Embarrassingly greedy DH

[Ludicruss]

Today, we had a socially distanced gathering for a handful of people in our garden. It was great, but I'd forgotten about the way DH behaves around food when we're entertaining in our own home.
I was serving the food myself to prevent the risk of any covid contamination, wearing gloves. DH goes to find something to do inside whilst I serve the food for everyone and myself. He reappears when everyone starts eating and serves his own plate. What he then does is finish EVERYTHING off, leaving no possibility for me to return to serve up seconds for anyone. I was mortified. His plate was over flowing and more than doubled everyone elses plate.
I could see him standing at the side of the garden eating away his mountain of food out of the corner of my eye, DM got up to see what was left when she had finished, clearly intending to have some more. But all of it had gone.
I had tipped 3 packets of crisps into one bowl and nobody had asked for any during the first time I was serving, when I looked into the bowl after DHs visit, there were around 8 crisps left in the bottom of it. He had demolished almost all of them.
There was a tiny piece of chicken left and a pitta bread which DM ate as she clearly hadn't finished eating ( she had only wanted a small amount on her plate originally). I was also still hungry.
I had made most of the food and I'm pissed off that my effort was wasted on him stuffing himself with it all.
I was utterly embarrassed.
I made a joke about him eating all the crisps and DH went extremely red in the face. He will no doubt call me out on it later on for embarrassing HIM!
He is very over-weight and embarrassed about it, but nobody is allowed to mention it or his eating habits. And yet he stuffed himself with all the food for the guests.

How do I broach this? I love entertaining, I have really missed it, but he spoilt it for me today.

He doesn't do this when he visits other peoples houses,just at ours.

If there is ever shared food on the table at regular meal times,he always seems to wait until we all have a bit on our plates and then eats everything that's left. Sometimes I find myself filling my own plate with too much before he dives in and eats it all. I rarely serve food this way in th3 evenings because of his greediness. But it can't be helped when entertaining.

What do I say to him?
It's ridiculous.

I've done versions with flour and sometimes with breadcrumbs (just use the readymade panko ones). I add salt and pepper to the flour/breadcrumbs, but I rarely dip in egg first - messy. What does the egg add, am I missing something essential? I beat my breasts flat with a rolling pin, between two sheets of clingfilm. Don't think I've the knife skills to butterfly them. That way A&E lies.

What is 'sock-puppeting'? every day's a schoolday here!

Sock puppeting is when you use a different user name to basically agree with yourself, but pretending to be someone else.

So I’m blunt. I say the sky is green.

Everyone says it’s not.

So I change my name to something else and say “ I agree with blunt, it’s green”

Everyone Argues with me as the new identity

So I change it again, and start arguing why it’s green.

Or I post something and no one agrees, so I change my name, pretend to be another poster and then use it to lash out at everyone hoping they don’t know I’m the op.

Oh and it’s not allowed on the site, you’d be banned for it. And if anyone suspects it they should report it.

I don't dip in egg first either. Cover in flour first, then dip in the egg.

Do you not have those meat uhmmm tenderiser ?!? thingies? Saw a recipe using the bottom of a pan once to flatten it.

Another hint, if you use thyme ,try the foreign stuff , it's much nicer. Well completely different taste actually. Apparently thyme takes it's taste from the soil,so it will taste differently in different countries. Who knew?

Ah, egg second! that makes more sense. Thanks. Clingfilm and rolling pin works for me, and it's quite therapeutic. Also a job my son enjoys.

And thanks for the sock-puppeting explanation Bluntness.

I find the heavy weight, hammer shape quite therapeutic too.

That's interesting, I didn't realise you could breadcrumb without the egg. We always did it with egg (as an adhesive really). Seasoned flour, meat goes on it, flip over to the other side, into the egg, both sides and into the breadcrumbs and really push them down onto the meat. Then flatten again and let it rest in the fridge before frying.

I'm definitely going to try with just seasoned flour though, sounds lovely and a bit lighter.

I don't have one but definitely need on of those in my life, PrincessConsuela!

I don't bother with the egg unless I'm using breadcrumbs, as it helps them to stick better.
I mostly just roll them in seasoned flour and then shallow fry whatever (usually turkey or fish goujons, sometimes squid rings) in oil, sometimes with butter. Not the right way but we like it :)

@BorsetshireBlueBalls

My breasts are vast. And I beat them flat to make them look even bigger. Then cover them in breadcrumbs, fry them, so they have more energy, cut them into 'fingers' and pile them on a plate so they look more generous still. They feed multitudes. Buy from a butcher, people, it goes further.

But it's not about the chicken! It's about the husband skulking at a distance and not joining in.

I had to reread your post a few times. To get past the tears of laughter at the first two sentences. Not one mention of chicken until the end Phnar!