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.

Maybe as well as having enough for the pack lunches op might have liked to have more than one of the cookies she made

Not jam, too! 😱

TBF when I bake cookies I typically eat minimum two per batch for quality control. I have to try one while it's warm then try another one when cooled to see if the cookies have the right crispy to soft texture (I'm thinking choc chip, obviously). Needs must. Is your dh a certified cookie inspector, or a keen amateur?

The most shocking part of the OP for me. 😁

Nah, I’d have called my DH a greedy shit too OP. But wouldn’t have been massively annoyed.

My god, this has got to be the most irritating thread ever.

People are being absolute dicks to OP. By any sane index, of course it’s irritating and greedy of the DH to gobble up a third of the biscuits intended for 5 people, especially when he knows their express purpose is for kids’ lunch boxes and especially when he has not expended any effort at all to contribute. 🙄🙄

This was a stand-out dickish comment for me:
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.

It doesn’t matter how much effort it is! It was OP’s effort. And the DH was being selfish. Why should OP have to do either - bake or buy- if greedy guts is going to hoover up the lot? No, eating is not a moral failing - but being selfish is! Why is that so hard for pp to compute? It’s just rude and disrespectful.

As ever, there’s a massive contingent of people who just love to kick an OP, but this time coupled with a ‘cool wife’ contingent who are sooooo easy-going that they will just bake batch after batch and watch their husband gorge himself into a sugar coma. Wtf is wrong with people?

It doesn’t matter how big/small the cookies were.

It doesn’t matter how quick they were to make.

It doesn’t matter if they’re healthy or not,

All that matters is the selfishness shown by the DH! It’s not the scale of the issue that counts; it’s the principle.

Yeah loads of posters will tell me to ‘chill out’ or whatever because they’re so cool and relaxed - but personally I wouldn’t like my efforts in my own home to be treated with such contempt 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely agree BernardBlacks

I can only assume the “what’s the problem” posters would happily snaffle disproportionate amounts of treat food themselves and don’t like to acknowledge that this might be selfish.

It’s really not that deep folks

There’s another one! Funny how easy it is to dismiss other people’s concerns with ‘oh, it’s really not a big deal.’ You don’t get to say that if you’re not the one who baked the cookies 🙄

Why should be all about what he wants? He is indeed an adult and should be considerate of others, especially his children.

This thread is slightly making me want to whip up some soup and drown myself in it

🤣🤣🤣

You're my favourite. I'll make a batch just for you.

Can't quite believe this thread is still going. I think it's bc in the subject line i didn't specify the time period so people have piled in on my counting of biscuits and controlling my dh. He's a grown man and can eat what he likes, just not the things I've expressly made for our kids.

Sorry to drip feed but he often gorges on ice cream or other treats at night then feels really guilty about it, which i have to listen to (i do not care, he can eat what he likes, I'm not monitoring him usually!), so he's clearly got some issues around self control. I counted the biscuits when I put them in the tin, mainly because I couldn't work out why it looked like so few compared to when I put them on the racks.

I'm guessing there's a backstory to Bernard's post considering the length of it. Clearly a nerve has been struck. 🧐

OP, you should have put TW in your title. 💡

Get a grip @BernardBlacksBreakfastWine you’re taking this way too seriously 😆 As far as I’m concerned it’s a minor issue and I’m fairly sure Op at one point anyway even said they didn’t think it was that serious. Ive not RTFT but I certainly didn’t accuse them of being controlling or anything like that.

I actually thanked them for the recipe earlier and also said in that post or another post that the husband could make up a new batch if it was an issue. That’s what I would do if I was in that situation rather than be whining he is “selfish” for eating a few too many biscuits but each to their own.

It’s really not that serious but your comments gets the clown 🤡 award of the day for me! And if you’re going to make a comment like that quoting me at least tag me in it 😂

edit to add: I’ve just noticed this part

that they will just bake batch after batch and watch their husband gorge himself into a sugar coma. Wtf

Really? The man ate 8 cookies and We are talking about Sugar comas now ? I agree with the poster above seems a nerve has been struck. The entire thing is all so OTT.

Excellent post, Bernard 👏

This has really made me chuckle! Your mum sounds lovely and very accommodating of your dad! Chuckling at your dad's delight at seeing his own little cake 😁

I think she was spot on. Her post seems to have triggered you though.

Is there a rule that I have to tag you if I quote you? Unaware of this.

You sound very immature tbh. Yes, it’s only cookies. But do you normally laugh at and dismiss other people’s efforts? If so, you must be a nightmare to live with! A bit like a teenager… Teenagers do things like get crumbs all over your freshly cleaned kitchen or dump damp towels on top of the clean, dry laundry you’ve just put in their room. And then they say things like “It’s not that deep” if you’re annoyed with them - because, c’mon, it’s just a bit of laundry or a bit of hoovering or whatever.

I’m guessing most posters wouldn’t enjoy that sort of behaviour- but suddenly because it involves a grown man and food they’ve come over all cool wife. Look, no one is judging you if you like to eat cookies by the dozen. I’m just saying be respectful towards other people’s efforts and desires. It’s really pretty basic.

Well said.

Oh, god, go away.

Another teenager or man-child on the thread maybe? 🤷‍♀️

My first thought . Be pleased he likes your baking .

It's a bit passive aggressive to quote someone's words, say they're wrong but not actually attribute their words to them.

I certainly couldn't get too worked up over a few too many cookies, and I'm not being all "cool wife". There's just more important things to worry about. If it was my DH and he'd eaten things for DC's lunchbox, he would know that his job was to ensure their lunchbox wasn't missing things the end of the week, and he'd follow through on that.

At the end of the day, if I make food, it's made to be eaten. In this house, there's not massive rules around how or when that happens. There is just an understanding that when homemade things are gone, they're gone til one of us has time to make more.

If it was my DH and he'd eaten things for DC's lunchbox, he would know that his job was to ensure their lunchbox wasn't missing things the end of the week, and he'd follow through on that.

Well that makes all the difference, doesn’t it. Surely you can see that? @IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos

Bit different from the posters saying ‘just make more’ to OP.

Because I'd be telling him that, rather than whinging on MN that he'd eaten 8 small cookies. That's why it's different.