When your spouse buys the cheap stuff but eats the good stuff

[Anonymous]

I hide my Sumo oranges when they are in season. My DH and kids can eat Navel from January to May.

[Anonymous]

Stop sending him to the grocery store. Food purchases is the task you own because you care more. You only eat the good stuff from here on out. Win!

[Anonymous]

I’d try to find a way to buy more of the “good” apples, and for the apples and everything else, I would literally label my share of everything. Half the apples, beer, special treats would have my name on them and half would have his name on them. Two bottles of dressing, each labeled. You don’t even need to bother to label the stuff he buys that you don’t want. Don’t hide stuff; just be upfront about what his share of the good stuff is and what’s yours. That’s what I do for my kid with ADHD so she doesn’t eat all of the most desirable snacks. It’s works very well.

[Anonymous]

Just do all the shopping yourself, especially since you are the one who cares more. Get enough for all. My DH does the same thing (buys stuff no one likes) so I do nearly all of the shopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You each buy your own groceries. Some couples do this. Or you make a grocery list that includes brands of the items to purchase.

+1 saves a lot of aggravation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. It’s true that many apples are junk! Anybody with tastebuds knows this; DH does. Hide the apples in your car

Share vinaigrette tips/recipe, please?

This thread is making me laugh. All you natches are funny.

[Anonymous]

Write your name on the things you want. My husband said I needed to do that once when I brought back half a pizza from a dinner out with friends because he didn't know he wasn't allowed to eat everything in our house. I had been planning to eat the remaining half for lunch but when I went to get it, he had already eaten it. Another time I bought a specific kind of cracker to go with a specific kind of cheese that I wanted to have at some point during the week. When I went into the pantry, the crackers were all gone because he had eaten them. So now I do literally write my name on the items that I have purchased for myself and that I plan to eat. My husband isn't a jerk like yours - he didn't argue with me when I expressed frustrating at him having eaten something I had planned to eat myself - so maybe that won't work in your case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

He mumbled "pie" when I asked him why he bought red delicious, but there was no pie. He's just cheap and on auto-pilot 99.9% of the time.

At restaurants normal couples share meals and desserts, but we can't because it becomes an eating race. No, he was not food insecure growing up. He had a stable, UMC upbringing.

I wish I were a troll but we literally just fought over apples. It's almost as if the apples represent something more troubling in our relationship. I don't want to have to hide the good apples in my house!

- OP

Red delicious apples are terrible for pies, so he's an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

For people like OP's husband!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

Yes, this is the bigger and more important question. I can see why an idiot who had never had an apple before might buy a red delicious. Oooh, Pretty! Looks just like what Snow White ate!! ... but why haven't those trees been cut down and burned? Granny Smith can however be good in pie. Good texture. And maybe I'm nostalgic for the Granny Smith we did eat in the 1980s. Althouh a farm fresh MacIntosh or Cortland was SO much better. But thank god we have much better choices now!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. It’s true that many apples are junk! Anybody with tastebuds knows this; DH does. Hide the apples in your car

Share vinaigrette tips/recipe, please?

Not OP but this is mine:

3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i have one those too. its being inconsiderate. i buy organic berries for the kids and he acts ticked off when he tries to eat them and I say - this is for the children. Major dick.

Hmmm. Ok...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Write your name on the things you want. My husband said I needed to do that once when I brought back half a pizza from a dinner out with friends because he didn't know he wasn't allowed to eat everything in our house. I had been planning to eat the remaining half for lunch but when I went to get it, he had already eaten it. Another time I bought a specific kind of cracker to go with a specific kind of cheese that I wanted to have at some point during the week. When I went into the pantry, the crackers were all gone because he had eaten them. So now I do literally write my name on the items that I have purchased for myself and that I plan to eat. My husband isn't a jerk like yours - he didn't argue with me when I expressed frustrating at him having eaten something I had planned to eat myself - so maybe that won't work in your case.

That's an elegant solution, clear and simple.
I do something similar with wine. If I don't want my husband to finish a particular bottle, the bright pink "hers" cap stops him. He is also not a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost feel like this has to be a troll. What person in their right mind buys red delicious apples?

+1,000

Why do they even grow these anymore?

For people like OP's husband!

My weirdo 15 year old son thinks Red Delicious are by far the best and is always sad when i bring home pink ladies.