To not want to cook the chicken

[urbanproserpine]

I am veggie (the only one in household). I cook meat for the DPs but don't do carving or joints of meat. DP does that on weekends.

Last weekend DP bought a chicken. It went out of date on Thursday. DP has been working v late all week and is away this weekend. solo parenting three small DCs has worn me down. Yesterday was last day of term and general mayhem, also too late to cook chicken when we got home. Today I had to get them out of the house, and got home at 5.30pm. Have I cooked the chicken? Nope.

Chicken is hanging over me waving in a guilt inducing way.

I do not want to cook the chicken, I do not want to cut the chicken up. I do not want to persuade my children to eat the chicken.

I have given them pasta.
AIBU?

it is probably perfectly safe to eat, but personally I wouldnt risk it on the kids,

to be fair on the OP, if she is a veggie, the smell of a fresh raw chicken might be horrible anyway, and she isnt going to know if it tastes off because she wont be eating it.

for the sake of a fiver or whatever it cost, just bin it..

"I think you need to be clear to your husband that you are vegetarian and if he wants chicken he cooks it"

I expect he is aware of the fact if he is married to her.

And I suspect he would have cooked it, as he normally does, as the OP says, only he has ended up working late...

Love how the poor husband is getting abuse on here!

Any excuse the kick the husband's head in squeaky - at least for one or two on this thread!

the = to. Obviously.

The OP did say that her husband normally cooks joints of meat that they have at weekends and that he bought this joint which went out of date on Thursday "last weekend". He has only been working late during the week which is irrelevent as he cooks the joints at weekends. He should have got on and cooked it last weekend not left it lying in the fridge for his vegetarian wife to deal with.

In DPs defence, he has been working back to back for weeks now, and I think rose-tinted spectacles made him buy the chicken with visions of leisurely cooking.

Honestly, bad chicken smells so bad that you don't have to be a meat eater to twig that it's dodgy.

If you don't want to cook it though and he is going to get the chance today, it'll probably have to go in the bin

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What you should have done was put it in the freezer on Thursday. :)

Yes, it should have gone into the freezer the day it was bought. You must know from your (joint?) diary whether you would be eating it in a couple of days time or longer so should have thought about the freezer..

Joint diary? Ahem in my dreams

and

it was lordy knows why in the vegetable drawer, and I was not informed of its presence.

Poor Chicken.

Am I the only one in the world who freezes meat the day I buy it, and then defrost it when I need to cook it? Meat is expensive, and I would feel really guilty throwing it away. Why not freeze meat in the future? It still tastes the same.

I freeze meat on the day it is to be used by if it is not going to be used that day or the next.

I would never throw any away, but then I have the canine bin that will eat any cooked meat, or the foxes that will eat whatever they get given. Nothing ever goes to waste in this house.

Squeakytoy, do you throw meat into your garden? Doesn't that attract vermin? Not to mention cats aswell. Do they poo on your grass? That would piss me off.

I ate chicken that I had cooked when it was 10 days over the use by date. No ill effects whatsoever. If it's been cooked and stored properly it's fine

Oh no, must have had too much wine, I read the post as "to not want to cook the children". What does it say about me that I excitedly clicked on link to read why OP would need to cook the children??!!!!!