I’m very very ready for my young adult children to go home now ?

[Goldypants]

Case for the prosecution:

1. LUNCH. My GOD JUST HAVE A SANDWICH. Why can’t young people eat lunch food? Not pasta or bagels or cooked this or that
2. Inability to take the bins out
3. work calls that take up a whole room
4. GLASSES everywhere

I love them obviously. But they can go home now.

(They are any day )

“How do people have time to prepare, eat and clear up elaborate meals in the middle of the day? Don't they have other things to do? Not to mention all the shopping. And the cost.”

THIS!! Can anyone shed any light?!

@JingleSnowmanTree
That is DS2s basic life script! 😂

@moomoomoo27 With all due respect - bollocks.
I love them even more now their response to being thwarted in a shop is to chunter a bit and get over it, rather than fling themselves on the floor by the chiller cabinet and scream the place down ...

Oh dear god, I’ve just realised my partner of many years and father to our 2 children is attempting to impersonate a 20ish year old student!

Working from home full time, Pjs, Glasses everywhere, Lunch has to be a proper meal, Pans everywhere, no time to wash up, complains fridge is empty, I have to get the food, def no sandwiches. At least yours leaves after a few weeks he’s here permanently haha

My neighbour is thrilled that hers have finally gone home and taken their babies with them. 'It's lovely having them, of course,' she said, 'but oh my god the noise and fitting things around the naps and the floors booby-trapped with bloody toys and a bath full of plastic animals - where did THEY come from? - when I just wanted to get in it and have a wash. Now I've only got to do the washing and clean the rooms, as if I'm running a declasse B&B in my retirement!'

This puts finding half-drunk cups of stone cold tea hidden behind pot plants into perspective.

I just read this out loud to my DH who looked at me and said, yep! As it's exactly the same in our house with our two sons.

DH cooks, and as both will need to regret later he cooks things that can be reheated if that makes sense.

The only difference is the small portions bit... He looks masses so we all have a decent portion. Our food bill is off the charts.

And yes yes yes to their elaborate lunches, rice, chopped spring onion, chicken, blah blah, why can't they just have a bloody ham sandwich?

They are both protein obsessed.

I'm convinced this is the case and I was 100% guilty of it when I was in my 20s. I also went back to bickering with my brother. It passes.

Oh yes, the fresh fish! Mine has it delivered at ridiculous cost, as well as veal and anything else hard to find in our very small town.

Also the expensive bottled water, on repeat order and delivered by the crate every week.

Only ever shops in a deli, and my home-made bread, formerly deemed delicious, is now "OK for toast" since he's discovered their artisanal hand-made sourdough baguettes.

Today's lunch involved squid ink and black rice, and looked like a puddle that's almost dried up.😬

Good luck, you'll need it! On the plus side you might get dinner cooked for you every now and then.

I know what's wrong with your children - they've all become (mainland) Europeans! I live in France and two hot dinners a day is the norm and what my italian dh finds normal too. He worries if DD can't have a hot lunch for whatever reason. 🙄
I just have things on bread, because who can be arsed making two dinners a day? When DD is off school, I make one of the two daily dinners and he makes the other. 😁

Omg. Yes with obsessed with protein

Exactly! My DC used to pull their face and turn their nose up sometimes when we 'only' had oven chips and fried egg and sausage, or oven pizza and packet pasta, because they preferred much more elaborate and exotic shit! (That often took ages to prepare and cook!)

'I enjoy cooking nice fancy stuff and spending time doing it,' my older DD would crow (in her teens.) I said 'when you are middle aged - nearly 50 - and you have been slaving over a hot oven for 25-30 years, and have spend 20 years looking after children, possibly all whilst working an actual job and caring for elderly infirm parents; see if you want to spend half your waking hours in the bloody kitchen THEN!' 😐

I think that's why I CBA to cook 'proper ' meals half the time. Done it for 40 years now. CBA anymore!!!

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I think its great they want to eat proper cooked meal for lunch instead of a sandwich. British sandwiches are not very filling or healthy especially if they are made with supermarket white bread.

What? I don’t think @rochethenut was asking for an address.

LOL. I found that response odd too! 😆

I’m opinionated, especially about sandwiches for lunch..

Can I get a hook up for this job? 🤔🤔😂

Mine all left on Sunday and I was so ready fit peace. Now I miss them again!
Theyre very frugal types and I bet they eat leftovers in their own homes but here - no. Ignore the fridge full of stuff and make pasta.

Mine requested sushi and Bao Buns for lunch today. Back to Uni you go .

@AuntiesWoodenLeg

is your offspring minted??

I think you are lucky, mine could be happily eating cereal all day, day in, day out. It is making me a bit anxious, go figure what kind of rubbish he must be surviving on at uni.

And before anyone says I didn’t prepare him for real life, this kid has been cutting onions with a kitchen knife and preparing hot meals regularly since he was 7.

Towels. They use SO MANY TOWELS! Why can't they hang todays towel out to use tomorrow? Sometimes they use two a day! Multiply that by five and I am doing yet another wash. I love them, but it was time to go! LOL

Lots of my friends have emigrated- Australia, New Zealand, Canada... Try and enjoy them when they are home because one day, you might only see them once every couple of years... And then grandchildren the same...

Is this a student thing regardless of age? My DP is a mature student and for lunch will want something like proper pasta and a nice stir in tomato and mascarpone sauce that I'd only use for an evening meal!

You seem to be very proud or your very poor diet. Hope you realise this before you get ill.

I am genuily shocked that people find chicken and rice or pasta with tuna an elaborate lunch! god forbid with chopped spring onions on top of it.

Oh yes, some fancy thing seen on tik tok, jars of expensive oils and ingredients, the lot. I'm pleased she's a good and versatile cook now as she was a terribly picky eater as a child, but when she moved back in for a while I eventually stopped cooking for her in that if she wanted to eat what we had she was very welcome, otherwise she does her own thing. To be fair she keeps a very clean and tidy kitchen!

I have nowhere to put my new massive slow cooker because a whole kitchen cupboard is full of tubs of protein powder and shakers.
When they move out they are taking it with them!