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 )

@Ohyoudodoyou

DS is going to have a ramen bowl shaped birthday cake this year. Might add some ramen print homeware to his birthday presents I have bought for a laugh. 😂😂

My DH (36) has this with food and it drives me mental.
Every meal has to be something he really fancies and something really nice. The concept of just eating something a bit plain and boring to stop himself being hungry is so offensive to him.
Every meal is also either super complicated and time consuming or very expensive. We have two toddlers and honestly it drives me batty. I just eat what I can when I can with the kids but he’ll starve himself all day if he’s not given time to prepare a charcuterie board to his standards

I think that they dozily shuffle
Out to the recycling bin whilst talking to their friends and chuck the cutlery in the food recycling bin along with all the mounds of wastage from these extravagant lunches.
The compost heaps at the local council probably have mounds of cutlery embedded in them.

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Your kids are doing well. When I was at uni I'd just eat an ice cream for lunch as we had the best dairy (cornershop for you Brits) at the end of our street and you could get a massive ice cream for $1.

Making an elaborate lunch would have pissed off my Mum too, but only on the first day. She'd have made us cook for her too after that.

Enjoy the freedom when they head off again, OP!

Yep we have all
Of those tumbling out of the cupboards alongside Al the other things they've picked up at the Korean supermarkets.

I have found my people.

Christmas eve. DS2 needing to make Miso soup in the dark depths of the night and then traipsing around the teeny co-op attached to the very rural 24 hour services and complaining that they didn't have any seaweed ...

Welcome.

My eldest resents everything I say and do, makes a mess, cooks noodles and other hot meals for her lunch but I still hope she never moves out!

Sourdough! Poached eggs! Chili flakes. With everything…

It is totally ok to have proper lunch and smaller dinner, it is healthier than the other way round.

In my area I can get full meal with lunch-time discount, both when working from home and from the office, so I eat my lunch with my partner or colleagues.
I suppose this lifestyle choice is more practical for childfree people, but it is totally valid.

There is no virtue in eating sandwiches.

We need a whole new thread about jobs our kids have, and what they think we think about them

Oh this is genius! Everyone in my family is getting a tiny grater in their stocking next year!

I made sandwiches for lunch today. DS2 (in Reception) says 'I usually have pasta with salad on Mondays'. DD (6) says 'I usually have sausage and mash with carrots'. DS1 (9) says 'I get extra mash because I don't have the carrots'. They had a cheese and tomato sandwich today with baked apple and custard to follow. DS2 'I don't like apples with their jackets still on'. He ate it.

@AuntiesWoodenLeg

”and worst of all, never offering any of it to their mum!”

how selfish

@greensleevez

why?!

I see your seaweed and raise you FRESH anchovies.
No, not tinned. Not in a jar.
FRESH.
On Xmas eve.
I did get a right good laugh out of that one.

I think there is more choice these days and kids have got used to it. Also, did you grow up eating sandwiches for lunch? Were their canteens at school? Canteens serve them a proper hot meal these days.

I didn’t grow up in the UK, we had a proper hot meal for lunch, but lighter meal or snack for dinner. I hate sandwiches for lunch unless is a really nice one but happy with a soup and salad too.

DH grew up with sandwiches for lunch so still happy with it but likes a hot meal for dinner.

Ds(17) made ramen with leftover roast beef and poached eggs for lunch lol.. to be fair it did look pretty smart! Also to be fair, 40 year old me stayed with my own dm this summer, and moaned about the lack of herbs and spices while she moaned about my bouji cooking 😂 (albeit no sandwiches in her house as she doesn’t eat bread).

Hang on...

The number of Crimpits ordered for our older kids on the Christmas thread and nobody has mentioned Crimpiting for lunches? 😯

If you have glasses everywhere, you have too many glasses. We have 8 glasses and 6 mugs total, and if someone wants one after that they need to do some hunting down and washing up for exactly this reason. You learn it in the uni years where 4-6 people houseshare and everyone gets a bumper set of glasses for the shared kitchen and within a few weeks every surface is covered with used glasses.

And taking the bins out in someone else's house is weird, even if parents. Mine would take it as an insult if I did it in their house because they'd take it as me doing it passive-aggressively.

My theory is that parents love their kids less the older they get. They try to justify every single stage as a difficult stage and it'll pass. Then they're older and hate their grown up children even more, because they're never good enough in one way or another. Then they look back and think the younger years weren't so bad after all, even though they hated the stages at the time. It's sad really.

Eh?

My theory is that parents love their kids less the older they get.

So that’s happened to you @moomoomoo27 with your children?

😳i have no memory of writing this. The children have been video calling on my phone, I blame them. I hope I didn't waste too much of your life trying to decipher my cryptic commentary!

Oh, they don't have a smaller dinner just because they've had an elaborate lunch!