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 )

At least yours are leaving soon.
DS moved back in after Uni. To start with he worked in an office and made sandwiches to take for lunch. He's since changed jobs and mostly WFH. At 1.00pm most days he appears in my kitchen and starts creating a multi ingredient creation for his lunch. Even when he settles for a sandwich it has to have at least 4 separate fillings. What's wrong with a ham OR cheese sandwich FGS. But frequently the frying pan comes out to cook eggs or bacon as part of his creation. Mostly he washes up after himself but rarely wipes the hob or worktop (no time as he only gets 1/2 for lunch apparently).

My son is 28. He came home for 2 weeks at Christmas.....he has finally found the door to open the dishwasher so he's progressing....the glass problem remains...he went last Friday and we are still finding them around the place. My husband (not the father) was very well house trained when I met him at 59 so there is hope.................

I've got my niece staying here at the moment since she came out of hospital and getting her to eat anything at all has been the issue, but the water glasses!

I've been letting it slide because she's been so ill but I'll need to start prodding this week I think.

I have two big square graters (family of five, lots of cheese required for certain meals 😂) and a pissy little triangular affair that's perfect for delicate one-meal-grating,

What irks me more that ANYTHING is when I need to cheese up a massive bastard lasagne or something and I've only got the twatting triangle left, and she's merrily sprinkled a fairly-like floof of cheese on her pasta mountain with one of my BIG SQUARES!

It does my absolute nut in, can you tell? 😂

@FrillyGoatFluff I also hide things in the veg/salad drawer!

Ds1 made the most delicious roast dinner for everyone yesterday and has baked a few times so more than happy for him to stay!

Ds2 does not seem to need to go back to uni until the end of the month

@ThinkingAgainAndAgain

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.

🤣🤣🤣

My 19 year old dD is back from uni. It seems we have to treat her like the prodigal child. She cannot lower herself to wash up and her room is gross. It was never acceptable before she went to have her room like that! She doesn't eat much lunch though. Too busy at her job or with her friend and she is really appreciating the home cooked meals like she never has before. To be honest I am going to miss her like mad when she goes again. She's a good kid

Solidarity!

Tbh I have one who loves to clean.
The downside is, she likes to clean to an extent it looks like no one lives here. Which just doesn't work right now.
I also reserve the right to have a wee cry at the silence when they are all gone.
I'll get over it though.

is she at university?

Yep. Why? On erasmus.

I'm mid 40s and I literally never have a sandwich for lunch

This week I've had Greek salad, mini aubergine slice pizzas with olives, melon parma ham and basil, courgette and feta fritters, baked Mediterranean eggs, baked potatoes with rackette cheese and lardons. Cooked meals but quick and light (apart from the cheesy ones!) My parents are definitely of the soup or sandwich brigade. For me, life is too short to have boring food. I'd rather spend an extra 10 min prepping and have something I'm going to love

Not really what this thread is about but don't think there is anything wrong with a cooked lunch (provided its cleared up)

Ah but at least that's a cheap basic eat @FrillyGoatFluff

You just need to introduce them to super noodle sandwiches now !

Oh yes this is mine.
‘Shall WE make butternut squash soup, what do you mean those no miso or bone broth? No, a Knorr tub thing will not do’
’There are only 3 avocados left and we seem to have eaten half a dozen eggs today’
A clean glass for every drink of water, to be left randomly around the house plus the water bottle must be carried at all times,

Roast chicken flavour on soft white bread. The food of the gods.

My 20-something DC live at home with me permanently, it seems. They both moved out for uni and work, and are now both back. They’re both very tidy.

Haha I can relate to this 😂
dd1 is home from uni and I love her enormously but my god I’m looking forward to her going again!!!
She’s so messy and I have to remind her constantly to hang her coat up and put her shoes away. I was going to the supermarket earlier and she requested specific ingredients for her to make us a lunch tomorrow, really sweet of her but it will get to lunch time and she’ll still be in bed so I’ll make a sandwich and eat it and she’ll wander down later and be bemused I didn’t wake her early! I don’t care about fancy lunches, I need to quickly eat and have a walk and get back to my desk 😂
She’s so indecisive about what she’s doing so when I ask if she’s in for dinner it’s usually a yes and then when we’re about to call everyone for dinner she’ll appear flustered and announce that she needs to go out to visit her friend who’s having a drama… this irks dh as he’s usually spent hours preparing and cooking a nice dinner for all of us…
Anyway, it is lovely to have her back but a week is enough and it’s approaching 3!

and always flipping eggs , eggs, eggs but never any of the sandwich stuff you have got in. The cat had a great feed on the best roast chicken slices yesterday!

I'm lucky in that one of mine is an excellent cook. I could keep him here much longer!

i hear ya. My 25 yr old likes veggies cooked to mush (as do i) but dh likes al dente
I am a sandwich kinda girl and she is pasta with sauce and cheese and a single slice of ham from next weeks packed lunch ham for dh and ....

but you know what? she's met a bloody American on holiday and is visiting him there with a view to movig there for a while so I will take all the mess ...

@DrinkFeckArseBrick how do you have time to do all that? And how does melon parma ham and basil fill you up?

Even if I wanted a hot meal at lunchtime, there's no way I can afford two proper meals a day. Lunch is just something to keep me going.

I feel your pain. I have had three of them here for over a week cooking huge breakfasts at 9am (logged on and working from home ha ha), Eggs/ avocado/sourdough/ tofu, spicy sauce things at 1330. Another huge meal with vegan/vege ingredients at 7.30pm.
Bare feet, T shirts, Pyjama bottoms and of course they are all cold.
Washing machine constantly on the go.
Trips to the gym/ Thai take away in my car and indignant if its not available.
Love them all and they give me a different perspective on life but ooooh I do want my house back.

@Goldypants GLASSES everywhere

This. Only today I was reminding my four that glasses are not single use items and they can either use the same one twice or, if that's too much to ask, at least (gasp) give one a rinse.

The simultaneous eyeroll and return to various devices was audible.

YABU, but only because my DC are still adorable toddlers and I can’t imagine wanting them gone yet.

The idea of them making their own lunch one day is appealing though. Or will they still splatter sauce everywhere when they ‘help’?

I'm ready for mine to fly the next, they still live here