But he wanted it.

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Just been away with another family consisted of mum, dad and 16 year old son.
We cooked breakfast each morning before going out for the day. (Me, dp, my 2 year old)

Im the only one who doesn’t eat meat. So I bought some hash browns, potato cakes, beans & toast . Heaven!

last day, sausages, bacon, fried bread, beans and toast for everyone. I had one potato cake left.
i was busy making coffee for everyone, put cups in front of everyone then sat down for my breakfast.

They left me a spoonful of beans, all toast was gone and my last remaining potato cake was upon the 16 year olds plate under 3 sausages, 5 rashers of bacon, 2 slices of toast and a pile of beans.

One spoonful of fucking beans. No bread left for toast.

So! WWYD?

"Okay..... which one of you is going to buy me breakfast?"

Buy the twat teen a bag of frozen potato cakes for Christmas if he likes them so much - and nothing else.

I'd have stood there and said "Excuse me where is MY breakfast" and made it as awkward as hell for them. I'd keep repeating "But I made loads of hash browns, toast and beans, where are they?" Then I'd expect someone to say "Oh how awful of us, I'll put on more toast for you/run to the shop for more bread"

A 16 year old is selfish when no one teaches him not to be selfish.

They had taken all of the food, not just the vegetarian food.

Tbh if it's left for all to be eaten in a kitchen serving all it's doomed to happen.
Eating meat doesn't mean not eating hash browns. Lots of carnivores likes vegetarian food and forget about common sense and courtesy.

Next time don't rush making a coffee for everyone.. No good deeds go unpunished

Why is everyone asking why OP didn't take back some of the suitable food?

It was no longer suitable after being sat underneath greasy bacon and sausages. It's not like veggie or vegan diets are new.. they've never included 'eating things soaked in animal fats'!

I would have said 'oh, thankyou so much you greedy fuckers' and gone out for breakfast.

So many people are just greedy and selfish and thoughtless. I wouldn't have gone down quietly!

“Oh right. I’d better go out and get myself some breakfast then hadn’t I?” Take the car and go out by yourself for the morning. I’d be most pissed off with my DP in this situation. Mine would have dished up my food whilst I was doing coffee so I didn’t miss out.

The potato cake was under a pile of meat, so I guess that's why she didn't want to eat it.

Also - not excusing the teen at all, but having 2 boys just a bit younger, I know they can be thoughtless, and also ravenous.
It was really the teen's parents' job to make sure they didn't take all the food. I always say to mine, take as much as you want, but make sure everyone else also has enough first. And if it's the last thing on the plate, check if anyone else wants it before taking it.
Kids need to learn (from their parents) and 16 is still pretty young I reckon.

Teenagers are selfish and he probably barely acknowledges your existence. This is on his parents and your DP. I went for a chinese meal with another family and their son took all the shredded duck for the pancakes onto his plate - all of it - half a duck to share between 6. I told him to put it back and his mum said the same "but he wants it" I said "well so we do" and we have not been out again 😂😂

So! WWYD?

Probably would have called all the other adults selfish pricks. Then took myself off out to a cafe, alone.

this sounds like a situation where there simply wasn’t enough food made to accommodate everyone. Or was there more food available that the teen could gave eaten without leaving you without breakfast based on your preferences? Was there more bacon and sausage?

I would have said oh, what am I meant to have for breakfast then?
Waited for them to awkwardly offer scraps of toast and beans from their plates. Then got up and said I’m going out for breakfast and left them all to pack and clean up the house alone returning 5 minutes after check out time

I don’t see being sixteen as an excuse for being so selfishly greedy!

FFS, with attitudes like this, no wonder there are so many nightmare kids! Why on earth didn’t his parents say, ‘Oi! Put some of that back, you greedy little bugger!’

What did you do OP? As a fellow non-meat eater I probably wouldn't have said anything. I'd have been pissed off though.

I do love a Richmond vegan, Beyond Meat, or This isn't Pork sausage though, so I'd have been grand. Touch my hash browns though and a fork to the hand would be the only acceptable solution.

Edited because I wrote has brown

Can't believe an opportunity to go ape and you didn't... I am fuming for you..
Also vegi...

So what did you do?

Yes! I exclaimed “oh!! Is that all you have all left me with? A spoon full of beans? Where’s my potato cake & toast?”

They all stopped eating, looked at me and yes.. said “but he wanted it”. I shit you not.

Probably very rude of me but I followed that with “ well that’s alright then isn’t it, if he wants it leaving me with nothing when he has a pile on his plate”.
I asked him directly, did he not think that I might want at least something to eat for my breakfast??? He just shrugged and stuffed it in his greedy gob.

It was the last day so we were using everything up. I had given myself 1 potato cake a day. The last one was CHERISHED! They saw what I ate each morning!

Fuming. Caused an atmosphere of course but FFS.

I'd have taken it off his plate even if you refused to eat it because it had touched the meat.

Your sulking won't have penetrated their thick heads at all.

Really infuriating! Was there literally no bread left to do more toast? But how selfish of them all.
I can only imagine at best your kid took the potato thing in error, but then why hide it under all the meat?
Definitely just don't cook for the others next time. Just do your own stuff and say you're not cooking items that you don't eat. Many veggies would refuse to cook bacon etc.
I'd ask them to buy me lunch later to make up for all the cooking throughout and then the lack of breakfast!

Do you not think 'my last remaining potato cake was upon the 16 year olds plate under 3 sausages, 5 rashers of bacon, 2 slices of toast and a pile of beans' was enough for breakfast?

Being a 'bottomless pit teen' is no excuse. Whatever was available should have been more fairly shared around, including accounting for the OP not eating meat.

But OP, don't fall into the trap of catering for everyone like that again, do what they do, sit down expectantly while the others do their share of cooking.

On a in-law bonding extended family weekend. I had, in advance, clocked the coffee machine brought poncetastic pods, ten in a box. Enough for say five for me and some spares.
The 22 year old nephew complained when I hid the box on Friday evening as he'd already managed to get through four. Other, cheaper pods were available
And it was all him, no one else,he double loaded for his bullet proof energy drink.
He brought nothing, cooked nothing and made no contribution but to share the wi-fi password.
He's going to make someone a rotten husband one day.

@ForDogsSake your clearly not vegetarian!

no way would I touch it after it's been sitting with meat piled on it!!

OP, please can you clarify - was the potato cake on your plate in your place setting, as opposed to on a separate/communal plate (where I assume the hash browns, beans and other bits were)? Did the greedy git take it off your plate and his parents let him?