AIBU to be a bit annoyed by DH attitude to Easter lunch?
He gets the meat out the packet and says ‘it stinks!’ But it seems fine so I say ‘well what do you expect it to smell like?’
He asks me to get carrots and potatoes ready. He’s bought chantaney carrots that are as small as thimbles with ingrained dirt. It takes ages to prepare them. He starts moaning I’m taking too long, standing there once I’m onto the potatoes waiting to be handed each potato once peeled so he can chop it. While telling me how he just chucked the same carrots in the pan last week and I liked them.
He moans there are too many potatoes they won’t fit (properly) on the cooking dish. Nevertheless they go in the oven on that dish, with the leg of lamb. The carrots get left on the side in their own dish because ‘there’s no point look at them it’s not enough even for one person’ he says. I put them in oven and say ‘we’ve done them now may as well have them.’
dinner is now in the oven, and I appreciate you may wish to vacate this sorry thread now but if not…
He has previously said no to peas but now says he wants mashed swede and asks can I go and look for frozen mashed swede at the co op. I say I’m not getting frozen veg now (12 noon today) but I’ll go look at shop to see what’s there. He’s also asked for red bull. I come back with said red bull among other things. And have managed to pick up some mashed root veg.
when I get back he’s straight on the red bull but whinging about the root veg asking to know the exact contents (he has no allergies). I tell him it’s 60% swede.
anyway… cut to the actual dinner.
he's making the gravy just beforehand and professes how much he hates making gravy. I say I could have done it.
He says the dinner looks bland and I say ‘well that’s because there’s no greens, you turned down peas.’
He starts saying the potatoes are under done. They weren’t.
Then he starts to say he thinks the lamb is off. I’m not a huge meat eater and fussy about meat, he knows this, so I say ‘well if it was don’t you think I’d notice?!’ (Seemed fine to me). I said to leave it if he thinks it’s off. He said it might be this particular bit as some bits on his plate seem fine. He actually got up from the table and started rummaging about over the other side of kitchen and when I asked what he was doing, he was taking the lamb package out of the bin to check the date to see if it was out of date. As if I’d feed my family out of date meat 🙄 he was the one who unpacked it in the first place so could have run his eye over the date then instead of going bin-diving mid meal! 🤦♀️
Anyway he eats the lot of meat on his plate while going on about how he knows it’s not off so he doesn’t know why it tastes off.
he finishes much sooner than myself and our child so he then gets up and starts noisily banging plates and cutlery, loading dishwasher
I actually said during dinner that he can buy his own meat from now on (I personally buy the large majority of our food which includes meats to satisfy him). And he replied that he’d be getting lots of takeaways then 🤔
Thanks for reading sorry lack of punctuation
AIBU to be a bit annoyed at him (and never ever wanting to do Easter dinner again)?