Marital vent: stop eating the Babybels

[Anonymous]

They’re to toss into the kid’s lunch when we’re running out the door. Stop gobbling them because you can’t be bothered to fix a non-instant snack. The kid knows they’re for packed lunches only. There’s a thousand other things to eat.

Yes, I know I can’t tell another adult what not to eat. But if I could...

[Anonymous]

Maybe double the cheese purchase?

[Anonymous]

Agree, just buy more cheese.

[Anonymous]

Haha! We have a similar issue at our house with bananas. DS likes to have one in his cereal in the morning. Sometimes DH will eat none, and sometimes he will grab 1-2 on his way out the door in the morning. It happens in spurts, so it’s hard to plan for. I guess I could just buy 10 extra bananas every week, but that seems excessive.

I have jokingly asked DH to let me know if he’s going to be on a banana binge, so I can buy more. He never has .

[Anonymous]

Yes, pick your battles and buy the huge pack at BJs/Costco.

[Anonymous]

Maybe put his when you buy them in a special bowl? My husband will eat ALL the sweets. I would like to savor them over many days. When we make a batch of cookies or have a bag of candy we divide in two Tupperwares. He can happily eat his in a sitting, I can happily munch for days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, pick your battles and buy the huge pack at BJs/Costco.

+1. Those Babybels (and the Laughing Cow cheeses!) are good for like 6 months so a great thing to buy in bulk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha! We have a similar issue at our house with bananas. DS likes to have one in his cereal in the morning. Sometimes DH will eat none, and sometimes he will grab 1-2 on his way out the door in the morning. It happens in spurts, so it’s hard to plan for. I guess I could just buy 10 extra bananas every week, but that seems excessive.

I have jokingly asked DH to let me know if he’s going to be on a banana binge, so I can buy more. He never has .

Annoying! If you do end up with extra bananas, let them get ripe and then mash them with yogurt and freeze. Easy starter for banana bread!

[Anonymous]

OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

I get it, OP. I hide them in the basement fridge. Put apples out for DH.

[Anonymous]

PP who hides them in basement fridge again. Our Costco only sells the kind of Babybel no one in my family likes. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

Do you have a budget, have you mapped out savings, expenses, retirement? I say this as someone who had a childhood partially in poverty. I had serious anxiety about money. When married, once we were able to pay all bills on time, I would become outraged at expenses that weren’t necessary. I had to work through a lot to start relaxing. What helped me was seeing the next several years on paper, month by month. My pulse quickens and I get flooded still sometimes when I make large purchases, or when food goes to waste (see banana example from a pp).

Sending you peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

Spouse’s post: “why the heck can’t we just budget for 2 Babybel? I like them too!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

If you regularly buy babybel cheese, you’d probably save enough buying it at Costco to pay for the membership. That stuff is expensive at the grocery store!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe put his when you buy them in a special bowl? My husband will eat ALL the sweets. I would like to savor them over many days. When we make a batch of cookies or have a bag of candy we divide in two Tupperwares. He can happily eat his in a sitting, I can happily munch for days.

This is brilliant. Huge argument with DH over cookies recently. I will do this next time.