To be so angry about eggs

[MissTiss]

So disclaimer: I'm pretty sure this is unreasonable and I'm 5 weeks pregnant.

Got some fancy farm fresh eggs last weekend and was looking forward to a few for breakfast this morning. Come down to realise DH has put all 8 of the lovely eggs we bought for silly price from farmer into a cake for his work. When shop with normal eggs is literally 2 minutes away.

Gave out to him (raised voice, half amused, not shouting) at which point he told me I was being a bad example to 2 year old who thought the whole.thing was hilarious.

Also my mum died 2 months ago.

AIBU? Who puts nice eggs like that into a work cake?

Also AIBU to think he would just give me a break given all I'm going through?

Next time put big note on fancy eggs.

Sometimes we all expect our DH/DW to be a mind reader when its not on their CV.

Weetabbix - no, but it does suggest he knows they're a treat and it would be reasonable to check what she wanted them for before whacking ALL of them into a cake for someone else!

But we don't know if OP even communicated that she wanted them for breakfast.

It sounds to me like she was expecting him to be psychic.

I would have used them for whatever I needed eggs for, unless I was told otherwise, because all eggs are the same to me. Buying them from a farm would be purely about animal welfare, not any special taste. I'd need to be told if someone wanted those specific eggs for breakfast.

I wouldn't have known they were a treat in that scenario unless I was told.

Eggs to me are just a practical food to be used in whatever eggs are needed for.

It would be reasonable for OP to have said if she wanted those specific eggs for breakfast.

Were they stamped with the red lion stamp? Lots of farms round here aren't and not something I would eat if pregnant but a waste in a cake

😂🐓😂

If you think that there is no difference between cheap eggs and ones from a farm where the hens roam freely, then I can only imagine that you have not tried the cheap ones. The taste and texture is different.

Supermarket eggs can be weeks old when you buy them (the producer has 30 days to get them to the supermarket, and the use by date is 30 days from when they were packaged). A farm egg might have been laid the morning you bought it.

This. Why would he buy mire eggs when you already had them.? Fresher eggs make the cake taste nicer.

Maybe true, but OP's husband might feel that eggs are eggs and are all the same. So it's not really relevant.

I wouldn't buy farm eggs directly when pregnant unless they were lion marked. You'd need to hard cook them if not....and then it's a bit like a well done steak...you might as well buy the cheap one if you are going to do that!

@MissTiss , so sorry about your bereavement. Best wishes.

@RedHelenB , eggs for breakfast are usually eaten without other ingredients. Cake has lots of other things to add/detract taste.

People really need to communicate what's in their own head a bit better. I have no head space for fancy eggs or fancy butter, I buy decent stuff for us to use. If DH suddenly put some basic food item on a special pedestal, he needs to label that.

Buying eggs a week in advance for your next weekend breakfast, sorry but that's just weird.

Even if it had occurred to me we had a special kind of fancy eggs, after seeing them an entire week in the fridge, I'd have thought they were no longer needed.

Just... tell people, and ask them to buy you whatever you want, instead of expecting them to be mind readers?

Yanbu

8 eggs in a cake seems excessive and he could have checked first

Yeah, I'd be furious as well. Used the best eggs for work, and now you don't get to enjoy the eggs or the cake. Not fair.

He made an 8 egg cake and took it into work rather than leaving it for his pregnant wife and 2 yr old to enjoy.

LTB

DH knows not to touch my Burford Browns. I have trained him well.

I would also buy shop eggs for a cake I’m not going to see a slice of myself.

In my experience not all farm eggs are the same. Some can be a bit rubbish. I used to get Burford browns but they have proven hard to get hold of lately. Got St. Ewe Opulent Large Rich Yolk Eggs in Tesco the other day and they look even more yellow and are really nice.

You don't need to be a mind reader to understand the basic concept of sharing.
If you live with someone you should not eat all the food by yourself.
If there is small amount it ia surelly rhe basic curtesy to ask another person if they would like some no?

This. To some people, eggs are just a basic food, whether or not they came from a farm... and particularly after a week in the fridge, how is he supposed to know that you are saving them unless you tell him?

He selfish and thoughtless OP. I hope he left you some for your meal?

LTB 😉

OTOH if you have a DH that bakes cakes, keep him 🤣

It's in the OP that he used all 8 eggs.

OP this is exactly the sort of thing I get worked up about - I don’t have the excuse of being pregnant or recently bereaved. So YANBU in my eyes.
It’s the fact that you were probably looking forward to the nice eggs for breakfast and now theve been used up in something that didn’t need them to still taste good. Just wasteful and annoying.
Men in general just don’t pay attention to things or have fore thought. Lots of times similar has happened to me.

How much were the fancy eggs?

How far away is the place where you bought the fancy eggs?

How big is the cake?

Is he going to give you some of the cake?

LTB 😂It had to be said.