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These days its hard to find a young woman that cooks. But I bet if more young women cooked and were "wifey" material, the guys would do their responsibility and divorce rates would go down.
I am saying this as an unmarried 25 year old guy. Do YOU know how to cook?
If you pulled your weight and cooked half of the time instead of treating women like house-servants, you might have a happier life.
Maybe someone who is married can correct me if I am wrong, but personally...I don't see how cooking wouldn't be a shared responsibility. (Also, from my experience women go crazy for a guy who is a good cook)
When my husband installs air conditioning in the house, I'll cook every day for him. Til then, he gets home-made mac & meatballs on Monday, and the rest of the week he eats whatever fast food crap I'm willing to drive out and pick up for him. In my air-conditioned car.
Right... because a wife couldn't possibly pick up the phone to get an air conditioner installed.
Visit a Home Depot... It's not much harder than buying drapes. Pick a model and installation date. Why complicate it any more?
Right... because a wife couldn't possibly pick up the phone to get an air conditioner installed.
Visit a Home Depot... It's not much harder than buying drapes. Pick a model and installation date. Why complicate it any more?
Hubby = person who pays the bills in the family.
Wife = person who buys the groceries and arranges the meals in the family.
Wife !/= carte blanche to buy whatever she wants for the home, with hubby's credit card, and assumes hubby makes enough money to afford to pay the bill when it comes in.
Hubby !/= filled moneyvault just begging for wife to empty it out.
House !/= equipped for individual unit air conditioners; entire house must be re-ventillated, and central installed. This is a major home improvement, not something wife can just call Home Depot and order it delivered.
Maybe I'll just find out who you are, call Home Depot, and have them install my brand new central air, and put the tab on your bill, him? Oh and by the way, I'm taking your personal chef next Thursday, I'm inviting Wills and Kate for supper and I've heard he does a hell of a job with Peking Duck.
Hubby = person who pays the bills in the family.
Wife = person who buys the groceries and arranges the meals in the family.
Wife !/= carte blanche to buy whatever she wants for the home, with hubby's credit card, and assumes hubby makes enough money to afford to pay the bill when it comes in.
Hubby !/= filled moneyvault just begging for wife to empty it out.
House !/= equipped for individual unit air conditioners; entire house must be re-ventillated, and central installed. This is a major home improvement, not something wife can just call Home Depot and order it delivered.
Maybe I'll just find out who you are, call Home Depot, and have them install my brand new central air, and put the tab on your bill, him? Oh and by the way, I'm taking your personal chef next Thursday, I'm inviting Wills and Kate for supper and I've heard he does a hell of a job with Peking Duck.
My bad. I have this silly notion that marriage is based on communication, not typecasting. I'm glad I'm not your husband. Whatever works for you though.
If my kids ate something I cook at 6:30am, they would likely die of food posioning. I am not coherent enough to take my shower without drowning until 7:30, which just happens to be the time DH drives them to school.
BUT, while a healthy meal is important, there are other factors to balance into the equation. Actually sitting down to eat meals as a family and listening to each other is as important as the meal. A child needs to learn independance.... s/he can build this skill by fixing their own breakfast (gasp... cold cereal).
To say that a child who eats cold cereal or some other meal not 'cooked' has bad parents is judgemental. None of my children have weight problems but that is beside the point. I do not want to be Donna Reed, and don't really care if you think this makes me a bad parent, your opinion means nothing to me . Have fun spending all your time cooking.... as for me, I am going to spend the hour before I get my kids to fix their own lunch (gasp... should I get out the turkey or ham for the sandwiches??) watching cartoons with them and put off the chores until later... have a good day.
I like your post.
A few weeks ago I was "cooking" hashbrowns in the oven for my picky grandkid and accidentally sprayed oven cleaner on them instead of spray butter (to brown them).
As others said cooking dosent = healthy. Mom cooked breakfast, biscuit/gravy, taters, bacon, sausage and eggs; lunch ususally soup and sandwich, and big fried greasy, cheesy suppers including a sweet desert all washed down with a big glass of milk. Not so healthy eating by todays standard. We never had salad, fruit or things baked, except pizza.
We were all thin. Because we went outside and played. Rode bikes (with no helmet or knee pads) and walked to the park (by ourselves). We didnt have internet, ipods or play stations and we were'nt allowed to sit inside and watch all 3 channels on TV during the day.
So what are you feeding your kids during summer vacation?
We do sandwiches most days for lunch, but I'm out of bread today, so I made a quick grain salad from leftover quinoa (a summer staple for our family), cherry tomatoes, shredded chicken, and sliced green onions topped with green chile dip. The lettuce bed in our garden is going great guns, so I see a lot of hearty salads in the near future.
For breakfast, my son had a whole wheat tortilla filled with cream cheese, sliced apples, and cinnamon sugar. My daughter had early swim practice, so she made herself a fruit smoothie. Sometimes they have cereal with milk and fruit or frozen waffle with the same. I had yogurt topped with strawberries and sliced almonds.
For dinner, both kids will be at a swim celebration where pizza will be served. If they were home, I'd probably make chicken burritos, using the leftover roast chicken, which I bought pre-roasted. No way am I turning on the oven in high summer!
What about you?
How is quinoa carb-wise compared to pasta? I have removed pasta, and pretty much any carb-loaded side dish from my diet until i lose about 10 lbs. I wonder if quinoa would be a good substitute, or just as bad as the pasta.
How is quinoa carb-wise compared to pasta? I have removed pasta, and pretty much any carb-loaded side dish from my diet until i lose about 10 lbs. I wonder if quinoa would be a good substitute, or just as bad as the pasta.
Quinoa has 30g carbs/serving and 7g protein. The brown rice in my cupboard has 40g carbs/serving and 3g protein. Same portion size.
Is there a reason you're removing carbs from your diet? Pasta isn't typically a problem for me if it's whole grain and eaten in moderation. When I need to lose a few pounds I usually just stop eating sweets and drink only water with meals.
As for quinoa, I like it because it's filling, easy to prepare, inexpensive, and it keeps well in the fridge, so it's always available to bulk up a green salad (we're drowning in garden lettuce right now) or toss with herbs for a quick side dish. It also makes a good breakfast grain.
We are experimenting a lot with quinoa at the moment, and everyone loves it. Also worth mentioning it is whole grain, loaded with fiber.
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. Have fun spending all your time cooking.... as for me, I am going to spend the hour before I get my kids to fix their own lunch (gasp... should I get out the turkey or ham for the sandwiches??) watching cartoons with them and put off the chores until later... have a good day.
