To be pissed off that my DH is not going to McDonalds now and now I have to cook?

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DH was going out at 4pm to rake DS12's friend home. He suggested he get McD's on the way back for himself and the kids (he knows I have a salad prepared for myself and that I don't like McDs) I said great, I wont have to cook.
I was in the shower when he left so I rang him to check he knows what DD7 wants from MCDs. He said he doesn't want McDs any more, he's going to go to the new local chippy instead. I said but the kids don't like the chunky chips you get from the chippies and he said well he's not going to two different places.
I said great, I suppose I'll just have to cook them something.
He said he doesn't understand why I'm so bothered, I would have had to cook anyway icfhe hadn't suggested getting something and I said, because I wasn't expecting to, I'd written it off in my mind, I haven't thought of what to cook and it's now 16:20 on a school night.
He thinks I'm just being argumentative and that I should just cook or we shpuld just tell the kids to just eat the damn chips.

Who's right?

A school night describes a night when you have school the next day.

I think I'd still be annoyed. He suggested going to McDonald's (which he and the kids both like) then decided to go to the chippy instead (which only he likes). He said the kids should just eat from the chippy's even though he knows they don't like it.

Why do his preferences come above the children's?

Whatever he did in the end, his first thought was his whims were more important than his children's known dislikes.

Oh good cos I was so worried.

I don't understand why trivial stuff like this ends up on Mumsnet. If he's being an arse, tell him.

What!? 🤣

Edit; sorry, I see it’s been commented on already quite a few times. It was a bit funny though.

Gosh, McDonald's is s*. Raise your bar and you and your DH feed your kids properly.

They’re obviously not the same. I detest Mac Donald’s so I’m not basing this on flavour bias, they’re literally not the same type of chips.

But yes, the kids should either eat the chips or he should cook.

And actually, even if they are ‘fussy’, he should put the kids eating above his own desire for chip shop chips.

(Ps Mac Donald’s is terrible for children and he shouldn’t be feeding them it full stop.)

YABU in that you dont have to cook. Dinner was under his control, he has now changed it so he can supply something else. Personally I would have said 'yes go to the chippy'. If the kids dont eat it, they can mither him for something else all night.

I’d have given them the chip shop chips and told them they could like it or lump it. I’m a bit mean though; I don’t pander to fussy kids.

Oh seriously fuck off and get a grip. Everyone except you eats pizza now and again.

What difference does it make? Thats the dinner he wanted to get them.

He created a problem, he solved it, OP was happy not to have to cook, all is well.

Exactly this.

Fresh pizza - oh thats ok, once in a while, you know because we're all busy
Frozen pizza - thats child neglect!!!

Millions of Italians would disagree about how awful pizza is, in any fashion. Good wholesome food, carbs, fats, protein, easy to eat, tasty, cheap.

Loving the griping from folk determined to ignore the key part of the OP except for telling her the kids’ diets are crap 😂

He did go to two places, he’s rationale is perfectly ok as to why not two FF places.

He's done fine.

All’s well.

I think the hot weather is at play here and both your husband and you were a bit tetchy!

Glad all is well now.

“Head tilt”

Are you really?

My kids aren't fussed either way about McDonalds. They like it but they don't see it as a huge treat, especially my youngest. They are happier with a pizza.
A MCDonalds breakfast would be a different matter!

OP clearly stated they are having a salad, nothing to be concerned about Joan 👍🏼

All posts like this do is alert us to the fact that the poster has a very sad life, that they need to show their (imagined) superiority by trying to bring someone down. You're struggling somewhere in life, address it.

OP I agree with your kids that maccies fries and chippy chips are 2 very different entities, I’m not sure how much I’d fancy a chippy tea if I was looking forward to a maccies. Glad the pizzas made up for it!

YABU only because McDs is trash food.

I want better for you

On days like these we get a bga of chips from the chippee, pop to the coop and get burgers and buns and stick them under the grill.

McDonald’s is shit….everybody acknowledges it’s shit….but bloody hell sometimes you just want to eat super processed shit that you didn’t have to cook and nobody gets to judge that.

I'm with @Poonu here. Objectively MacDonalds is shit. No dietitian has a good word to say about it. I don't know why anyone would give it to their kids. And it's not snobby to like good-quality food; it's taking care of your kids and yourself in the same way that doing exercise or cleaning your teeth is taking care - with the caveat that those on very low incomes would struggle to afford decent food because crap food is artificially cheap, sadly.

I'm not struggling somewhere in life, thanks very much. I'm just fine.