Rebellion

[pegkerr]

I don't want to cook anymore for my family.

It's impossible.

I'm just saying.

No, thank you, I am not asking for advice.

Comments

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Let me take a wild guess...can't find a meal that everyone will eat without alterations?

I go through that just about every day with my group.

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this made me think of a funny kids'/YA book from the 80s called The Great Skinner Strike by Stephanie S. Tolan, in which the mother of the family goes on strike. You might get a laugh out of it, anyway.

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

{{HUGS}} and tea and sympathy. I've said it before, you are more than welcome to come cook for me, I'll try anything at least once!

[aome.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, what delectible meal did they snub tonight?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't last night, but my latest sense of burning injustice was over a really delicious squash-corn chowder that I made from scratch a couple of nights ago. Fiona said it was good and ate about a third of a cup. Delia ate barely a teaspoon full.

[pameladean]

Well, I don't blame you a bit.

P.

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

Peg, I just want you to know, I really understand. I empathize. I went on "strike" about a week ago. Boy howdy, do I ever hear you.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

So don't... you're the breadwinner right now. Why do you have to be the chef too?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Because I'm the better, faster, healthier cook.

Not that makes a damn bit of difference to my family, of course.

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

i hear ya!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan.

[madlori.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I don't know how you've managed to do it this long.

*hugs*

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Peg. I think everyone eventually reaches a breaking point.

:hug:

I so don't understand

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

and have much sympathy.

You should just tell them they can go hunt and grab from the fridge.

Seriously, everyone in your household is old enough to understand the concept of a healthy diet. And a certain amout of cooking. And at least know how to not starve if you go "f-you I'm tired of this sh!t pickyness."

I know my mother would have just looked at the lot of them and went, "Get stuffed, I'm fixing a healthy meal and if you don't want to eat it, suck it up or go hungry."

There's also a discussion of this in today's New York Times.

Just my 2¢

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

Heck, I wish you could come cook for *me*

As a single, self-employed Mom of two boys, I can assure your efforts would be appreciated.

But if I was local, I'd take you out for a drink, so we could come up with dinner concoctions that a would scare the bejeebies out of vegans, meat eaters, vegetarians, and anyone else we can think of *grin.*

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

So don't cook for them.

[shandra.livejournal.com]

None of this is intended as advice! I just wondered what all do you want out of a family meal and how can you get that without you being the cook for say, a month, to regroup.

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! Cooks for ingrates unite!
Strike! Strike! Strike!

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

Ramen. Buy stock in the company and just load up. :-)

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

You know, I stopped cooking a while ago. Remember my Misadventures in the Kitchen series? I just got to where I felt like nobody (meaning S) cared. He was just as happy eating whatever fast-food crap or troll food he could throw together. If it didn't make any difference, why should I put myself through all the angst and then have to wash a pile of dishes?

Ingrates, the LOT OF THEM.

[msavi.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

I've heard that fast food coupon books make great birthday and Christmas presents.

[handgun.livejournal.com]

all of the food you make sounds delicious and healthy, and by god I wish my family would buy healthy ingredients for me to cook instead of insisting on fast food half the time.
come cook for me! i will eat every meal!