My husband and I own a business and due to covid, our sales have slowed down quite a bit. We are making due but the most frustrating part is that we are supposed to be saving money to buy a house but with our sales slowing down it's hard to save much money.

One of our biggest expenses is food. If I was just shopping for for me and our 2 boys, thr grocery/food bill would probably be about $200-$350 a month but since I'm also shopping for my husband, our monthly bill is usually anywhere from $500-$700. The reason for this is because my husband has zero portion control. He is overweight and he just tends to overeat mostly during dinner time.

During the day, he won't have any breakfast (I've tried and he says he doesn't like breakfast) and his lunch is usually a normal-ish portion size but when it comes to dinner, he just goes crazy. I usually make him plates that are about 2 portions size worth and he eats it right away and then gets himself another plate with another portion or 2. I hate that he does that because those extra portions are suppose to be leftovers for lunch the next day. If I only cook enough portions for dinner (so there isn't any leftovers), then he will find other things to snack on which is usually the kids snacks, which then means I have to buy more kid snacks.

Yesterday, I was too tired to cook dinner (I'm pregnant, our 2 boys were being a handful, and my youngest didn't let me sleep the night before due to him teething) so I bought a family size fagioli soup from Olive Garden that is meant to be about 4-6 servings. I had about half a serving (I wanted more but knew my husband would eat a lot of it and I wanted to have leftovers for the following day). My husband came home, so I served him about 2 portions worth and took our boys to the bathroom and gave them a bath. I came back about 15 minutes later and ALL of the soup was gone and my husband was eating the kids oreos with some milk. I was annoyed but said nothing.

Today my husband made a comment about "how come there's no food in the fridge, are you doing groceries today?" and I finally told him..."I will do groceries but I am spending way too much money on food because your portion sizes are out of control. Any chance you can cut back on your portion sizes? Its hard to save money for a house when we are spending so much on food?" His response was something like "I gotta eat and you eat a lot too." 🤬

I don't know. Am I being petty/harsh? Is this something I should be focusing on? I just try so hard to save money for our future house and the food expenses is really the only expense we can/should cut back on in order to save.