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AIBU?

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Original poster

IABU but WTF?

137 replies

Famalam13 · 28/09/2016 13:50

OK so I know IABU as the thought behind this is very kind.

FIL and his DW are coming to visit this weekend. They have offered to make a lasagna (the DW is Italian) and have sent a list of ingredients for us to buy. This includes 8 balls of mozzarella, an entire block of cheddar, 8 boxes of lasagna sheets and 750g of mince (plus a lot of tomato). This will make two trays.

I don't eat meat so will have to sort out something for myself and DS is 8mo so will eat hardly any. DH is on SW so will have a tiny portion.

Surely that amount of lasagna for 3 people is insane?! Also am a bit put out that I have been ignored, feeling a bit sidelined in my own house.

OP posts:
Hellochicken · 28/09/2016 14:22

OneManBucket

7500g mince Shock

Amalfimamma · 28/09/2016 14:23

OneManBucket

7500g meat? What in under fuck are you cooking? 😁 i use 1kg of meat 4 bottles of passata and make 1.5kg of pasta when I'm batch cooking 2 tins of lasagne for the freezer. If you're using 7.5kg of meat are you cooking for an Army? 😮

maybethedayafter · 28/09/2016 14:23

Even giving them the benefit of the doubt though, if they've offered to cook I'd be expecting them to pay for and buy the ingredients themselves. I'd never offer to cook for someone and then give them a shopping list!

Original poster
Famalam13 · 28/09/2016 14:23

DH has explained it wouldn't really be suitable so they have offered a macaroni cheese instead. Wish DH had said yes so we could see what the ingredients list for that would be! Instead he has said that due to SW he would prefer to sort something out for us all. Spoil sport Grin

OP posts:
Marcipex · 28/09/2016 14:24

Id love the Italian mil to visit me, oh please send her my way, I'll buy everything

Original poster
Famalam13 · 28/09/2016 14:24

CAts weigh about 7500g between them. Perhaps we were expected to mince them up!

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Amalfimamma · 28/09/2016 14:25

Famalam13

Probably not......😅

(But here's the translation "away and fuck of you and your shitty false lasagne ")

Marcipex · 28/09/2016 14:25

So is that a sack of macaroni and a whole Parmesan?

MillionToOneChances · 28/09/2016 14:25

Exactly, maybe - offer to cook, by all means ideally something everyone can eat but don't give a shopping list!

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 28/09/2016 14:26

You're not sending out lasagne portions then?

Damn.

Original poster
Famalam13 · 28/09/2016 14:27

Sorry Milk :(

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SapphireStrange · 28/09/2016 14:27

Um, they 'offered' to make something and then asked you to get the ingredients? Confused What kind of an offer is that?

They want to eat exactly as they would at home and for you to pay for it. They also haven't thought/don't give a shit about you being veggie. I think they're rude.

Floggingmolly · 28/09/2016 14:27

Do they visit very infrequently? Maybe they're planning to do enough to last until they come again?? On your tab, though... Why aren't the stingy buggers paying for it themselves?

maybethedayafter · 28/09/2016 14:29

I can't actually tell you how hungry I am for lasagne now. I'm currently dairy free but some days I would give up breastfeeding for a slice of cheddar!

Borisisback · 28/09/2016 14:30

Damn.
I was about to invite myself for dinner OP - I can be impeccably well behaved and am now really craving a massive lasagna meal.

BillSykesDog · 28/09/2016 14:33

If she's just asked for 750g of meat and a lot of the other ingredients are you sure she's not intending one of the lasagnes will be vegetarian?

VanellopeVonSchweetz99 · 28/09/2016 14:34

I can believe it, but I would probably go for 4 boxes of sheets and end up using 3.
(I like lasagna to have at least 5 pasta layers, and if she is making two large-ish trays, well there you go.)
OK, I'm hungry now ...

QuizteamBleakley · 28/09/2016 14:38

I think they're making you a replica Italian sports car.

"When''sa your'a Dolmio day?"
"October thru' December."

Original poster
Famalam13 · 28/09/2016 14:40

Having a massive laugh here at all the comments Grin

Perhaps she was planning a veggie one but surely she would need Quorn mince or lentils? Unless it would just be the tomato sauce and the white one?

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Hastalapasta · 28/09/2016 14:42

Amalfi Shock I would also expect home made pasta, but that list, as discussed above would feed the 5000. Vegetable lasagne is worth doing though...

M0nstersinthecl0set · 28/09/2016 14:44

Cheddar? Not a Neapolitan pizza recipe then!

furryminkymoo · 28/09/2016 14:45

Poor DH, he hates Lasagne but we are now having it for dinner.....

DixieWishbone · 28/09/2016 14:46

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Amalfimamma · 28/09/2016 14:47

Hastalapasta

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. I'm not even italian and make lasagne with home made pasta, hence my vaffanculo to the Italian DW...........

Oriunda · 28/09/2016 14:49

Italian in laws here. They still think 100g pasta per child is an ok allowance. In the UK it's now advised that 70g per adult is the correct sized portion. My MIL always cooks loads and then it gets thrown away. At least lasagne, being a baked pasta, can be frozen afterwards.

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