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.

The only appropriate thing to say when someone makes you a lovely breakfast like that is “thank you very much, it looks wonderful”.

It would be a long time before I’d be getting up early to make him breakfast again (and why can’t he feed the cats?)

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Your ‘D’H sounds like a CF!! I do make mine breakfast but I’m a SAHM and all I make him is overnight oats most nights which are ready for the morning. I certainly wouldn’t be cooking for him lol

Oh yes, dh also feeds the cats.

DP has made me breakfast every day since we've been together...well probably 95% of the time! I've made us a handful of fry ups if on holiday!

No definitely not, and when he is at home he makes all us breakfast (as he is the best by far!)

Certainly don't! He is a grown up. I don't make anyone breakfast, including myself, as I don't eat it.

Hollandaise sauce? wtf? Is this what you were making for the Dc too OP?

I do, but have got out of the habit, and must restart. Dh is Type 2, and his blood sugar is much better if I sort his breakfast out, to balance the protein and carbs.

No, lol. Dh gets up and does breakfast for dd2 (she can get her own actually, he just does it because it's quicker). The rest of us her our own, or we might not bother if the extra 10 mins in bed feels more important that morning.

I do a rare fry up, but that's a weekend thing if it happens, and is very, very rare.

That is the poshest thing I've ever heard. I'd think my DH would have had a brain transplant if he said that. If I'm making something cooked on a weekend I will ask him if he'd like some. Otherwise he's perfectly capable of putting bread in a toaster or cereal in a bowl.

Not on a regular basis. But if either of us makes some tea and toast for the other once in a blue moon the other is very pleased and says thank you. Expecting hollandaise for breakfast when you are neither in a hotel nor celebrating your birthday is strictly CF territory IMHO. The only time DH gets a cooked breakfast out of me is on a weekend when other people are involved, like guests, or the whole family has a brunch. OP’s DH is way way way BU!!!

Who makes poached eggs and salmon at that time in the morning? And was he actually expecting home made hollandaise sauce?
We all get our own breakfast here.

No

Dh gets up with dc to give them breakfast before he goes to work. I shower then go downstairs and dh always has a pot of coffee and breakfast waiting for me

I really think it was a very rude comment to make though op, you are not room service! I am not sure why you are still waking up and making him breakfast we have moved on since the 1950s, no offence but can he not just make his own like everyone else?

Heck no. We each get our own breakfast...if we have time to have any.

I wouldn’t even know how to make a hollandaise.

Haha....but we all mill arpubd and get our own. Dp makes my packed lunch and makes coffee in morning as he is up before me.We are not really breakfast people though and if off have it about 10ish.

Occasionally we’ll make brekkie for each other but not every day no. He’s definitely a cheeky froglet and you’ve spoiled him far too much. He’ll have to get his own from now on won’t he?

Froglet? 😂 wtf?! 🐸

Not often no. He brings me tea and cereal in bed most mornings though. He’s a keeper

Yes, we all have breakfast together but it's always just muesli so there's no 'making' as such, whoever is around just gets all the stuff to the table and we serve ourselves.

No fecking way. The only situations where I do:

1. As a birthday treat
2. When we're staying with family (e.g. xmas morning), I'll cook for everyone
3. If I was trying something new and he liked the look of it, I'd make it once to show him how as he's crap with reading recipes

On weekdays/workdays we sort ourselves out and so do the dc as they are old enough to grab cereal or make toast. On weekends we have breakfast together and depending on what it is (we each have our specialities) we take turns cooking a nice meal for everyone.

My DH makes my breakfast :) DD1 makes most of her own (can't do toast yet). DH sorts DD2 out. I never complain about what's on offer that'd be rude!! He also makes dinner usually tho atm its me as im on mat leave with DS. Before the kids i used to make him breakfast. now i sort the kids out whilst he makes us breakfast! works!

I don't as we both work and take turns to sort out the children. We cook for each other on the weekend.

I suppose if I were at home and cooking for the children anyway I would make him some of what they were having if he wanted it during the week. Would seem petty not to. But I wouldn't see it as my job to sort his breakfast. I would be fully expecting him to return the favour on the w/k.