AIBU to make a roast when my daughter asked me not to?

[TURTLE74]

Adult daughter 22 is not a fan of roast dinners. She asked me if I could not do a roast dinner today and make something else which I agreed to. However I had a chicken in freezer that needed using up today but I did make a pasta bake which is something she likes as an alternative. I like to make a family dinner on a Sunday for us all. Daughter was disappointed about the roast but I explained to her I had to use chicken up but I did make something she liked as alternative. She said to me you told me you wouldn’t make a roast and she looked upset. She didn’t go hungry though as she had Cottage Pie after saying there’s nothing to eat. AIBU to of made the roast even though there was pasta dish as alternative or was she being unreasonable here as I feel bad about it.

I have a 22yo and I would be fucking ashamed of him, and myself as a parent, if he carried on like that.

Is it chicken she doesn't like or the roast dinner?
Surely there's other dishes you can make with chicken (and she could help you cook).

Oh, the adult didn’t fancy the pasta bake? The completely different meal you had cooked for her? Tough shit!

She needs to grow up.

What is a pasta bake? Is it a meal in itself? As for the chicken thing - please clarify if you think you still need to eat it by the use by date if it’s frozen???
And your DD is being very entitled.

There’s other things you can do with a chicken 🤷🏻‍♀️

You don't know what a pasta bake is?

Did you ask her if she wanted a pasta bake?
It's a bit random to cook one if you didn't know if she wanted it.

I still want a resolution about the chicken!

Was it in the fridge or the freezer?

@mondaytosunday this is an example of a pasta bake....

I am curious about the use by date on the chicken

@TURTLE74 come back.....we need answers 😂

Was her issue that you said that wasn’t going to and then did? Would she have been ok if you said actually the rest of the family like a roast so I am doing one but happy to make something you like as well?

Why did you freeze the chicken if you didn't intend to keep it?

Then why do you freeze it 😂 this is mad
It isn't the law that you have to have a roast every Sunday

This post doesn’t make any sense.

Do you mean that the chicken was in the fridge?

Also a sell by date isn’t a use by date

I think you are both mad.
She’s 22 and ‘upset’ because you roasted a chicken!?

And you ‘had to use’a frozen chicken because of the date??
Do you understand the function of a freezer??
Better not ever go to my Auntys house, her freezer is called Chernobyl . There’s stuff in there that pre dates Duran Duran.

Seriously - why did you freeze the chicken?
And tell your daughter to stop being a knob and to make her own dinners.

<side eyes chicken dated 17 June in my freezer>

Not sure I understand any of that - chicken in freezers never need to be used up immediately and what is with the cottage pie - it was meant to be pasta?

Someone posted earlier about the old days with the Friday night “drunk threads” have they been resurrected? Am I on one now?!

There’s probably chicken in my freezer from last year - and when we eat it, we will be fine!!

I’ll side eye with you. Although I’m much better at rolling them!

This is a fine example of MN doing it's thing. We are now ignoring the actual problem and focusing on the chicken date and the freezer.

I am only here for the chicken date and the freezer thing mind you

Does your daughter have no arms or something? Why isn’t she cooking her own meals?

My mother makes a roast every week. It’s not my favourite. However, it’s what’s she’s done for the 40 odd years of my existence so if I am being fed I’m grateful. I have also cooked most of my own meals since I was 18, so that’s my other option.

I am BAFFLED by what Op means re freezer dates. Once it’s in the freezer, there is no date?