit maths).

Therefore healthy.

Or Christmas 😆 What a miserable existence it would be for those of us without children!