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If you buy a candy bar or treat to save for later at night while watching a movie (or something along that line), if your FI/SO/husband finds it when you're out of the room, will he:

1) respect that you bought if for YOU and not endulge?
2) take one bite?
3) eat half?
4) eat all of it?

My DH will eat all of it. We have an old bag of opened tator tots in our freezer covered with freezer burn and I hide my frozen deserts under it! It's funny that I took the tator tot bag with us when we moved and my husband never asked why I did so. All our other frozen food is normal and fresh, yet there sits the ancient tator tots somehow inconspicuous as ever.
 
Yes, I can''t get girl scout cookies over here. I always buy 2-3 boxes, hide them, and spread them out over the entire year. If he happens upon them without me, he doesn''t eat them. If I''m caught sneakily eating them in another room so I don''t have to share then he''ll cautiously ask if he can have the same amount I''m having.
 
He won''t eat it if he thinks its mine but if I don''t say ''Thats mine!'' he will think its fair game. My husband is on a ''put weight on'' mission just now and if its not fastened down he will munch on it!
 
Date: 4/24/2009 3:33:33 PM
Author:MC
eat them?

If you buy a candy bar or treat to save for later at night while watching a movie (or something along that line), if your FI/SO/husband finds it when you''re out of the room, will he:

1) respect that you bought if for YOU and not endulge?
2) take one bite?
3) eat half?
4) eat all of it?

My DH will eat all of it. We have an old bag of opened tator tots in our freezer covered with freezer burn and I hide my frozen deserts under it! It''s funny that I took the tator tot bag with us when we moved and my husband never asked why I did so. All our other frozen food is normal and fresh, yet there sits the ancient tator tots somehow inconspicuous as ever.
That made me laugh! I do the same thing. I hide my Ben & Jerry''s in the bottom of the freezer at the very back under everything else! Although I''m not just hiding it on my husband- I''m hiding from the kids too!
 
My husband is so great about this that he''s making me fat because he even insists on feeding me half of whatever goodies he picks up for him! My butt is enormous, but how many women can say their man feeds them ice cream while watching tv together? I''m spoooooooooilled!
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Ugh!! It's so unfair! That's why my answer to the "incompatibility" thread was that he thinks I should share my chocolate and I don't.

If I have a bag of chocolate in the freezer, I'm fine with my fiance eating as much as he wants. But if I have 1 piece of chocolate that I'm really looking forward to eating, I kind of want the whole thing. HE feels like he's entitled to "a bite." And not just a bite - he always wants the last bite. And if I don't offer him a bite he tries to make me feel guilty for not sharing!!

But you should hear the grief he gets when he forgets to offer me a bite of his candy bar!
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ETA: So, to answer the question, I hide candy on the top shelf behind the baking supplies, where he'd never look. Then I can eat it when he's not around.
 
Oh yea. He''ll eat it all if I don''t. I''m thinking of hiding my baking goods (choc chips, mini m & m''s ect) because he has started eating those when his sweet tooth kicks in and we don''t have anything else in the house!
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I like the tator tot idea...may have to borrow it!
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D is actually really good at not eating things if he doesn''t know whether he can or not. I''ve actually had to tell him lots of times that he can eat all the stuff that I buy in the weekly shop. When I lived at home you couldn''t leave anything in the fridge as it would be eaten. It used to drive me crazy having to hide chocolate or nice yoghurts in behind lettuce and tomatoes.
 
It's so ironic that you asked this question MC, because I just hid something from my DH just yesterday. I hid a double-honey turkey wrap from Whole Foods in the back of the fridge behind the salad dressing bottles. This works because DH is one of those guys that doesn't dig around in the fridge. If he doesn't see something right away he'll assume we don't have it, which is really annoying. But....it worked in my favor this time.
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And if he'd found the sandwich, he'd eat the whole thing! Unless I claimed it as *mine* he sees it as up for grabs.
 
Hell yes! I have no choice. Not because he''ll eat all of it, but because he''s a health nut, and doesn''t want ME to eat it.
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And it drives me bananas!
 
YES! DH has no control so he eats a bag of chips, cookies, etc in one sitting. I am a the opposite and like to spread it out. I hide stuff so often I forget about it and end up throwing half of it away.
 
Date: 4/24/2009 4:08:26 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
YES! DH has no control so he eats a bag of chips, cookies, etc in one sitting. I am a the opposite and like to spread it out. I hide stuff so often I forget about it and end up throwing half of it away.
Yep, spreading the goodies out is my thing too. It''s "mini doses" of yummy stuff to help make it through the day.
 
Yes he used to. But now is on WW, so I got rid of all my treats. I am missing them big time.
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Sometimes yes, but we often buy different snack foods so that we don''t argue over it. On things that we buy that we both like, he will usually eat half and wait to see if I''m going to eat my half. And I have to say, my dh is pretty good about asking if he can eat something or if I''m saving it. But I''ve learned that if he asks and I say yes, he can have some, he is going to have ALL before I even realize it.

Over Easter, I got a package of chocolate covered pretzels from home that we both LOVE (he got plain chocolate). He begged me to open them before I was ready. I said no. He ate all of his chocolate. I finally opened the pretzels. He promptly ate 3 (there are only like 10 in the package). I told him he was to have no more unless I offered. I then got sick, and have been saving the pretzels until I''m better and can actually taste. Dh actually asked me yesterday to HIDE them from HIM so that he wouldn''t be tempted to eat them every time I came into the kitchen.
 
Date: 4/24/2009 4:24:12 PM
Author: Kaleigh
Yes he used to. But now is on WW, so I got rid of all my treats. I am missing them big time.
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hahaha That reminds me. . .I was in my son''s class this morning working with three kids and had them each tell me their favorite desert and one little girl said "ice cream." She then went on to tell me it is Weight Watchers! lol
 
Oh, I wanted to add...I think this is a really interesting topic...I actually feel like one of the reasons I had food issues growing up was because when we did have snack food in the house, my dad or brother would eat it. I always felt like I had to eat it right away or else miss out, and I would end up eating more than I really wanted. It became a bit of a competition as to who could eat it first. I am soooo much happier now feeling like I don''t have to worry about eating things before they disappear.
 
I don't have to hide food from BF, thank goodness. I have asked him to hide it from me (I have NO CONTROL...and even when I ask him to hide it, I'll tear the house apart looking for it).

My brother, however.....UGH. My family and I live together for a few months a year, and he'll eat anything and everything. And you can be sure that the ONE THING you're looking forward to eating will be eaten 12 hours before you go to open it. Want yogurt for breakfast? He ate it all last night. Want graham crackers for a snack? He ate them all before lunch.

I'm on WW, so I have very particular snacks that I love, and I'm going to clear myself a shelf in the pantry and one in the fridge this summer. If he eats it, he will have to replace it. And that includes the bagels I bring down from Virginia when I go up there. There are only a few of these bagel shops, and they're only in one town in VA. If he eats them, he's got to figure out how to get me more.
 
I never have to hide anything, he won''t eat it without asking if I''m saving it for something. But then again, I never buy myself any treats without buying him one, too.
 
I have the opposite problem, I love to share desserts and goodies, but my fiance lacks a sweet tooth
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But if I ever leave steak lying around, it''d be gone in a flash.
 
Uh, no.

If I buy something for myself, I will also buy something for him. But he treats me to special nibbles far more than I treat him. He''ll go to the store more often and bring back goodies he thinks I''ll like. Last night it was chocolate ice cream, strawberries, and Lite Cool Whip. And it was good.

Before Easter, he scoured every store in the area for my favorite spicy Brach''s jelly beans. He finally found them; he was so proud of himself. He''s sweet that way.
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Whatever is in the pantry is fair game for either of us.
 
Date: 4/24/2009 3:33:33 PM
Author:MC
eat them?

If you buy a candy bar or treat to save for later at night while watching a movie (or something along that line), if your FI/SO/husband finds it when you''re out of the room, will he:

1) respect that you bought if for YOU and not endulge?
2) take one bite?
3) eat half?
4) eat all of it?

My DH will eat all of it. We have an old bag of opened tator tots in our freezer covered with freezer burn and I hide my frozen deserts under it! It''s funny that I took the tator tot bag with us when we moved and my husband never asked why I did so. All our other frozen food is normal and fresh, yet there sits the ancient tator tots somehow inconspicuous as ever.
MC!!
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I would be so upset at my husband if he knew I''d bought something for myself and then ate it himself. I would give him a guilt trip for quite awhile about it. BUT he knows that I am serious about my treats - I rarely let myself have them, so if they are meant to be mine, HANDS OFF.

He has very good self-control, and it would take no more than "I bought myself some ice cream!" to take the hint that it is NOT for him. If he really, really wanted it he would ask if it''s okay for him to have some, and not be hurt if I said "no, it''s MINE."
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My dad has no self-control when it comes to food, and takes my mom''s requests not to eat things as a challenge
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I once caught him sprinkling sugar on a stick of butter then eating the WHOLE THING. A stick of butter. Sprinkled in sugar.

Yum.
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I hide chocolate behind healthy stuff in the pantry...he''ll never find it. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
 
Date: 4/24/2009 4:32:40 PM
Author: Sabine
Oh, I wanted to add...I think this is a really interesting topic...I actually feel like one of the reasons I had food issues growing up was because when we did have snack food in the house, my dad or brother would eat it. I always felt like I had to eat it right away or else miss out, and I would end up eating more than I really wanted. It became a bit of a competition as to who could eat it first. I am soooo much happier now feeling like I don''t have to worry about eating things before they disappear.
Sabine, I have a similar complex from my dad''s eating habits... he would ''steal'' food off our plates if we didn''t finish it before he was done with his plate. I never realized how QUICKLY I ate until I got to college and was eating around friends instead of my family! It''s so bad, I''m still the first one to finish at any meal
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Date: 4/24/2009 5:13:44 PM
Author: musey


My dad has no self-control when it comes to food, and takes my mom''s requests not to eat things as a challenge
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I once caught him sprinkling sugar on a stick of butter then eating the WHOLE THING. A stick of butter. Sprinkled in sugar.

ewww! Gross
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Actually thinking back on it, I think that my mam used to use that as a cure for a sore throat. Must ask her tomorrow.
 
Date: 4/24/2009 5:03:13 PM
Author: HollyS

Before Easter, he scoured every store in the area for my favorite spicy Brach''s jelly beans. He finally found them; he was so proud of himself. He''s sweet that way.
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Awww, what a sweetie!
 
Date: 4/24/2009 5:17:38 PM
Author: bee*
Date: 4/24/2009 5:13:44 PM
Author: musey
My dad has no self-control when it comes to food, and takes my mom''s requests not to eat things as a challenge
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I once caught him sprinkling sugar on a stick of butter then eating the WHOLE THING. A stick of butter. Sprinkled in sugar.
ewww! Gross
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Yeah. His reaction when he saw me staring at him?

Mouth stuffed with butter: "Don''t tell your mom."

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Oh yes! I have to either hide things OR tell him I bought it for myself so to leave me some. I do always buy him some when I buy something for myself too-but unless I tell him half of it is off limits he often will finish it before I''ve had any!
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He is very sweet though and if it''s something that I really want at that moment and he''s eaten all of it he will offer to go get more.
 
No, he tends to leave things so that I have first crack at things like that. I usually want to share things after I''ve had a taste, though, since I certainly don''t need it on me and he loves food.
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No. He doesn''t eat sweets hardly ever. He wanted me to make him a strawberry cake a few weeks ago and I didn''t want to because I knew exactly what would happen: he would have one or two slices and never touch it again leaving the rest for me to finish or throw out.

And that''s exactly what happened.

The only thing he loves is brownies with ice cream but he shares
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We each have treats in the house, neither of us would ever eat the other persons'' without telling them first. We don''t care about sharing, we just say something in case it''s the last one or something.
 
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