Ungrateful hubby

[jessielou1]

Please tell me if I'm being unreasonable here . Yesterday I spent a couple of hours cooking and made 3 cottage pies and cooked a large beef joint to make Sunday lunches . I've plated 7 dinners up with all the veg just need to add mash and gravy. They will all go into the freezer for weekend and next week . Today hubby has been moaning saying he prefers the dinners fresh and doesn't know why I do this . I'm ready to smash the dinners over his head as I think this is so bloody ungrateful . He of course disagrees . AIBU to feel angry

So does that mean you put each plate in the microwave on the day? Grim

He may well be ungrateful and should probably do it himself if he wants a freshly cooked roast, but....

He's been eating reheated Sunday lunches for ages without complaint- Ouch! That's taking one for the team

Maybe you should extend a little gratitude his way 🙂

Are there actual plates in general freezer then? How many playmates do you have for the rest of the week in cuclation? This is so odd. And microwaved beef for a roast - I guess well done is the preference in your household?

Thats a bit personal, we are talking about roast dinner not playmates

Yeah, roast beef would not be something I'd freeze and reheat to serve as a 'roast' meat. It'd go in a pie or casserole after freezing.

But he's got no remit for moaning unless he's willing to take turns to cook.

Alternatively eat all the frozen dinners yourself and leave him to make his own dinner

Can I ask you op, why do you do this?

That wasnt being sarcastic, I'm genuinly curious

"Hubby" makes me want to vomit more than a frozen dinner.

I’m genuinely curious too. The op is retired, her husband works. From what I can see it seems to be just a preference, but I think even just a sandwich for Sunday lunch would be better than reheated frozen beef and veg if she doesn’t fancy cooking on the weekend,or during the week.

some foods lend themselves well to freezing and reheating like the cottage pie, or lasagne etc, it’s the moisture content, but freezing plates of veg and meat and microwaving isn’t going to be very nice. To say the least.

do you freeze rhe mash too op?

You should have responded with “that’s okay I made them for myself not you, especially as you prefer then fresh I assumed you would be cooking your own”

Like everyone else I'm trying to imagine how you are storing the plated dinners in the freezer and why you wouldn't at least do the vegetables fresh on the day as they take minutes. I do batch cook some things including some elements of a roast dinner but wouldn't freeze the whole thing, and I wouldn't be grateful if I was served it either.

After I have cooked a roast I will plate up put into a small tupperware a complete dinner for later in the week and freeze it. By complete I mean gravy, mash, meat, veggies and yorkie. It freezes well apart from the yorkie but I quite like a flabby yorkshire and it's great to remember that I have it when I don't feel like cooking.

I wouldn't eat frozen plated roast. But I also wouldn't complain if someone was cooking for me. And if I was you I certainly would t apologise.

The rule is if you complain, you volunteer.

freezing left overs is different though you still eat the majority fresh. In this nothing gets eaten fresh it’s cooked and frozen to be microwaved later.

I’d agree with your husband but certainly would never be rude enough to say so. He can complain when he is doing at least his share of cooking and cleaning up!

Op has not said her husband doesnt cook or clean up!

I love a batch cook and think there’s loads of meals that freeze and reheat well but a frozen roast? No thanks!

I have never heard of anyone freezing a roast dinner and especially after plating it up! It sounds revolting.

Don’t like the idea of a roast dinner reheated from frozen. Cottage pie, yes of course. A roast is an of the moment meal…it’s all about the textures, the crispness, the sizzling of the meat and the smell of it all cooking and coming together as well as the actual sustenance. There certain meals that should be served freshly cook and in my opinion a roast is one of them.
I’m sure it’s fine out of the freezer but why go to the bother of doing a roast to freeze it? You should eat it!

A complete roast dinner? Including frozen mash and gravy? Sorry but that sounds really unappealing. Cooked veg doesn't really freeze well and neither does cooked meat. It seems such a waste of good ingredients. Do you enjoy these meals yourself?

I really dislike eating heated up food. If it's been frozen the ice never really goes, and it makes the dish soggy. I like fresh meals, so I cook them every day because that's part of my role as the stay at home parent.

roast dinners can be frozen of course as they do frozen ready meals in supermarkets etc. I’ve never do a frozen roast but I have frozen cottage pie, lasagna, bolognaise, chilli etc. I agree in getting hubby to help with cooking though, don’t just make him fresh because others here think frozen is grim.

I told the wife I didn't like her salmon dish EVERY week. It was like I'd killed her first born. Be very careful criticising a loved ones cooking...

This.

I’d be spectacularly annoyed if I was expected to be grateful for something that I found so unpalatable and I’d (presumably) never asked them to do.