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Dp stormed out after I questioned the bacon, don’t know what to do now

401 replies

DoreenSamuel · 18/01/2020 17:29

Dp and I both work ft and both do our fair share of looking after children and household chores. Food preparation is not really part of my allocation but I do more cleaning.

Anyway DP tends to do a lot of cooking on the weekend with a view to putting some things in the freezer and some things in the fridge for meals over the next few days.

He is a great cook and meals are always delicious. However I seem to have some irrational fear of food poisoning and I frequently ask questions about the food he’s making which seem to annoy him.

Today I noticed he was cooking a load of bacon and I was surprised as he’d already said he was making fish and chips for tea. I asked why he was cooking bacon and he said he was making stuffed jacket potatoes with cheese and bacon for a meal over the next few days. I apparently frowned and also said I didn’t think bacon would be safe to eat after being cooked and put in the fridge for a few days.

He became angry and told me to google it. He said he feels completely taken for granted and ‘nothing is ever good enough’.

He’s stormed out basically telling me to fuck off and make my own meals. He knows I can’t cook so I feel really upset he’s reacted in this way. I do feel bad because he’s spent almost the whole day meal planning to ensure we can’t eat home cooked healthy meals but I really don’t think his reaction was ok.

Aibu? If so how can I make this better, he’s not answering his phone.

OP posts:
Elmo311 · 19/01/2020 20:33

You shouldn't comment on his cooking when you don't know anything about it! Let him get on with it or learn to cook....OR google it before opening your mouth.

That would wind me up too!

kinsss · 19/01/2020 20:35

I will not comment on this (to me) kind of bizarre thread, but for those out there who chuck food out a day out of date, we had (M+S so ready prepared) Shepherd's pie yesterday dated 13th Jan use by. I saw it sitting forlornly in the fridge, had a sniff and it seemed ok. Cooked it and it was fine, and we are all still here with no ill effects at all.

Sorry for jumping in and saying that, but my mother always did the sniff test in the days before BBF or UB dates!

AllergicToAMop · 19/01/2020 20:38

@kinsss I am with you. My fridge AND freezer would give heart palpitations to half of MN😂

kinsss · 19/01/2020 20:46

AllergicToAMop.

Soul sisters. High five!

AllergicToAMop · 19/01/2020 20:48

@kinsss wooohooo 🙋

spongejack · 19/01/2020 20:50

@kinsss come have a feast at mine, you'd love it!

Screenburn · 19/01/2020 20:52

This entire thread makes me really angry. OP how dare you bring kids into the world and care so little for them that you would not bother to learn how to give them the nourishment they need, “because their father can so why should I?”

Oh, and you absolutely can cook. You know how to heat something up (unless you’re having cold beans on toast), therefore you know how to make anything that needs heating up - rice, pasta, vegetables. You can work your oven if you can ‘throw in’ nuggets and smileys, therefore you know how to bake a potato, roast a vegetable, put things in the oven other than processed nursery food. You also know this unless you didn’t go to school after the age of eight. You choose to ignore it because I suspect you enjoy being infantilised - is the reason your DH makes you separate meals when you don’t like what everyone else is having (which is pathetic in itself by the way and the kind of thing you might do for a small child going through a fussy phase) because you only like very plain, childlike foods, by any chance?

I also call bullshit on the food anxiety. If it was so severe you’d want to cook so as to have control over everything you eat.

Get a grip and set an example to your children.

kinsss · 19/01/2020 20:55

Uh oh, back to Judgement Day. Ah well, I salute the rebels like Allergic and me. And Spongeback...thanks for the invite, could do with a feast. LOL.

Good to have a little smile in the midst of so many downcast issues going on really.

DoreenSamuel · 19/01/2020 21:01

Guess what..... I just cooked supper!! I prepared homemade salmon fish cakes with salad- it tasted ok too! Hooray I feel like I’ve accomplished something at last

Screenburn your comment is unpleasant, unhelpful and rude, but I guess that was your intention-

Anyway onwards and upwards, tomorrow I’m making slow beef chunky chilli, there’s no stopping me now 😁

OP posts:
74NewStreet · 19/01/2020 21:08

When was your ability to cook after all revealed to you, op? Yesterday your limit was heating up smiley faces 🧐

Jux · 19/01/2020 21:08

YAY! Well done you!

CassandrasCastle · 19/01/2020 21:09

Oh lovely, that turned around extremely quickly... Grin

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 19/01/2020 21:13

So he is pulling his weight by helping with the meals and he gets a load of questions from you? Has he actually ever made you ill?

If you were doing the hoovering, how would you feel if he hovered over you and asked why you dont get right in that corner, or use this attachment, or says you are going to make him ill by not emptying it enough?

DoreenSamuel · 19/01/2020 21:13

Well I did have supervision and guidance but I think the problem was in my mind - I was closed to the idea. Obviously cooking is not hard, I just had no motivation but I have had a change of heart so hopefully this will continue

OP posts:
LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 19/01/2020 21:13

Oh l see ot has moved on Gin

DoreenSamuel · 19/01/2020 21:14

Ladytired we’ve moved on from that

OP posts:
fligglepige · 20/01/2020 00:48

OP just make sure you don't end up doing all the cooking and all the cleaning now that you've shown a bit of eagerness.

Poorolddaddypig · 20/01/2020 04:17

YABVU - or is this a reverse? I can’t be bothered to RTFT.

HeronLanyon · 20/01/2020 04:30

I would have thought the same thing about the bacon and would have asked. My dp would have answered. It must have been the way you said it op ? Or maybe you frequently question things and it’s just got him to the end of his tether ??

GiveHerHellFromUs · 20/01/2020 05:45

Guess what..... I just cooked supper!! I prepared homemade salmon fish cakes with salad- it tasted ok too!

Terrified of food poisoning- decides to cook fish as her first meals Grin

AllHeart1 · 20/01/2020 05:55

Sorry but you’r terrified of food poisoning and you just cooked fish cakes? I call bollocks.

I suspect that given you got a 98% YABU you’ve made this claim to appear better.

If you’ve never cooked anything there’s no way you’d be doing fish cakes as your first attempt. And I speak as someone who cooks regularly with a DP who does not....

Oh and it makes a mockery of the fact you claim to have anxiety over this - there are people who really do suffer from anxiety. Stop claiming a bit of paranoia to be anxiety when it’s clearly not.

CupoTeap · 20/01/2020 06:52

@BedSpringsGrin
@GiveHerHellFromUs Grin

Well done op, you've found the secret to everything- motivation. I was gonna suggest you cooked for him on valentines but he might not get a look in now you've started.

CrazyMeep · 20/01/2020 07:55

YABU but I completely understand as I also suffer with irrational phobias surrounding use by dates, germs and getting sick.
If he knows you suffer with this phobia, he is a little bit unreasonable to react the way he did.
I assume he's never poisoned you yet, so try and trust him that he knows what he's doing.
Oh, and no such thing as "can't", time to learn to cook!

PineappleDanish · 20/01/2020 07:59

so as I said I’ll stop questioning and stay out of the kitchen

No you won't. Because you have no intention of dealing with your food hang-ups and blind refusal to learn even the basics. Quite frankly I'd be embarrassed to be an adult and not be able to do more than shove freezer food in the oven. It really is quite pathetic, given the amount of cooking information you have online at the touch of a button.

Your poor DH.

GiveHerHellFromUs · 20/01/2020 08:01

@PineappleDanish you missed the update. It's all ok now because she's managed to learn to make fishcakes from scratch, because you know, you start with the easiest meals first Wink

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