..to want my dinner NOW

[loverofwine]

DH is cooking Curry. I know it will be delicious but it has been a long old week herding my DS's too and from school/ homework/ fitting some work inbetween the laundry etc.

I am really hungry. I have consumed the bottle of wine because it was the only available foodstuff.

Why does he have to cook every dish individually. It will be midnight before we eat and I will be under the table.

Should I cut my losses and break for the crisps??

go to bed for a nap... with the crisps.

yeah, have some crisps, and save a bit if the curry for breakfast,, its even better in the morning.

good idea but can't sleep when hungry..

What's the ETA for the meal? Have you asked? DH can get like this, he gets so determined to make something fancy he loses sight of the fact that what's actually needed is edible food at a decent time. if it can be fancy, great, if not, I'll settle for OK and being on the table before midnight.

Give him until 9:30pm, then say you're just going to have some toast as you're too hungry to wait and you can reheat it all tomorrow night.

crisps now attacked. Still feels like pyrric victory. Just want him to appreciate my ability to produce x13 meals p/w without fuss.

Will never win methinks

he is blaming the lentils. They are inanimate objects. I am animate and hungry.

have you asked him when dinner will be? Have you said "will it be before 10pm? Because if not, i'll just have a couple of slices of toast as I'm too tired to stay up that late." It's ok to do this, it should at least make him think that if it a meal takes 5 hours to prepare then it needs to be a weekend one when he can start mid afternoon...

Yep, toast, bed, leave him alone with his lentils. I bet they'll be lovely tomorrow night for dinner...

really really love my DH but find the pantomime of Friday night a bit tortuous. Just want big plate food and a DVD. Longer I wait, less I will appreciate the effort

..tomorrow is another story. We are out with some people I don't want to see. So the lentils need to do their things now or wait for Call the Midwife

so he does it regularly and you stay hungry waiting for him to create his masterpeice? Sod that, start getting stroppy, when he starts cooking next time say "is this going to be on the table for 8:30pm at the latest? If not, make something simpler"

It also took a while for DH to realise it's rubbish to be sat watching TV on your own while they are creating this great meal in the kitchen, and a takeaway and talking to each other would be more romantic.

Sunday night it is then....

DH does all the cooking and loves a culinary masterpiece, but Friday night tea is an institution. I can never successfully choose it because it must be quick and easy to prepare, delicious and a bit trashy ie. burgers, chilli dogs...

Don't suffer in silence. Tell DH that a culinary masterpiece is all well and good but there's a time and place for it (Sunday in general) and Friday night is NOT IT!

YANBU. I regularly have this with DH. He's a marvellous cook and it's lovely that he wants to come home from work and cook dinner for me, but farkinhell am I sick of eating at 10pm!

Today I got a head start and chopped all the veg ready for the curry he wanted to make, so he just flung it into the pan and cooked it. Still managed to take him an hour and a half to do that!

Are you married to my DH? He has learnt that a grumpy DW with no food and a bottle of wine is not a happy place to be...

sort of feel I am betraying my DH.

But It's a bit crap isn't it. I roll out meals 24/7 on time/on budget. Why does he get the glory for feeding me so late I am not hungry any more??