What's for dinner? MAKES ME WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT! This is from MY CHILDREN, who have moved back home with their children. I say that I am going to do a menu and stick to it, but something always comes up and I don't do it.
What is the question that you hate?
By my choice, I am in charge of all meals. I plan, shop, and cook. They clean up. I love having free reign. I do menus a week in advance and post them on the refrigerator. Weeks I skip this don't go as smoothly. I can glance at the chart at night and know if I have to take something out of the freezer. I can look at it in the morning and see if I need to shop for fresh items for the next couple of days. It is more for me than for them!
They all work. I am home. I've always worked and never had the chance to devote time and love to this part of homemaking. I'm really enjoying it.
Do your children work? Are they paying you? Would you like them to contribute to the meal-making? What if they took turns coming up with a week's menu? They could include page numbers of cookbooks or print out recipes. Your question seems to imply that it is meal planning you like least. Do the grandchildren do the cleanup?
I hate any question that starts with "where is the ..."
I am going to HAVE to do a meal plan. They will have to be in charge of taking something out of the freezer in the morning and I also want to use the crockpot more.
Crockpots are awesome. Which child should be in charge of a crockpot meal at least once a week? How early are the college student's classes?
Could it be, just remotely possible that once or twice dear family member that YOU YOURSELF put the thing down and forgot where? Hmmmmm?
8/29/2016
Just like when Cwillie's thread was taken down ( Pet Peeves) and everyone speculated why for so long...I am going to hate answering the question:
Why did admin take down the thread: "Caregivers Behaving Badly".
So here is the reason I am giving to avoid divisions among caregiver to caregiver friends, please accept A/C's decision.
Guessing they took it down because too many were behaving badly.
If you have found your way to this thread somehow, use it for good, be kind to everyone you meet, everyone here is fighting their own uphill battles we don't know about.
8/29/2016
Really like the menu plan idea.
A variation I recently tried after returning from the market, was to make a list of everything main dish ingredients available to make xyz dishes.
Tacos: Tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, taco sauce, cheese, cilantro, hamburger etc.
Then, my finicky husband gets to choose.
Turns out it was harder to get him to choose anything.
He does do well with an unchangeable routine, laying out his plate with a cover on it because he won't come when dinner is ready.
I don't really have a pet peeve question. Sometimes tiny little things irritate me like when my dad takes brownies out of the fridge that I have baked for him and asks "do these have sugar?". He is diabetic. I make him baked goods from scratch with sugar substitutes. I have NEVER once brought an item with sugar in the house in 20+ years. Yet every single time he takes something out of the fridge he asks...does this have sugar? And every time I say, no dad I made those special for you. And every time he marvels at how I can make sweet items with no sugar. It's cute really...but 10+ times in one hour can grate on me a bit.
Angel
If my hubs gets hungry and I don't want to cook, I am just going to say,
"Don't you remember, we just ate lunch, why don't you just snack until dinner."
Still, a brat.
Went to the site, 'fresh', thought you were saying: Stacey hello. Fresh...
Too pricey for me, and that is for two meals? Or two meals for seven days?
Guess I'm not getting it.
I must be blinded by brattiness.
He's going to be confused, and ask me.....
Okay, did you mean the clean underwear on the pillow was a change from chocolates on the pillow?
Or did you mean the hellofresh box would be a change from the chocolate?
There is no chocolate in there? hmmmm
I had to ask the question...Pammzi, but it struck me funny either way. Lol.
Feeling blessed!
Yes, I know I can be childish. :)
The questions I am going to get asked now.....
"What are we going to do today".
Tomorrow, I am going to tell him he only gets one question!
Just a couple of questions that bother Me.
In memory of Gene Wilder, who could not bear one less smile in the world,
he never told his fans he had Alzheimers.
Sad.