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About DH's attitude towards the meal I cooked?

268 replies

FlatsInDagenham · 03/02/2014 19:43

I used the leftover beef and made beef noodle soup. It was delicious - full of ginger, garlic, chilli, soy, stock, vegetables, coriander, masses of noodles and lots and lots of lovely leftover roast beef. A massive panful, enough to feed at least 6, just for me and DH (DC don't eat chillies) with plenty left to freeze for another day.

DH complained that he didn't want 'soup' for his evening meal. I pointed out that exactly the same components on a plate with less water would have been a stir fry. He said that you get less in a bowl. I offered to get him another bowl. He said (with disgust) that he didn't want two bowls of soup for his tea.

I spent ages making that soup and it was bloody delicious, and healthy too.

Just had to have a moan about it here.

Angry

And ask you: Am I being unreasonable to serve up soup for an evening meal?

OP posts:
PumpkinPie2013 · 03/02/2014 20:03

Oh well he can cook whatever he likes in future then can't he?

Your soup sounds delicious!!

He's being an arse Angry

WhoNickedMyName · 03/02/2014 20:04

I'd be pretty peed off if DH, on his turn to cook, gave me soup. I'd probably have to make myself something else to go with it.

SeaSickSal · 03/02/2014 20:04

I wouldn't eat soup for a main meal, particularly not the thin kind that comes with noodle soup. But he should have mentioned it nicely so you knew in future rather than being a dick about it.

MrsOakenshield · 03/02/2014 20:05

your post seems to suggest that merely because you thought it was delicious and the perfect thing for dinner, he should too. Soup is so not the same thing as a stir fry - is that what he thought you were doing? I'd actually be pretty disappointed if I'd been expecting X and got Y - crap day at work, I dream of what's for dinner.

I don't think it's that unusual to think soup isn't a dinner thing.

canyourearme · 03/02/2014 20:05

Ltb

MyNameIsKenAdams · 03/02/2014 20:06

Sounds really nice.

Id have just slopped two portions on a plate with minimal water and walked out of the room in disgust.

CoffeeTea103 · 03/02/2014 20:06

Yanbu, sounds delish. He can make his own dinner if he's not pleased.

mameulah · 03/02/2014 20:07

If you serve it with loads of bread and a pudding you get away with it more easily!

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 03/02/2014 20:07

Ungrateful sod.

if he doesnt like what someone has been kind enough to cook, he should get his arse in the kitchen and cook for himself.

Ignorant bugger.

Minnieisthedevilmouse · 03/02/2014 20:07

It's a man thing. If I do a Tom sauce and pasta dh always says where's the meat....

Could kill em.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 03/02/2014 20:08

Tell him to get off his arse and do the cooking himself in future.

It sounds lovely.

glenthebattleostrich · 03/02/2014 20:09

I assume he has use of limbs, is not tied to a chair or is not otherwise incapable? If so then suggest the 2 menu choices I offer ...

  1. Eat the food I have taken time to prepare

Or

  1. Cook your own food and don't bloody complain about it.
Headlikeafuckingorange · 03/02/2014 20:09

It sounds like a perfectly substantial meal! It's not like you offered up a bowl of thin broth, if it's got meat, veg and noodles it's a full meal surely.

bumblebeader · 03/02/2014 20:10

That sounds gorgeous! Care to share the recipe??? ;)

gamerchick · 03/02/2014 20:10

it doesn't matter if it wasn't what he was expecting.. he's behaved like a bellend and needs to be treated accordingly.

I predict soup for the next several meals or he can cook. at least until he's grovelled accordingly.

i've had to swallow down creations.. I do it with a sodden smile on my face and be tactful later on with changes to the dish if necessary. I NEVER bitch when somebody else has cooked for me... ever!

gamerchick · 03/02/2014 20:11

and I wouldn't mind a recipe of what you made either.. it sounds bloody lush Grin

HearMyRoar · 03/02/2014 20:12

Just drain the water off and hand him back the noodles and meat. No longer soup. Magic! :o

hugoagogo · 03/02/2014 20:12

mmm noodle soup

Original poster
FlatsInDagenham · 03/02/2014 20:13

Oh yes Minnieisthedevil, God forbid if I try and serve him something without meat.

He really is from the 1950s.

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Elledouble · 03/02/2014 20:16

We had soup for tea - it had tons of veg, lentils, roasted sweet potato and chilli in it with fuckloads of bread and it was very nice and filling indeed.

I'll have to tell my partner we haven't had a proper tea.

BrikSchittHaus · 03/02/2014 20:16

any chance of a recipe flats?

sounds lush

TheRealAmandaClarke · 03/02/2014 20:20

I love soup for dinner.
DH would complain. Grumpy git.

WorrySighWorrySigh · 03/02/2014 20:23

Had you told him what you had decided to do with the leftovers? If my DH did that to some perfectly good leftover beef then I would think he had lost his marbles.

Sorry but you are being totally unreasonable to serve soup for any meal (it is vile stuff in my opinion)

GlitzAndGiggles · 03/02/2014 20:24

It sounds nice I've never had a noodle soup. I had heinz chicken soup for dinner cause I couldn't be arsed to cook :)

Zhx3 · 03/02/2014 20:25

Don't call it noodle soup - call it soup noodles (vs. Fried noodles), then tell your h they're found on the noodles section of the menu in Chinese restaurants.

Or eat the whole lot and tell him to make something for himself.