Today, my husband offered to do the weekly grocery shopping. Because he has never done the shopping before, I made him a list of what we needed and other optional foods to give him an idea of what to get. He came back with a week's worth of ramen noodles and 2 litres of soda. FML
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Today, I was meal-planning for the week, and sent my fiancee a grocery list with the stuff I needed. She ignored the list and bought nothing but junk food. I guess we can just eat cookie dough and sugar cereal, and die of diabetes in our fifties. FML
Today, my fiancee asked me to text her a grocery list. I asked for meat, fruit, vegetables, you know, the staples. She came back with tons of sugar cereal, pop tarts, cookie dough, and other unhealthy crap. We have no other food, our monthly budget is gone, and junk food gives me horrible stomach cramps. FML
Today, I sent my boyfriend to the store to get groceries while I was at work. Instead of what I listed, he came back with hot pockets, ice cream and beer. I'm lactose intolerant and pregnant. FML
Today, my step-brother went grocery shopping alone for the first time. He came home with Ramen and 14 bottles of chocolate milk, which will expire by the 20th. My step-dad is insisting we eat it so it doesn't go to waste. FML
Today, we have nearly no food in the house. My husband went shopping with the kids and returned with a sack of tomatoes. Time to make lunch. FML
Today, I went grocery shopping but once at the store I realized that I'd forgotten my shopping list at home. I ended up buying a bunch of random items using basic guesswork and forgetting what I had originally gone to the store for. I now have two avocados, even though I hate avocados. FML
Today, as he was going out, I asked my father if he stop by the store and buy some tampons for me and toilet paper for the house, because we have been out for the last 5 days. He came home with a 30-pack of beer and cigarettes instead. I just started my time of the month and we have no more money. FML
Today, my husband reorganized our fridge for the World Cup. He cleared everything out and filled it with beer and chips. FML
Today, I went to the grocery store for three items. I left with two full bags and forgot the one thing I actually needed. I didn’t realize until I got home, unpacked everything, and stared at the empty counter in disbelief. Next on my list: start making lists. FML
Today, it's my birthday. I worked late, so I was looking forward to spending a quiet evening with my husband. When he suggested we go grocery shopping, I got excited thinking he had organized a surprise party or something. He actually just took me grocery shopping. FML
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Top comments
doemetoch 28
Wait wait wait. Your husband's never done grocery shopping? Providing sufficient and more or less healthy food for yourself and your family is like adulting 101.
HappyItalian 38
Does your husband happen to be a college student?
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Comments (65)
echarlotte 19
Who doesn't need a weeks worth of ramen noodles?
JBChristian 47
An athletic person? Or anyone that wants the energy to do anything physical.
HappyItalian 38
People that enjoy food.
SleepyPharma 21
No one. Have you seen the amount of sodium and saturated fat in those things?!?
ThrottleJockey 36
I like to eat them like a Rice Crispies treat. Or crush it up and use it in a salad. Don't use the flavoring packet though; that thing is loaded with sodium.
loofde 12
so whats the problem?
doemetoch 28
Wait wait wait. Your husband's never done grocery shopping? Providing sufficient and more or less healthy food for yourself and your family is like adulting 101.
nirosodapop 7
I kinda took it as he never went grocery shopping without her going with or not for the weeks main groceries, but either way, you're right, it's nuts.
cupcakebruh 21
This is so weird to me, cause my boyfriend and I have only been living together for a little over a year, and yet we go grocery shopping together every week.
Solano2580 24
That is wrong in so many ways, what if your significant other lost their memory and can't remember how to, or couldn't go outside and do that stuff for their whole life. Think before you speak.
siggy_mcsigx 22
Pretty funny, but how did he get through life before this?? Do sons not get dragged to the supermarket like daughters during their formative years and get a sense of how to do grocery shopping?
domolovesyoshi 33
This is not just a guy thing, lots of girls don't know how to do this stuff either
RamboRambo 8
Ah it's more of a guy thing.
HappyItalian 38
Does your husband happen to be a college student?
gosh_mate 30
Well he must have known he wouldn't be doing the right thing if there was a basic list to follow ...
lusanna 19
And you never saw it as a problem with him never gone grocery shopping before? YDI
Platinum69 8
Let him eat ramen noodles all day for a week, while you eat nice meals. After a week he'll never will do that again.
HappyItalian 38
I mean, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have bought that much ramen if he weren't planning on eating all of it... right?
Platinum69 8
yeah but thinking it and actually eating nothing but noodles is a difference. He'll be so fed up by the end of the week
Nerd14 9
Let me guess, he's..."thrifty", or what we glass half-empty people would say, a cheap?
TXfmylifer 10
He did this on purpose so you would never send him to do the shopping again.
Birdie27 11
this was exactly my thought