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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the same issue with my DH, OP, and I'm not an only child. My issue with DH is that he will simply eat all the food because he eats more food, and this means that often DD and I don't get as much of "special" food in the house because he was more hungry. [b]So yes, if we get special takeout, he'll eat all the leftovers without asking if anyone else wants any, meaning he gets twice as much as anyone else did. It is rude and annoying.[/b] However I have gotten him to stop doing it for specific things, by just doing fewer communal things. So now DD and I both have foods and snacks that are "ours" and no one else can have any unless they ask. This has finally allowed us to have snacks or leftovers around the house that don't get vacuumed up by my voracious DH before we have a chance to eat them. I used to have to label them but I'm starting to not do that and DH seems to have internalized, for instance, that he can't eat up all of DD's favorite crackers that I buy explicitly of her lunch, or eat the leftover Thai food that I ordered extra of specifically so I could have leftovers the next day. It's taken years to get this through to him though. He used to just wander around the kitchen eating whatever he found without thinking for a second whether it was being saved specifically by a family member. So weird![/quote] This is incredibly rude. Does he eat your leftovers, too? Like if you ordered the kung pao chicken and he ordered the Mongolian beef, he would eat his beef AND your chicken? I would rip him a new one. [/quote] Yes, he absolutely used to do this. He'd open the fridge and see a takeout container and he'd just eat it even if it was a dish someone else had ordered and then packaged up. He just viewed it as collective food and therefore fair game. It has taken years of labeling, reminding, etc., to get him to stop so that if I purposefully save a portion of my meal (which I do a lot, I love leftover Thai or Chipotle for lunch the next day, to me it's one of the primary draws of getting takeout), that means I'm going to eat it. He still does it with communal foods like pizza though. If I want to reserve a few slices of pizza for myself or DD to eat, I have to go out of my way to either hide them or label the crap out of a separate container so that he won't eat them. If you get mad, he'll just say "What? I was hungry!" like that's an excuse. He grew up in a house with two sons, a doormat of a mother, and a father who I think encouraged crap like this. He also doesn't know how to clean at all and hasn't touched a vacuum in like a decade. I love him for other reasons but I do curse his parents periodically for raising him like a neanderthal in some ways.[/quote] You need to order more pizza so that everyone can have leftovers to just you or DD. WTF?[/quote]
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