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Dh and Nacho burgers

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AnAirOfHope · 12/06/2013 20:13

Hi

Dh has worked overtime today 8am till 7pm. He picked ds up on way home from grandparents and called me to say ds had tea up there what was I doing for tea?

I had dd all.day and we are out of bread and milk so I told him to go to the shop and get what he wanted for tea, anything except pizza. All I have had to eat today is two sandwiches, im so hungry I want food.

Dh has come back with a pack of four nacho burgers. We have nothing else as the bread one loaf is for pack lunch and breakfast and lunches so I have one nacho burger for tea.

AIBU to be upset and to give my burger to dd and go to bed in a huff with dh?

(dh also got one loaf and a 2pt of milk as well as the pack of nacho burgers)

OP posts:
hugoagogo · 12/06/2013 21:28

Are they the ones with sweetcorn in? Ruins it for me sweetcorn does. Sad

hermioneweasley · 12/06/2013 21:28

YABU

surroundedbyblondes · 12/06/2013 21:31

Um, what is gaslighting?

bedmonster · 12/06/2013 21:32

Hadn't your DS already eaten? Confused
You sound like a sulky martyr, but I think you know that. And I can get grumpy when i'm hungry too.
But YANBU to be pissed off with him for bringing those 'burgers' home. They look absolutely gopping. If my DP bought those back here, he'd most likely have them launched up his nostrils.
Out of interest, how many burgers would you have bought for the 3 of you?

isitsnowingyet · 12/06/2013 21:33

It's not a thread about gaslighting - that was a joke.

Original poster
AnAirOfHope · 12/06/2013 21:35

I love my dh and he is reading to the kids that need to go to sleep

The rice might be a bit iffy but tough. In frezer we have a box of stwed apple, a bag of scoch broth grains that make broth with, some doddy white fish and some ice lollys.

In the cupboard I have lots of spice and rioto rice and tuna in spring water (im veggy dont eat it) crakers and three brown suace packets.

Its just been one of those weeks.

OP posts:
hugoagogo · 12/06/2013 21:35

I don't think it's the number of burgers; just that he didn't get any rolls/chips/salad or anything to go with.

Allalonenow · 12/06/2013 21:36

Have a look on the internet about building a sensible store cupboard of food for such times, I'm sure Delia or Jamie will have a list or two. Then buy a few items each week, you will be amazed how rapidly you build up a stock of meals.

Eggs are an essential item in my fridge, I am never without them, and they make variety of meals, a box of eggs would have been a blessing for you tonight OP.

LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 21:38

I would just eat the whole pack of icelollys.

Good idea to keep a loaf of bread in the freezer, and you can then toast it from frozen.

I wish I could order in nachos from the takeaway,

bedmonster · 12/06/2013 21:49

Ah I see.

Well I don't have store cupboard standby meals either. We have tonnes of spices, normally potatoes, usually fresh herbs in the fridge, but things like eggs and bacon (things I might buy without a specific purpose) either go all in one sitting, or else sit all week being ignored. I buy a 4 pack of tuna to have in the cupboard and it all gets used in sandwiches despite buying other stuff as fillings.

I might also go and have a look at what else I should be buying. Don't even really use the freezer either. We don't eat ready meals, fishfingers or nugget type things, or frozen chips/waffles etc, so our freezer basically has a bag of peas and sweetcorn and ice cream!

VitoCorleone · 12/06/2013 21:50

Im laughing at somebody way back on the first or second page who said "you cant be starving, you've had 2 sandwiches today" WTF?

BriansBrain · 12/06/2013 21:52

I keep my eggs in the cupboard.

I guess your DH assumed you would have a tin of beans and some frozen chips to go with the burger.

You both sound hungry and tired.

Figgygal · 12/06/2013 21:55

Air me again.....hope you've calmed down and not taken too hard the responses you've had.

MortifiedAdams · 12/06/2013 22:02

So was the Nacho burger veggie?

WilsonFrickett · 12/06/2013 22:04

bed

Store cupboard: rice, pasta, tinned tuna, tinned tomatoes, tinned chickpeas, lentils, spices and veg buillion stock

Fridge: butter, parmasan cheese, normal cheese, eggs

Freezer: aunt Bessie's midweek roasties, leftovers, frozen peas, frozen sweet corn, garlic bread, usually a chicken carcass, bread and bread-type products like wraps, bagels, packs of stuffed pasta. bacon.

I could do dinners for a week on that (plus some fresh veg) and I could definitely feed us for 24 hours on remnants of this the day before the shopping is due. Soup, pasta and a stew are always possible in our house.

Ability to get a gas lighting joke however, is not always in stock Blush

LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 22:07

I am the same as bed monster. My freezer is full of crap like ice lollies, about 13 bags of frozen peas and joints of meat. Nothing quick and easy, and store cupboards have spices, chickpeas, a million tins of tomatoes and useless gubbins like polenta, anchovies and lasagne sheets. I could cook something but not just shove something in the oven and forget about it,

Hence if I can't be bothered to cook I eat out or get a takeaŵay, but I am a profligate bastard and don't have young children to worry about. It's probably a good idea to have an emergency supply of easy and quick food to have at all times (can't remember if I did so when dd was younger, too long ago)

LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 22:08

I probably gave dd supernoodles, thinking back. God I am (and always have been) a slack twat.

bedmonster · 12/06/2013 22:11

Thanks Wilson, I pretty much do have all those store cupboard and fridge things in, no eggs or tuna though! But what meals can you make out of all those things? I'm hard pushed to think of one! Maybe a carbonara if you added some bacon?!
I do meal plan generally for Monday-Wednesday, Friday is always steak night and Thursday is a night when DP is out and I tend to give the DC jackets as I cba! So we're rarely left without a meal in place, but nights like tonight, we had leftovers from last night which I didn't fancy so have just gone without as there's nothing else to make which I want!

OP, hope you've gone to get some much needed rest, and your DD is better tomorrow. And make sure you get something in for dinner! :)

Original poster
AnAirOfHope · 12/06/2013 22:14

Hi Figgy

I have calmed down, kids asleep and dh laughing at me and threatening to come on here to give his side of things. I have told him to go to sleep!

Im ok with being flaimed as I was a tad unreasonable. I just feel like im walking thru mud and not getting anywhere today. Im tired, hungry, and feed up and was disappointed in what he got for tea.

Tomoro is another day but dh is up at 5am in work for 8am and still doing overtime till 7pm for thrid night running and im feed up and have no wine or choclate and only cheap coffee.

Moan over Blush

Im also eating everything in house to.do a big shop at end of month and stock up on everything.

OP posts:
LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 22:16

I feel for the OP, understand just how she feels in that she is hungry and annoyed, but can also see why her husband couldn't be arsed to pick up something more imaginative.

Tbh just entering the doors of Asda would make me despair after a long day.

There have been some snotty comments but tbh, this is mumsnet, it could have been a LOT worse. Grin

diddl · 12/06/2013 22:16

I'd be pretty pissed off if my husband turned up with those tbh.

I agree with the pp who said they look gopping.

Isn't that a great word!

LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 22:17

Aw bless you. It would be SO much better if you had wine. Grin

LeGavrOrf · 12/06/2013 22:18

Gopping is a GREAT word.

I was annoyed with XP when he rolled in with sweet chilli humous instead of jalapeño and red pepper. He couldn't understand why I was so pissed off. He thought they were the same. They are NOT.

WilsonFrickett · 12/06/2013 22:22

Pasta: with butter and cheese, with tomato sauce, with tuna and tomato. All infinitely better with some fresh veg, but acceptable without, or add handful of peas. Ditto with the stuffed pasta, but I'd prob just have that with butter and cheese. Literally 3 minutes from frozen.

Soup: lentil and rice soup with the veg buillion. Pea soup, frozen peas in stock whizzed up. Chicken soup using carcass if have a bit of time.

Omelette - with cheese, tuna or a single egg omelette on top of a wrap, drizzled with sweet chilli sauce then rolled up (my solo lunch of choice).

Curry: chickpeas or lentils, peas, corn, spices, toms. Rice. Also spiced lentils cooked with rice and spices, can't remember the name of that.

So that's well over 7 meals, as I said above obvs better with some fresh veg. Add a chicken to the mix and there would be roast chicken and spuds, a curry and a chicken pasta bake to add in too. I'm not saying any of these are culinary masterpieces, but when I had a tiny baby and a husband who worked away, I learned to plan a bit so I never got caught out.

(The frozen spuds are for an accompianment crisis like the OP tonight.)

VinegarDrinker · 12/06/2013 22:23

Enough with the nacho burger bashing! Don't knock 'em til you've tried them. Loads of yummy beans and spices and very little in the way of additives.