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.

About average for a man, undetected and unmonitored. OP, make him some cookies. And confess you made 24. I always make even numbers and am as finicky about counting ditto!

Congratulations lol

Biscuit abuse ...... bastard !.

Yes he did. OP says that he knew.

you sound a delight

Oh FFS lighten up would you!

I'd say the same if it a man had baked them too and his SO had eaten a few.

I’m with you OP. It’s not on to snaffle more than your fair share of a treat, especially one you haven’t even made.

And the recipe sounds great so I’m on your side for that alone.

Look on the bright side, at least you've still got two kids left

Next time, bake a batch with chocolate laxatives. Put them well out of the kids' reach - but well within his.

Trust me - it'll not happen again.

Definitely LTB.

Succumbing to the smell of freshly baked cookies is evil - especially when you think of the damage it’s done: there’s only 14 for the kids until next week … 😱

Or did he just know OP made a batch of cookies on a Saturday and he didn't want the kids eating too many?!

I really don't think he ate them out of a selfless desire to ensure the healthiness of his children's diet.

It’s homemade bread here that doesn’t get to cool down before it’s whipped away cut up and lashings of butter on sometimes jam too

DH has pointed out that your DH left exactly one each per child per day for next week. So he must have been thinking about how many he ate.

It would annoy me too OP.

Me too! He left none for the OP. A small, but revelatory example of extreme selfishness.

But surely sharing food means that everyone gets a fair share?

If there are five in the family and the DH immediately scoffs a third for himself that is in no way fair.

Either he is supremely selfish or too thick to do basic maths.

Perhaps he didn’t realise that every person in the household has to divide every item of food up equally?

Oh come on!

This is not like saying we need a digital scale to ensure everyone gets the same number of grams of mashed potato or a pipette to measure out equal quantities of gravy.

It is a quantity of yummy treats that everyone likes and he hoovers up WAY more than his share before anyone else gets a look in. If he doesn't realise that is not on then he really is thick or greedy or both.

He's a lightweight... anyone in my family could eat 8 cookies in 15 minutes 🤣 I would be the fastest!

Some things my family have learnt over the years...we talk to the Mum before we eat anything, we never ever bake small amounts of cookies, if the baked goods are for something specific we bake extra for the household, if mum wants to be absolutely certain noone eats the cake/cookies she puts a big sign on the cooking rack or tin saying 'no' !

The fact that a) he ate 8 and b) OP says they’re going in the kids’ packed lunches suggests they were small. 8 small biscuits is not as criminal as you suggest.
And perhaps if the OP dictates to him how much he can eat, he might be hungry?!

But you can't be certain. I know the adults in this house often take one for the team so that the children don't get overloaded!!
Sometimes we even hide packets of biscuits that the children don't even know about and eat them all ourselves - just to ensure the healthiness of our children's diet.

I think it's noble of us to sacrifice ourselves.

You are portraying him even more pathetic and incompetent than those of us, who consider him just thoughtless and selfish.

Let's assume he does know there are 5 people in the family.

He probably knows that the OP often bakes with the main purpose of adding small treats to kids' lunchboxes the next week (if he hasn't noticed it yet, it would make him more pathetic, not less).

If he is hungry, he needs to take some proper food. If there isn't enough food he needs to discuss/join meal planing. I would really hope that if a father were hungry and there were last 23 biscuits in their home, he wouldn't just go and eat a third without thinking about the others .

Adults don't need biscuits?

What kind on nonsense is this.

YANBU to be annoyed though. Eating 8 is greedy and selfish

He’s an adult for fuck’s sake, he’s quite capable of deciding if he wants biscuits or ‘proper food’, whatever that is.
Who are you to decide what a suitable sized portion is for him? How big are the biscuits?

That would require there to be 15 left. There were 14, because OP also ate one (I presume as a taste test, as is obligatory).