Does Your Other Half Ever Steal Your Healthy Foods?

AprilRenewed

UGH!

My husband is not on a mission to eat healthy. He won't ever change his habits. He doesn't need to (right now). His day job keeps him busy and active physically, and he's a guy and can pretty much eat whatever he wants and not gain weight.

But he steals my food.

Once, he ate the remaining two Vitamuffins I had in the fridge. He heated them up and put them on his full-on-fat ice cream.

Another time, I came home, and my entire box of Special K Cheddar Crisps were gone - I hadn't even opened them yet.

And just now, he stole one of my favorite Balance Bars so he could go upstairs and carb out and fall asleep.

WTF?

LOL.

I'm not angry, exactly, but it's irritating.

Does your other half ever eat your special snacks and/or foods?

shaynak112

I know what you mean! There is this yogurt that I really like (low calorie kind) but it's kinda expensive. So sometimes I get it "as a treat" and he sighs and just goes with it. Then I go to have some yogurt and half of it is gone! I'm like, really, why couldn't you have had something else when you don't really like the yogurt?!? Drives me crazy!

AprilRenewed

Exactly! My Balance Bars aren't cheap!

I just thought of another example.

Turkey Hill Lite Double Cookies and Cream.

I think that's what it's called, but it's AMAZING. Basically, chocolate ice cream with oreo/cream chunks, half calories, half fat.

I don't eat it all at once. Obviously (or I try not to)

I went to have it as a treat, and almost an entire half gallon was gone!

So not far! Go get your own full-fat stuff! LOL

katkins3

All the time!
Even though his body fat is SEVEN PERCENT!! He's 5 foot ten inches and weighs 141. He looks like Mr. Burns!
He has to take testosterone shots every other week and the doctor has told him to gain ten pounds, but I simply cannot get him to stop eating my fat free yogurt and many other low calories items I bought specifically for myself.
He'll tell me after dinner that he still has a thousand calories left to use, then eats the yogurt, Weight Watcher ice cream bars, all the fruit I cut up and a "power bar". Then he complains that he's too full; even though he hasn't eaten any Real Food, just low cal, fat free, filler.

AprilRenewed

LOL!

My husband doesn't even think about calories. All he does is tease me (very lovingly) over my healthy foods. When I turn down a fried dish he makes (he does make me something baked or grilled instead), he shakes his head and says it's a shame I don't eat real food.

But then he eats my healthy food!!! LOL

WTF?

tajmel

That does sound super annoying haha!

I kind of wish I had your problem though - my husband is obese (as I am) and has zero interest in eating healthfully. It's very hard to find meals that he'll like and which don't contain any of the several hundred foods he can't stand (basically a fat-loaded carb topped with a meat covered in cheese is the ideal) and that I can eat without feeling sick. When I was vegan it was just flat-out impossible - I had to cook two different things for every meal.

AprilRenewed

When I was vegan it was just flat-out impossible - I had to cook two different things for every meal.

I'm really lucky, you're right. For the most part, we eat the same thing for dinner and stuff. When he feels like eating something else, something unhealthy that I don't eat, he makes it for me differently. He'll fry his fish but bake mine. He'll add a bunch of cheese and creamy sauce to his but not to mine.



I can agree that your situation probably makes it more difficult to be healthy.

But, for the record, I think you're adorable. You don't look obese to me!

tajmel

That is definitely the way to do it! I'm working on finding good base meals that I can cheese up for him and veg up for me . Unfortunately he doesn't like fish and can't cook, so... haha. But it's okay, we're making it work.

Haha, thank you . I wish the scale agreed with you - I have 126 lbs to go to hit the upper limit of of the bmi range for my height!

tajmel

Oh, and I was going to say - Have you tried buying him similar snacks? When I used to buy protein bars my husband was always sneaking them, so I bought him some chewy bars and he stopped stealing mine haha.

AprilRenewed

That's a good idea, except...I don't think it would work.

My husband is hard to explain. LOL. He...it's hard to explain, but there were plenty of things in the pantry that he could eat that I would never eat. It doesn't matter. He sees something that for some reason takes his notice, lol, he eats it.

It's okay. It's frustrating, but food is one thing I don't ever have to feel bad for spending lots of money on. So I'll just get more if I have to. LOL

I just needed to vent because he took one of my very favorite Balance Bars!

tajmel

I just needed to vent because he took one of my very favorite Balance Bars!

That thief!

AprilRenewed

I just needed to vent because he took one of my very favorite Balance Bars!

That thief!

LOL! I know!!!

It's okay. He makes it up by worshiping my body and baking the fresh fish he catches without butter just for me. LOL

But come on...I know there are more people out there whose significant other eats their healthy foods!!!! LOL

carinnaj

I live with my parents (and my 2 kids) and my dad is the culprit here.. it ticks me off so bad(I try not to be.. but, really!!) he is a stick, if you send him to the store he comes out with bologna, hot dogs, ice cream, pepsi, chips... but the second he sees something healthy I've gotten for myself (and /or the kids) it;s all gone...
FTR I pay for 80-90% of ALL the groceries that come into the house with the exception of his soda addiction(2-3 2L of pepsi a day)

AprilRenewed

Oh, Cari - what is it with these people who don't even need to worry about food eating our good-for-you stuff? UGH!!! The stuff we buy with our own money!

I mean, okay, to be fair, all my money is my husband's money and visa versa, but I mean the stuff he doesn't buy on his big Costco run. The stuff I make separate trips to a special grocery store for.

terri0527

Invest in a box with a lock on it. :flowerforyou:

AprilRenewed

Invest in a box with a lock on it. :flowerforyou:

ROFL!

We have several, but he has the key also. LOL.

I tried hiding stuff under the bed, but that became too inconvenient for me.

Ah, well.