I suspected my flatmate was stealing my food — so I poisoned the mac and cheese Flatmate gripes are familiar territory for many of us, but most of the time we’ll grin and bear it.
For one woman though, frustration with her housemate reached boiling point after she suspected him of stealing her food, leading her to devise a plan to ‘poison’ the thief — proving it was him, once and for all.
Lizzie recalled cooking ribs before work to reheat when she got home, labelling them with her name, and texting Max telling him not to eat it along with a picture of the container.
Lizzie had initially lived alone in her flat but, due to financial difficulties, opened her home to a 27-year-old friend of a friend — we’ll call him Max*.
But issues began to arise when Lizzie would come home after working night-shifts to find her food was missing.
