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.

Agree.

I’ve also lost respect for all the people saying the solution is for to just make more cookies. Nah, he can make the cookies being as he likes eating them so much.

I'm sure he plans to have more over the week.

What a greedy pig, he has more than had enough. I’m guessing he does this often?

Please hide the cookies, this weekend and every weekend.

My DH is a greedy sod too, so I ringfenced certain foods. He's allowed his fair share, and no more. This was after many incidents where he just cleaned us out of biscuits, chocolate or crisps before anyone else got a chance to have any.

And before posters pitch in about controlling him, he's actually grateful. He knows he lacks control around some foods and that it's bad for his health, so now the added incentive of knowing it will cause a major row is enough to stop him gorging himself.

sorry, 23 is a psychopathic number of cookies to make 😂

Please tell me no one actually said that!

JFC

You're right the other way around would be people screaming abuse!!

But these treats were for the kids, not him.

Home baked treats takes effort which he knows because he doesn’t do it himself. He can’t just expect it to be done for him.

I don’t think the poster was serious.

It's a compliment in a way!

Is this correct @27Bumblebees? Are they tiny cookies? if so this changes the whole premise of the post if he effectively ate 3 or 4 cookies. I don’t think it’s a big deal either way whatever size they were though.

This thread has made me laugh despite a few joyless people on it and thanks for the recipe OP 😄

It’s really not a moral failing of him to eat 8 cookies tiny or jumbo. If anything it’s kids who shouldn’t be eating sugar! Your husband is old enough to know exactly how bad it can be whereas some kids aren’t.

To be clear I’m not saying kids shouldn’t have sugar, but just saying there’s a better argument for them not having it than adults.

Oh not this crap. This just perpetuates that men can be greedy pigs at the expense of women’s effort and excuse it as a compliment.

That’s even worse because they are cookies for the kids. He’s taken from his own kids.

Fair enough to have one or two, but to have a third of all the cookies is greedy af.

Can't he make/buy his own? I wouldn't care less.

I baked my brother in law 36 of his favourite biscuits to take home and share with his family (half hour drive away). He arrived with 8 apparently.

in his defence he said they were blooming scrumptious. 😋

(But I haven’t repeated my generosity again unless my sister’s been there to guard them).

Call the police or don't be surprised if he leaves you at some point.Also why are u putting unhealthy food in kids lunches?

¾ cup unsalted butter

Off the point, but how do you measure three quarters of a cup of butter?

Exactly.

I used to drink around the same myself but now I can't even imagine having sugar in my tea 😷

I really am a sugar fiend various colleagues and friends would confirm it. 😂 I’d eat a whole (small) batch of freshly baked potatoes cookies tbh or scoff a trifle - hence I avoid certain things being in my house!

but yeah I agree with you - sugar in tea is SO sickly to me 😵‍💫Give me 8 cookies any day. It really does show we’re all different.

Google says it’s equivalent to 170grams.

Just tell him he needs to make another batch up

Also cookies are sooo easy to make! It’s quicker for me to make them than to get dressed and walked over to nearest Tesco to buy biscuits. So it’s the last thing I’d worry about someone eating too much of.

I do like a man who can bake though so I’d strongly encourage him to get baking too sometimes…😆

I didn't say anything about a weigh in! Not sure who but I'm sure they were joking

3 quarter cup measures? I'm UK but own a set of measuring cups because it's easier than converting US recipes to weight. I thought everyone had them now!

3 quarter cup measures? I'm UK but own a set of measuring cups because it's easier than converting US recipes to weight. I thought everyone had them now!

I have cups but wouldn't use them for butter. Do you have to squish it down in the cup to make sure it's totally full?
I'd google the weight conversion for butter, but would use cups for sugar or flour as it's quicker.

Do the fat balls 😁

Baking with the kids 'helping' is a great idea though as it might make him realise the effort that goes into it and to be less greedy next time hopefully!

Googled the weight conversion for this one