TankTop
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Post by TankTop on Apr 3, 2016 20:50:11 GMT
I am going to strangle my family.
When I ask what you would like for dinner in the coming week, either share an opinion or shut up and eat what has been put in front of you without complaining.
You lost the right to an opinion when you refused to offer help or suggestions with the weekly menu.
Several years ago this same situation came to a head, and the next week was dubbed "The Week of Spaghetti." 7 cheap cans of spaghetti sauce and 7 boxes of spaghetti. Easiest grocery week of my life.
I am feeling a little taste of Italy on the menu for next week.
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Post by momx1 on Apr 3, 2016 21:03:38 GMT
LOVE the spaghetti idea!! I may have to use that the next time my family pulls the "I don't care," routine and then complains!!
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Post by leannec on Apr 3, 2016 21:07:51 GMT
If you frequent the "What's For Dinner?" thread you would know that I have two teenage dd's that are known as Picky#1 and Picky#2 ... It makes cooking so enjoyable I can totally relate to you
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YooHoot
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Post by YooHoot on Apr 3, 2016 21:14:27 GMT
Omg...that's brilliant! I get so tired of the "I don't know", "I don't care" and then the looks when it wasn't what they wanted.
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Apr 3, 2016 21:15:30 GMT
Word.
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johnnysmom
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Post by johnnysmom on Apr 3, 2016 21:21:37 GMT
I'm loving the spaghetti idea as well, for exactly the same reasons.
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TankTop
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Post by TankTop on Apr 3, 2016 21:26:57 GMT
Every single time dh claims he will take over he "threatens" me with a week of hamburger helper.
I think I might do that next week. 7 boxes of HH and 7 packs of cheap ground beef. I will plan and make myself yumminess in single serve portions.
Bring on....."The Week of Hamburger Helper."
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Post by hop2 on Apr 3, 2016 21:38:42 GMT
Hmmm I very rarely ask for opinions. If I have 2 or more things in the fridge I might give them a choice of those. I've never asked for opinions when I'm menu planning though. And I'm pretty sure the 2 left at home know better than to complain about what I've made, I'll just stop cooking.
The kids know how hard it is to plan/shop for a week I've made them do it. ( ha ha ) besides after a year of college cafeteria found DD has learned to appreciate a nice steak or a baked chicken thigh.
DH won't say a word because he knows I'll stop cooking now that I'm working. I'm tired when I get home if I'm going to get guff about it I don't need to do it
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Post by hop2 on Apr 3, 2016 21:44:26 GMT
Oh hey I learned a new dish I've never made in the what's for dinner threads I'm planning on it this week so I'll see what they say. ( if anything )
I've never had/never made hamburger casserole. I'm gobsmacked my mother never fed me that. Seriously I've been fed every other chopped Meat dish under the sun, but not that. Maybe it was the lack of biscuits/puff pastry for her celiac condition? I can't wait!
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Post by librarylady on Apr 3, 2016 21:57:54 GMT
Sunday night has always been fend for yourself night at our house.
Perhaps a week of fend for yourself at your house.
FWIW, I cooked what I was in the mood to cook and seldom asked for requests from the audience.
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Post by brandy327 on Apr 3, 2016 22:41:50 GMT
Preach it sister!!! And the spaghetti is a GREAT idea!!
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Post by maryland on Apr 3, 2016 22:44:56 GMT
You are a genius! When my husband doesn't give me any idea, I say we will have tacos. The kids and I like them! But your idea is so much better. Tacos are very time consuming for me, opening a can of spaghetti is great!
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Post by christine58 on Apr 3, 2016 22:46:48 GMT
If you frequent the "What's For Dinner?" thread you would know that I have two teenage dd's that are known as Picky#1 and Picky#2 ... It makes cooking so enjoyable I can totally relate to you They'd be coming up with the menu or eat a sandwich.
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Post by cmhs on Apr 3, 2016 22:54:33 GMT
When I ask my people what they want, They will usually say, "something good". Um, ok, thanks. That was really helpful.
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Post by oldcrow on Apr 3, 2016 23:03:28 GMT
When the kids were still at home the rule was simple. If you don't like what is for dinner then you can make yourself peanut butter toast(no allergies in my house). No other option.
Now that it is just DH and I, it's a different story. He will eat what I cook but only a teeny, tiny amount and then an hour later he is making the kitchen a total mess making himself something to eat.
If he were to ask for something specific I would make it but he doesn't.
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Post by knit.pea on Apr 3, 2016 23:09:28 GMT
I get the dreaded 3 pm text from DH "Dinner plans?" Makes me insane! Now DS has taken to asking when he arrives home from high school. We have planned the next two nights of dinners, so I get a break for a couple days
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Post by hop2 on Apr 3, 2016 23:20:55 GMT
I get the dreaded 3 pm text from DH "Dinner plans?" Makes me insane! Now DS has taken to asking when he arrives home from high school. We have planned the next two nights of dinners, so I get a break for a couple days Mine don't ask what's for dinner anymore because my answer was always 'food'
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Post by eastcoastpea on Apr 3, 2016 23:43:34 GMT
Preach it sister!!! And the spaghetti is a GREAT idea!! I'll join in the choir.
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Post by alexa11 on Apr 3, 2016 23:50:15 GMT
Preach it sister!!! And the spaghetti is a GREAT idea!! I'll join in the choir. Amen.
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Post by Hayjaker on Apr 4, 2016 0:00:19 GMT
Honestly, I just make what i want and what i like. There is always cereal if they don't like it!
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Post by styxgirl on Apr 4, 2016 1:24:38 GMT
I get the dreaded 3 pm text from DH "Dinner plans?" Makes me insane! You could reply with "No plans, it's a date! Where are we going?" ;-) LOLOL!!!
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 4, 2016 2:30:28 GMT
Ugh, planning dinner. !! I am just so sick and tired of always thinking it up. Then making the list, then shopping for it, then hauling it to the car, then driving home, then hauling it into the house, then putting it all away, then cooking, then cleaning up.... Sometimes I get pushed to my limit on the "thinking it up" part so I ask at home. Dh always -- ALWAYS -- says meatloaf. Now it's not like he's deprived of meatloaf because I do make it. But not every week. So sometimes I'll say "what do you want to eat for dinner this week and don't say meatloaf". So then he'll say "whatever." When ds was home his answer was always "shepherd's pie". Dd's answer is ".......hmmm.....I don't know." omg. I'll tell you, the very best three weeks of my life so far had to be this past fall when, for the very first time since I've been married, I was ALONE IN MY HOUSE. Dh didn't travel when we were first married, then we had kids, so now even with all his travel I've always had a kid at home. But ds moved to Georgia this past summer, and dd is at college. So I had three weeks -- THREE WEEKS -- alone and I did not cook one time during that three weeks. Not real cooking anyway. I ate tuna, and eggs, and salads, and soup, and cheese and crackers, or cereal. It really was a lovely three weeks.
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Post by cycworker on Apr 4, 2016 3:06:04 GMT
I was going to say that having only myself to cook for is one of my favorite things about being single. And most of the time that's true. But even with it being just me, I will often struggle with, 'Hmmm what should I have for dinner tonight?'
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 4, 2016 3:54:19 GMT
I hear "I don't know" too much and the DH does not understand why it drives me nuts. The kids do this and I'm like "um, I'm going in there now and whatever I make you're eating" gets their butts to move to decide!
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Post by marykate on Apr 4, 2016 4:34:26 GMT
Sing it, sisters. You know, I'm one of those people who likes to think that she "loves to cook," but it's not really true when it comes to everyday, workaday meal prep. I do love to cook for an occasion, for a holiday, for company coming over for something special. But everyday meal prep (the planning, the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning) can be such a thankless task (and it really is a lot of work!), especially when you have a couple of ingrates turning up their noses at what you just spent an hour or more to produce. "Oh, whatever you decide," they'll say, or "whatever you feel like making." But then, once you've made it: "This?" or "Oh, don't worry about me. I'll just heat up one of those frozen Jamaican beef patties from Costco." Well, okay, but then why did I even bother to make supper? I have to say, my mother (who fed six people, three times a day, for about thirty years) would not have put up with this nonsense. "What's for dinner?" was whatever she put on your plate, and you damn well ate what was in front of you, or you went to bed hungry. And sometimes when we got all demanding and entitled with our whiney "Mum, what's for dinner?" she would reply, "What's for dinner? Shit on a stick." (I really miss my dear little mum, btw. Funniest woman I will ever know, and she taught us how to laugh at ourselves).
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Post by gmcwife1 on Apr 4, 2016 5:44:59 GMT
LOVE the spaghetti idea!! I may have to use that the next time my family pulls the "I don't care," routine and then complains!! I agree, I might have to try this too!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2016 6:05:00 GMT
I learned a long time ago that asking for dinner ideas from everyone in the family was a super bad idea. One, they always disagreed on what they wanted or had no ideas to offer. Two, they'd forget or deny that they'd requested Y for dinner, which would piss me off something fierce. I now have a rotating list of meals that most everyone likes that I cook every week and I ask no one for input. Ever. If one doesn't like that night's offering, they have their list of alternatives that they make for themselves. I also reserve the right to make at least 2 new things a month and all have to try it. If it's flop, then, well. Better luck tomorrow night. Feel free to make your alternative. And clean up when you're dnoe. L
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Post by anniefb on Apr 4, 2016 6:50:14 GMT
Love the spaghetti idea!
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Post by nitad on Apr 4, 2016 7:12:35 GMT
Well, it's nice to know I'm not alone! I work straight afternoon shift Mon-Thurs and always make sure there is a good dinner waiting for them when they are ready for it. I can never get any helpful ideas from them. Them being DH & DD (22). So 3 adults in the house and I still do all the meal planning, prep, shopping & cooking. If I didn't like to have a good dinner ready for myself to take to work I'd just let them fend for themselves.
On my days off though it is usually a fend for yourself dinner. I basically spend one of my days off doing the planning, list and shopping and then on Sunday's I try to get two meals prepared ahead of time. So I still spend way too much of MY weekend dealing with dinners. Not to mention that even when they decide to make something on the weekend there's never a "Hey! Want some?" thrown my way. Can you tell I harbour quite a bit of anger over this issue!! LOL!!
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Post by scrappert on Apr 4, 2016 13:19:55 GMT
I get the dreaded 3 pm text from DH "Dinner plans?" Makes me insane! Now DS has taken to asking when he arrives home from high school. We have planned the next two nights of dinners, so I get a break for a couple days This is what will throw me over the edge!!! Don't ask me. I usually don't know until I am on my way home, after I have read the What's for Dinner thread..LOL
OP, I ask and I get the I don't know, your in charge. Since neither of them like spaghetti, that sounds like a perfect plan...
All I ask is for some help coming up with ideas.
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