to say that no-one in the house (no not even you DH) can have a cooked breakfast every morning

[Ormirian]

during the school holidays? Weekends only.

Because we are broke atm and food bills are bloody scary.

I just reminded DH of this as he was getting a monstrous pile of bacon and eggs out of the fridge. I asked him whether he remembered hearing (and backing me up) about this last week, and his response implied that it was only meant for the children

So he put it back in the fridge, forswore toast or cereal, and is sulking with the paper.

SO AIBU.

I am not sure that porridge, no matter how delicious and nutritious, will cut the mustard for DH. He wants a 'proper' fry up (or grill up for that matter). And no matter how you look at it, bacon, eggs, mushroom etc cost more than 2 slices of toast or a bowl of cereal!

Anyhoo... he has finally upped his standing order to our joint account. I am hoping that he doesn't see an extra 150 a month (which will help to address our overdraft and scary utility bills) as carte blance to start eating smoked pig every morning again.

He loves fried compost (or bubble and squeak as he calls it). He can have that assuming we have any leftovers

Ormirian,

I bet he thinks it is a carte blanche for his full english every morning

Is it possible that DH has the full monty but the kids get a hot breakfast too, only something cheaper and healthier?

We had four American teenagers staying with us (older than your lot, who look lovely, btw), and they ate like horses. They loved pasta for breakfast. I made it Nigella style with a cream and egg sauce with bits of bacon and mushroom and it went down really well! They got carb and protein from the meal and it was cheap.

One of the kids was Asian-american and he would make an Asian style noodle thing for breakfast, really yum and the ingredients were cheap. Your DH may be set in his ways regarding breakfast, but perhaps the kids would be open to alternatives?