fussy arsed bil coming for tea tomorrow evening, aibu to tell DH to have

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Chippy for tea?

DH text yesterday to say bil is coming for tea on Thursday.

I meal plan very very strictly and tomorrow night it's a breakfast tea.
That is sausage, bacon, eggs, beans.
Bil won't have any beans unless they are Heinz, only a certain type of sausage..you get the picture.
I shop at Aldi, so it's Aldi beans, richmond sausages, Aldi bacon....

Told DH he can get chippy as I am not pissing around buying stuff especially for his fussy brother. He is delighted as he loves chippy.

Would you?

guests eat what they are bloody given with a good grace, unless they are allergic to it.

Dare I ask where the fresh vegetables are?

YABU.

You're spending your takeaway money on something you can't even eat because of a thirty-fucking-eight year old's bean brand preferences?

We love brinner in our house, it's great when you meal plan to make an easy dinner and its pretty yummy
Your BIL has no taste as far as I'm concerned and frankly if you are going round someone's house, accept what they are cooking or jog on

Have you checked your local chippy's food hygiene rating? Put me completely off ours!

saucyjack no fresh veg with this tea. Rest assured that on the other 6 nights in the week, the meals are packed with fresh stuff followed by fruit.

It's our guilty once every now and again tea. Have it every few months.

I love a breakfast tea. Bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, black pudding and if I'm lucky a hash brown.

I also love Richmond sausages!

I like sausages, but Richmond are awful.

They only contain 42% meat, which is the same as the cheapest Basic or Tesco Value sausage, but cost three times as much. It's just pink sludge. For the same money or less you can get an proper own-brand sausage with about 60%.

The Richmond TV advert suggesting traditional quality is very misleading. They aren't even made in the UK. I see from the recent Which test that if you disregard the water and fillers, Richmond cost you £12.59 per kg of meat. An ordinary Sainsburys British Pork Sausage (59%) costs £5.19 per kg of meat, and their premium range (97%) is £7.71 per kg of meat.

Chippy in moderate portions can't be that much worse than sausage, bacon, beans and eggs. Even assuming you oven cook the sausages, dry fry bacon and scramble rather than fry the eggs I still don't see how the allowance for that is ok but not fish and chips.
Chippy always fills me up with much less as well because even though protein is filling I can totally neck a fry up.
I think it's a bit of a piss take you have beans on toast & are still spending out on a takeaway.
No one needs a take away, fine, but bugger that for a lark!

Would have been ok until you said you CAN'T EVEN EAT IT! Are you mad, woman?! On SW I'm guessing all of your breakfast tea (besides maybe the sausages?) is "free". So because of the fussy BIL you're having beans on toast whilst watching your family eat chippy.

Don't be a martyr. Cook what you want (and if the chippy tea has been decreed, bloody well eat it!)

An aspect of this thread that interests me is how a chippy meal ever became a luxury. I live in Melbourne and a few weeks ago we had a chippy meal, the first in about three years. We were staggered at the price, especially when it's plain some profit has been maintained by making portions smaller. I put it down Australia being expensive, but this thread shows the UK has caught up.

When I were a lass, the chippy was the mainstay of cheap food for the working classes.

The cost of fish and chips is £5.40 at our local shop, and as our town is the furthest from the sea in all directions, its not exactly top notch fresh either! Chippy dinner is prohibitively expensive these days.

I totally cheat, it's never a "fry up".
Poached eggs, grilled bacon & sausage and I Chuck a potato cake in the toaster. I only have the eggs, beans & potato cake.
They have the works, but the frying pan never comes out.

I always love the sound of chippy BUT hardly ever enjoy it and I'm always starving an hour later so I'm not bothered about it tbh. No martyrdom here, I bloody love ALDI beans & wholemeal toast me.

We are not "dinner party" folk, bil definitely isn't, just family tea types.

Interesting about the sausage meat cost & content, I have bought tesco 70% meat sausages before but my lot still like the Richmond.

Glad so many of you love a breakfast tea like us

tell me more about this potatoe cake in the toaster. Is it a readymade thing?

potato ffs

i have relatives like this too. Don't like garlic. mushrooms, any cheese but mild cheddar, no fish but cod and that has to be battered, no pitza, pasta, anything spicy or with a sauce. Strange though that i've been including a load of these for years and they haven't noticed. And the son lived at home till his thirties

fish and chips sounds lovely and much less work for u

I would just serve up what you are planning to eat, if he doesn't like it then tough he should grow up a bit.

Just shop bought potato cake, Chuck into the toaster.
Same with crumpets, naan bread, waffles, Scottish pancakes.

Easy life.

Potato cake best with ALDI beans imho.

ah, like this

I think I call them farls.

I was thinking of mashed potato shaped into a thick round lump and floured.

That's them....delish

That's potato bread. Staple of an Ulster fry. Probably about 100000000000000000 syns.

Naaa I only have half of one, can't be that many syns surely.......sweet baby Jesus, PLEASE..