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not to feed my kids anymore

15 replies

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 06/04/2011 17:04

i'm getting really bored of it now - i've been feeding them for 14 years and i'm fed up of doing it.

All I seem to do is work, food shop and cook.

I'll order takeaways, I don't mind doing that.

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DooinMeCleanin · 06/04/2011 17:06

14 years??? Teach 'em to cook. For the whole family.

worraliberty · 06/04/2011 17:07

Why can't they pitch in?

OTheHugeManatee · 06/04/2011 17:07

My mum went on strike when I was about 14. No-one died.

YANBU Grin

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 06/04/2011 17:08

they do, bless em, but at the week-end

It's just the week-days that are getting me down. Everyone short of time.

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AliSheedy · 06/04/2011 17:08

Open can of beans. Put bread in toaster.

Shove potato in oven. Pull packet of pre-grated cheese out of fridge.

Boil pasta. Stir in pesto.

This is about the level of cooking in our house.

WoTmania · 06/04/2011 17:09

YANBU
My master plan is to get them cooking a meal a week (at least) for the family at 11. So by the time DD is 11 that'll be 4 meals I'm not cooking. And they can do their own poxy pack-ups too.

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 06/04/2011 17:09

i'm losing the will to live. Any suggestions whats quick and easy to cook on a week night anyone?

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worraliberty · 06/04/2011 17:10

Live on takeaways if it suits you but cooking a family meal doesn't have to be hard or too time consuming.

When you have some spare time, you can always have a cooking day and freeze the meals you make.

thisisyesterday · 06/04/2011 17:11

yes, was thikning the same as other posters. at 14 they really ought to be able to help out!

Happymm · 06/04/2011 17:12

My mum was and is a bitch, and did fuck all for us from the age of 8. Will never forgive her. Will do my best to never repeat that kind of shit( thanks mum for how to not parent tutorials-too many to repeat here). Sorry but I cook for mine, and will continue to do so-though teach them how to as that's important too, and they love to learn bless them, but it's not their responsibility to do it.

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 06/04/2011 17:13

OK so next week they can cook a meal each that leaves one meal for me to do and on Friday we can just have sandwiches it won't killl us

And I'll do some batch cooking at the week-end too.

Thanks everyone.

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Happymummy2011 · 06/04/2011 17:15

This is v easy and reasonably healthy .... Take ovenproof dish with lid, tip a bag of prewashed spinach into it, lay two skinless salmon fillets on it, dollop half a jar of pesto on top, add two tablespoons water. Put lid on and put in oven while you boil up water for pasta. Cook pasta, drain, add to spinach mixture, stir it all around to break up salmon and continue cooking in oven til all wilted and saucelike. Is delicious.

MorticiaAddams · 06/04/2011 17:16

YANBU. Bloody kids, you cook for them and then they go and eat and expect it to happen again at the next meal. Mine are the same, except I've only been doing it for 12 years and they can manage to cook themselves but they still keep eating it.

MCos · 06/04/2011 17:25

OP - I had similar feeling about an hour ago, but it was related to just 1 child.

Gave DD1, age 9, 3 choices for dinner. She refused each of them. Went on at length of how she was bored of all the things she used to like to eat. She wanted a tomatoe roll instead of cooked dinner. Well, she got her tomatoe roll. She can have a yogurt when she gets hungry later, because I am NOT cooking again later this evening for her.

Worst thing is, I know I'm going to face the same thing for the next 2 or 3 evenings. Until she is totally starving. Little so and so!

cricketballs · 06/04/2011 17:36

I did go on strike once! DC were moaning about what the meal I cooked so I went on strike; after having to eat what the dh cooked, they soon started being extra nice to me!

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