To think that DH should buy more milk when it gets low or not drink it?

[Wintersoltice]

The milk was low tonight, but DH has gone and poured himself a glass anyway so now there is only enough for ~1 breakfast in the morning. Usually DS, DD and myself have cereal or porridge for breakfast so I guess he's expecting that two of us will have something else. This seems to happen regularly and I find it annoying. DH doesn't have milk for breakfast but he will drink it as a kind of snack. I sympathise as he is a bit limited on snack options with being T1 diabetic, but still I think he could consider the rest of us and either not drink it when its low or replace it afterwards. I assume he was expecting that I would go out and replace it tomorrow as I'm WFH, which is something I'm finding I'm having to do more and more lately. He was a bit annoyed tonight as I suggested he should go out and buy more for the morning, AIBU?

Those people who buy 4 or more pints per week of milk, like what do you use it for?? Genuinely curious!

Cereal isn’t nutritious.

Plenty of obvious alternative breakfast options (of varying nutrition level) - toast, beans on toast, boiled eggs, pancakes, crumpets etc.

We go through a minimum of 4-6 pints of milk a week. 2 kids have milk in cereal or porridge in the morning, older one has a cup of milks, younger one still has a bottle at bed and if they are home in the afternoon they might have another couple.
2 adults make at least one latte each in the morning, probably another one or 2 the 2 days my DH works from home and then once a week there is a milk heavy recipie like a cheese sauce.

Time to break it to your DH that the milk fairy doesn't exist. Also that there's more than him in the household, so he might like to start remembering that if he drinks most/all the milk, he needs to get some more so his children can have their breakfast.

Bowls of cereal for 4 people every morning, or porridge.
Milk in cups of tea
Coffees with hot milk (kind of lattes)
Hot chocolate for kids
And occasionally for making a white sauce or cheese sauce.

Not quite sure how it’s hard to imagine?

Sorry you misunderstood me, or I wasn't clear. A couple of PPs have said the DH is food/drink restricted, presumably because of his T1 diabetes.

This isn't correct, T1s aren't restricted they just have to have an understanding of what they are eating/drinking and how it will affect them. I mean, a second large helping of chocolate cake with cream probably isn't the best idea, but that's true for all of us!

Yes and I was making the point that the OP and the children won’t starve if they go without cereal because they can eat something else 🤷‍♀️

We get through at least a pint a day just in drinks between two adults.

I buy 6 pints a week just for myself!

I don't know why you want him not to have it just so you can. That seems unfair. You also hadn't left him enough- so you are both at fault. I think you need to buy more milk in general. But if you see it is low during the day then why can't you get more then, rather than a special trip that breaks up the evening?

I agree with you op. Dh would either not drink it, and/or nip out and get more in those circumstances. He tends to have more flexibility like that because the dc have never been as clingy to him. I’d probably go without myself if there would be enough for the dc, rather than trek out for more. But neither of us would just chug it in those circumstances - that’s just not what grown ups do.

Ideally you’d never run out but it’s nice not to be married to a selfish knobhead when things aren’t running perfectly to plan.

Why don’t you just keep more milk in the house?

Likely because it will mean that more milk just means more guzzling by the DH. More supply just means he consumes more.

Plus not everyone has the budget to allow for the endless appetite of a greedy man.

@Talipesmum

it is when you don’t drink milk!

One glass of milk in the evening instead of a snack is a greedy man, do you hear yourself?!

What's greedy about a grown man having a glass of milk? 😂

They've drunk 8 pints in 3 days and it sounds like he's had most of it.

There’s actually nothing to suggest he has had most of it.

Milk in the evening is no more greedy than milk in your porridge.

The family need more milk if they are regularly running onto and it should be a given that it’s replaced if it runs out in the evening. No need to start labelling people greedy because they consume milk at a different time.

Where does it say he's had most of it?

Unlikely if the other members of the household are using it for breakfast cereal every day. It’s more that OP is annoyed that they’ve nearly run out.

(replying to Bjorkdidit)

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lol, really? You don’t know what people use milk for?

I drink oat and soy, not dairy, but use it for porridge, overnight oats, cereal, lots of tea, cooking, baking, smoothies. At a guess I’d say others use it for the same and you soon get through it,

@GrowingSideways

obvs I know what people use milk for! Just surprised at how much people manage to get through that’s all