When your SO says We're Out of BREAD, what do you do?

Question

Here's a common situation that happens in marriages or live-together couples...

Your Significant Other (spouse, boy/girlfriend) says to you, "We are out of bread."

What do you do?

Please vote in the poll.

DishLady · Accepted Answer

Lol. I just heard it this morning. To be perfectly honest, this is what happens:

The declaration is made: “We’re out of bread.”
I’ll usually have one spare loaf stashed: “Did you check the freezer?”
Checking in progress… Either he goes silent and starts making sandwiches OR: “Nah, we’re out of bread.”
Shopping prompt: “Ok, what else do we need? I’ll go out today or tomorrow to get everything.” Followed immediately by…
The Bribe: “Wanna come with me? We’ll stop for lunch.”

And so my son and I have a lovely lunch then go shopping and come home with whatever we need for about 2-3 weeks. (I’ll go out a few extra times in the summer for fresh fruits.)

midnightmoon05 · Accepted Answer

That sounds like an effective communication strategy that can be implemented in a marriage.
regarding food planning, we eat dinner together all the time and discuss meal plans every Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday.
we plan out the next 2-3 days food plans and we make a shopping list.
if anyone noticed of anything needed… we just put into our group text and whoever is out will pick up say milk or cheese etc…

we are trying to not have to have too much in the freezer if we can buy/eat fresh.

Malik1217 · Accepted Answer

Bread isn't the only thing you should get from the store when you're out of bread because it's better to get all the groceries you need and are close to running out of, so that way when you are out, then you don't have to worry about needing to get it when you actually do run out of it, because you bought it ahead of time.

OlderAndWiser · Accepted Answer

We don't buy bread to eat at home, so that will never happen. She and I go to Costco about once every week to buy groceries. My wife works at a grocery store so, if there is something we need, I just ask her if she can get on her next work day.

Love Doctor Brad · Accepted Answer

Ah, the "out of bread" dilemma—a classic test of love and resourcefulness! 🍞 My aim on Girls Ask Guys is to share my quirky take on the relationship rollercoaster and sprinkle some wisdom along the way. In this case, a run to the store not only fuels your carb cravings, but also earns you some brownie points in the love department. Just make sure you don't forget the butter! 🥖❤️

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I don’t say or do anything. That statement is not worded to even compel a response, let alone an action. She might as well be talking to herself.
That said, i wouldn’t make so significant of a role in my life for someone with such elementary communication skills. I suspect someone who would is a closet pedo, because that’s how children communicate. Pointlessly making noise because they don’t know what better to do with their tiny brains and free time.

Genie23 · Answer

No problem. I'm Indian, sooooo... I'm like- Let's have chapati or rice or bhakri or naam or paratha or laccha paratha or maybe puri... any of these with the dish is fine. 😆

Apple1996 · Answer

Id make some bread or go buy more

LiaRaven · Answer

I tell him to go and buy bread lol

Lliam · Answer

None of the poll options apply.

My wife doesn't eat regular bread but I occasionally make toast or sandwiches with French or Italian bread.

We live in a rural area but she is in town 4 or 5 days a week and often stops for some groceries on her way home. So if I'm low on bread, I'll ask her to pick some up for me when she's at the store.

ArrowheadSW · Answer

I'm not dating right now and I don't live with anyone. But if it happened and I was in that situation, I'd ask, "Do we need bread right now?" And if she said that we did need it now, I'd go to the store and get it. (If I was in the position to go at the moment.) I don't mind going to the grocery store.

Purpleronnie · Answer

Honestly it so rarely happens , I don’t even recall the last time , we don’t consume a lot of bread , we also generally freeze bread because of our infrequent consumption and short shelf life .. additionally I’m in charge of all shopping and cooking so it would naturally up to me to resolve the situation when next ordering online or in the vicinity of a store to buy some

MannMitAntworten · Answer

Since I do all the grocery shopping and making of meals … no girlfriend has ever breathed these words to me. I’d keel over if a girlfriend ever made a meal of any form. The closest was one reheating the leftovers in the microwave once. Even that shocked me.

Anyway, I always know if I am ‘close’ to being out of bread or out of bread. Frankly I only ever keep any at work anymore if any at all.

genericname85 · Answer

it'd just acknowledge it. cause that's not an order to do anything. so i'll just take note and that's it. if she wanted to eat bread specifically and nothing else we got in the pantry, then why is she telling me? she wants it, so she can go get it. if she's telling me, i will note it and get bread next time i'm going shopping.

shortster · Answer

Ask how important bread is for the upcoming meal. Determine how much free time I have and if I can rearrange my schedule for a grocery trip. If the time is short ask if anything else is pressing and go get those items. If time is long go for all the groceries. If there is no time add bread to my mental list and get it when there is time.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

I'd just say 'OK', and leave it at that. Both of us know we are out of bread. It's not worth a special trip to the store. So when either of us happen to be at the store we know to get bread.

molonski2 · Answer

I try to avoid all processed carbs or very much limit the intake , so I celebrate and make do , we do not have to have bread , particularly highly processed versions or white , which would be never anyhow.

MemeSupreme · Answer

unless if its needed for a meal we're making or something he eats every day i'd wait until the next time i get groceries

alli-112 · Answer

Put it on our grocery list and see which of us can make it to the store first based on our schedules? I assume a lack of bread isn't exactly an urgent problem.

EmmaMary · Answer

@aviatortom  I would suggest that he (husband) pops down to the village and gets some... And until I do the next major shop, give him a quick list of other basic items we're out of!

Shiprex · Answer

I'll ask if they NEED bread and if it's affirmative then suggest they go and get some. Or something along the lines of what would you like me to do about that, go to the shops, is there anything else we need? Let's go to the shops then.

exitseven · Answer

I go in my cellar and tsk a loaf out of the freezer.

RageBabe · Answer

I would go and purchase a freshly baked loaf from my neighbourhood bakery.

Phoenix98 · Answer

One of 3 options  1# If I just got off of work then I'll go get some later. 2# I'll go get some -_- 3# Duel, loser has to go get bread.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

As person interested in history I would say, "Let us have cake!" :-D

PeachyPie93 · Answer

Say okay then I'll go buy milk and bread later in the day lol

Flower7 · Answer

I would tell him to find something to eat that doesn’t require bread.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Eat something else. We very rarely ever buy bread.

Communicationisking · Answer

Pimp myself out so the SO has some bread to go shopping with :)

Likes2drive · Answer

Ok , I will get some when I go out or after work unless you’re going to the store before I do. When women say that, they are implying that you should go out and get it

ariadneR · Answer

I'd go buy a loaf, then when I come back get started on baking one

Anpu23 · Answer

Throw it on the grocery list and make something else.

Iron_Man · Answer

I don’t have one, but tell her to go get more

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

I'm calling her out,  because she's evidently performing a stereotypical role.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I'll teach her how I make the bread

Bloodparadise · Answer

How else are you gonna eat afterwards? You have to buy the bread some way or other.. right?

NathanDavis · Answer

impossible!! my household never runs out of bread...

msc545 · Answer

I immediately plant wheat tend it carefully for a whole 6 or 8 months until it sprouts and harvest it and grind it to make flour out of which I then bake bread according to an ancient family recipe handed down over the last 2,000 years.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I say, "Good!! I never liked that band, anyway!" How did David Gates come from Capt. Beefheart's Magic Band?

Anonymous · Answer

I'm single, and I rarely eat bread, lol, I don't have to worry about that :P

DJB72 · Answer

Usually place an order with the local store for delivery

DrPepper12 · Answer

Who are you & what have you done with my gluten free wife?

Finchie40 · Answer

Stop spending money bitch

dustybiker2 · Answer

Open the secret safe. We're good.

purplepoppy · Answer

I tell them the doughs still rising.

WhitneySnow · Answer

Order from Instacart

Creagh812 · Answer

Because then my Sweetheart doesn't have to do any housework

Massageman · Answer

Write it on my list.

Babygirl_S · Answer

Not with my SO but I would bake it

michol123 · Answer

I would just get bread on my way home from work

LiamS95 · Answer

I would make a loaf of bread.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

"Glad I'm a rice eater"

Anonymous · Answer

Stop eating sandwiches.

Anonymous · Answer

I go to buy her bread

Anonymous · Answer

We go to the grocery store and buy bread

WonderingManII · Answer

I don't have a SO.

jahaims · Answer

My wife makes sourdough

qwerty2469 · Answer

Sacrifice her to the old Gods

jimmy2 · Answer

No your out of money

Anonymous · Answer

I don't eat bread

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