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Original poster

what is the oddest thing your husband has ever cooked you when you are ill

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DJCod · 06/04/2008 17:17

mum and dad - early years, mum ill in bed. Dad comes up stairs " ah here oyu are darling i have made you something to eat - yes its zabalgione"
wtf??

finbar once came home after leaving her h at home seriously feverish and he was cooking somehting - we cnanot remeber what. nice to spread the germs. then she was ill the other day and he is doign childcare and he chooses that moment to cook a simnel cake.

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robinpud · 06/04/2008 20:16

When suffering ho9rribl morning sickness with ds, I couldn't face coffee at all. Dh bought me a fancy coffee making cappucino thingy and was amazed I wasn't at all impressed. [sceptical]

moondog · 06/04/2008 20:21

My friend's dh bought her a pasta making machine.
She relates tale of opening ito n Christmas Day surrounded by family. She had taken off a corner of paper and relaised what it was and began shaking her head.

He got up and took it from her (still mostly wrapped) and took it out of the room, for it never to be seen again.

Not a word was spoken though.

(Actually I might let him now that i know because he was the one who sung 'This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius' the loudest, when i modelled Tajik jerkin at end of drunken eveening chez moondog)

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DJCod · 06/04/2008 20:23

life is too shrot ot make pasta

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moondog · 06/04/2008 20:24

Her sentiments and mine (and that of 99.999999% of Britons no doubt).

TheArmadillo · 06/04/2008 20:28

I get to eat jam sandwiches for every meal. After 2 days he will not notice it has gone mouldy.

Because dp suddenly loses the ability to cook or shop.

Occasionally I get surprised by something either
a) super processed (e.g reconsitiuted chicken parts or similar) with bread adn nothing else.

or
b) something incrediably strong tasting.

Both of which make me vom more.

LazyLinePainterJane · 06/04/2008 20:33

Today I have been served a big plate of resentment and doubt

lovecat · 06/04/2008 20:39

Not cooked, as DH doesn't do cooking per se (he used to subsist on smash and ketchup supplemented with frozen pies before he met me) but once I was v ill with D&V type bug and he thought it would be a nice treat for me to bring in one of those honking Subway steak n' onion sandwiches for my dinner... it looked worse than it smelled, and I nearly did a Little Britain-stylee vom all over him!

Smittals · 06/04/2008 20:45

I have been served a delicious garam masala flavoured rubber circle. It was an omelette apparently. As soon as I was up again, I threw the garam masala away to avoid a replay. 'But it needs using up...' BOAK!!!!!!!

moondog · 06/04/2008 20:47

Tell us more LL...

AnotherFineMess · 06/04/2008 20:52

When my mum was in hospital having my little sis my dad 'cooked' us a milk jelly (I'd never heard of it before or since). But he left it on the windowsill to set, in a heatwave in mid-June in 1982, so 3 days later my mum came home to uncooked, curdled, stinky horrible milk-jelly gloop.

Nice one, Dad. He's really quite intelligent in other areas though!

LazyLinePainterJane · 06/04/2008 20:56

Was in hospital last night (suspected ectopic but all okay) but they kept me in for iv fluids and anti-sickness meds as I've been puking so much.

Dh however, doesn't think it's worth him taking the day off tomorrow so I can get back up to full strength

He did say that he thinks once the ectopic was ruled out they kept me in because "they might as well do something medical as I was there"....

Am very

LazyLinePainterJane · 06/04/2008 20:59

IN fact, this: looks pretty much exactly like my face now.

Without the yellow

BetteNoir · 06/04/2008 21:01

Hope the sickness wears off soon.
And your DH is supportive.

LazyLinePainterJane · 06/04/2008 21:02

Thanks BN

Febes · 06/04/2008 21:04

DH made me spicy sausages when I was pregnant and I was in bed feeling rank... I threw up in the rubbish bin in my bedroom

moondog · 06/04/2008 21:05

Oh dear LL.
Not good.

lol at sausage debacle

cositjustisok · 06/04/2008 21:08

Have to tell you all a really funny story (well to my family anyway) my dad (great fab dad...died 3 years ago) was always trying to be a good hubby.....when he would come in from the pub on his night out on a Sunday he would bring her a fish supper up to bed!!!!..one night the fish shop was not opened for some bizzare reason..so he thought he would cook her something cos she got so used to having a wee midnight feast on a Sunday night he would not have her disappointed..so he grilled her a corned beef sandwich...that meant opening a tin of Fray Bentos corned beef and slicing it up and grilling it and putting it between two slices of bread.....when he asked her what she thought of it...she could only answer..."It was not my favourite".....now a family saying...cos whilst he had went to get her the salt she had chucked the sandwich in the bin.....how we laugh at it now...feel a tad guilty as my poor we dad has sadly died..but how wee laugh at this story....hope you laugh at this as much as we still do

cositjustisok · 06/04/2008 21:09

her..being..my mum of course.....should have made that a bit clearer

LazyLinePainterJane · 06/04/2008 21:12

I love (read boak) the idea of presenting someone with D&V a Subway steak and onion

PuhPeng · 06/04/2008 21:20

Boiled mushrooms and cream on toast. About as delicious as it sounds.

On another occasion, pasta in sauce with... pasta salad. Carbotastic!

iloatheironing · 06/04/2008 21:50

My dh neither cooks or cleans. Actually he did once roast a leg of lamb but only because I had defrosted it and it needed cooking....He served it with oven chips!!!!!

cocolepew · 06/04/2008 22:29

Lying in bed with a screaming hangover,DH muttered something about going shooting with mates. Turned out he shot a rabbit and came home and did whatever needs to be done to a dead rabbit. And then fried it. It was stinking and it took him 10 minutes to realise I was throwing up all over the bed.
Notice how all my DH's cooking is related to me throwing up

lucykate · 06/04/2008 22:51

don't think dh has ever cooked for me when i've been ill, he rarely does. last time i had a vomiting bug, i still had to cook for dh & dc's, then go back to bed with the sick bowl.

taliac · 08/04/2008 14:53

One Sunday after a weekend of vomiting children, DH and I cuddled up on the sofa in a darkish room to watch a film. He supplied snacks which were randomly enough, dorritos and a tub of Philly.

It was only after I'd already tucked in (I was hungry!) that I examined the tub of philly and realised - yes, it was green.

I'm sure me going down with the V bug the next day was coincidental.

BruceBabe · 08/04/2008 20:04

While 10 weeks pregnant with dc2 and sick as a parrot all day long, dh who can't/won't cook used to do a 'lucky dip' type shop for something he thought i might keep down. The worst had to be chicken and asparagus pastry pie - thought of it still makes me heave 2 years on!
Like others here, i get offered toast or chinese when sick when all i want is potatoes and gravy!

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