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To think that of your 12 year old makes dinner

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BlackShoes · 26/08/2022 22:00

The only correct response is "thank you"?

Dd made dinner for 5 tonight. Pork loin chops, corn cobs, broccoli, and roasted courgette and tomato in garlic.
DOD all the prep, timings and everything.
Dh was trying to be a spoony fucker, telling her she should do this and that, this was overcooking etc and she roundly said to stop "backseat cooking" and leave her to it.
The dog subsequently ate one of the chops while dd was in the loo and dh was in the kitchen.
Later, dd served up the chops but not the veg, but as she is having trouble with her tummy, popped to the loo again quickly. Dh commented that we were obviously having cold dinner tonight. I told him.tonshish, she has gone to a lot of effort for everyone and if his is too cold, pop it in the microwave.
Once dd was back and served up, she took one plate up to ds upstairs, put one plate aside for other ds whonwas ar work, and told DJ to come down and get his (he was upstairs by this point). Dh said, can you bring me mine like you did ds? Dd responded with no, you have been talking shit to me all night and I am not your slave.
Dh came down, looked at the dinner and said "wheres the rest of it?" meaning there wasnt enough and she had left off the tomatoes and chop. She explained that she had left the tomatoes off because she didn't think they were good enough. She had also taken the chop off his plate to replace the missing chop for (upstairs) ds as dh had been commenting in the cooking of it, so he was the one who could miss out. He then questioned why ds (the one working) got two pieces of garlic bread and he didnt. Dd explained that ds didnt have a chop (vegetarian) and had also not eaten lunch as we were out and had gone straight to work without eating so would be hungry. He complained he was the one that needed the most calories in the house.
Anyway, he needed up flopping the plate of dinner on to the couch and stating nah dont want it now and storming upstairs remarking he would just make his own.
Later he came down and went to take his plate off the couch to eat it, and found most of it gone as dd had fed it to the dog. He was then annoyed about that, even though he said he didnt want it!
Aibu to think he should have just 1)warmed int up if needed 2)just damn well said thank you and 3)if he was still hungry, make something else later and 4) not then stropped that dd fed his "unwanted" dinner to the dog!

OP posts:
Snazzysausage · 28/08/2022 17:36

Your husband sounds like a childish pillock,your daughter sounds great. Ok,the quantities didn't quite work out but it was planned to be a balanced meal of meat and veg. Your daughter can come and practice her cooking skills in my kitchen anytime she wants!

BabyDreamers · 28/08/2022 17:42

Sounds absolutely awful. Poor DD. Hope you stick up for her when he treats her like shit.

Notabigfan · 29/08/2022 02:30

Exactly this - who of us can say we haven’t had a meal go wrong whilst cooking it, or not served up a certain ingredient? My mum, who is a fantastic cook, once accidentally served pink chicken at a family dinner. It happens - we chuckled, maybe lightly took the piss for a minute, then didn’t eat it and enjoyed the sides and other bits instead. The rest of the meal was lovely.

Also, will an adult male really expire if he only eats garlic bread and veg for one night? I’m sure the vegetarian wouldn’t let himself go without protein on a daily basis. Personally, I wouldn’t have not given my dad a pork chop, but then my dad’s never been a prick to me, so there’s that.

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