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Baked 23 cookies, dh ate 8 of them

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27Bumblebees · 18/05/2024 21:49

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.

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IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 19/05/2024 08:05

2Old2Tango · 18/05/2024 21:56

I'm with you OP. That's pretty fucking greedy to stuff 8 of them in 2 hours. Assuming there's four of you (don't know how many DC you have) then that would have been just short of 6 each, so not only was he greedy, he ate more than his fair share.

You've never had a binge?

Homemade cookies barely last a day in our house and there's only three of us. They're amazing warm (and coconut and chocolate sound incredible).

@27Bumblebees it's also fairly jobless to say adults don't need biscuits. Biscuits are joy. Homemade cookies are the pinnacle of this.

Loubelle70 · 19/05/2024 08:06

YaMuvva · 18/05/2024 22:31

Team DH here.

You didn’t make all 23 for the kids surely? Food is made for eating. I don’t have a shameful relationship with food so I’d never see eating biscuits as ‘losing control’ and I’d be pissed off if someone claimed eating a few biscuits was ‘shitty self control’.

I agree. Yes he ate quite a lot but he didnt eat them all and i don't like food shaming anyone. I grew up with eating disorder because of it.

GinForBreakfast · 19/05/2024 08:06

YABU for putting coconut in biscuits. What’s next? Bloody ginger <shudders>

TellMeWhoTheVillainsAre · 19/05/2024 08:06

CrispieCake · 19/05/2024 07:49

But they were for the kids.

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Adults eat bigger cookies than children. I think the OP's problem was that she divided the house by making cookies for some people who lived there believing that adults don't need cookies!! (Nobody needs cookies)

Next time just make enough for everyone. And don't scold your DH as if you're his mother ☺️

fieldsofbutterflies · 19/05/2024 08:07

Teaspoon sized cookies must have been absolutely tiny, surely?!

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

Loubelle70 · 19/05/2024 08:09

fieldsofbutterflies · 19/05/2024 08:07

Teaspoon sized cookies must have been absolutely tiny, surely?!

I didn't see that they teaspoon size. .id have had more than 8 then lol

Dancehalldarling · 19/05/2024 08:12

27Bumblebees · 18/05/2024 21:52

Coconut and chocolate with oats in. Pretty tasty.

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You sound so bloody wet. I can’t imagine making a thread because my husband ate cookies. And who exactly are you to decide whether adults need biscuits or not? 😂 controlling!

LovelyBitOfSquirrrel · 19/05/2024 08:13

If “adults don’t need bloody biscuits” why did you eat one?

Dancehalldarling · 19/05/2024 08:13

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

Oh my god 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 19/05/2024 08:18

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

I go the other way with this. If I put effort into making something "for the house" and my DH doesn't want to eat them all, I think either they're disgusting or there's something wrong with him.

TellMeWhoTheVillainsAre · 19/05/2024 08:18

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

Dear Lord!!! People having actual marriage problems and you'd lose respect and attraction for your husband for eating a handful of cookies 🙄

I hope he knows he's on a knife edge 😂

Twiglets1 · 19/05/2024 08:20

27Bumblebees · 18/05/2024 22:01

I'll do some extras and pack them up for you lot

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I'm in.

BringMeSunshineAllDayLong · 19/05/2024 08:20

steff13 · 19/05/2024 00:26

You made an odd number of cookies?

Another non-baker has entered the tent

LuluBlakey1 · 19/05/2024 08:21

27Bumblebees · 18/05/2024 21:59

3 kids, 9 and under. So yes he ate a third of them in one sitting.

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Perhaps he was 'hormonal'- it's happened to me before; one minute there is a packet of 6 Kit-kats in the cupboard, I'm feeling a bit urgh and next thing 3 have disappeared and I realise I've eaten them.

Still leaves 4 per child and two spare. It's not like they'll fade away from lack of biscuits.

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 19/05/2024 08:24

LuluBlakey1 · 19/05/2024 08:21

Perhaps he was 'hormonal'- it's happened to me before; one minute there is a packet of 6 Kit-kats in the cupboard, I'm feeling a bit urgh and next thing 3 have disappeared and I realise I've eaten them.

Still leaves 4 per child and two spare. It's not like they'll fade away from lack of biscuits.

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I came on early. Suddenly, last night, a packet of 8 chocolate rings were gone. Don't know how it happened 🤷.

Sometimes people start eating biscuits and then 8 are gone. It happens. Providing OPs DH isn't usually eating everything in sight so her DC are deprived of food daily, I couldn't get worked up over 8 fresh cookies.

AgentJohnson · 19/05/2024 08:24

Wait what? Adults don’t need biscuits!

Give him the recipe and get him to make another batch.

Wimpeyspread · 19/05/2024 08:26

’adults don’t need biscuits’ - children don’t need biscuits either!

bloodyplumbing · 19/05/2024 08:26

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

I've no idea why the divorce rate is so high! I mean he ate a few more visits than his "entitlement", not stolen family money to use for drugs.

Your poor poor DH (if you have one), must spend his life worrying about what he may do wrong that will lead to the end of an extremely tenuous relationship.

bloodyplumbing · 19/05/2024 08:27

AgentJohnson · 19/05/2024 08:24

Wait what? Adults don’t need biscuits!

Give him the recipe and get him to make another batch.

Who does need biscuits?

AngelinaFibres · 19/05/2024 08:28

ILoveYouItsRuiningMyLife · 18/05/2024 21:57

You’ve never necked a packet of Jaffa cakes in ten mins..?

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I am impressed you could do it in ten minutes.....but I wouldn't be far behind 😉

MaryFuckingFerguson · 19/05/2024 08:29

8 biscuits is really gluttonous though. Sounds like he has a bit of a problem.

cuckyplunt · 19/05/2024 08:29

We were in IKEA on Wednesday evening and there was a fire drill just as DH finished his final meatball. They cleared the table before we went back in and everyone was allowed to re-order. DH reordered a dozen meatballs and chips and proceeded to eat his whole dinner again… just saying!

Mind you once people realised food was free it was a frenzy, the couple in front of us had three trays full and were squirrelling food into their bags as we left..

Grammarnut · 19/05/2024 08:30

Possibly DH does not agree that adults do not need biscuits? Make enough for him, he needs treats too. Anyway, DCs maybe ought not to be eating sweet biscuits with lunch every day? Nice biscuits are for grown-ups.

diddl · 19/05/2024 08:30

See for the 4 of us that would be 5 each & 3 extra for the baker.

If someone wanted all of theirs in one go that's fine.