Some one else is cooking

R.D. aka MR.D · 14-03-2014 12:55pm #1

I'm sitting here after work and i'm extremely hungry.

My OH usually does the cooking and I do the cleaning and clothes washing. He likes it that way and I like it that way.

One of his friends is visiting us on holidays.

Two mornings ago, he made us breakfast and it was the most awful thing that i'd ever tasted. I picked at it until i could put it onto my OH's plate without the guest noticing.

So I arrive home tonight and without warning he's cooking!

I think i'm just going to have to stuff whatever it is into a tortilla and hope for the best.

Any other ideas?

And yes I do know that I sound ungrateful.

syklops · 14-03-2014 12:58pm

I do 99% of the cooking in our house. If a guest suddenly declared they were cooking dinner I'd be a bit pi$$ed to be honest.

My father says guests are like fish. They go off after about 3 days. When is he due to leave?

tritium · 14-03-2014 1:00pm

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

I'm sitting here after work and i'm extremely hungry.

My OH usually does the cooking and I do the cleaning and clothes washing. He likes it that way and I like it that way.

One of his friends is visiting us on holidays.

Two mornings ago, he made us breakfast and it was the most awful thing that i'd ever tasted. I picked at it until i could put it onto my OH's plate without the guest noticing.

So I arrive home tonight and without warning he's cooking!

I think i'm just going to have to stuff whatever it is into a tortilla and hope for the best.

Any other ideas?

And yes I do know that I sound ungrateful.

The Backwards Man · 14-03-2014 1:00pm

Stuff it into a tortilla and hope for the best?

Sounds like the last time I had a horn.

Mince Pie · 14-03-2014 1:02pm

Oh used to live with people like that. I used to pop round my friends and tell them I'd eaten there instead. They used to concoct the vilest shíte imaginable. If they didn't use everything in the cupboard to make a dish it wasn't right. Feel sick just thinking about it.

Oranage2 · 14-03-2014 1:04pm

Bring home a Chinese take away and tell them you forgot they were cooking and that their crap will last till tomorrow.

R.D. aka MR.D · 14-03-2014 1:06pm

Oranage2 wrote: »

Bring home a Chinese take away and tell them you forgot they were cooking and that their crap will last till tomorrow.

I would have done this but i literally got home and then realised what was happening. It's too late!

R.D. aka MR.D · 14-03-2014 1:07pm

syklops wrote: »

I do 99% of the cooking in our house. If a guest suddenly declared they were cooking dinner I'd be a bit pi$$ed to be honest.

My father says guests are like fish. They go off after about 3 days. When is he due to leave?

He has been here a week and is due to leave in about 4 days.

R.D. aka MR.D · 14-03-2014 1:09pm

Mince Pie wrote: »

Oh used to live with people like that. I used to pop round my friends and tell them I'd eaten there instead. They used to concoct the vilest shíte imaginable. If they didn't use everything in the cupboard to make a dish it wasn't right. Feel sick just thinking about it.

he has just announced that it has butternut squash and ginger in it.

neither of those things sound good!

syklops · 14-03-2014 1:11pm

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

He has been here a week and is due to leave in about 4 days.

You must be counting the minutes. Thats a long stretch to have someone in your house for. Especially someone who can't cook but thinks they can.

shruikan2553 · 14-03-2014 1:11pm

I lived with someone that all of a sudden decided that we shared food and would give me stuff she baked. She made these bread biscuit things, put cream and jam on top and threw it in the oven. Thankfully she just gave it to me and left me so I didnt have to eat it. Had to throw it out outside of the house as she would go through the bins looking for food.

Canis Lupus · 14-03-2014 1:13pm

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

I would have done this but i literally got home and then realised what was happening. It's too late!

Could say you ordered a pizza on the way home?

Been feeling ill all day?

lau1247 · 14-03-2014 1:22pm

just say you're on a strict calorie diet, job done

RoboRat · 14-03-2014 1:25pm

bring a Chinese home with you... not an actual national, a takeaway... or both if you are up for a laugh :-)

Canis Lupus · 14-03-2014 1:26pm

lau1247 wrote: »

just say you're on a strict calorie diet, job done

Ah but sure butternut squash and ginger sounds like a healthy vegetarian option......

Who knows though, maybe it'll be nice and the OP will have to eat her words as well as the dinner. :pac::pac::pac:

RoboRat · 14-03-2014 1:29pm

Just leave this thread open on the laptop on the table....

Maximus Alexander · 14-03-2014 1:30pm

Since it's only early afternoon I'd just tell him you don't normally eat dinner until the evening.

southcentralts · 14-03-2014 1:37pm

After hours to the rescue,

Step 1. pack his bag and leave it in the garden.
Step 2. leave a tin of lighter fluid in his bag.
Step 3. burn down the house.
Step 4. enjoy delicious take-away of your choice. , while he enjoy's a prolonged stay with the state to where he will get to do all of the cooking, or none of it.