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 )

Nooooo. When mine go home I'll have to do the washing up again. He's been doing it all for the last 2 weeks. Although he does discuss American politics constantly.

It is just such a faff. I come in from working from early morning and I have a quick sandwich at my desk or even a scone just to keep me going but they expect me to come in the door and boil up water and take out pots and pans and air fryers. Fuck off. Put some crisps on bread and be happy! I mean lunch 'in my day' was a sandwich or soup, if you were lucky a pot noodle but they will not entertain any of them. And the amount of cheeses and crackers in this house not being used either. I used to love cheese tomato and spring onion on crackers. No hassle to my folks, no pots being used, just a sideplate and a knife.

I bought a table top dishwasher a couple of weeks ago, that solved that problem 🤣

Oh I feel so much better knowing 1st year uni DD is "normal" with the lunch stuff! At her age I had a sandwich or toast or maybe a tin of heinz soup or a toasties. But all such suggestions are met with scorn!
I'm so tired of spending so much money on food. I've told DH we're eating out the cupboards when she goes back!

I’m 41 and don’t like a sandwich for lunch - at the minimum I like a jacket potato with two fillings and a salad or a panini

My son will sometimes comes over for the day if his wife is working and will say - just put a Sirloin in the airfryer and I will have have it with a sourdough roll from Marks. Doesn't bring it with him though. 😐 Bet he only has a sandwich at home.

In one term at uni, mine has decided that he doesn't eat lots of things which he's eaten for at least the last 16 years. My life is full of "but I don't eat that now". He's not become veggie/ vegan/ whatever, he just now doesn't eat things... He's also basically nocturnal. Only 3 weeks to go.

Whatever happened to toast for lunch? Beans on it, eggs on it, jam on it. I mean that was the hot lunch I would have been given. That said they had toast for breakfast...

Or banana sandwiches! We got them as kids. Or peanut butter or if we were really lucky a chocolate spread sandwich. The more I think of it the more I think I am bringing the sandwich back in this house.

Isn't a bagel the same concept as a sandwich?

I thought teaching mine to cook was a life skill. Turns out it has massively bit me on the arse judging by the constant state of my kitchen. Anyone with younger children reading this - just let them learn when they go to uni!

When my DF retired he told DM that he never wanted a sandwich ever again; he'd had them for lunch every day for 50 years.

I agreed with him, & still avoid them unless they're full of forrin fings.

I have this but with 15yo DS who is off school until mocks start next week. We have plenty of pate and cheese in the fridge that didn’t get eaten between Christmas and new year, as I’d thought it would. Plenty of bread to have toast with the pate. And biscuits to have with the cheese.

We popped into town this morning to get some bits, and he made a beeline for the sushi counter in M&S. Said he fancied sushi for lunch. as a change. £10.75 it was. Budget didn’t stretch to £10.75 times three for him, me and DH to have sushi, so DH and I had the leftover Tesco pate and toast, and he had the sushi. If my mum had been here, her eyebrows would have been so high they’d be on the ceiling.

Hahaha glad it's not just me.

DD is late twenties and when she's here she gazes into the fridge every day going "have we got anything nice for lunch?" Like she's expecting me to have a fully prepped chicken salad waiting in a bowl for her. God knows what she eats when she's at home.

I also have to have a regular glass amnesty and spend the whole time she's here picking up random keys/coats/shoes/laptop chargers and trying to keep them all in one place so she doesn't leave them here.

😂😂😂

I'm with your mum. No one would have been having bloody sushi!

I also suggested soup for lunch today to the youngest (who doesn’t have to go back to uni for a fortnight). After some deliberation he said “sometimes I’m in a soup mood, but not today, thanks”! After more deliberation he was apparently in a boiled eggs with soldiers mood! I just eat leftovers or whatever’s to hand for lunch. I can’t say it’s a meal I ponder that much about!

WTF has this lunch thing come from?!? My DC are mid twenties. Pretty sure they eat normal things for lunch. I'll have to ask now!!

Who has time to be making elaborate things for lunch everyday!

I’m actually nose laughing at you all saying “elaborate lunches “ 😂😂😂

Yep I'm with you on the hot lunches. Or reheating last night's leftover chilli or casserole for lunch. Which is fine but I had that earmarked for dinner so I don't have to cook. I have never seen either of my daughters make themselves a sandwich. They're mid/late 20s.

Dead at soup mood

@ThinkingAgainAndAgain soooo funny

When my mum hit about 70, she’s 86 now, she said she was bored of thinking lots of tea. She’s been thinking about it for 40 years and she’s out of ideas.

Sorry but sandwiches aren’t lunch food.

it is normalised, but you should really be eating something more nutritious.

Oh I love this thread to realise it's a 'thing' - this is a new thing here with dd18 (first year uni) and bf19 staying first. They make lunch about 3-4 and it's always a full on meal - all the food I bought to make proper dinners has gone on lunches - I'll have to go to the shop in the morning. I only have light lunches, toast or something.

And the mess - it's not terrible but it's a small trail of destruction. I think they think they've cleared up. And the towels draped everywhere and the endless use of the bathroom.

If only the rain would stop - maybe they'd get up in day light and leave the house....

They’re not starving. All athletic and huge