To be miffed about dinner...?

[mommathatwearspink]

Both me and DP work full time. I make dinner for the family (us and 2 DC) when I get home from work. I take a lot of pride over my cooking and always make sure I cook a home made hearty and nutritious meal that we can all enjoy.

Today, as usual I came home and made a nice dinner for us all. DS kicked off the whole way through and didn’t eat anything, DP complained about the fish and didn’t eat much either. The fish was full of bones and to honest after all of the fuss from everyone, I just couldn’t enjoy it myself. This is a regular occurrence!

Feel like saying I’m not bloody cooking again and sort yourselves out

You've got 3 kids. Your do should know better than to whinge. Let him cook.

Leave dinner for him to cook for a week and see how he gets on.

To be fair fish full of bones I wouldn’t be eating either....

But yes maybe dp could Cook 2 nights a week or whatever

If they do that again, put on your headphones and enjoy your dinner in front of Netflix. Much better dinnertime company.

Your children are taking their cues from your father when it comes to whinging on so for that reason, he can go fuck himself

Can you divide the cooking, so you're not doing it every day?

If he cooks half the meals, I'm sure he'll learn to appreciate them more.

Having said that, I couldn't eat fish if it was full of bones either.

Its not nice for you to have to deal with, so i feel for you. But fish full of bones is pretty unpleasant, i wouldn't eat it now let alone as a child.

Still not acceptable from your DP or DS, there are far more acceptable ways to approach it than to insult your cooking.

I would definitely be expecting your DP to do more cooking and to teach his son good manners

Even when you love cooking, doing it week in week out for family makes it a drudge (mine appreciate it but rarely trouble themselves to comment or compliment which is intensely annoying). I therefore go to exactly as much bother as I feel like - some weeks are nutritious delicious and meal planned, some weeks are quick and easy junk.

The other thing we do is that dh cooks wednesdays and Saturdays and Thursdays is a DIY/help yourself meal. I know your dc might be too young for this but its good for independence as soon as they can cook beans on toast or soup (or when they were younger we would just help/teach).

The thing I would most like is for them to cook me a roast or a friday night curry with all the trimmings (tbf dd1 probably will soon), but I have accepted that this is a loving thing i do for them and stopped fishing for compliments (but comment loudly myself on how nice it is). And if I don’t feel like cooking I don’t.

So rude for a grown adult to moan about a meal you've made for them. He'd be wearing his fucking dinner and cooking his own in future if that was my partner the cheeky twat!

Thank you all
Sorry, I should’ve mentioned... me and DP/kids were eating different fish. It was mine that was full of bones