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?

Do it for him when you cook

Yup but only for him

Grown men being deliberately shit so they can avoid doing household stuff is one of the most unattractive traits they can have. I can feel my fanny sewing itself shut.

Oh darling....

That's just taking the piss. Do you find him attractive? Nothing wilts my libido like a pathetic lazy man.

Wtf

Unless he's as thick as mince, he knows what a meal is.
Is he thick??

Ah, but was it a famed MN Chicken, which will feed all of you for a week?
🤣

He's beling deliberately obtuse. I bet never once in his life has he been given a 'meal' consisting of a slab of protein and nothing else. Send him back into the kitchen until he produces actual food.

Of course he knows what a meal is, he's had thousands in his lifetime. He's under no illusion that a ready cooked chicken is it, he's just too lazy and selfish to do even the bare minimum.

There are five of you in the household capable of cooking a meal (which for the hard of understanding, includes protein, vegetables and/or salad, often sauces/flavouring and carbs too).

I would start cooking a meal once a week and everyone else has to do the same. Then have one day of leftovers/easy food and then one of takeaway/eat out. Any day that the others don't produce any food, say you've done your turn that week and just do yourself something easy or go out to eat.

Infuriating that you've gone this long and it's not occurred to anyone else to provide food for the family to a decent standard or even at all. There was a good thread a few months ago where a woman in a similar position told her family she was going on strike until everyone else stepped up and did their share and they eventually got it. Sounds like you need to do the same.

No o e is actually that stupid.
Does he resent being asked to prepare a meal!
Is it his idea of humor?

Leave him with his chicken slab and go out for another meal by yourself.

Sadly not!

Weaponised incompetence. How completely unattractive.

I’m the world’s worst cook but still am intrigued that this was it- like you said not even some beans and chips, a salad or some bread rolls. Did he eat on through the silence?!

Brilliant!

What does he do in the house? And how stupid is he?

That's only acceptable for either

1. A dog
2. To pick at while watching tv when you get peckish after your proper meals have been eaten

Nobody can be this stupid, surely.

I think he was fine with it tbh.

Of course he isn't. He did this deliberately so that the op will stop asking him to do anything.

Forever? I hope the teens can cook ( or like eating out with just you ) because I’d be done!

Yup! I’d definitely stop serving food up to this wanker.

That would be more than he's done. Forget the butter, just give him a stale loaf of unsliced.

Divorce papers on top of a moron's guide to cooking as a tablemat might help focus his mind, though.

🤔😂

Yesterday I bought half a free range organic Chicken from Waitrose to share with the dog.

By the time we got home, I was too tired to cook, so just shared the chicken between us.

Dog didn't complain, but without buttery potatoes and veg it was a bit Spartan.

A rotisserie chicken between four adults isn't really acceptable unless it had crusty lovely bread and butter with it, and a salad and pickle at the very least.

Why can't your teenagers cook? Cooking is a life skill. Personally I would get off your husband's back and into the teenagers