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 )

I wondered when 3daywonder crimpits would get a mention

I remember being 20 odds. I used to buy 5 tins of soup for my lunch at work, all the same flavour, for months on end. And i probably had toast for dinner. Or something out another tin. No faff in those days and only 1 pan needed

Oh how this resonates. 25 year old vegan has just gone home after three weeks. 22 year old (plus boyfriend and impending baby) moved home for A MONTH, and is now making ‘it could be two years actually’ noises. Like you say OP every meal is a banquet. I asked her today what’s wrong with a sandwich, and she looked at me like I was speaking a different language.

Do everyone else’s eat out an awful lot too? Apparently they have no money, but there always seems to be enough for food.

I love you, my adult children but please go home now. I’m sure you feel the same.

I love that my teens can cook, but just eat a sandwich for crying out loud.

But sandwiches are so dull! Eggs on toast takes minutes and is infinitely superior imho. I am pleased to hear this make me one of the yoof

How are so many British people eating sandwiches for lunch - didn't you all get a hot meal at school? I was quite envious of this when I found out. Where I grew up , it was bagged tepid sandwiches every day - maybe this has put me off for life. And I also think of them as somehow a childish meal, although I admit I do pack my children off to holiday club with sandwiches - the great sandwich circle of life

I loathe the phrase "proper hot meal." Or "proper" anything really. By whose rules? A meal isn't more "proper" just because it's hot.

Tuna paste sandwiches with Stork margarine and a penguin. No wonder I was slim back then at school.

We did that last year, took it off to uni and haven't heard about it since !

Yes very proud they can cook, and cook meals from scratch but jeez the pans, drives me potty

Ds18 is home from Uni and having lived with a former chef in halls for a whole term now thinks that he’s Marco fucking Pierre White. Everything requires pans, dishwasher stacking is sporadic, each mouthful of water requires a different glass, toast is a no no. The uni breaks are way too long!

Ooh the joy of a dippy egg with toast!

LOL, because I love her!

Honey sandwiches with a packet of crisps and a penguin for me. It never did me any harm... <twitches>

😂😂😂

My DC were like this too. (When they came home from uni!) Don't know how I tolerated it for 4 years! 😆

I just have a scone, and a yogurt. Or a banana, and an egg custard tart (with a coffee!) Occasionally half a tin of soup and a slice of dry bread. Absolutely no need whatsoever to have cooked food for lunch. One cooked meal a day is enough.

Me and DH have a cooked meal for dinner (tea,) at around 6.00pm to 6.30pm. But whilst we do have cook-from-scratch/full cooked meals sometimes, we will sometimes just have jacket potato with baked beans and cheese, or a tin of spaghetti hoops and mini sausages on toast, or a pan of pasta with cheese grated over it, or cheese and tomato puree on toast..

Too many people eat more than they need. And no I am not doing competitive under-eating or trying to be a 'teeny-tiny' I just don't eat a huge amount of food - or massive amounts when I do! It's not a crime to not be a big eater.

YANBU @Goldypants

Bless 'em, they think they're doing us a huge favour by gracing us with their company. Little do they know 😉That is, until they have young adult kids of their own, of course. 😂

Bit unfair to say parents hate their adult children because we are finding solidarity in the exasperation of multiple glasses & noodles in the plug hole. It's not sad, it's life. Nobody is a robot.

I mean seal parents give their seal pups 3 weeks of their time...then they are out there on the ice fending for themselves and the seal parent doesn't give a backward glance. Just swims off.

I've done two decades of parenting. No chance of fucking off to an iceberg here - just rolling my eyes at the elaborate steak lunches whilst funding them through university and moaning a bit on Mumsnet. Shoot me for emotional neglect.

@321user123

like what?

Tell me about it , my oldest is 28 and youngest is 10. I've got years of this to go!

@Grendalsmum

Classic case of optimism over experience!!

Oh dear. My tween has recently announced that he wants to be a chef.

I'm doooomed! 🤣

What's not nutritious about a sandwich? It's got all the food groups - carbs, fats, protein, fruit or veg if you add a side salad, or have fruit afterwards. No less nutritious than pasta or a jacket potato.

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.

@VivaciousRadish

shes in for a shock when she has the baby! No time for elaborate lunches then!

Think one of mine became and looked like a vampire spent all night up playing online games so sadly hardly spoke.ppĺ We live rurally with crap bus services so constant lifts. Every fucking towel is used and draped over the banister to dry. Their rooms and the general house looks like we've been burgled. Ds3 bought £40 worth of juice and everyone's drank it 🤔and we've all nicked his Calvin klein pants !😂cold meat saved for a curry was pretty much all eaten. So had to go out and buy more food am sick yo the sight of supermarkets. Eldest goes on holiday tomorrow so 4 days of bliss! They've all gone! Yay!!

We do. However, back in times when my parents ate bigger dinners, we joined them quite happily. Nowadays they tend to eat bigger lunches and smaller dinners, so no luck on this front.

Anyway, there is nothing elaborate on simple pasta with tuna and vegs.