Well AM I!! Am I the worst mother in the history of mother???

[MaureenMLove]

God give me strength!!

DD (15) is going on a school trip tomorrow, so she needs a packed lunch.

I have offered her the following items, with which I will gladly make a packed lunch.

Tuna
cheese
sweetcorn
bacon
ham
salad
pasta
pitas
bread
wraps
sausages
egg

'Have a look and you decide' I say.

Huff, huff, huff 'Oh, there's nothing to eat in this house!!' I get!

Sod ya then, go hungry!!!

Not too unreasonable, is it?

God, you're the worst mother EVER. No other mother is as crap as you. And it's not as though the poor kid even asked to be born.

Teenagers need a choice

I bet none of her friends have to deal with shit like this.

She's opted for chicken and bacon pasta. Did I offer chicken? No, I don't think I did.

See, that was my mistake. I should have read her mind and known that that was what she wanted!

Oh that sounds deeply,deeply familiar!
I just love the way they can look through a fridge packed with food,and rifle through an equally full cupboard and then huff off with that "why is there nothing to eat " line!

OmiGOD she didn't ASK to be born you know!!!!!

I don't know how you can live with yourself.

I have no idea how your DD puts up with it. Years of therapy it'll take her to get over it, years.

I just hope you know better for next time.

(At which point, of course, the goalposts will have shifted again ...)

Wot no turkey twizzlers? Shame on you!

See, I was the best mum in the world today.... I nipped into M&S and bought DS2 a chicken fajita wrap sandwich for his school trip tomorrow. Only I came out £17 lighter after buying other stuff that jumped into my basket

I am usually a mean and horrible mum

Mine some cash and told to go to Tesco on the way to school.

I nipped into M&S and bought DS2 a chicken fajita wrap sandwich

is that all bellavita?

I get a version of this

DD1: I'm hungry, there is nothing to eat
ME: look in the cupboard, fridge, freezer
DD1: but I dont like any of it
ME: well why dont you tell me what you would like and I could get something in
DD1: I DONT KNOW WHAT I LIKE !!

Well, usually I'd have told her to get food from Co-op along the way, but she went on a trip today as well, and when you've got a house full of food, I resent paying out twice in a week!

Sal, usually her lunch is not my business. She's old enough to do it herself! I was feeling nice, she was in a good mood and things were all ticketyboo!

Just shows how wrong you can be! I think it was a good job, I didn't look in her eyes!

Oh, bless, but it's so true Duffy. Were you never that age?

She's just like her bloody father!

He takes a fancy to tuna, so I buy tuna. He wants it every day for 3 or 4 weeks, so I start buying in bulk. I offer him tuna on the 5th week and he says, 'nah, I've gone off tuna!'

Good job it's nearly harvest time. The folk of the borough will be overrun with tins of blody tuna!

Actually, I lied... it is DS1

and because I bought him a posh sandwich, I then had to treat DS2 to a pasta salad thingy for his lunch tomorrow, then the cream cakes jumped out at me and I fell over a double chocolate sundae..

you lot have me actually snorting coke (of the zero variety not the illegal one!) at these kevinisms - got all that to come!!!!

In fairness to your DD ,DuffyMoon,I sometimes feel like that myself !

I also bought DS1 some nibbly bits and a pot of melon and pineapple.

Oh yes, how very dare you look them in the eye. You must adopt a shifty glance which slides off to somewhere just over their right shoulder.
Fortunately mine are grown up and human again.
But for a period of about 7 years in total we only ever had rubbish food in this house.
You first mistake is providing healthy options which, because you are such a terrible mother, you did not even know was poisonous to teenagers.
Sling a Pot Noodle in the little minx's direction and tell her to get on with it. Or give her some money to buy chips.