Geez, I thought we were going to have to have another dinner strike at my house!

[LucyStorm]

On Sunday, I cooked pork and chicken on the grill, sliced up some tomatoes fresh from the garden, and had various types of summer fruit for my dh and dd to choose from for their second fruit/vegetable serving for the evening.

DH looks at me and says "Is this all we're having? You didn't cook much did you?"

I promptly reminded him how quickly we could repeat last year's no cooking strike and he wisely shut up.

Some men just never learn!!!!!

 

[Pooh93]

LOL! I remember your posting about the cooking strike! Way to keep them on their toes! Sounds yummy to me!

 

[tc]

You go, girl!!!!!

 

[beachbunny]

Sounds like a great dinner to me! I so rarely take out the old apron these days that my DH is grateful that I even cook -- period!

 

[nativetxn]

LOL! I think you should strike just for the heck of it, you know, just a little reminder?

 

[Rajah]

We want a cooking strike! We want a cooking strike!

 

[#1 Disney Fan]

I love having fruit as a dinner "veggie." Mmmm!

 

[Kama89]

I just had a vision of my husband saying that to me. That would make for a very interesting evening at my house. MY DH is happy if I make dinner, period... any dinner...well, actually he'd prefer that I just make sure there's food in the house and let him take care of the actual cooking.

 

[DopeyRN]

LMAO!!! My first thought was...what no CARBS????

 

[Banzai]

I aggree...strike for three days to remind them!

 

[Sonya]

You go!

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Wow, 2 types of meat and veggies. In all fairness to your husband though, you seemed to be missing the starches, for lack of a better word. Some people like to have all the food groups at supper.

Just a thought.

 

[d.kurz]

Could I get a quick re-cap of the cooking strike, what prompted it, and how long it lasted? I'm suffering a horrible bout of SSDD (Same Sh**, Different Day) and would really LOVE to wake my family UP!!!

Thanks!!

 

[Pumbaa_]

My mother stopped cooking (for the most part) 15 years ago. She told my father she cooked for the first 25 years, he gets the next. (He also retired and she was still working)

They are both retired now and he does about 50% of the cooking.

In my house, my DH cooks 95% of the time. We work different hours and if he waited for me to get home, he would starve! So I have it very good. I come home and dinner is in the fridge. And I never, ever complain about ANYTHING!!! I always thank my dear hubby for a wonderful dinner. (okay, not every day, but often!!)

So if he doesn;t like it, he has a couple of choices.
Help with the cooking
Help plan the menu
Shut up and eat's what on the table and be grateful!

 

[Planogirl]

That dinner sounds wonderful to me!

If I thought that I could stand it, I'd be tempted to go on a cleaning strike. I get tired of picking up clothes and goodness knows what else constantly and the kitchen sink is not for storing dishes!

OK, rant over but I do wish that I could teach my family a lesson.

 

[LucyStorm]

d kurz,
a brief recap is this: my family complained for the umpteenth time about a dinner that I cooked. Now I am an excellent cook, so it was a little hard to take. The dinner that they complained about that night was one of my better efforts, and I had spent a lot of time cooking it. Having been fed up to here, you know what I mean, I announced that effective immediately I was on a no cooking strike for one week and I stuck to it. If DH and DD wanted to eat, they had to cook or take me out to dinner.

For a week I stuck to it. Midweek they were begging me to go back to cooking, but I wouldn't. If search is working, you could pull up the recap threads of each day of the strike, because I posted them here. All I have to do usually these days is give them a look and one or the other will remind the other about the strike, but this weekend they screwed up.

Just look under "dinner strike" and have it search thread titles, and they should come up. Best of luck!

 

[tkyes]

You dinner sounds great Lucy my dear

Too many carbs are bad anyway - for dinner we usually stick with protein and a veggie too.


Hope your family shapes up


Tamie

 

[LucyStorm]

For those of you interested:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96999&highlight=dinner+strike

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97513&highlight=dinner+strike

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97968&highlight=dinner+strike

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98480&highlight=dinner+strike

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98852&highlight=dinner+strike

 

[d.kurz]

Thanks. lucystorm! I will read them!

 

[newmousecateer]

Just throw frozen TV dinners on the table and tell him "here's you dinner, I'm going to DIS. Enjoy"