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Teenagers

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Why don't they put away the milk......

40 replies

BG2015 · 08/04/2016 09:02

and the cereal, bowl, spoon, sugar, glass.....?

Why?

I tell them over and over and over again.....then they just get up and walk away?

Do I speak a language they don't understand?

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Ledkr · 10/04/2016 09:43

I have had to hide baking ingredients because dd will literally bake a cake if she's hungry Grin
Yesterday after swimming we had Mcds at 3, dd had full sized meal and ice cream, she then requested fajitas for dinner so I said id do them around 8 as lunch had been late.
So at 7 as I prepared dinner she made herself a pot noodle Hmm then rolled her eyes as I objected.
Stil are her dinner though!
She's 7 stone and size 6/8 Envy

MiffleTheIntrovert · 10/04/2016 09:53

Ledkr i have one like that - I introduced her to mug cakes made in the microwave, as I got fed up with all the eggs being used up in big cakes!

It went down so well lots of teens got mugs, ingredients and recipes for Christmas Smile

I have another one who makes, and eats, cookie dough. Doesn't make cookies - just the dough.

Peebles1 · 10/04/2016 10:00

DD makes jelly Hmm

DSs are away at uni but when they're home do all of the above. They'll grab a bag of crisps and a handful of crackers beside me while I'm cooking tea.

Another thing that annoys me (bit picky) is when they open cheese and don't put it in a plastic bag and it goes all hard. Far too much to hope for there though, if they haven't mastered the shoe rack. Funny thing is they complain how at uni all their house mates are so lazy and messy and they have to do all the cleaning!!

GasLightShining · 10/04/2016 10:59

Oh the shoe rack - it's empty and the floor is covered with shoes. I am amazed at my own super intelligence as it is obvious a really difficult task and I can mange it yet the DC can't

Sadik · 10/04/2016 12:48

"I have had to hide baking ingredients because dd will literally bake a cake if she's hungry"
And this is a bad thing why? (Providing she shares, of course!)
DD is pretty good, she hoards mugs but being an obsessive type has her own ones that I'm not allowed to use so it's reasonably self limiting - and I get my own back by going into her room and rounding them up when it's her turn to do the washing up

Ledkr · 10/04/2016 13:14

It's a bad thing cos I dint want to come home to find my kitchen looking like a coke den and no eggs for breakfast. We dint benefit at all, she eats what she makes.
Lol at the cookie dough. Dd makes butter cream, then just eats it Confused

Sadik · 10/04/2016 14:23

OK, I see your point . . .

Savagebeauty · 10/04/2016 14:28

Half empty vodka bottle and empty cans of coke left out last night by ds and his mates Angry

BeautifulLiar · 10/04/2016 14:37

Teenagers are allowed to eat what they like?! God I was bollocked/starved if I helped myself to food :(

Ledkr · 10/04/2016 14:37

Drink the vodka as a punishment 😂

queenoftheboys · 10/04/2016 14:38

Oh yes, all of these! The toast...the endless bloody toast - he goes through at least a loaf of bread a day. And leaves the butter on the bench, and the plates on the floor.

And leaves his nasty sweaty socks on the living room floor, then complains when the dog eats them.

And he had the gall to call me insufferable today!!

Ledkr · 10/04/2016 14:40

Me too beautuful but dd takes no notice. I have stuff locked away but you can't do it with everything.
Just went to make some popcorn for dd2 and its all gone. Sooo annoying

Ledkr · 10/04/2016 14:42

Id love dd to make toast instead of endless concoctions and all the snacks

BeautifulLiar · 10/04/2016 14:43

Oh no I'm dreading this!! I hate it even if DH eats food I thought I had Blush

BG2015 · 10/04/2016 16:10

I hide some things. And leave out the stuff that's OK to eat.

Cereal, toast, noodles, pasta, eggs are what my DS eat.

I make delicious, healthy homemade food and plate them some up - my DP eats it the following day at work. Angry

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