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 )

Hello Cod!!

Yeah, my son is in his early 20s, and he doesn't eat sandwiches for lunch. This doesn't bother me, though; he's a well-built man, and a sandwich would not be enough to fill him.
He doesn't live with me either; it's his need to control the television and which series I should "just try watching and see what I think of it" that bothers me. (feck off, I don't like anything related to Star Wars or a video game).

This is all of them. Including myself when I was that age and my son now.

my son will be off back to uni soon and then i will miss him. Even though all
Christmas he only came out of his room to jump out at me, eat, spend hours in the bath, and ask for money.

but then (and so thoughtful but not very well thought through) he booked me a long weekend away In March to Turkey. Let’s hope I can have the time off work and my renewed passport arrives on time 🤦‍♂️

I make the most of the nonsense (every now and again I do Grrrrrrr!) but It’s nice they have somewhere where they can still feel somewhat like a kid. That time will run out for them soon. I mean by 21 they should grow out of all that.

Oh my goodness this !!
and if they were forced to have a sandwich, would they ever consider a tomato one, or salad? Nope, has to be expensive meat.

and the time and expense! I have two bits of pitta bread for lunch (50p for six so about 16p plus a cheap filling eg cottage cheese/tinned fish etc and some fruit = total cost of approx 50p?). Time taken to make and eat = 10 mins. Washing-up = 2 mins.

Going into my teen son's bedroom was like a trip to IKEA; I was never quite sure what I'd come out with (tea towels, glasses, cutlery, plates etc.) 😬

Congraulations on successfully retelling someone else's joke upthread as your own.

The hours, days, week, years I’ve spent on MN - aaaagh! I think it must be 20 years

I always laugh the hollowest of laughs when I see parents of younger dc trumpeting about their meal plans and allocation of one slice of bread and a tenth of a chicken breast per person per meal. This parsimonious draconian system lasts precisely… not very long. Teens/young people do not do reenactment of Rationing…

Sandwiches are often nutrionally lacking and leave you feeling hungry an hour or so later - youngsters nowadays are smart and care about their bodies enough to actually eat proper food containing all the neccessary protien and macronutrients,instead of filling themselves up with bread. This is only a good sign you have brought them up with healthy "self love" ideals. If you can only look past the mess, you should be proud of them! Demand they clean up after themselves and share the food though!😁

Sandwiches’ nutritional value depends entirely on their filling. The bread’s merely a convenient vehicle for it. A mixture of protein (meat, fish, cheese, egg), fat (butter, plant based spread, cream cheese, avocado)and a vegetable of some kind is having a perfectly balanced light meal. Every meal of the day doesn’t need to be perfect as long as nutritional balance is achieved overall.

Mine's only 13 & making himself pasta for lunch 🫣. Leaves behind pans, plates, dried pasta on the counter & cooker cos it spilled over when pouring it out.

But at least I don't have to make it anymore, just clean up after.

Oh, and don't get me on the amount of plates, glasses & teaspoons in his room! 🤣

This! You’ve said it so much better than I ever could!

Please explain the nutritional differnce between a tuna sandwich and tuna pasta.

I think you’re all missing the point of this thread,

a) it’s fun and
b) sandwiches. Just an example of a simple meal

No need to get all Gillian mcKeith

Thought of this thread today when SD and her BF were in the kitchen trying to get some breakfast for themselves. Despite the fact I have a " breakfast cupboard" it seems that that is not enough.Every counter top covered. Asking for things that we don't have, not eating the stuff they used to eat eg Oatly milk - now untouched. Microwave going, coffee machine going but then need ice cubes . It drives me nuts so I leave them to it. Takes them half an hour and that's before lunch. "What are we having for lunch?" 😂

My dd asks me the night before what are my plans for breakfast the next day 😩. At that age I just put on a piece of toast and the conundrum might have been jam or marmalade but there was no planning required 12 hours in advance!

Seriously this younger generation are very obsessed with food in some way - there was none of this seeking out coffee shops for that ultimate coffee. They're all much the same in the end😂Growing up in the 1960s you were very happy with what you got1

Oh, my people are here!

Still one more week until uni return here.

1. Is nocturnal, shouting away till 3am about games with friends.
2. Up at lunchtime at which point we are told that breakfast has been missed (our hotel does not have the right service hours) and they lurk in our vicinity hoping to be made lunch. If we don’t offer, as they are a 21 year old capable of independent living, they will empty the fridge of anything that can be eaten cold. Or snacks. Endless snacks.
3. We have been told off for not having Japanese steel knives, even though the only thing they cook is a chili dish that takes hours and requires the cutting of one onion.
4. We have been instructed to descale our kettle and make our fridge less humid.
5. There are cans, bottles and glasses everywhere.
6. They wolf down an evening meal with us (we have enforced a washing up contribution which is done with puffing and sighing) but we know the real eating happens in the middle of the night, so anything we need the next day must be hidden.
7. The ramen pot noodles. Them.
8. If we are not around to cook, a pizza will arrive at the house every day even if the freezer is stuffed with things that just need ramming in the oven. At least they pay for those.

I'm fully behind all the nutrition and eating real food cooked from scratch.

Honestly I am.

I'm also completely in favour of eating leftovers for lunch rather than cooking another whole big thing.

My niece's friends came to visit her while she recuperates with us and cooked us an amazing meal.

DEAR GOD THE GLASSES THOUGH!

THE GLASSES. >weeps<

In the absence of being able to indicate which posts I like I have to post my comment. The one expressing that sandwiches are somehow lacking is rubbish. And the comment asking what is the difference between a tuna sandwich and tuna pasta is very sensible.

It's so weird how some posters are seemingly enjoying telling us about their kids protein, sushi, and overall healthy eating. It's like you're supposedly moaning but secretly you're very pleased with yourselves that your kid is 'above cheese sandwiches'

Very odd. It's sushi, not travelling business class. Calm down.

Here to report one more issue that has been raised with us. Asking them to listen out for the door while we’re out as we’re expecting someone to come and sort something out in the bathroom is essentially a breach of human rights as it involves not wearing headphones (in an empty house). Potentially for 2-3 hours.

That's your interpretation.
Maybe you need to calm down

I'd just cleared up the kitchen - emptied the dishwasher, dried and put away a lot of other stuff that an adult DC had managed to wash up (👍), washed up and put away (or put in dishwasher, depending) another load of stuff that was lying around, washed up and put away a cup with dried-on dodginess left behind the kettle, and finally began to get my own lunch.

And in came an adult DD, got a mug I had just put back, had a quick drink of water, and dumped the mug on the lovely empty worktop. Dishwasher! The dishwasher is JUST THERE. What is stopping you?

Next time I go and stay with her, I will leave tactical mugs around her tidy tasteful home....