When one dad spotted his mother-in-law grabbing four bags of his kids’ favorite snack—after saying she just wanted “a little something” to take on the road—he wasn’t sure what to do.

So he quietly told his wife… who immediately yelled downstairs and called her mom out. Now Grandma’s annoyed, his wife’s frustrated, and he’s wondering if he crossed the line by tattling.

Read on for the story.

AITA for tattling on my MIL to my wife

Relevant Background: Important to note everyone in this story is middle class/upper middle class and definitely not food insecure.

We have two young children that snack, a lot. My wife had recently restocked one of kids’ favored snacks. Pirates Booty-the white cheese puff snacks. It was a box with small individual single serving sized bags.

Fast forwarding to the evening, my MIL stops by because she’s in the neighborhood and wanted to see her grandkids. She stayed around 20 minutes. Was pleasant.

She then says she needs to go because she is seeing friends a 15 minute drive away.

All seems normal so far.

At this point my wife and kids are upstairs bathing. MIL yells to my wife who is upstairs that she needs a snack to take with her and where are they (even though I’m close by).

My wife doesn’t answer so I told her where the pantry was (she comes over all the time).

I went into the kitchen because she seemed to be struggling to find what she wanted and she had four bags of the pirates booty in her hand and was continuing to look for something else additionally.

You said ONE snack, MIL.

At this point I walked out and went upstairs and said to my wife “don’t say anything but your mom is taking 4 of the pirates booty bags and more.”

My wife immediately yells down and tells her not to take so many as they are our kids primary snack. They got into a mini argument over it, and she ended up not taking any and took a big group sized bag of veggie straws instead.

When I came back downstairs I could tell immediately that MIL was annoyed I told her daughter about the pirates booty.

I’m chuckling.

So…

AITA for tattling?

Reddit voted NTA, saying it wasn’t “tattling” so much as protecting his kids’ food — especially since the MIL clearly overstepped.

This person says absolutely NTA…this is KID SNACKS for crying out loud.

This person says OP is fine, but is also laughing.

This person agrees, he did absolutely nothing wrong.

Snitching or snack-saving? Either way, those cheesy puffs caused a bigger crunch than anyone expected.

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