Mumsnet world

[TillyVonMilly]

We all love Mumsnet, however, is it just me or do things happen here that don’t seem to happen in real life.

Everyone cooks from scratch and batch cooks there’s some reason why supermarkets are packed with ready meals, I like cooking and only work part time but we occasionally have a ready meal

That some mumsneters could do a modem day version of the loaves and fishes miracle using a chicken

All kids love hummus with carrott and cucumber sticks

I was going to agree with the parallel universe but I do all of those things

Ooo, how many meals can you make a chicken do??

Al problems can either be sorted by a spa day or gin.

A large chicken will do 4-5 meals here, but that’s including soups and stuff!

I try and batch cook. Its super easy and gets you out of having to stop on the way home when it’s cold to buy something at the supermarket.

I couldn’t pay my kids to eat hummus though.

1 chicken = I dinner + sandwiches.

I've been a mnetter for about 8/9 years and I've never got more than one roast dinner and a chicken pie the next night out of one extra large chicken, I do serve big meat portions though .

I thought the thread was advertising a new fantasy tgeme park
Mumsnet world - now what would there be there?

well, I would agree, but I do all the things on your list.

I large chicken = 2 meals plus sandwiches. It would do soup/stock if I could be bothered.

Never buy complete ready meals, but I do buy pizzas. And I do buy some short cut stuff like jars of sauce or frozen chips.

2 of my kids and I love humous, one kid and dh hate it.
Everyone loves carrot sticks and cucumber sticks (actually rarely met any child who doesn't eat carrot and cucumber sticks)

I used to batch cook, but with 5 of us, the best I can do now is double cook. So I do a large goulash/chilli and I make enough for 2 meals. I don't usually bother freezing it, we just have it on Monday with Rice and Thursday with jacket potatoes for example.

I can get a roast dinner and a curry out of a chicken. The curry typically feeds 3-4 but there isn't actually much chicken in it, it's mostly vegetables.

Ds won't entertain the idea of hummus (but does eat basically everything. He just doesn't bloody sleep)

Gin and Spa days are both vastly overrated.

I do batch cook but typically just making extra of stuff at the weekends when we have a bit more time. We get takeaway far too often and cook from scratch two or three times a week (though sometimes the not cooking from scratch is just microwaving the batch cooked stuff)

We don't have and can't afford a cleaner or a car.

I don't want to sidetrack the thread but the chicken thing:

One thing I have learnt through mn and a couple of TV 'eat well for less' type shows is that:

1. some people take the chicken breast off whole and serve that as one portion. Same with legs, so that is 4 meat portions and most of the bird is gone. (in a 2 kg chicken, that is a serious amount of meat) If you carve the breast it is about 4-5 slices plus bits. Same for the legs etc.
2. Some people carve a roast chicken to only include the breast, and then chuck the rest away, as the dark meat 'isn't nice'
3. some people do not strip the carcass, if you are making a pie, and you take a small knife to the carcass, then there is a huge amount of perfectly good and tasty meat to be had.
4. For me a roast dinner has bare minimum roast: potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, green veg (maybe 2), stuffing and gravy. Roast chicken usually has bread sauce too. That is a full plate before the meat is added, so you eat less meat.
5. An adult portion of meat is supposed to be 100g. That is actually pretty small. I don't really stick to that, but if you have that in your mind, then you tend to make more veg etc, so overall you eat less meat as there is plenty of other things too.

I think 4 meals is a joke unless you have only 2-3 people and a very large chicken, but 2 meals isn't unreasonable at all.

I'd love a cleaner.
First thing I would get if I won the lottery!

....need to buy a ticket first though....

I’ve not got more than one roast dinner, sandwiches and stock out of a chicken

Everyone must snack always. Kids will die if they can't eat between school and home.

If you're going through a dry patch in the bedroom then any man who brings lack of intimacy up must be abusive and you should LTB immediately.

Getting your ducks in a row, creating a stash of cash on the sly is a totally normal response to the smallest disagreement (as long as you remember that if your DP doesn't share everything then that's financially abusive and bevause it's family money).

If DH leaves socks on the floor, he's not being a bit annoying. He is a misogynist who clearly sees you as a servant and you should LTB.

I think LTB and abuse are thrown around too much.

LTB does seem to be trotted out very frequently

It’s pretty much assumed that everyone works in an office or retail

If we do establish a Mumsnet World on the lines of Legoland, will it smell of Zoflora and have no brushes in the loos??

I roll my eyes at a lot of things on mumsnet, as I'm sure every single person here does. But I probably am the magical stretching chicken person. There are two adults and two children in my house and a chicken usually makes a roast dinner, and then I strip every last bit off the chicken and freeze it in portions and it is enough to make three more meals. I think I eat quite a bit (too much if I'm honest) so I'm always surprised when people say it only lasts for one meal.

However, I am also perfectly aware that other people's families may be bigger and hungrier, and/or their chickens may be smaller, so when I think about it logically it makes sense.

Mumsnet world would smell of freshly washed sheets. At all times. And everyone would have to take their shoes off at the entrance gates.

There are lots of things I find strange about Mumsnet, but the ones in the OP are quite normal to me.

How little meat do people put on roast dinners that they can get more than 1 meal for a full family out of 1 chicken?! Whilst I admit that my lot are greedy buggers, the average supermarket chicken isn't exactly big

I love it that I see other types of lives on MN - broadening perspective is something I like. It's very easy to live an endogamous life, and I think reminders that there is more variety out there (and that people who are different are just that, different, not fabricators) is valuable in itself

We'd have maybe three slices of chicken each.

Is that a tiny amount? Weirdly, I never had roast chicken growing up because I came from a huge family and a chicken wouldn't have been enough to feed us for one meal never mind two!

the average supermarket chicken isn't exactly big - No but most mumsnetters are probably buying large, organic free range chickens from their local Farmer's Market, they won't be buying the reduced ones in Asda .

2whenna person was trying to explain how they made umpteen meals out od a chicken , they basically only used a small amount in each, in my house a chicken moght do one meal two at a push , the dog does get a generous portion however, in mumsnet world everyone hates their MILwho is of course a Narcissist , so many Narcissist s in mumsnet world lots of ex husbands are also Narcissist s

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