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2 small potatoes and an over peppered pork chop is not enough

44 replies

StillHungryy · 20/04/2017 21:45

For dinner for adults, left it to another family member to cook for today and this is what they come up with, lunch was scotch eggs I had already made previously.

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humblesims · 20/04/2017 21:54

Well, I've had worse dinners. Who cooked it? DP or DC?

PurpleDaisies · 20/04/2017 21:55

I'd still be hungry and it's a bit lacking in veg.

Who cooked it?

NavyandWhite · 20/04/2017 22:01

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StillHungryy · 20/04/2017 22:47

It was my dad, gotta live at home right now but doing all the cooking, cleaning, shopping etc, was meant to be a days break for me

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Iamastonished · 20/04/2017 22:49

Were there any vegetables?

StillHungryy · 20/04/2017 22:50

Nope

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PurpleDaisies · 20/04/2017 22:52

If your dad is cooking regularly, I'd just make sure you've got some frozen veggies in that you can shove in the microwave for a couple of minutes

Iamastonished · 20/04/2017 22:59

That would have been enough for me if there had been some vegetables. It sounds rather meagre and boring without vegetables though.

StillHungryy · 20/04/2017 23:04

Really? So all day two small scotch eggs ( that you/ I made) and a small pork chop and 2 small potatoes all day?

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PurpleDaisies · 20/04/2017 23:06

Why couldn't you get yourself something else to eat?

Iamastonished · 20/04/2017 23:06

Sorry, I just meant for the evening. I would have had breakfast and lunch as well though.

Why did you have so little to eat? Was there nothing else in the house? Could you not go shopping?

Ameliablue · 20/04/2017 23:07

Needs veg.

kikicrystalripple · 20/04/2017 23:07

Is there any reason you couldn't have made some food for yourself if not full? I'm not a big eater and I wouldn't have ate pork chops anyway but that's by the by.

Bluntness100 · 20/04/2017 23:08

I don't understand , you live there, so if it's not enough, just get something else or have a word with him as he is cooking.living there is very different to being a guest

chastenedButStillSmiling · 20/04/2017 23:09

I'm eating twiglets as I read this. Anyone want one?

saoirse31 · 20/04/2017 23:09

So why wouldn't u do some veg... Or get bread and butter? Presumably given that you're living in his house, he managed to feed u or provide resources to feed u for many yrs....give him a break

HermioneJeanGranger · 20/04/2017 23:10

I wouldn't say Scotch eggs were lunch either - more a tiny snack!

StillHungryy · 20/04/2017 23:11

I did purple as I did for the rest of my family including my dad who when I said I was going to made out it was an incredulous idea, only to end with me making him something as well. But that's part of the point it was meant as a day for me to relax but on the times ive tried this kind of passive aggressive behaviour ( where he knows I'll have to take over) comes about.

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saoirse31 · 20/04/2017 23:15

Wow... Making food for u is passive aggressive behaviour? Or was it his incredulity that was pa? Not clear from yr post.

Anyway, I imagine only solution is to move

Ameliablue · 20/04/2017 23:16

How old is your dad?

PurpleDaisies · 20/04/2017 23:17

Do you think he's deliberately under catering?

elephantoverthehill · 20/04/2017 23:20

purple sprouting?

Pallisers · 20/04/2017 23:20

needs veg. But I can't imagine stressing that much about one dinner.

I presume there is other shit going on with you and your dad? If it is his house you are living in, not sure how much you can do about it. Well if you are living there at his request, you could sit down with him and say "lets agree some groundrules'. But if you are living there to facilitate you, not sure you can tell him to change.

PurpleDaisies · 20/04/2017 23:21

I don't understand elephanf.

elephantoverthehill · 20/04/2017 23:22

Sorry Purple Daisies

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