My man can't/won't cook!!

[charrowell]

Hi everyone

Im due in just under 4 wks and to be honest im worrying about coping when my baby arrives with regards to trying to eat properly!

My other half has never been able to cook, even putting a readymade lasagne in the oven is tough - he needs me to tell him how to do EVERYTHING from how to turn on the oven (yes really) to checking to see if the foods done.
I dont want to have to keep getting up and down especially if im trying to feed the baby and rest but I can see it happening.
Does anyone have any suggestions about easy but relatively healthy dinners that he can prepare? jacket potatoes and lasagne & chips he can just about cope with now but what else?
Any help would be gratefully received!
C x

Dan Layton (I think) Action Cookbook - it's a cook book for men my dh has it ( I bought it for him) and it has made him into a good cook. All the best :)

He can surely boil pasta, rice, potato and grill things like sausage, bacon, steak, chops, surely? Oven chips are easy.

Can you make a pile of sauces, stews that you can bag/box and put in freezer to be reheated in a microwave?

For heavens sake - he needs to learn - fast!

It ain't that difficult.

My DH is the same and still no better now the kids are 6 and 10. But we managed, though probably had far too many ready meals when the kids were tiny. But you can manage for a while on pasta, sauces, sausages (pop on foil in oven), baked beans, bags of salad and pre prepared fruit salads, stews (I made these while the baby was napping often early in the day when I had some energy, then can easily be heated up when needed), stir frys (cos can be cooked very quickly) and eggs, again cos quick, we had omelettes and poached, or scrambled eggs a lot. And stews are great for weaning too, which comes along before you know it...as are eggs.

Good luck, lots of babies do give you enough time to do a quite a few things in the day time, though some are more demanding.

Surely the onus is on him to learn pretty damn quickly?!

Tell him to get in the kitchen and get practising!

I was also tempted to say - he can damn well learn!

Realistically that just isnt going to happen in 4 weeks so and making some prepared meals and perhaps a menu plan with the necssary basic ingredients like chops, bacon, burgers, fishfingers, baked spud, rice, pasta, oven chips might be the best.

Also yes bagged salad, sandwiches, ready made soups in cartons, and stuff you can take out of packets or pour out of tins and heat up might also be very handy for the OP if she needs a quick snack to make with one hand. As I recall, holding a baby and cooking with one hand was a pretty quickly learned core skill.

thanks guys, im going to have to give him a kick up the backside! i appreciate your suggestions and will start writing down easy meals/snacks he can prepare.
x