To be upset with DD?

[CourtneyLovely]

I've been quite poorly so am probably being over-emotional. Also I have ASD and struggle when plans go awry.

I make a Sunday dinner every week. Even if I work on a Sunday I come home and make a big dinner. Today's was going to be sausages, Aunt Bessie's Yorkshires (the ones that are batter, not the ready cooked ones), roasted new potatoes and veg.

I got up late, had some toast and went for a bath. I come back downstairs and DD has cooked half the sausages and ALL of the Yorkshires along with chips and frozen peas. For herself. Nothing for me.

I'm not only upset that she's scuppered my Sunday dinner plans but it's more that she's been so bloody selfish!

Possibly need telling to get a grip but AIBU to be pissed off?

Is she very overweight?

That’s a lot of food for one person.

That's selfish of her, yes! She could at least have knocked on the bathroom door and asked you first!

No she's not overweight and when she put the food on her plate she realised it was too much so has left half of the Yorkies on the side.

This is very bad form and selfish! Can you get yourself a delicious takeaway instead? Just for you since she is definitely full. “Oh, you should have asked me before you cooked all the food for yourself, I had changed my mind and wanted to get us a takeaway. Guess you’ll miss out! Oops!”

How old is she? That’s a lot of food

I’d be pissed off too! It’s really annoying when you’ve planned meals and someone else eats the ingredients before you can cook. Also, as you say, eating the entire pack is selfish - if she’d had one or two sausages it might not be as big a deal but she’s not thinking about others in the house.

That's very selfish of her! I would be annoyed too, might teach her a lesson.

Thats funny, (sorry not from your point of view though)

To be fair my kids are probably slightly older and would have asked first, but on the rare occasion I get them, sausages are usually seen as breakfast food and fair game for snacking on unless I specifically label them 'hands off they're for dinner'

Having said that had that happened to me especially when feeling under the weather I would have had a bit of a stroppy 5 minutes.

I’d be sending her to the shop to replace the food she’s eaten that you needed for dinner.

Did she know the sausages were for dinner?
How many sausages made up half (half a pack of 8/10 is different to a pack with 4/6 in)?

If she'd see you just have toast she may have thought you wouldn't be ready for any lunch.

She sounds to have acted without thinking thing through fully, not necessarily greedy or selfish.

If you’ve been or are ill, she should have cooked for you too. Her behaviour wasn’t kind.

YANBU, really rude
How old is she?

how old is she? Actually, if she is old enough to cook she is old enough to be considerate!

How old she OP, it was rude, but it is also age dependent as to how bad it was?

Why don't you just talk to her? But Yorkshire pudding batter takes seconds to make so yabu for buying frozen batter

What is it about sausages today?

It's clearly sausage Sunday.

This is the second thread today about the nefarious snaffling of sausages! . Is this the beginning of a trend? I'm glad the big issues of life are finally being tackled on here.

High-fives Aridane and Ursula!

I would be furious.
It’s extremely selfish.
I would do what pp have done and order a delicious unsharable takeaway.
AND my darling, next week try this-
100g plain flour
100mls milk
2 eggs
15mls ( tablespoon) water.
Salt and pepper. Mix it all together.
Put dripping ( or oil) into a good sized roasting tin ( about 30cm x 20cm, or thereabouts. It’s best if you have a metal one. I use one of the white enamelled tins that have a blue edge. Very old fashioned but fantastic for cooking in)
Heat oven up HIGH and when the oil/ fat is smoking ( about 7 mins in my oven) pour batter into tin. Quickly put it on oven........and wait. This takes about 18 mins in my oven. Honestly, so much nicer and so much cheaper than aunts Bessie’s. Cook your sausages in the oven at the same time. Xx

Well, sausages do not a Sunday dinner make! That's breakfast food. Maybe she thought there would be roast beef or chicken for dinner later? (doesn't explain the Yorkshire-pud Fest though!

I'd tan the hide of anyone messing up my cooking plans...or eating all the food! But then I'm a (currently hormonal) control freak with ASD...so that may answer that. I'd be supremely displeased and since she's old enough to be cooking up a meal for herself, I assume she's old enough to go to the shops - so I'd be having her replace the stuff she's guzzled so that you can have what you planned.

I agree sausages don't make a Sunday dinner however they are not just a breakfast item. What about sausage and mash, toad in the hole, sausage casserole. The list is endless.

That’s fantastic yorkie and I’ll steal the recipie too yorkshireyummymummy