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?

@Hardroad

thats great, thanks Hun

I think we found Kevin's mum.

I blame the parents.

Who knows? I'm not going to argue the toss. Have a splendid evening!

Oh ffs 😂

All you can do now is remember that next time you need to hide a portion of veggie food for yourself before anyone else gets it.
I'm sure that they meant no harm. They were tucking into the final holiday breakfast without thinking of anyone else - not admirable but not malicious either.

@SoNiceToComeHomeTo

no. They should have shown some consideration to OP before ‘tucking in’, it’s not hard

OK so the 16 year old had taken the potato cake (and lots of other food) but presumably the parents, your DH and your 2 year old had also taken food as well without leaving you any?

Why did you cook breakfast for everyone every day?

But they didn't. It would have been polite and considerate to think about who hadn't eaten yet and what they would want, but on this occasion they didn't rise to it. Hungry teens are not the most reasonable people to deal with.

Maybe a step back from the WiddlinDiddlin Method would be for OP to passive-aggressively eat her spoon of beans, announce that breakfast is over & clear all the plates away, staggering under the weight of Kevin's plate first, & scraping them all off into the bin.

A normal, sane response has NO place on this thread

Suggest breaking his arms FFS

That's why they still require active parenting.

how bloody rude and thoughtless, I would be feeling murderous

Mmm, it wasn't the parents finest hour either. This is why veggies often hide food for themselves!

TBH, OP, I’d just have taken some of it back off his plate, the greedy little shit.

I'd have said ....
Let's have a vote ... who thinks it's acceptable that I am left with 1 spoonful of beans for my breakfast, particularly after making it?
Then, post vote. Thank you all, for your thoughtfulness.

But had he fed himself??
He’s clearly not really the bad guy here and I would not being going on holiday with these friends again but could he have stopped them troughing it all??

Oh, I'd be holding onto that for the next time this family suggests meeting up. Something along the lines of "would love to meet up! Not sure meeting for food would work for us, how about a walk or the movies?".

So rude.

Why didn't your DH plate your food up first? If everything is on one plate including the potato cake then it's a free for all really

Wow, his parents really snapped up the chance to teach him that his selfish wants come before other peoples needs. What a special little Prince they’re raising.

Double posted that somehow!

I hate this excuse that teens are hungry therefore should be allowed to act like cavemen. Wtf. It’s the time to teach them to have manners and say ‘does anyone mind if I take this last xyz?’

my teens are 16 and 14 and I would kick their are if they piled their plate that high without checking everyone else had had their share.

True. But it's still unbelievably rude for a group of people to clear the table while the last person is bringing in all the coffees.

I'd fantasise about inviting them to dinner & serving the real meal to everyone else while they get a plate with one potato cake on it & nothing else. Or maybe a pile of potato cakes on each plate & I'd say to them, "I know how much you love these, so I made them specially!". Maybe they get plain toast for pudding, too, while everyone else gets something luscious.

But it's just a fantasy.

Why do people enable teen selfishness by accepting it? Not all teens are like that. Mine certainly weren’t and would never have been so greedy and selfish. Let’s not enable this kind of behaviour by excusing it by parroting teen stereotypes.

I would have been furious OP.