'Mums' give their families 'just' nine dishes
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excellent!radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
Where did all that leftover meat come from?
The roast....
kained&able
Here for the football.
i'd be fairly shocked if i cooked more then 9 dishes on a regular basis.
don't get where the just comes into it. Or Mums.
dave
don't get where the just comes into it. Or Mums.
dave
Cloo
Banana for scale
There was even one Fail poster who pointed that out in their comment!How sexist is that article. What about all the dads that cook?
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
Id say thats about right in this house too, maybe a bit more... I dont care
Curry
Fish and chips
Pasta with veg sauce
Chilli
Spag Bol
Cottage/shepherds pie
Lasagne
Stew ( beef)
sausage casserole
chicken casserole
salads with jacket spuds beans, cheese, tuna etc
Roast dinner
Pizza
Stir fries
'Brunch'
Kids are happy, get plenty of fresh veggies etc... wheres the problem?
Curry
Fish and chips
Pasta with veg sauce
Chilli
Spag Bol
Cottage/shepherds pie
Lasagne
Stew ( beef)
sausage casserole
chicken casserole
salads with jacket spuds beans, cheese, tuna etc
Roast dinner
Pizza
Stir fries
'Brunch'
Kids are happy, get plenty of fresh veggies etc... wheres the problem?
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
quote - The most common meal among the nation's mothers was spaghetti Bolognese followed by roast dinners, a shepherd's or cottage pie and a pasta dish.
?? The only one of those we have regularly(but not every week) is a pasta dish, but it could be with fish or chicken or ham, etc. so it's never the same. Only time we 'have' a roast is if I buy the frozen ones at Lidl.
Does fish count as one dish or is tuna, haddock and mackerel 3 serparate dishes? They are in my house.
We have pork mince and veal mince, pork(with various things in them) sausages, veal sausages, buffalo steak, brisket(boiled), and the 3 fish mentioned above and other stuff so that's more than 9. Maybe it's coz I'm not working
?? The only one of those we have regularly(but not every week) is a pasta dish, but it could be with fish or chicken or ham, etc. so it's never the same. Only time we 'have' a roast is if I buy the frozen ones at Lidl.
Does fish count as one dish or is tuna, haddock and mackerel 3 serparate dishes? They are in my house.
We have pork mince and veal mince, pork(with various things in them) sausages, veal sausages, buffalo steak, brisket(boiled), and the 3 fish mentioned above and other stuff so that's more than 9. Maybe it's coz I'm not working
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Might I suggest you quiz your mother very closely next time you visit.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
What. The. Fuck. Stew three days a week till the mid 80s. Fish and Chips always on a Friday (parents were catholic) I hated fish as a kid, and so it was chips n eggs (cross forum meme) Then we had Spag Boll (really it could only be described as spag boll) on a Thursday.
9 staples is fine. It means that even you stick to the nine, the kids get some variety.
And not to mention the odd interesting new diversion. 9 dishes, with once a week doing something different is fucking fine.
9 staples is fine. It means that even you stick to the nine, the kids get some variety.
And not to mention the odd interesting new diversion. 9 dishes, with once a week doing something different is fucking fine.
radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
whats my mother got to do with my dinner?
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Nine?
That makes me a terrible mother then because I regularly cook about 6/7 meals and vary them according to season; what food's around and what we feel like eating
That makes me a terrible mother then because I regularly cook about 6/7 meals and vary them according to season; what food's around and what we feel like eating
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Us incredibly highly paid working mothers are far too busy to worry about cooking. We have to undermine the social fabric of the UK by abandoning our children in nurseries, drinking alcohol in pubs, and occasionally buying impractical shoes. Also, we may or may not have to lose weight in strange and horrible ways, depending on what day of the week it is.
Dads only cook sausages and pork chops, but occasionally prove their culinary skills by frying proper hand cut chips. Well, that was my dad anyway; every Wednesday was pork night.
TBH, I'm sure it's as much to do with habit and lack of inspiration as much as anything. I always recall being bemused why my mum looked exasperated when we couldn't answer 'what do you want for dinner' question. Fast forward and it's me asking that question of the other half, looking vaguely unimpressed when no answer comes back, again.
TBH, I'm sure it's as much to do with habit and lack of inspiration as much as anything. I always recall being bemused why my mum looked exasperated when we couldn't answer 'what do you want for dinner' question. Fast forward and it's me asking that question of the other half, looking vaguely unimpressed when no answer comes back, again.
radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
but i am a mum too. okay, you got me, the leftover meat is off that badger corpse in the shed...
radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
mmmm badger curry
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Needless to say that if that 'survey' said the opposite, indicating that mums went to elaborate lengths using exotic ingredients the headlines would be:
BRING BACK RATIONING
PORRIDGE EVERY DAY
DID US NO HARM
BRING BACK RATIONING
PORRIDGE EVERY DAY
DID US NO HARM
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
And now I can tell my Sir Walter Scott story.
Sir Walter Scott wrote to a friend while visiting the impoverished Wordsworths in the Lake District:
"You get three hot meals a day, but two of them are porridge".
Sir Walter Scott wrote to a friend while visiting the impoverished Wordsworths in the Lake District:
"You get three hot meals a day, but two of them are porridge".
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Speaking of which it's 6:30pm women of suburban shouldn't you all be cooking?
I have a freezer with 9 drawers that I filled last Christmas for the entire year.
I'm far too busy to cook all the time, pfft.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Oh dear. Are you perchance a librarian?
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
I'm sure you're making sure hubbies slippers are nice and toasty and perfecting the post work Martini for him......
Pause. I've been watching waaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much Madmen.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
When we was nippers we ate the same old things time and time again coz we were dirt poor and there are only so many things you can cook with carrots, flour and roadkill.
Also, my parents both worked full time. Like everybody is supposed to do these days despite the fact that somebody, at some point, needs to actually raise the bloody kids not to mention feed them.
Seriously, whose bullshit idea was that? Everyone has to work all the time for the sake of economy, but that same economy also requires that we all spawn replacements. And then we wonder why the replacements are so prone to malfunctioning. Maybe because nobody gives a flying fuck about them, to the point where nobody will even bother to explain to them exactly why their abandonment is necessary for the common good. I blame the feminists. There you are ladies, you've got what we've had all these years. A different kind of drudgery. Shit isn't it?
That said of course, there's no great harm in giving kids a limited range of foods. As long as there's plenty of fruit and veg and it's mostly homemade that's the important thing. Kids are fussy buggers anyway, if you can make your evenings a bit less stressful by feeding them what you know they'll eat then fair play to you.
Also, there is a special place in hell for people who put their careers before their kids.
Also, my parents both worked full time. Like everybody is supposed to do these days despite the fact that somebody, at some point, needs to actually raise the bloody kids not to mention feed them.
Seriously, whose bullshit idea was that? Everyone has to work all the time for the sake of economy, but that same economy also requires that we all spawn replacements. And then we wonder why the replacements are so prone to malfunctioning. Maybe because nobody gives a flying fuck about them, to the point where nobody will even bother to explain to them exactly why their abandonment is necessary for the common good. I blame the feminists. There you are ladies, you've got what we've had all these years. A different kind of drudgery. Shit isn't it?
That said of course, there's no great harm in giving kids a limited range of foods. As long as there's plenty of fruit and veg and it's mostly homemade that's the important thing. Kids are fussy buggers anyway, if you can make your evenings a bit less stressful by feeding them what you know they'll eat then fair play to you.
Also, there is a special place in hell for people who put their careers before their kids.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
It certainly is !
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