Husband has ruined dinner

I don’t eat lamb but that sounds pretty good!

It contained some sweet stuff as well: not so great having pudding in a mostly savory offering!

Wotzits and mayo sandwiches sound great to me.

I quite like Jamaican shepherd’s pie that uses either sweet potato or yam for the topping and coconut milk and jerk seasoning for the filling.

(Listens carefully for the lynching mob)

Have I missed a post where the OP showed him the ingredients? I thought she just said that they had the ingredients in the cupboards/fridge, and left him to it?

And none of the ingredients are atypical for a shepherds pie, though the amounts might be.

You have not tried it, so your opinion means nothing,
Sounds like you are just being a brat.

dried I'm assuming

I made something similar years ago for a group of Americans staying at our church. Called it Italian Shepherds Pie. They loved it. But no parsley.

Dried. Even worse !!

He's just made a different dish with the ingredients you showed him, and added his own as well. This isn't an episode of Chopped, so he's not going to get dinged for using too many pantry ingredients rather than focusing on the basket. You are perfectly within your rights to refuse the food and have something else if you are sure you won't like it, but unreasonable to assume it is objectively bad or to grump about it when you haven't even tasted it.

I've got some in my kitchen right now but I still didn't get the "parsley in a jar" thing. I just think if it as dried parsley. I don't see the spice containers as jars. To me a jar is for pickles or pesto or whatever. I'm pretty sure the other commenters must be thinking similar.

Agree. Of all the dried herbs, its the one that you can get away with using a large quantity.

The instructions were "make a shepherds pie", it's not as if he was given a recipe to follow.

The ingredients he used are ones that are used in a shepherds pie, but he has seemingly used too much of two of them (certainly for OP's tastes).

Her DH and DS ate it without complaint.

OP's response sounds bratty.

I'm sorry @OnAJetPlane26, et al, because I seem to be fixated on the 'jar of parsley' conundrum, so I would be very grateful if you would be kind enough to answer a question about it for me OP: 🫠

When you referred to a jar of parsley in your Opening Paragraph, were you referring to parsley that was already made into a sauce, or something similar, that comes in a largish jar, ready to add to a recipe?

Or did you, perhaps, mean those little glass jars of dried herbs and spices, that are sold in most British supermarkets? I hope that my question is reasonably understandable OP, and that you know which small glass jars, or plastic pots, containing a multitude of dried herbs and spices, that I am talking about?

Anyway, after all of that @OnAJetPlane26, I don't think that I would like, or even want to try, the strange concoction that your husbsnd ended up cooking, so I hope you enjoyed your beans! 💐

We have a drawer full of jars/tubs of spices, then boxes of bagged spices bought in bulk, because the jars are a bit small if you cook lots. But it has honestly never occurred to me to look for or buy dried parsley. It comes in big fresh bunches.

As for the display in supermarkets, I normally know which one I'm after, so don't pay attention to the others, unless arranged to spell an amusing word.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/bored-in-the-supermarket

men! They can be silly for sure!
Why don’t you knock up a quick roast for your family, OP or maybe a nice homemade fish pie or something? Show him how it’s done 😀
@OnAJetPlane26

Yes…though tbf no one sensible bothers with dried parsley.

Hubby once made spag bol with mixed spice instead of mixed herbs ... It's was absolutely disgusting. I struggled through masterfully until he turned round and said "where did I go wrong?" And we both collapsed into fits of laughter. Beans on toast all round. Happy days, gotta laugh 😂

Everyone does, I expect. Even the posters who claimed not to have a clue that they exist.

Some of them are in plastic pots, in particular the larger refill sizes.

Yeah, we're all ridiculous. The possibility that phraseology might have been confusing does not occur.

Right. Duly chastised.

It didn't make 'all' of us think that. The majority of people knew exactly what a jar of dried herbs would look like.

A handful went for the "...sorry? How can parsley possibly be in a JAR?" and followed each other into faux-bafflement. Everyone else - even die-hard foodies like me - know that dried herbs in jars exist. Hell, sometimes I USE them. And so a little light ribbing ensued.

I'm enjoying the "Oh jars! Yes, of course, jars. Herbs in jars, yes, dried herbs. Got it now. Jars..." back-pedalling almost as much as the ridiculous posturing over it to be honest

I shop at various supermarkets without any particular loyalty. The herbs and spices are in glass jars without exception, both branded and shop's own. Can't think of a single example where they aren't. I'm surprised people are fixating on this. My cupboard is full of about a hundred little glass jars. Isn't yours? In fact the m and s parsley I just finished didn't even have a shaker top, its just a screw lid jar that opens completely. I used a teaspoon.