Straw-poll please - Do you make breakfast for your DH /DP?

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I told DH at 8am I would put this on MN and give him feedback, but he has no clue about this really.

I do usually make him breakfast in the mornings because I'm doing it for the DC as well, so fine. However, we're now into the second week of half-term which means I don't strictly need to be up at 6.30, but I'm kind of in the habit and the cats need feeding anyway. So this morning I had made him poached eggs with salmon on muffins and this is what he actually said to me - "Is there no hollandaise sauce with this?"

Firstly, as if anyone can be bothered to be faffing with egg yolks that early. Secondly, I told him most people would be lucky to get breakfast made for them at all. I don't think I am BU, but could MN please confirm that he is on his own planet to even ask such a question?

Thankyou.

Can I come and live with you please? I won't ask for hollandaise

Also, my favourite thing about half term is not having to rush out of bed. Don't do it!

No. I don't eat breakfast and he usually sorts the kids during the week. If I'm doing something like pancakes or bacon at the weekends for the kids then I will do some for him too.

Definitely not! He might get a cup of tea if he happens to be in the kitchen while I make mine. He gets a packed lunch and a hot dinner, that’s good enough.

I used to - when we lived in a country where I sent the children off to walk to school alone, still wearing my dressing gown.

Now that I actually have to get dressed and brush my teeth and take them myself I don’t. The ‘breakfast makong’ Slot has been bumped in favour of me getting dressed.

Also - I used to feed the children porridge for brekkie and made him some while I was at it. We are in a warm country now so they have yoghurt and a banana as they don’t want warm food. So I’m not making porridge just for him

I make DH's overnight oats whilst making his lunch the night before. It's not that hard, it's just I have to faff grating an apple.

Normally I do something like eggs or porridge but I would not be going to the level of making sauces unless we had guests for brunch. He was not having a joke but said he wasn't having a go, it was "just a question".

Not a chance. And not would I expect him to make mine.

And since I switched to coffee (he remained with tea), we don't even make cuppas for each other in the morning.

Your husband sounds like an arse. If mine had said the same as he did, his breakfast would have been ceremoniously dumped in the bin. I actually can't believe he whinged about something when given poached eggs/salmon/muffin.

If we’re doing a cooked breakfast at the weekend I’ll make his, or he’ll make mine, but during the week no.

The op is interesting in that I consider myself a good sahm, as I n I do a lot for dh, but it would never cross my mind I should be making by his breakfast too.

Your husband is suffering from Cheeky Feckeritis

The man's an eejit, that's all I can say.

The only time I make DH breakfast is if he's off to London on an early train and I know he won't eat unless there's a sandwich in the fridge for him to take.

I have a career, so no.

In the week I have no idea what the man does for breakfast.

At weekends we mostly take it in turns.

It is certainly not expected of me - but probably would be if I didn't have a job.

No, but I don't cook breakfasts full stop. Cupboard with cereals and bread, fridge with milk and spread. Everyone helps themselves.

I had a short phase of doing porridge in the slow cooker overnight. That stopped when I realised the last person to help themselves always failed to fill the crock pot with water afterwards and i would come home from work to welded on porridge.

I occasionally make DP breakfast on the weekend and he makes it for me just as often. Would be "I'm making scrambled eggs do you fancy some", or if we are up at the same time would pop a slice of toast in for him with mine etc. but he would never have the cheek to ask me for hollandaise sauce! Especially if getting such delights as poached egg and smoked salmon
Also whoever doesn't make the breakfast would make the toast. So we normally share if doing something fancy

We work near each other and travel together. I like scrambled eggs for breakfast so I make enough for two if we're both going in.

DH makes dinner everyday. No DC yet.

It would never occur to me to get up early and make him breakfast if I didn't need to be up as well. The odd time I'll work from home and make it for both of us before he leaves and before I shower, he is exceedingly happy when I do this.

Neither of us would ever criticise the other one's cooking.

What does your DH cook for you?

At the weekends one of us will make breakfast for the whole family but it's as likely to be him as me. In the week neither of us eat breakfast but if we did, we would just grab something quick ourselves.

"Is there no hollandaise sauce with this?" is hilarious. Was he really being serious?

My dh usually just has cereal, so he usually does it himself.
He is a chef so he cooks, not me (he'd laugh at my attempt)

My kids are grown up now so I never even see mine in the mornings he’s leaving just as i’m getting up (different work patterns) he would think I was having an affair or something if I got up early to make him breakfast. Suggest you print off a copy of a recipe for Hollandaise and tell him to crack on with it.
Have you somehow created a time slip in your house and he’s slipped back to the 50’s? Mind you even in the 50’s my mum didn’t get up to make my dads breakfast as luckily he wasn’t a sexist twat.

Work days we make our own as I eat a lot earlier. Days off if we’re having something more than cereal we take turns to make it. Though I’m better at doing a full English so tend to do it but DH does 95% of all the other cooking anyway.
I wouldn’t be happy about being expected to make it.

He does make me coffees on the weekend and he brings things in for me, rather than cooks, but yes, "cheeky feckeritis" indeed. He eats out a lot and seems to be confusing me with a restaurant. I've been with him 16 years and there are occasions when I'm still astonished.

Naaaaah. My DP does his and gives DS some of his before he gets fed at nursery. Because I’m on mat leave I’ll have mine after nursery drop off. Cereal for all.
At the weekend DP cooks us all breakfast. Without fail

Yes, I make my dh breakfast every morning. Usually eggs on toast, or omelette. I cook for the boys every morning too, why would I not cook for DH? High days and holidays it might be more exciting than eggs/toast, I wouldn’t make hollandaise as a random midweek thing.

I make mine at the same time but take it into work to eat later in the morning.

Occasionally. At the weekend.

A cooked breakfast on a weekday? Never.

Usually we each get our own cereal, and whoever gets there first makes DD's too.

No, dh is an adult.

He brings me coffee every morning as he's up first. He also organised the kids' breakfast.

I sometimes make bacon and eggs at the weekends and always bring him a coffee. Nice to repay the weekday coffee making and bringing.

Gratitude is key for any act of servitude. Kids need to pick up good habits from somewhere.