UUUGHHH

[kates13]

I prepped my meals for work last night, as usual, and I had in 3 separate containers all stacked up: a salad with shrimp; 3 oz roasted turkey and string beans; and an egg white omelet concoction. So these are my first 3 meals of the day. My boyfriend comes home late and he asks me what he should eat...I am trying to get him to eat better. I told him to have some almonds. I wake up this morning and my turkey and string beans ARE GONE! He says, I thought you told me you were going to have a salad for lunch. I was like. DO YOU KNOW ME AT ALL? I prep at least 4 meals for work. He does not see the big deal, and I am flipping out...I should not have to label things in my own house (He does not live with me)..He told me to relax, that he will bring me lunch, but he does not get the measuring and the prep work that goes into it. I feel all out of sorts at work now, not knowing what I am going to eat. Would anybody else feel this way or am I being nuts?!?

[strongchick]

I'd be mad.

But I am also so protective of my food. G-d forbid Jason comes near my stuff, LOL!

[christie]

Nope. I would have LOST it :lol:

[kates13]

I know..And he just called again saying that I was being crazy and my day should not be ruined because of this and I should call when I am ready to be nice. WTF? If he pays one bit of attention then he knows that all 3 tupperware stacked up were my meals. SO Annoying.

[homeschoolmom]

I can't tell you how many times one of my kids or DH has eaten one of my meals inadvertantly. I always have a can of tuna and frozen green beans as back up for these moments. But I've also eaten my DH's meals by mistake as well. My advice, forgive and move on. Shit happens. He's made a peace offering(lunch), and warn him that if it happens again, it will be his balls on a platter! :lol:

[christie]

The thing that would bug me would be that he probably should have realized by now that you make your meals in advance for a reason and that everything is measured etc. Sometimes people just don't think or realize before they do something, espeically when they are hungry :lol:. Homeschoolmom is right though. It's a piss off. It's frustrating. It's annoying but it's over. He'll know now NEVER to touch your food in the freezer :lol:

[kates13]

I agree. I told him that he knows that I need things measured and planned out or I feel stressed and cranky. And from now on I will just have to label stuff. If he takes it then, we will have major problems!

[LisaBunny]

I'd be pissed. I hate when people touch my food. It's my food, I pay for it, don't touch it. :mad:

[cm13cm]

i just label mine. i know i shouldn't have too, but i don't want to take any chances or i tie them all in a plastic bag.

[kates13]

Originally posted by cm13cm@Jun 13 2006, 08:13 AM
i just label mine. i know i shouldn't have too, but i don't want to take any chances or i tie them all in a plastic bag.
I just realized that that is what I usually do. I put my food for the next day in a plastic bag. I will definitely make sure to do that from now on every time!!

[Sarah]

Originally posted by kates13@Jun 13 2006, 08:42 AM
I just realized that that is what I usually do. I put my food for the next day in a plastic bag. I will definitely make sure to do that from now on every time!!
i write my name on everything. even what meal it is supposed to be.

my fiancee is fairly well trained though. he sees anything in a container and asks permission first.

[Hoochiemomma]

This has happened to me a LOT - finally I had to put my game face on and say to DH, "look, if you didn't prepare it and if you didn't package it, it's not yours to take". Nobody steals my frozen premade meals though, just the stuff in the fridge.

[NCfitnessgirl]

That really upsets me too. Hubby doesn't keep track of everything he eats, but I do. He knows to eat anything BUT what is premeasure, prepackaged in the fridge. If he does eat something, he lets me know so that I can prepare as needed or he'll ask me ahead of time if I mind. I don't mind fixing extra for him as long as he doesn't take my last one, leaving me unprepared.

[kates13]

I'm so glad I am not alone :)

[Rumbach]

I would have stabbed his eyes out with a spoon, but I get cranky when dieting.

[JillD]

That sucks! I had to buy different tupperware from the ones I use for my food, and labeled everything when we did our bi-weekly cooking. He didn't eat it if it didn't have his name on it, and I did the same. We avoided a lot of fights this way :).

[nikegurl]

In THEORY I'd like to be all forgiving and tolerant.

In REALITY I'd blow a gasket. :oops:

[homeschoolmom]

Originally posted by nikegurl@Jun 13 2006, 08:11 PM
In THEORY I'd like to be all forgiving and tolerant.

In REALITY I'd blow a gasket. :oops:
LMAO!! :lol:

[linds]

Originally posted by nikegurl@Jun 13 2006, 05:11 PM
In THEORY I'd like to be all forgiving and tolerant.

In REALITY I'd blow a gasket. :oops:
This sounds about right.

My favorite is when my boyfriend will get into my tupperware and eat the protein but not the veggies. Fine eat my meals but ifyou are going to use the excuse of being healthy eat the frickin veggies

[Chelsinator]

I label all my food...and I live alone. I get stressed when anyone even opens my fridge when they visit :lol: people pretty much know not to eat stuff if it is portioned out though. I'd be forgiving on the outside, but boiling mad on the inside.

Mostly I try to make things as bland and unappetizing to other people as possible in order to avoid problems :lol:

[smuggie]

I'd be ready to http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/montagnu/ellis/fighting1.gif , http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/montagnu/ellis/fighting3.gif and http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/montagnu/ellis/fighting5.gif

[Brandi]

I'd bust a cap.

[Bravogrl27]

This is good, I needed to read this before my husband comes home... I wasn't measuring food before he left so I have no idea if he would do that by accident or not . . . I'm thinking he might. I'm going to start practicing labeling my food . . . And start practicing ways to respond should that happen so that I don't actually act out any fits of domestic violence...

[kates13]

haha. You guys are funny...Well, the story gets better. He was supposed to bring me lunch to make up for it right? Well, he fell back asleep til I called him at noon and woke him up. Now he cant cook more turkey and it is an hour past when I was supposed to eat. So now I am hungry and cranky and I of course decide to be immature and say, never mind forget it. I dont want lunch anymore. It's too late. He doesn't bring it, and the fight continued until about 5 oclock last night. So stupid how little things escalate sometimes!!! :lol:

[rachel.]

I live in a house with 5 others. One fridge. You do the math.

But everything is good since the memorable day when John discovered the sweet potatoes had cottage cheese on them :lol:

Now no one touches my food :cool:

[Mandy]

My parents and my stupid ass almost 30 year old waste of space brother look at my food and get this face like "oh sick, it's healthy, I won't touch that". Which is fine, but it makes me want to barf when I see the foods they eat everyday. Not that I don't like most of what they eat, but I certainly could not eat it every week, let alone 3 times a day :eek:

If someone did touch my food without my permission and did not offer to make me the exact same thing, I'd kill them

[jrb1980]

We keep things in tupperware in addition to my meals. So, for example, there might be my pre made meal of measured chicken, breens, and sweet potatoes - BUT there will also be a big container with a buch on pre-cooked chicken, another with brown rice, etc. My SO doesn't touch the pre made meals but I encourage him to use the other pre-made stuff to throw a meal together in a few seconds. Give it a whirl.

[mathgeek]

So Mandy, How do you really feel about your brother?