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?

Does he have a phobia of cooking…or…?

He just can't be arsed. You know the story of The Little Red Hen? I really should have paid more attention...

You do you, let him do him. If you don't like it his way, do it yourself.

No it's not a meal and he needs a Father Ted style kick up the bum 😉

And microwave all of the above 😅

Did you just pull bits off it , eat and then wander off.

So basically if I want a decent meal I can't expect the other adult in the house to ever provide it?

Pretty much. 😆

This OP!
Or cook something nice for everyone else, just not him.
If he tries to touch any of other food, just exclaim that he shouldn't force himself... he obviously really likes only 1 ingredient meals so he can just eat those.

In a busy household where people might not all sit down to eat at the same time or independent teenagers changing plans and going out to eat, I can understand him presenting the chicken and everyone then helps themselves and makes their own salad/sandwich or vegetable accompaniments.

But it sounds like you do all sit down to eat together so it was a piss poor effort by him.

My DH did something similar early in our marriage. He cooked a roast all day and then just served that. Just the meat. Absolutely nothing else. No gravy, no bread, no vegetables, nothing.

his argument is that is all he actually eats when someone else cooks this particular roast. He sees no point in making anything else.

my argument was he should have warned me that was all he was making. I could then have had the choice to make or buy something to accompany it.

I was gonna suggest just shoving a pork pie in front of him for the next meal but I’m guessing he’d probably eat it and get on with his day 😂

Just bread, surely.

He is deliberately trying to be incompetent so you will do it all the time. Lazy arsehole

Weaponised incompetence.

Google weaponised incompetence OP..

Nothing wrong with cheating and buying a rotisserie chicken (though for 5 people I would buy extra as they are small) but I serve bagged salad, coleslaw, decent bread, maybe other prepared salads too.

Just chicken isn't a meal

@mydamnfootstuckinthedoor "You do you, let him do him. If you don't like it his way, do it yourself."

Jesus Christ, the bar is low for men. He's feeding a fucking family!

This is weaponised incompetence OP. I wouldn't let him get away with it. Order take out for you and the kids, let him eat the chicken. The only serve him 1 part of any full meal that you cook for you and the kids moving forward.

Exactly. I do buy rotisserie chickens myself, but I get 1 1/2 for 5 of us.

What does he do? Does he work and you don't? I'd be divorcing such a nasty piece of work.

Definitely no prep meals from now on. Give the kids a separate meal earlier if possible.

I like block of cheese, rustler burger (though strictly that is cooked). Can I also suggest :

More rotisserie chicken but serve it with a pack of tomatoes and a whole lettuce and a whole cucumber. Push the boat out. Or serve the whole salads with a pack of ham or other sliced meat. Can you get pre cooked fish and sausages?

2 whole precooked quiche

Ditto pre made frittata (you can always micro your slice.

Will you eat raw carrot and raw cauliflower? These would make good additions maybe with a tin of tuna

Edited to add shove a loaf of bread on the table(unbuttered) with a block of cheese.

Apples and crackers

Cheese and crackers

Do this until he cooks a meal

So he went out to buy a rotisserie chicken, but didn't think to pick up some salad and bread to go with it?

What a strange person.

‘They divorced over a rotisserie chicken’

He does 10% of meals and they are like this? You are one patient woman. It must be horrible for your children to live like this and put up with the fall out of his choice to be so passive aggressive and yours to put up with it,but also to see you upset and angry about it. What are you going to do about it?

Next time you cook only give him one part of the meal.
While the rest of you have the sides etc.
Also start getting your teens to cook as well.