Is this a meal?

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I cook 90% of the time. Today dh was in charge of Sunday lunch. He bought a roast chicken and put it on a plate. He thinks I'm ungrateful because I am pissed off. I always serve vegetables, salad, potatoes or fresh baguettes, never just one item. On Sundays, I usually make a dessert. I'm pissed off because he only "cooks" once a week and does the bare minimum. I want him to cook more but it's always so half-arsed. Aibu?

(Just to add - we are 2 adults and 3 teenagers so not even much food between us).

He literally cooked a chicken? Nothing else?!

Just a chicken? Nothing else?

Think he bought 8t ready cooked.

Sounds like he bought a ready cooked one.

Tell him that doesn't count as his cooked meal & he has to make another one, another day this week.

No it’s obviously not a meal. Tell him from me he’s a useless lump and stop using weaponised incompetence to get out of being an adult.

My 7 year old can make lunch. Why are you putting up with this????

Yes, just a 🐔! (Bought already cooked).

I’d expect at least salad or vegetables to go with it. Probably some kind of potatoes as well.

Your upcoming meals you cook should be;
plate of sausages
pile of mince
baked potatoes with no filling
dry bread roll
bowl of chicken stock
bowl of tomatoes
piece of fish

Just keep going until the penny drops. ‘I assumed you preferred a 1 ingredient meal as you are happy to serve this to us when it’s your turn. Enjoy your mince’.

Take yourself out for lunch. Then it's time for a proper talk. If he hates cooking, then he does all the laundry including changing the beds. Negotiate chores. I don't ask DH to cook because he'd be totally lost. He can feed himself simple things if I'm away, but a full meal would be overwhelming.

On Sundays, go out for lunch so you get a break.

In fact, go out right now, by yourself. Even a chippie in the car would be a treat, no?

Just a chicken on a plate? That's quite funny from the outside looking in but I appreciate not funny for you.

Bare minimum with a lunchtime chicken would be some salad and some nice warm buttered bread. Or some nice herby new potatoes and a bit of veg.

Next time you cook, literally just do a single item. If he moans, remind him of the Lone Sunday Chicken.

Edit: WAIT he didn't even cook the fecking thing? He served you a rotisserie chicken? Oh hell no, his dinners for the week would be Rustlers burgers!

If be bought just a cooked chicken already cooked and that was lunch then end then 100% YANBU I would be furious- that’s weaponised incompetence. Tomorrow night make chilli con carne but serve him just mince no flavour or sides - I’m petty and have no time for cavemen men

He has form. Once he served everyone a slice of ham and nothing else.... I thought I'd got through to him but obviously not.

Exactly! Even if he was being lazy, he could've bought ready made salads & some nice bread. What he did is not a meal, it's an invitation to an ass-kicking (TM Sally on Third Rock from the Sun).

Literally just a chicken 🐔 ?
That's just bizarre.
Hopefully this can go down as a family joke.

Jesus I take it back.
His meals are bread and butter for the rest of the week. Don't cater for him, at all. What a pathetic, lazy git.

Is he happy eating just chicken on a plate?

If he bought the chicken, it would have been no effort to also buy a couple of bagged salads.

Agree with posters who said he’s being deliberately incompetent. So he clearly needs more practise at getting food for the family.

How?

Hot, fresh from the shop, or pulled out of the fridge?

Was everyone sitting around waiting?

At what point did you realise "this is it"?

Didn't everyone take the piss? My kids, as teenagers, would have been merciless.

Has your husband ever eaten a meal before?

So many questions.

This made me laugh as I've just posted on the laundry thread....he can't be trusted with laundry either...

All of this!!

This is clearly designed to stop you asking him. It’s deliberate. Strategic incompetence.

I would be furious.

I’d be putting down a block of cheese or one hard boiled egg for my turns.

Please do this

Apparently!