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AIBU?

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To tell him if he wants to do it, then he should cook?

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overagain · 11/10/2018 14:01

I currently do 99% of the cooking. When DH cooks it's a ready meal or take away. We eat as a family, always have. I do not make separate meals, though do cook accompaniments only one of us likes from time to time (i.e. I don't like carrots but cook them sometimes ETC).

We both work full time, similar length commutes (his is longer but I have to collect DC) and get home around 6.30ish, usually eat between 7 and 8.

He has declared this morning he wants to reduce his meat consumption. Great, I admire his environmental ethos and agree that it should be something we aim for HOWEVER I am allergic to beans and have intolerances to lentils and soy. Quorn makes my ibs play up and DH doesn't like it. So it isn't as simple as replacing my go-to recipes with lentils, beans or quorn.

Am I being unreasonable to think that if he wants to reduce his meat intake he should do more of the cooking?

We currently eat meat/ fish 5 or 6 days a week, with the other days being a paneer or chickpea curry or pizza usually. Go to after work meals are stirfry, shepherds pie, Bolognese, fish and veg. My issues are I would need to learn some new veggie recipes, which I'm not averse to at weekends so much, but during the week I want something I can make in under 30 minutes. Once I know a recipe well and I'm quicker at it I'll integrate it in to the weekly menu, but I'm not learning new things after work (particaulrly as they'll usually be an ingredient or two I have to change)!

AIBU to say to DH that if he wants to reduce meat consumption he needs to learn some recipes himself and cook them midweek?

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