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

I don't like cooking then freezing stuff, but I must admit that I usually try and cook enough so that there's enough left for lunch or tea again the next day now it's just the two of us at home again.

The thought of a reheated roast dinner is pretty unappealing, I must admit.

I’m constantly amazed at the sheer bloody mindedness of some women who feel like it’s a mission to live their life as some sort of Olympic medal winning domestic drudge for men. Why in the absolute name of satan’s butthole are cooking all that ‘for your husband’? He doesn’t want it. I suspect he’d be a happier man if you stepped away from the broiling meat and just chilled the fuck out instead.

So you are plating up roast dinners and then freezing them? Do you put the whole plate in the freezer? That's utterly bizarre. I think you're not only in the minority here, you're quite possibly on your own.

Where did you learn your cooking skills?

Surely a big part of the pleasure of a roast is the smell of it cooking and the warm juicy meat. Seems a shame to treat a joint of beef in this way.
Sorry OP! Your husband gets my vote.

😂

Tell him he's got a point - he could do the laundry and clean the bathrooms while you do the fresh Sunday roast. Sounds fair, and that way he'll get his wish...

"You complain, you volunteer" works well when the load is shared otherwise equally, @MrsTerryPratchett, doesn't it?

But if a useless bloke tried to say it to his wife to get out of strategically incompetently cleaning the bathroom... if he said it because he was doing chores in a way or at a time which is pointlessly inconvenient... we would all say no, that is not a good defence.

If you have a job to do in the house it's reasonable to expect it's done to a good standard. I don't think a frozen roast lunch is worth doing, nor is it nice. And if someone's job was cooking a roast, I don't think the job is suitably done two days in advance. So I reckon he can complain or at least ask why it's done like this.

The other conversation about whether the work is shared equally is separate!

Great, from here on he takes you and DC out for a pub lunch every Sunday. At his expense, not from your shared finances.

Some folks have such a weird transactional financially grabby attitude to relationships. So utterly odd. Don’t like it, gimme money, pay for me.

So many meals are great batch cooked and frozen. Curry, pasta sauce, pastry pies, cottage/shepherds/fish pie, stews, potato bakes, lasagna, parmigiana...frozen roast dinner is not one of them. I would also complain!

I've just tested, my plates don't fit flat into my freezer.

I imagine the op has a chest freezer.and it’s not the same as yours 😂

op. Are you coming back?

I doubt it, its Sunday, Shell be busy defrosting lunch!

Completely different.

Why do you do it that way? Does it save a lot of work another day? I get the freezing the cottage pies, but not the roast