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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Apr 5, 2016 22:03:02 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!! I'd shut that kitchen down!!! I would assign everyone to be responsible for two nights!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 22:53:44 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. Preach it....they learned speak up or shut up. I'm not a short order cook.
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Post by hockeymom4 on Apr 6, 2016 0:48:54 GMT
If only you could buy "I don't know" and "I don't care" at the grocery store life would be so much easier
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Post by lesserknownpea on Apr 6, 2016 8:54:27 GMT
Hahaha
I love this thread.
When my kids were tweens there was a year when nobody was permitted to ask what was for dinner. Seriously.
I had got so sick of the remarks I just laid down the law.
It worked, even after the ban was lifted, there were no more critiques on what I made.
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Post by finaledition on Apr 12, 2016 19:28:04 GMT
TankTop I saw this today and it made me think of your post.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 12, 2016 19:40:03 GMT
For several years now, first one and then the other daughter planned the menu, shopped (we paid) and cooked dinner every single night (and cleaned up afterwards!). I truly know how fortunate we've been. Daughter #2 will be moving away to college in the Fall and I seriously don't know how DH and I are going to survive, LOL! I don't like to food shop or cook... and DH thinks he is doing his part by grilling, but of course that means I buy the food, prepare the food for grilling, clean up afterwards while he stands at the grill with his big ol' tongs in one hand and a big ol' drink in the other... This sounds just like my DH. He calls it cooking dinner, in the meantime I have to do all the side dishes in the house, then clean up the mess.
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Post by SunnySmile on Apr 12, 2016 22:59:52 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). This is me 100%! I like cooking shows, cook books, watching other people cook, how can I possibly hate to cook?
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 12, 2016 23:16:06 GMT
When my boys were little, I started the rule that the person who cooks does not do the dishes. My husband grocery shops and puts it away, I cook, that leaves clean up for the boys. I used to block the kitchen exit when they tried to come up with excuses to leave. Most nights I do a lot of clean up before dinner is even ready, but I sit on my butt during clean up and read the paper. It is probably too late for some of you, but if your children are young… don't let them leave the kitchen!!! (I learned this from my parents.)
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Post by meridon on Apr 13, 2016 1:41:59 GMT
I have the best DH ever in this department. He does all the meal planning, shopping and cooking. I do the dishes. Works for me! We have a "master list" of things we all like to eat that we can go to (DH keeps it on his desktop) if we're stumped for what to have on a particular night. His decade spent in restaurant management has come in very handy! And we also do the "get what you get and you don't pitch a fit" thing with our kids. They can eat what they are served or make a sandwich.
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