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I'm poorly I fancied just grilled salmon - & DH went and got?

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 13:59

OK I am poorly, I have been off my food

Last night about 10pm I suddenly fancied grilled salmon, mustard brown suagr and soy sauce glaze

No salmon in the freezer

DH went off (to play tennis - important that, not work!) and I asked him to bring some salmon in for me to cook

Came home with no salmon, I'll do a big shop when I collect DD from the train later

I suggested I might need salmon sooner, would he like to do the big shop now or just pop out (5 minutes in the car) to get me some salmon and some nice bread to eat it with

Big discussion ensued & eventually he went

& brought back precooked (can't be heated up again) salmon

We have never had that before ever (important DH only buys what we have had before) never looked at it in the shops or considered it. So it's not hot, it's not marinaded in what I wanted and it probably has things in I'm not allowed (not technically allowed soya sauce either but......I needed a treat)

May I have a temper tantrum?

(can't drive or walk far otherwise I'd go and get my bloody salmon, which tbf I'm not sure I want now after all the discussion)

OP posts:
ChimesOnSundayMorn · 19/10/2018 14:30

I think your illness might be skewing your judgement about what's unreasonable.

Hope your health improves but jeez give the guy a break!

Pannalash · 19/10/2018 14:31

Ha ha Estuary ‘maracas’ you definitely win Grin

Jaxtellerswife · 19/10/2018 14:33

Clearly a lighthearted post. And although it's not the same, I'm pregnant op and I was excited to have mashed potatoes after work yesterday with loads of gravy as we'd planned and my partner had made curly fries. I say made, heated up lol.

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SpuriouserAndSpuriouser · 19/10/2018 14:34

EstuaryBird how?? 😂 did you stutter or something?

It’s the worst when you fancy something specific and you can’t get hold of it. Or when you can get it, but it’s ever so slightly wrong.

8DaysAWeek · 19/10/2018 14:34

That would really annoy me. DH once came home with a chicken and blue cheese oven pizza after I'd asked him to pick a pizza up. He knows I hate blue cheese. We'd been together 8 years. I was livid, and very hungry. We joke about the chicken and blue cheese pizza now, perhaps you will be joking about the precooked salmon in years to come?

FingerlingUnderling · 19/10/2018 14:34

I understand OP and surgery recovery is the pits especially if its given you overnight "HELLOO! MENOPAUSE HERE!!"

When I was ill recently i found it incredible how DH needed to be coached in order to buy food. This is a very resourceful individual who can normally cope. One night he decided on fajitas and forgot to get onions and avocado, sour cream, in fact everything apart from pepper, chicken and the wraps. Once he was not happy about going into a shop on his own to get wine. Out of the hundreds available from all over the world, he picked a brand that was trendy in the early 80s, think Black Tower equivalent but not as nice.

Sometimes it makes you want to shake them. But you've probably been advised not to do that post-op?!

I had gynae surgery that had a 7 week no drive, no lifting etc restriction. not fun. But I hope you will feel better in the long run. Can you make sure you get some HRT to stop the hormone cold turkey?

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 14:35

Oh I haven't told him I'm having a temper tantrum, that would be unfair - I'm going to quietly seeth and bring it out when I need it most "you didn't even get me salmon when I was hungry...." you know? In the middle of a completely unconnected, a separate discussion about something else

I will tell him "I might have forgiven you if you had brought me a musical instrument instead, but nearly the right theing was just not good enough"

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Loyaultemelie · 19/10/2018 14:35

Haha I suppose non heatable (possibly not a word?) salmon is at least better than maracas! This is definitely a patio job, like when my dh was sent for post op recovery chocolate and came back with cheese twists and bread. (He is lucky we don't have a patio!)

Aridane · 19/10/2018 14:36

Bloody hell, katy - anyone would think you had posted in AIBU or FWR or something.

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 14:40

"HELLOO! MENOPAUSE HERE!!" yes - what can I put down to that rather than recovery or not being a nice person?

I was promised HRT last Friday and here I am a week later with "you can have it next week" - I may have killed someone by then?

There is at least chocolate in the house - even dairy free chocolate I can eat

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legofriendly · 19/10/2018 14:40

EstuaryBird

More please

cricketmum84 · 19/10/2018 14:40

We had planned toad in the hole with mashed potato for tea Tuesday night. I had been thinking about those pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes ALL day.

DH offered to cook as I had a friend round for a coffee after work. The absolute bastard dishes up BOILED potatoes because "he didn't fancy mash". I was devastated. They weren't even properly boiled. And he fried the sausage first and cut them up into small pieces to then be cooked again in the Yorkshire batter so they were like little crusty lumps of meat.

Closest I've ever come to LTB.

MsOliphant · 19/10/2018 14:42

Talk about problems OP, seriously.

My entire family were wiped out in a tornado, if I wanted salmon I would have had to go and catch it myself, dodging the grizzly bears that had the same idea. If I came back with all my limbs intact (and I didn’t always), I would have to skin and gut it myself through my bitter tears of misery. I wouldn’t have had time to even THINK about a glaze because I’d then have to go and work a 23 hour day to be able to afford the oven to cook the salmon on.

Some perspective, please.

2BorNot2Bvocal · 19/10/2018 14:42

Maracas ?!?!?

CocoLoco87 · 19/10/2018 14:43

Definitely need to know more about the maracas Grin

toherdoor · 19/10/2018 14:44

Oh being ill is the worst when all you can stomach is one thing, and then you don't get the right thing.
I once sent my dh out for chocolate and he came back with Turkish delight and clinkers. On a scale of one to ten - one being absolute disgust and ten being delighted - it was a one. I was like ffs do you know me at all?!

MargoLovebutter · 19/10/2018 14:46

EstuaryBird WTAF - where the hell did he find maracas? Do you live in Spain?

Sorry OP, can't get worked up about idiot husband not quite comprehending the difference between salmon and salmon (?!) but am really intrigued by cough linctus = maracas!

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 14:46

Sorry MsOliphant, Ma'am - I should know better

Now got to send him out again to get a new prescription as my UTI won't respond to the one they gave me yesterday....wonder if he will pick up more salmon?

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ShesABelter · 19/10/2018 14:47

I had the worst pmt last month. Sent dh to the shop for bday cake I was craving and he came back with Mary berry carrot cake with sultanas and walnuts which was as dry as fuck. I nearly bounced it off his head. And the only reason, before anyone says I'm spoilt, he went. Was because he always asks do I want anything at the shop before he fucks off out and leaves me with the kids and my period cramps. This particular occasion I said yes. I won't again!

Then last week I bought a slice iced Madeira cake and told him to get me that in future. Guess what I got for my bday on Tuesday haha.

MixedMaritalArts · 19/10/2018 14:52

This is the kind of care malarkey that needs paying forwards next time he’s ill ! Keep your powder dry til payback time.

Polkapjs · 19/10/2018 14:52

Definitely would have had a hissy fit too

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 14:54

Actually to be fair to myself - UTIs and slightly irrational behaviour do go hand in hand - I mean I know some people call it 'confusion' but it's the same difference Wink

So it's entirley not my fault!

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Tinty · 19/10/2018 14:54

My Dp was delighted with himself the day that he thought he would get up first and make me a drink in bed because I was Bfeeding newborn dd. We had been together 10 years by then, I always made the drinks in our house because he is a lazy git and I am obviously stupid.

He came upstairs and said "here you are, I have made you a nice cup of tea". Reader, I have never drunk tea in the 10 years we have been together (or ever). And to add insult to injury, sat beside me and drank a lovely coffee he had made for himself! Grin.

I think they are sometimes just away with the fairies!

slightlyjaded · 19/10/2018 14:54

Permission to be cross, granted.

Once, following a three day tummy thing, I suddenly decided I could actually eat something small and dry.

Off i sent DH to get me some plain-ish biscuits (was thinking digestives/rich tea etc). We have a Tesco express about 1 minutes away. He came back two hours later in a foul mood with no biscuits and a few bananas. When I asked where he had been and why he hadn't got my biscuits, he snapped at me

"Because they only sell those at Christmas"

eh?

He had been misheard plain-ish biscuits, and been looking for one of those round gold tins of Danish biscuits Grin

The bananas were bought because apparently that is what sick people eat. We can laugh now, but at the time it was NOT FUNNY for either of us.

MissConductUS · 19/10/2018 14:54

DH is depriving me of adequate nourishment.

Because he wouldn't nip out on a moments notice to pick up fresh salmon?

Hmm
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