To ban DP from “trying” my takeaway leftovers?

[Cassy5]

DP and I get a takeaway every few weeks. We alternate paying for these. We each order a main, a rice/chips/naan and some kind of side.

He doesn’t like foods touching so we tend to share the sides but not the mains or carbs. He is twice my size and eats all of his (then complains of being too full); I usually eat half mine and save the rest for a lazy lunch the next day.

Whenever he wants to “taste” mine later, he picks out the meat and leaves the veg, sauce and rice. This makes for a far less appealing lunch.

AIBU to tell him he eats all of it like a grown up or to keep off?

Lighthearted, but also not at all, because I was looking forward to my lunch and he’s ruined it 😂

My DH does this. It infuriates me. I just find a Tupperware of sauce and a few veggies.

I just make it clear it's my lunch for tomorrow now, and he should try ordering it next time.

stealing food would result in a fork to the hand... It's just not cricket when someone does that smh.

this. And tell him that his behaviour is childish and unnattractive. also

Same here.

If the greedy bastard wants leftovers then he needs to save some of his own.

So out of order.

I caught my ex doing that.
He wore the rest of it.😀

If he doesn't like foods touching, how can he enjoy picking the meat out which has literally touched the veg? Also, is he 'picking out' with his fingers ? <boak emoji>

Your best bet (if he won't listen to reason) is to tuck the leftovers right at the back of the salad drawer. IME husbands and children can't find 'anything to eat' if it doesn't fall out of the fridge on opening.

Only I, with my magic eyes that appeared during my female puberty, can find anything that is not 'right in front of your nose'.

DH and I tend to share all the food but always leave enough for lunch the next day. I would be seriously annoyed about someone picking all the meat out. I'd say if he wants to "try" it in future, you will serve him some.

Spoon out a taste onto a visable and accessable saucer then pop your leftovers in the fridge, packaged and ready for lunch..
Ask DH not to eat your lunch.

Then you have been buying it from the wrong takeaway! My local place does thick, rich and very tasty curries with loads of big chunks of good quality meat and / or veg.

And now I want a chicken tikka masala or a dopiaza with big chunks of onion... sigh...😂

FFS he is being a twat.

Tell him no more trying leftovers. Ever. Get a lock box for the fridge if he can't keep his hands off (or I suppose the less extreme solution would be LTB )

before he sits down to his reach over and pick lots of the meat out.

And then tell him to get to absolute fuck touching your planned lunch.

and I would say to keep his hands off my food. If he wants to "try some" he can order it for himself.

so if he keeps his thieving mitts off when you tell him, tell him once, that it counts for evermore to keep off your lunch.

Do you put it in a lunchbox or something? that might help?

The takeaway we use do great curry the sauce isn't thin or runny.

Oh god, this has reminded me of the lunatic on a similar thread recently who said there was no such thing in her house as his and hers leftovers as she always mixed everything together – rice and sides and curries and naan and pickles and pakoras all into one slop bucket.

He sounds a selfish prick. I bet this isn’t the only way in which he is a selfish prick either.

Oh lord op I see you’ve had the po-faced “not every meal needs meat” and “home made curry is so much nicer” brigade arrive.

Both statements are true but entirely not the point.

Now I’ve read that he steals the meat after you’ve put it in the fridge so you don’t even know you’ll be disappointed with lunch till y it open the tub. That’s a low blow. A very low blow.

Sellotape the box shut and put another on saying do not eat

My OH does this and it really winds me up, i'll stick it in the fridge and when I come down the next morning he has had a midnight feast.

It's the same when I cook something and theres some left, he decides he will take it to work for his lunch, or again eats it as a midnight snack. I've even put my leftovers in a tub in the fridge ready for my lunch the next day and he's ate it

Not my cup of tea either, but it might actually alleviate the problem in this instance!

Put a note on top saying fuck off this is my lunch don't even think about it.

I am on 2 threads about males pinching/eating too much food. The op of the teenage one chastised me for saying her son and mates are taking advantage. I might link this thread, cause this is how it ends😀

He's a bit of a gannet isn't he. He already eats to excess then not only tries yours, which he could do by having the sauce, he's eating the nice meat from it.

You've just belittled all men and blamed all women for not taking responsibility for the men's bad behaviour at the same time!

Have you actually told him this? It's extremely rude of him and he's turned your meal.