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Tonight he made instant rice and decided to put into it some canned mandarin oranges, some canned peas, and some cheap "German" sausages that looked like they were very similar to hot dogs. I almost threw up at such a concoction. I mean I understand eating on a budget and all, but there are good and bad ways to do it. Nasty.
Does he expect you to eat it, or is just for himself? If it's just for him, I wouldn't say anything. If he can gag it down, more power to him. If he expects you to eat it, then I would say something, or volunteer to cook yourself.
Does he expect you to eat it, or is just for himself? If it's just for him, I wouldn't say anything. If he can gag it down, more power to him. If he expects you to eat it, then I would say something, or volunteer to cook yourself.
If he's really on a tight budget, then at least he's being creative, and how can you go wrong when you add fruit to the equation? At least he's not so poor, he's limited to Ramen noodles.
I used to do home health care on someone who was impoverished, to say the least, and I was suppose to cook him lunch, and I had to really push the creative button, when I reviewed what little his cupboards had to offer. It would have been easy to just throw up my hands, and take on a new case, but he had some older spices, and I did what I had to do, with the extreme limitations!
Some times I'd surprise even myself, how tasty some of those dishes turned out!
Are you sharing the food? If so, I would tell him budgeting in important but there are better ways than mixing cheap canned sausage, with other stuff to budget. Are you sharing in the cooking? Do you shop together and plan meals? If he is only fixing food for himself, well, I wouldn't worry about how he eats (agree it sounds terrible) if you are sharing the meal it is time to look into sensible cooking on a budget..
If you are sharing the meals, you should share the cooking. If you are not sharing the meals, then don't look at your roomate's meals since you don't have to eat them. We used to go on extended family vacations and the meals were horrible. I volunteered to cook as long as everyone else cleaned up and it worked out very well.
I say if you are sharing the meals and you are the better cook then You do all the cooking and let him do one of your chores instead. In other words if your job is to vacuum and clean the bathroom and his is cooking switch roles, or you could both look on line for tasty budget friendly meals to cook and each of you take a turn cooking for 1 week.
Like Lubby and SXMGirl stated share the cooking or just do it your self--that meal that you described above sounds just south of horrible.
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