to find cooking, shopping for food and clearing up unbelievable dull at times?

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When it comes to the week end I just think, why can't we have beans on toast for supper/tea once and a while???!! Just sometimes! But dh has such an enormous appetite that some great galloping piece of protein must always be slaughtered prepared and served up for him to feel satisfied!

When he's away ds and I have soup and snacks and salad etc not such great MEALS all the time!

Forgive moan I just seem to spend all my time buying food, preaparing it clearing it up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I totally agree.

I was a bit annoyed this week as I did the weekly shop and then DH announced he was doing late shifts so I didnt need half the things I had bought!!

I have put most of the stuff in the freezer for next week and had scrambled egg on toast, cheese and biscuits and chicken and veg so far.

tonight we are just having pasta and pesto but if DH was here I would feel obliged to do more (esp as it is Saturday)

Oh God, yes. I have been doing it for over 30 years.............

i dont mind the shopping
but the cooking, clearing up then all over agin hamster wheel - dullness. hate it...

but i am single mum so i guess i make my own decisions which is great, we often have omlette and beans, egg and chips, at the weekends obviously after a week packed full of more nutrious things

It is not so much the dullness that gets to me but the constant criticism of just about eveything I cook from the the DCs. It truly is a thankless task.

My dp will do the shopping, make meals and clear up.

Get yours on to it.

When its your turn make beans on toast, tell him when its his turn he can make what he wants.

Oh yes. Every Sunday I clean my house from top to bottom, hating every minute of it.

Come Tuesday its a mess and stinks. (have a problem with a stray cat coming in at present, my house smells truly awful from cat spray ).

Why do I bother?

In fact I may ask about this on the pets section.

I think you're being totally unreasonable.

I find cooking, shopping for food and clearing up scintilating and stimulating all the time and never ever get bored or fed up.

dull dull dull

Ipanema girl, I cheat on shopping days by buying crusty bread and salad stuff and 1 steak for DH.

I can pan fry the steak in the time it takes to slice the bread and plate the salad. There's only one pan to clean.

I always find dusting particularly pointless. You blink and it's back, and it seems that I'm the only one who can see it

Can DH not cook sometimes? Doesn't seem fair if you're doing it all, and mainly for his benefit.

Buy ready cooked chicken for your DH, I do for DP cos he's always starving, and if I can't be bothered to cook a huge meal it's tough, he can do it himself or find something to snack on.

Lyra - my DH does cook but for other people - he is a chef! He does 5 evenings a week so the DCs are treated to my efforts. DH does cook on his days off but we tend to split it 50/50 then.

FWIW my DH says it is far more stressful to cook for DCs than for busy Saturday night restaurant. So we all deserve a pat on the back.

LOL Broccolispears! Much appreciate all these posts! Dusting! It is truly the most thankless task. I wish I could be my mother in law. Her house is totally organised, there's a place for everything and everything is in its place you know what I mean.

Dh does cook sometimes but rarely does the clearing up! Today he reheated the rest of yesterday's lasagne and made a salad for the three of us but all the clearing up was left to moi!

I just am so bored by the planning and cooking because I would just
LOVE
TO
EAT
LESS!!! I need to get interested in some different menu ideas, I'm fantastically bored with my same old menus.girlfrommars good idea with the steak. And the cooked chicken is a good one too.

I would rather graze and have soup and a little of this and that and less humungous great enormous piles of FOOD.

But he does not consider pasta pesto a meal! It has to have some kind of serious meat or fish. I very occasionally pull of a fully vegetarian meal but it's rare!

If he is desperate to eat some meat, get him to cook korean barbecue. It is a real man's thing...though I ate TONNES of it tonight (EDD is Monday, am obviously building strength for pushing...)

Marinate some tender beef in soy sauce, garlic, rice wine vinegar, ginger etc for a bit, then just literally hurl into a ragingly hot wok for a few seconds, best done outside on a gas barbie, DP was in his element tonight singeing the woodwork on the shed. Then the delicious meat is just wrapped in an iceberg lettuce leave and eaten. Yum.

Then you can combine it with things you want to eat, have bit of a mish-mash meal. Or just have some simple veg like asparagus and new potatoes.

EVERYTHING becomes dull at times if you have to repeat it over and over.

i'm 13 weeks and still sick, so those poor girls are eating some pretty boring stuff right about now.

hi all im new and just getting used to this so bare with me yes totally agreed cleaning cooking tidying never stops (smile)

good suggestion woollym. I think I just need to revive my menu with some new stuff. I was hugely motivated when I made souvlakia recently a la NIgel Slater. Very thrilling making something so spicy. Never have been that adventurous with spice in the past.

Cleared up a 'glory hole' in my kitchen today. Area of counter just covered in paper and felt elated as if someone had feng shuied my whole head!

I would love to be cleaner and tidier because when the house is straight (only when people are coming to stay do I pull it off!) I am so calm and it makes me so happy that I don't understand why I can't keep it up. I think it is some kind of congenital laziness that I presume must be my parents' fault. I'd just hate to have to blame myself!!!

Oh yes I agree.

I actually like cooking but the relentlessness of it...I mean you'd think they could all give it a miss for a few days and just forage about in the park for some acorns and toadstools to give us a break now and again.

When dc were small there was the added joy of shopping for it, cooking it, then ten minutes later scraping it off the carpet. I used to think about cutting out the middle man and just dump the lot on the dining room floor to save time.

As far as cleaning goes the best quote I have ever heard was from Joan Rivers who said something along the lines of "the problem with housework is you get everything clean and tidy and then you have to do it again in SIX months time". I wish.

i blame my parents too, their house is still a pigsty, never improved when i left home and i thought i was messy! DP keeps me in check, but to be honest i only do a thorough job when fine company is expected

LOL tsarchasm
woolymummy - my mother is v tidy but not super CLEAN like my mil, you could eat safely off every surface in her whole house.
My mother - she doesn't have a dish washer and the first thing I do when I get to her place is wash and dry all the glasses properly! She is getting on a bit but puhlease mother! wash the glasses!
Just did a shopping list. Have excited myself partially with a weight watchers moroccan spiced lamb dish... we'll see how it goes down with the troops.

Have a friend coming to eat with us tonight (roasted vegetables and pasta) but she hardly ever brings anything and she never has us over there! I do resent it slightly, she could bring pudding now and then - that would be great.
AND she still hasn't given us a wedding present and we got married in 2004!

Got off track there a bit!

I am on mumsnet when I should be cleaning up after the weekend! I only clean really well when my MIL is coming round, she would never complain but the contrast between her standards and mine makes me self- conscious.
doing housework makes my brain feel itchy, but for some reason i love gardening!

Why do you entertain her then Ipa?

she's my best mate! She's also a single gal, always has been, mostly out of work at the moment, watching the money. I mean I'm her friend. I just wish she'd bring some food sometime. It's tight of me, I know, but she's the queen of Tight!
NOT kind of me!