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at what age is it reasonable to expect an adult not to eat ALL the chocs?

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hativity · 29/12/2005 14:59

And if you have more of a restrained approach is it reasonable to complain if you find them all gone? If they're in the house I have no restranit whatsoever. which pisses dh off. he expects to be able to go to the cupboard a week or more after buying some lovely choccy biscuits and still find some. Perhaps we should have his and her biscuit barrels.

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Twiglett · 29/12/2005 15:00

I think it is only when dead that we can be expected not to finish off open chocolates

unless 'we' happen to be male in which case 'we' should not have bloody opened our chocolates in the first place

PrincessPlumPuddingHead · 29/12/2005 15:01

well I think you are heading up into the mid-sixties or so, and by the time you get there you reach the age where it is unreasonable to expect any restraint whatsoever because lets face it you'll be dead in 20 years.

so that would be "never" I guess

DanceOfThePeachyPlumFairy · 29/12/2005 15:09

Well, Dh is male (obv ) and cannot leave a choc uneaten at all. Yesterday he ate three selection packs.

(I don't like chocolate mucj- 3 quality streets is enough and as for Thorntons.... yuck). Sorry about that.

Don't fear though: I'm a sucker for savoury fattening food and cakes!

RudolphsAuntMabel · 29/12/2005 15:11

plum - my dh is the chocoholic in our house too. if it's there he scoffs it. fat git

Jbck · 30/12/2005 00:17

DH doesn't like Crunchies, which I love & can leave in the fridge for a few weeks & get one when I fancy. One weekend I went for a wee Saturday night nibble & he'd eaten it. There was nothing else he moaned! you don't bldy like them I screamed not unreasonably I felt. I know he says I didn't even enjoy it. . In answer to your question - no age.

Mytwopenceworth · 30/12/2005 00:21

its never reasonable to expect that and slap yourself for even asking.

sallyhollyberry · 30/12/2005 00:38

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PantomimEDAMe · 30/12/2005 00:51

Mabel, my dh is the same. I got some posh chocs in a goody bag from a Christmas do. Ate some on the train home but left the rest. Came home from work the next day to discover dh had scoffed the lot. Asked him why he hadn't gone out and bought me some chocolate to make up for it and he said: 'Because I'd have eaten that too!'

PantomimEDAMe · 30/12/2005 05:30

Edam's dh responds: "Posh chocs? It was just less than half a Terry's* chocolate orange! And I bought you a small box of posh chocs to replace it ..." :-o

  • It wasn't Terry's ... admittedly, it was yours!
girlysquare · 30/12/2005 16:04

BIL ate entire tin of Roses whilst staying overnight. I'm still amazed he wasn't sick. When asked why he said "why not - they were already open" (sigh).

myrrhthamoo · 30/12/2005 16:05

What is the point of being a grown-up if you can't eat all the chocs? Got to be perks to it, haven't there?

Eve · 30/12/2005 16:20

My mum in her 60's is complaining about my dad this xmas (in his 70's) as he has eaten most of a tin of roses!

so I would say not until you can't feed yourself!

DanceOfThePeachyPlumFairy · 30/12/2005 17:40

My Dad's take on this of course (and my Dad is FAT but loveable and generous) would be that it's not sensible for an adult to eat ALL the chocs... as long as there's Spar there's always more.

Caligyulea · 30/12/2005 17:50

It is never reasonable to expect an adult to eat all the chocolates!

starlover · 30/12/2005 17:53

hativity me and dp are the other way round!

i like to be able to go and have a little snack every day... but dp will scoff the lot within minutes.

i get very cross and NEVER buy biscuits/chocolate/cake now

rules do NOT apply for christmas gifts of choc/biscuits thoufh!

foxinsocks · 30/12/2005 18:27

what a great thread. I'm in the same position as starlover. Dh is such a chocoholic that if he doesn't have his fix every night, he'll quite happily polish off the children's chocolates without even a thought for their feelings. I've lost count of the number of times I have people round for coffee and reach in the draw for the choc biscuits only to find that they have been completely demolished.

What pisses me off the most though are the chocolate flakes all over the bottom of the fridge where he has obviously been hiding behind the door polishing a bar of choc off so that me and the kids can't see him!

MarsyChristmas · 30/12/2005 18:28

ditto the twig at 3.00 this afternoon. Incidentally, Happy Birthday Twiggy!!!!!!!!!!

SantaClausFrau · 30/12/2005 18:29

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ItllBeLonelymumThisChristmas · 30/12/2005 18:29

I just eat them instead of meals to ensure I don't put on too much weight. Is that OK?

Blandmum · 30/12/2005 18:30

It is possible not to eat them all? [puzzled emoticon]

I have also eaten a mars bar with my head in a ci=upboard so the kids couldn't see me

fruitful · 30/12/2005 18:30

DH understands that the chocs are mine and is grateful for any crumbs I leave him.

He did once store half an easter egg in the cellar though. I found it about a year later. And I am not letting him forget it, ever.

sparklymieow · 30/12/2005 18:31

me and DH are both chocoholics and we have to have chocolate EVERY night... we have 2 large tins of chocolates that we were given at xmas and the kids aren't allow them....

foxinsocks · 30/12/2005 18:32

martianbishop, it's the image I find funny really. The thought that as adults, we'll still hide away behind cupboard doors and fridges to get our little fixes!

Blandmum · 30/12/2005 18:33

I teach the children to share, doesn't mean I have to share!

annobal · 30/12/2005 18:35

DH will quite happily say that he didn't get ANY of that g&b almond chocolate...and he bought it a week ago!!!

(Admitedly it was gone 2 days after he bought it - I think we have mice in our fridge...)