Or are they just greedy bastards?

[Fleurdalys]

Made a bolognaise pasta sauce type thing with 1 kg of minced beef steak.
Onions, peppers and mushrooms added.
Have come home from work and DH and DS 18 have polished the bloody lot off leaving me with a measly ladle full of sauce
( pasta was cooked separately for clarification)
They are most of that too
Twats

@El12

gluttony and selfishness would “delight” you? Really? Why?!

@Barney16

fair play to you! I think I’d find the “stuffing his face” a turn off.

@CluelessAboutBiology he was sheepish but not massively contrite about the amount. He was more upset that I was supposed to have some (all week) and now didn't. He must have been really hungry. If I'd have said, he wouldn't have touched it. I didn't think it needed saying. I am now just explicit when it's not for him.

8 portions?!

Some of you don't have teenage sons and it shows

Cheeky buggers though, I'd be really cross.

What selfish gits. My lot eat for England but they’ve never left me with the dregs.

Not just greedy, but selfish and disrespectful.

Fleurdalys · Today 17:41

^Anyway, they make cheese,ham salad wraps every morning at 6 am to take to work
I've frozen every bloody wrap in the house°
Good luck with that at 6am

Don't forget to freeze the ham and cheese, if there's room. And maybe put loads of salt in the salad?

But what did he think you'd cooked a whole salmon for, if not to have at least some of it yourself?

So many greedy, selfish men. Colour me surprised.

@HunterDuke and @Barney16 Just how can you put up with such blatant disrespect for you in your own home?

Those arguing about how many people 500g mince should serve are totally missing the point. The point is that OP’s menfolk treated her like shit.

Very greedy. I made Spag bol yesterday with 500 grams of mince, 2 large grated carrots, large onion, tin of toms, tub of passata and 250 grams of diced smoked bacon. I’ve got 6 decent portions out of it. I also get annoyed with the ‘teenage boys eat a lot’, no excuse for them to be downright gluttons.

Lol that's what I was thinking - 6 portions with more for next day? Come on!

But yes OP that was greedy and very very rude. I'd stop cooking for them entirely tbh!

A mix of pork and beef is very common for ragu and is really tasty

This is selfishness and entitlement, it’s nothing to do with self control. How can anyone be with a partner who acts like this? He would actually try and take all the food without even considering you? Honestly, I couldn’t be under the same roof with someone who treated me like this. Stop making excuses for his disgusting behaviour.

Is he overweight? That's just greedy and selfish. Fancy not even asking!

I cook normal portions for us, 2 adults. I always give OH more, so he gets 2/3, I have 1/3. I tend to put his on his plate first and there have been many occasions when he has tried to take my third before I have put it on my plate. He would eat EVERYTHING if I let him. He has no idea of portion control.

It's not a portion control issue if you cook dinner, serve him his, and then before you serve yours he tries to take that as well. It's just unbelievable selfishness.
It's not about portion size - if it was he'd be maybe a bit disappointed that dinner wouldn't fill him up, and he'd have something else later. No remotely reasonable person thinks "this isn't enough food, so I'll just take my OH's so she has nothing to eat".

@Sharptonguedwoman no, he's very athletic and slim. I'm regretting saying now as he's neither selfish nor greedy in his life or in relation to me. He just had a day when he did this. It doesn't really matter. There was no intent or malice, it was thoughtless at worst. I was only trying to let OP know she's not the only one

Exactly, it's about him thinking he deserves ALL the food he wants and acts like if she hasn't said no then it's all good game.

Fuck that and him and the fucking salmon he stuffed himself with!
If my husband did that I'd feed him fish every bloody meal until he was sick of it.

This behaviour is not cute nor funny or excusable because the menz just have no self control... it's fundemental disrespect and selfishness.

He doesn't see you as his equal, he would take and take and take ALL the resources for himself of he could get away with it.

Disgusting.

Yep-by the time I’ve added pancetta, onions, peppers, a couple of tins of tomatoes and some lentils to bulk. Happy days.

And carrot and celery-all adds up

Horror! I don’t always use real mince either! Once I’ve added pancetta, all the veg and some lentils all is good.

Precisely what I was thinking

Regardless of what you ‘add’
500g for 12 is only afew spoonfuls of mince

So great 🤣

And yes I know the feeling as I live with two men. In the last few weeks I have times when one decides he doesn’t want something I have just cooked and goes out and gets a takeaway after it’s dished up …unbelievably rude if you ask me. And other times they can both eat the lot and not even consider if I’ve had enough or that it was for two days.

As for bread, cheese, milk and margarine I can’t keep up! I do a big shop for a fortnight those things are gone in three days.

The one that really got me though was I spent a couple of hours making a really lovely ratatouille for myself as a special treat. it was to be my main for two days and a small portion for either of them for one day if they fancied it. It is not a meal one of them would ever eat so that was fine by me and they can both sort out their own food. But oh no I go back out to the kitchen and it’s all gone…..the one who doesn’t like it had picked through it and put the bits he doesn’t like, ie nearly everything, in the bin! I literally lost the plot I was so angry as I never waste food and that cost me a fortune and was mine. So selfish 😡

Sounds like a keeper with an eccentric salmon habit!

Don’t think I could make 500g mince feed 12, honestly. Maybe 6?