Never get between me and my cake
There’s a petite cake in the freezer. A chocolate one with butter-creme icing. Every now and again I’ll buy one of these cakes, hide it in the freezer then cut off a chunk of it for lunch each day. (If I do stuff like this, I feel compelled to exercise, so one could make the argument that sweets HELP make certain people healthy and fit. Right?)
The cake couldn’t be hidden this time, so there’s a sign on it. The husband knows better than the mess with my cake. But I like to give certain men in this household a “reminder” here and again.
It all comes down to this: I will share my life, my body, and my sleep space. I will even sacrifice my boobs, sleep, and sanity. But I will NOT share my sweets. (Ok. I would share them with YOU dear friends. And that’s because you understand the love that I feel for sugary goodness.)
Just so I don’t feel like such a horrible person for not sharing… Why don’t you lovelies tell me what YOU refuse to share with the rest of the people who inhabit your household? Pretty please? With chocolate on top?
(Heidi’s SO lucky. She’s been eating Norweign chocolate.)
(Carrie I promise to do your meme on Friday, K?)
Danielle on 27 Feb 2008 at 4:25 pm #
Reese peanut cup blizzards from Dairy Queen,
Founder’s Favorite ice cream from Cold Stone,
Coffee in the morning,
Will not share toothbrushes or toothpaste tubes,
Towels, wash clothes, or underwear
Will not share in dish duty. It’s his job, not mine.
Gracie on 27 Feb 2008 at 4:47 pm #
That is SO familiar! I usually have a tub of Bryers ice cream hidden in the freezer. Nothing is more enraging than reaching for your special treat and finding someone else has left barely enough for a spoonful. GRR!
Don’t Mess With MY Ice Cream Dude!
(Then again, I live alone now so it won’t be much of a problem unless the cat figures out how to open the freezer.)
mayberry on 27 Feb 2008 at 5:40 pm #
This is going to sound really dumb but I am protective of my iced tea! I buy a special brand and special flavors and it only comes in individual serving size bottles. I buy enough for my lunches every day and if the week runs out before the tea does … MAMA IS VERY UNHAPPY.
HollowSquirrel on 27 Feb 2008 at 5:49 pm #
I bought some Edy’s (American Idol-inspired) Follow Your Dreamz ice cream while my husband was gone. He usually doesn’t go for chocolate-based ice cream or Oreos in ice cream, so I thought I was safe to hork down the whole container on my own. But no. This morning, what did I find in the garbage? Oh yes, the empty container. Considering he’s already getting the silent treatment from me, he’s so far above every other asshat on my shit list, that I don’t even know if I can ever forgive him. Bitter, thy name is Mrs. Squirrel.
Also: some asshat at work at my flipping frozen burrito from the work fridge. Who DOES that to a pregnant woman?
abunslife on 27 Feb 2008 at 5:55 pm #
I buy little debbie swiss cake rolls and hide them from everyone….. so that even my husband doesn’t know that I can eat an entire box in less than two days.
Heidi on 27 Feb 2008 at 6:22 pm #
Lisa, you are my long lost sister. I just KNOW it.
I hide my chocolate, but just in case someone stumbles across it, I also MARK it with my name. Mike will eat the boys’ chocolate, but he learned a loooooooooong time ago not to mess with mine. The young’uns still think they can charm their way out of eating MY chocolate, but they are slowly catching on.
I love the sign on that cake. Love it!
Heidi
Zookeeper on 27 Feb 2008 at 6:33 pm #
I will not share French Fries…with anyone. Especially if they are from McDonald’s. My husband found this out about me early on while we were still dating, and he married me anyway. He knows that if he wants fries - even just a few - he’d better order his own!!
Alissa on 27 Feb 2008 at 7:15 pm #
Little Debbie Swiss Rolls…frozen. And Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream. I used to use notes like that…but now everyone knows better.
MommyTime on 27 Feb 2008 at 7:47 pm #
Oh, I totally hide the occasional Toblerone bar in my computer bag. Husband never has any reason to go in there. HE has no willpower and would eat the whole thing in one sitting. If I want it eaten in one sitting, I want to do it myself, thank you. If I want to savor it over many days, I want all the bites to be mine. I’m so glad to know I’m not alone.
mamatulip on 27 Feb 2008 at 8:24 pm #
Chocolate. I won’t share chocolate.
Or mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Or those chocolate chip Thinsations.
Hmm…I see a trend here…
Ree on 27 Feb 2008 at 8:26 pm #
My limeade. (Okay, so it’s for my vodka…but I share everything else)
Michelle DePew on 27 Feb 2008 at 10:06 pm #
I won’t share my wine or my chocolate.
No one else touches the wine so it is safe, but the chocolate - he is a tricky one.
I will hide it, or leave it in my car - until everyone is in bed (usually anytime after 9am is safe). Sit on the couch find some trash TV and spend a 1/2 hour to my self (drinking wine and eating ’something/anything’ chocolate).
If I were to tell my kids or hubby, they would
- want a bit
- eat it all
- want more
- make me change the channel and make me share.
Stimey on 27 Feb 2008 at 10:26 pm #
If I have a box of leftovers in the fridge and it disappears, someone is in big trouble. If I ordered it in a restaurant, it is mine until it is all gone.
Candid on 27 Feb 2008 at 11:20 pm #
I hide chocolate in the freezer. I say it’s in there for my diet: so I can only nibble it in desperation and because it takes longer to eat frozen chocolate.
But it’s in there because IT’S MINE!!!
I know I’m awful.
Sue me!!
flutter on 28 Feb 2008 at 1:58 am #
I am diabetic *sigh* I don’t get to stash sweets
Jessica @ A Bushel and a Peck on 28 Feb 2008 at 1:29 pm #
My big craving with this pregnancy has been jelly beans, but I don’t want the kids to want to eat all that sugar. And really, I don’t want to share. So I have hidden bags of starburst jelly beans in my desk the past few weeks. And eaten them all.
christina_the_wench on 28 Feb 2008 at 1:37 pm #
Pecan praline ice cream and sunflower seeds in the shell. Since I quit smoking a few years ago, they are my vice. “Hi, my name is Christina and I am a salt-a-holic.”
Jill on 28 Feb 2008 at 6:04 pm #
That would be the box of Whitman’s chocolate I have hidden in my closet. I eat one piece nearly every night. I buy a new one when exactly three pieces remain in the old one. And no one ever has to know…..
Sugared Harpy on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:02 pm #
I have just figured out something I need to start doing…getting active on hiding my goodies.
My boys find EVERYTHING.
Candygirlflies on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:10 pm #
Chocolate Barr’s hand-dipped chocolates from my home-town of Stratford, Ontario… Hands off, all, unless you’re prepared to lose an appendage!!!
Once when I was a teenager, I left a note on a piece of cake, to keep my chocoholic father from pilfering it during one of his “midnight snack attacks”. The note read:
“I have spat upon this cake.– Your Daughter”
I awoke in the morning to find the reply scribbled underneath:
“So have I.– Your Father”
He won.
xo CGF
Kristin on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:41 pm #
I think that sign, “Lisa’s Cake”, is the #1 reason I puffy heart the sh*t out of you.
snowberrylane on 29 Feb 2008 at 1:00 am #
There’s something so much more relaxing about not having to share. Not having to hurry up and eat or else it will disappear. I like to enjoy my food! I used to hide food from my brother and now sometimes I’ll buy myself a treat and hide it from my boyfriend. Like a small pack of oreos or a pint of icecream…
Chicky Chicky Baby on 29 Feb 2008 at 1:27 am #
I buy ice cream that i know my husband doesn’t really care for, just to make sure it will be there two days later.
But if it were my sign it would say “Mine! Not yours! Back the f*ck off!”
Linda on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:32 am #
Great cake pic! I’ll give you some of mine if you’ll give me some of yours…
My “keep-your-mitts-off-this” foods: Double-Stuf Oreos and Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk. And the Oreos stay (like Dick Cheney) in a secure and undisclosed location. Otherwise, my tattletale 15-year-old son yells out, “Dad!!! Mom ate all the Oreos again!”
Heather on 29 Feb 2008 at 3:51 pm #
My husband bought me a Russel Stover’s truffle variety pack heart box for Valentine’s Day. He didn’t take one piece out until he saw that I had opened it and took a piece. Then, when I went to get another piece, I noticed that he had taken a piece, which happened to be the only piece of its kind in the box. The special, signature piece that I was saving for last. Of course he didn’t notice. Of course I had to point this out to him. He was clueless.
slackermommy on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:37 pm #
Do you remember the Donettes in the dryer?
I do not share my chocolate and hide it all over the kitchen. Connor even tells people that I don’t share my chocolate. I’m also petty stingy with my Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper.
P.S. I’d have the cake eaten in 2 days. If I know I have something yummy like that in the house I have to eat it until it’s gone otherwise I obsess about it. I know, I have issues.
Rebecca on 01 Mar 2008 at 7:20 am #
cannolis with ricotta and chocolate chip filling
dark chocolate
deep butter cake from helfer’s bakery
carmel crunch ice cream concrete from fritz’s
vanilla bean cheesecake from cheesecake factory
luckily for me, Jeff doesn’t have a sweet tooth
Daisy on 02 Mar 2008 at 7:44 pm #
Chocolate. Definitely chocolate.
But I must confess: I had a piece of key lime pie for breakfast this morning. It was awesome with fresh, hot coffee.