Do your husbands listen to you?

[lola]

Um. The day my H comes home with anything low fat - particularly bacon - I will ... I don't even know what I'd do. This day will not come.

[liverandonions]

The first time I got sick and needed saltines and ginger ale my husband came home with low fat unsalted top crackers. Now I say "Buy saltines and get the full fat, full salt ones." When I'm sick and about to puke, or have been puking I'm not concerned about my diet.

So um no, he doesn't listen unless I put it in a text. Even that is iffy.

[luvvy]

If my H came home with anything reduced fat I would inspect him and ensure he isn't an evil clone.

He listens to me and is usually spot on with what I need/like. He's pretty awesome that way.

[wrathofkuus]

Who ARE these men who buy all this diet food?!

[Dusky]

I think I'd have to shank DH if he messed with my bacon.

[luckyval]

Fake bacon isn't allowed in our house

[eddy]

He will argue with me, for sure. Pretty much every single minute detail of our life requires a discussion.

[Deleted]

I've never been so happy to not have a husband.

[soozy87]

Yes, he is pretty good about this kind of thing.

[janegold]

Ha no, H is on board with full-fat food items. He whined so much when the tiny grocery store at our vacation house was out of regular peanut butter and we had to buy reduced fat. We had to use it in a pinch this week too, and was still peeved.

[Deleted]

I would think my husband had been kidnapped by aliens if he brought home reduced fat anything.

[eb777888]

Yes. I'd also get about three phone calls and at least one picture text message to ensure he's getting the right thing.

[sineadorebellion]

H likes turkey bacon. I do not. I like my thick cut pork awesome bacon. He thinks if he just sticks the turkey kind on my plate, I'll eat it and not notice. Yeah right, H. Even the kids don't fall for that.

[Deleted]

I don't think I've ever asked him to buy groceries.

He just does it occasionally, and I like everything he gets.

[mrsjuleshs]

He will never buy anything low fat unless it is my milk. But he is really good about getting exactly what I need at the store.

[Deleted]

H works in a grocery store. I have been asking for toilet paper for 3 days.

[eb777888]

Sept 26, 2013 15:59:51 GMT -5 sineadorebellion said:

H likes turkey bacon. I do not. I like my thick cut pork awesome bacon. He thinks if he just sticks the turkey kind on my plate, I'll eat it and not notice. Yeah right, H. Even the kids don't fall for that.

Turkey bacon has the most disgusting smell to me. It smells like death.

[lpcats]

Depends on what it is. He's convinced low fat cream cheese tastes the same as regular and it absolutely does not. Might as well just skip the bagel and cream cheese all together.

[leeann]

My H doesn't listen to anything I say, for the most part. It's one of our main issues. He seems to completely zone out when I speak. I swear he needs a hearing test (his mother is hearing impaired and has hearing aids) but he insists that he does not.

I put him on Turkey Bacon and low-fat stuff years ago and he actually likes it now.

[shananagins]

If I tell him specifically what to get he would get the right thing, but when I sent him to the store for Tilapia fillets the other day I wasn't clear enough so I got pecan crusted trout instead. Yes, H Trout and Tilapia are both fish that start with the letter T.

[christy082]

When he stops at the store for me, he writes himself a list, so he's pretty good about getting what I need. However, day to day, he never listens. I'll tell him something, and five minutes later he'll ask me the same thing.  

[demelza]

Good center cut bacon is the best thing ever!!!!

[Deleted]

Also, I am the culprit that buys low sodium bacon. NEVER low fat cheese, though. What's the point?

[Deleted]

Sept 26, 2013 16:03:39 GMT -5 @jehc said:

I hate all of you and your fridges full of food people want to eat.

To be fair, my fridge is fairly empty most of the time.  LOL.

[VeryViolet]

Sept 26, 2013 15:55:03 GMT -5 eddy said:

He will argue with me, for sure. Pretty much every single minute detail of our life requires a discussion.

Are we married to the same man?

He calls me from the grocery store at least 3 times usually. If it is more than that the conversation usually ends with me going, "Why can I grocery shop alone and you can't do it with a detailed fucking list." No matter how many calls and how complete the list he still buys the wrong thing and forgets at least one thing. It is then my fault for being "picky" when he comes home with low fat cream cheese or some other such bullshit. 

[Deleted]

The only "diet" items H purchases are diet soda and skim milk.

Everything else is full fat, real sugar all the way, baby.

[glassofsyrah]

We almost always go grocery shopping together. He always wants to buy store brand everything and I am much more picky about what can be skimped on and what absolutely cannot.

[agnes]

I am your H.

[Jalapeñomel]

No. We don't eat low-fat anything.

[WOT?*]

He'll not hear because he's oblivious like that, rinse, repeat a second time, go unacknowledged and then fifteen minutes to fifteen days later he'll have an epiphany like it's his brilliant idea rather than something that's finally sunk into his noggin that I'd said hours or days earlier. It's at the point, after almost twenty years, that I laugh about it because it's funny and not rage-worthy because when it's *important* (like low-fat bacon important) he'll definitely listen and absorb.