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

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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.

OP please just say you meant fridge so we can all get to sleep

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😂 Wtf....

So if anything OP, the freezer actually inconveniences you, as you still eat the food by the use by date for the fridge, but now have to defrost it as well. If any good comes of this strange thread, it's that you learn how to use a freezer.

It’s frozen so can be stored in the freezer for at least a year after the best before date. How can you not know that?😂😂😂

Freezer chicken good for 6 months

You said ‘I have a chicken to use up what will I cook’?
DD said ‘not a roast’ please.

You cooked one anyway!
why did you bother asking?

I’m going to posit a theory

OP only keeps a chicken for exactly 12 months from the sell by date and that’s the date she meant. Otherwise 🤷‍♀️

This! This so much!! 🤣🤣🤣 Come on OP, fess up - did you mean fridge or do you not understand the concept of freezing food?

Exactly Sureky it could have stayed in freezer abither week. But she was being stroppy.

When the OP inadvertently reveals a massive lifelong misconception on mumsnet

Who cares if she’s upset, she’s 22 years old! Eat what is prepared for you or buy/cook your own damn meals. My mother gave me this option at 13, not 22.

I clicked “you are being unreasonable“ because I would love you to get a sense of perspective. She is 22. Not 2 or even 12.

22 you say? I was cooking tea from when I was about 9. Our mum would take some meat out the freezer and we were expected to do something with it. Our nanna did do most of the chopping but she wouldn’t use the cooker so we had to do it. My disabled daughter helps me prepare veg she loves to help try stopping her. I would suggest she cooks for the family next Sunday.

Have I accidentally eaten some drugs?

Where did you store them ? Fridge or freezer ? OP says you have to eat them TODAY either way.

Ok first your daughter is fine, fed and if she wanted something else she can make it as an adult.
second, I don’t think you understand the point of freezers??!!

You need to tell your dd that you’re not running a restaurant. She eats what’s on offer or she makes her own

you also need to tell us about the chicken

On the inside of my freezer there's pictures of food and then a guide for how long it can be frozen. Maybe that's what op means? I think you can store things for years in a chest freezer but not a regular fridge freezer, although me and everyone I know does.

Yes - harsh but very fair.

She didn't fancy the pasta bake? Well that's her tough shit then isn't it?
She should have gone to McDonald's then!
Entitled or what??

JFC 🫠 even my 12 year old who hates roast chicken knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him. Stop pandering to her OP!!!

I think you are very very un-fucking reasonable.

I’ve just got up to have a wee and had to look to see what you said about the chicken & it’s date,
IF you hadn’t replied at all because you were in bed or inserting the pasta bake where the sun don’t shine then fair enough.
But you’ve been back and haven’t answered the question.
Thats just rude.

But that's the point of freezing it!!

The only question there is which decade is it from?

^^^this