Eating like a king at the weekend, pauper during the week

[Cravingasimplelife]

Not a pauper really, but, does anyone else spend more money/make *Better meals at the weekend and spend much less on dinners during the week.
Never really used to think like this until food and everything else became more expensive.
Now, we tend to either have a takeaway Fri or Saturday night (pizza usually) or I make a tachos/fajitas/curry type meal. Saturday and Sunday weve either had a lunch out or I make two better meals..meat based usually-lasagna, slow cooker stews, roast.
Then during the week I make simple pasta or just cheesy beans on toast, jacket potatoes with tuna etc.
Dd and Dh have cooked lunches at school/work, so I don’t feel too bad about giving something easy/cold type food during the week
Do others do this or is it weird?

It’s almost like it’s a treat now to eat something nice, I’d never consider that really about spag bok or lasagna before!

No not really just whatever the men in my life fancy and they would have a fit if I served a cold tea unless summer salad but with carbs and surely beans on toast is a lunch .most school dinners are small .but good on you if no one complains

@Fedupmumofadultsons

what about what YOU fancy? Surely that counts especially if it’s you doing the cooking!

I tend to eat more simply during the week but that's mainly due to a lack of motivation rather than anything else.

Not personally no, we're still able to shop as before. I think if we weren't, I'd be swapping the takeaway pizza for homemade and using the £ to spend a bit more on my weekday meals - I'd prefer that personally (never a huge fan of takeaway pizza!).

It's more about busy/not busy days for me rather than week/weekend days. I tend to eat out of boredom/for enjoyment rather than for hunger so, if I'm busy, I can get through the day eating very little/skipping 1-2 meals. But if I have nothing on I graze and eat a lot more.

What the men fancy?

Are you in the 1950's?

Sometimes I despair at women.

I was recently chatting to my aunty. She is 62 and she has a 40 year old son at home.

She said "I have to rush off. I have to get home to make dinner for Ian, he'll be wanting it in an hour",

her son.

He's 40!!!

No not really just whatever the men in my life fancy

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No, not really - just whatever the men in my life fancy - and they would have a fit if I served a cold tea

WTF?

@Fedupmumofadultsons tell them to cook their meals themselves if they don't like what you're making.

And FGS can't you choose what you'd like to eat? Why is it dictated by the men?

You realise that's not really a normal way to be?

Why don't they make dinner, if they're going to throw fits

For us it's a time thing. We both work full time & have a dc in university but living at home for now. So we're in at different times & tired by the time we get home. Midweek meals are a combination of quick easy & often inexpensive things like stirfry or frozen fish, veg & potatoes or curry, chilli, ragu, stew - things that we can cook double the quantities of & have it for 2 nights.

Weekends we often cook more complex , multipart dishes. Sometimes we get a takeaway & sometimes we're out for dinner.

Women don’t help themselves sometimes.

Back to the OP… yes we usually have something a bit nicer at the weekends, but that’s normally due to time rather than cash. In the week we have bolognese/stir fry etc whereas at the weekend we’ll put a bit more effort in.

We've always had more special meals at the weekends, when there's time to savour and enjoy them and indeed to cook them. Steaks, roasts, salmon en-croute, casseroles, lasagne, etc.

If making a casserole or lasagne, I always make enough for another evening meal during the week so it can be cooked and served quickly after work.

Typical weekday meals are: salmon fillets, chicken breasts, stir fry, omelette, home made burgers, lamb chops, bean stew, etc.

We have nicer, more expensive meals and also cheaper simpler meals different days of the week. Not because we can’t afford it, but it’s just not necessary and cooking nice food takes time.

That said, a takeaway and a meal out every weekend would just about cover the cost of our food shopping for the week! We are comfortably off, but a meal out is like a once a month treat and a takeaway is probably for someone’s birthday. Both are very expensive relative to the quality, which isn’t great.

I cook anything and everything, but on Sundays we quite often have a roast.

On Saturdays DH and I do all the housework, so we tend to have something quick in the evening.

During the week it depends what we fancy. We decide together.

As long as you do not have to do it, then what she chooses to do is her own affair. I hate this attitude that women should never do anything for their adult sons, without being called 1950s whatever.

I've bought steak for DD and DH tonight, and salmon for myself (although apparently 18oz wasn't enough, I thought it looked massive!)

Weekdays tend to be quick and easy.

I didn't say anything to her. But I see it as abusive.

Her son is a lazy slob. My aunty has had a heart attack , she is not well, and her son does nothing to help her, he has her running round after him.

But then why don't these women ever help themselves. I see too many women letting men (husbands and sons) treat them like shit

You think it's OK that the poster on here said the men in her house will have fits, if she doenst cook what they want?

It's abuse.

I tend to do more interesting meals at the weekend. In the week I can quite happily have simple meals, like omelettes, or fish, potatoes, and peas.

@Fedupmumofadultsons Well, if mine complained, they could make it themselves!
Dd has soup, main (fish, meat, vegetables and pasta/rice) and fruit for dessert for her lunch at school and Dh has a cooked lunch out and fruit, so something simple in the evenings-equivalent to an easy lunch seems ok?

We do but that’s because of logistics rather than money. Working and ferrying kids off to extra curricular means mid week is simple. Kids have fixtures at weekends but by mid afternoon we’re back and I get my cook on! I love cooking but I don’t want to spend my time batch cooking - I spend my time making a great meal with starters and desserts (from scratch).

I tend to make more complicated meals at the weekend or those that take longer to cook if we're not out, don't have time in the week, so week day meals are thinks like salmon new pots/jackets and green veg, spaghetti Bolognese (batch cooked previously), stir fries, sausage and root veg tray bake etc simple and quick/low effort, weekends I might do shakshuka for brunch, moussaka from scratch, a roast, tonight we're having turmeric and peppercorn curry with prawns and asparagus, with cucumber ginger relish - ottolenghi so about a million ingredients and not something I'm in the mood to throw together after work! We're more likely to have pudding at the weekend too. Beef casserole and dumplings on the menu tomorrow and DS has requested rice pudding

Even if the woman is in her sixties/seventies and is sick and weak, and the son is in his forties. And is healthy?

It's abuse. The women are letting it happen by never standing up for themselves. They seem to think that their adult son won't love them, if they don't do everything for them.

I actually stopped being friends with a man once, as i really didn't like how he was treating his mother.

He was 42 and she was 75. They didnt live together. He would have her running after him, doing everything for him. She would sometimes bring him shopping to his house.

I said to him "do you ever do anything for her?" And he said "no not at all. Im spoilt". I didn't like that selfish attitude.

Can I come over for dinner?

One eats like a king every day.

In fact, one is one! (guffaw, guffaw.)