Today, after years of providing daily various home-made colourful meals for three kids and a husband, I was asked to "cook something cool, like instant hamburgers, not that lame healthy shit". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as I was pressed for time, I opened some canned food for dinner. When my children were served, they said, "Mmm, this is best meal you've ever cooked for us!" I cook healthy, balanced meals every day. FML
Today, tired of my husband complaining that my food was basic and bland, I went out of my way to learn to cook using new recipes and fresh ingredients. He complained that I took too long to make dinner, and that the food is "fancied up shit." He can cook his own meals now. FML
Today, my kids told me that for the FIRST time, my cooking was delicious. I made Kraft dinner that night. FML
Today, I decided to cook dinner for my wife and kid. After a long day of preperation and cooking I asked them what they thought of it. My 12 year old son then says, "I would say it tastes like shit but not even shit tastes this bad!" My wife then laughed and gave him a high-five. FML
Today, due to my wife saying I never cook and that we always order pizza, I spent a good hour preparing dinner. While serving it to my kids, they started complaining. My wife told them to shut up. When she took a bite, she looked up at me, smiled, and said, "Do you, you know, want to just order pizza?" FML
Today, I was making dinner for my family while my wife was at work. She walked in the door with McDonald's, even though she knew I was cooking. Then our kids saw and started screaming that they wanted McDonald's too and that it was unfair. I've told her not to pull this shit and she won't listen. FML
Today, I made a tasty, healthy plant-based lunch for my family. They ate a few bites, spat it out, and then went to McDonald's "to eat real food, you know, food with meat in it." FML
Today, my parents told me not to make plans for dinner as they were bringing it home. Normally, that would be great but they brought home slop from some buffet that had just opened. Everything was greasy, too salty, or bland. I told them they could have it, and made my own dinner. Now I'm being called, "The Food Network critic." FML
Today, we have nearly no food in the house. My husband went shopping with the kids and returned with a sack of tomatoes. Time to make lunch. FML
Today, my mother-in-law gifted us with a new microwave. I told her it was too much and we didn't really need it. Her response, "I just want my grandkids to have food that tastes good for once." I'm a chef. FML
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Top comments
rylaii 26
This is when husband and children learn to cook their own food
Mightyrif 23
They should be thankful to you and not condescending!
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Comments (67)
DinosaurTacoTime 18
My husband is way picky when I cook.. Then again I'm not the best at making "healthy" food. I'm envious.
ballbags 14
This is when you royally screw up diner so that they don't want you to make the things your not comfortable making.
granCanyon 12
A lot of people don't like nonstandard food. Especially if your husband ate fast food his whole life. Kids usually want what other kids have. They probably don't wanna be labelled as the "health nut kid".
VoldooPed 20
Yeah, cook something cool mum!
soullyfe 33
*Dad ;)
minagiv 11
Just start making junk meals every once in a while! It'll satisfy them, and you can continue with what you've been doing most of the time. I used to love when my mom had finger food day... Chicken nuggets, Friday's appetizers, tater tots, and a few different thing in rotation once every couple of months!
KociaQ 30
So... stop cooking and let them cook. "Sorry, I only know how to cook properly and healthy, your turn..."
vikky538 29
you can change the meals to junk some times just for a change..
TabooSushi 24
Not saying that it wasn't incredibly rude and disrespectful for your husband/kids to say that to you, because it absolutely was, but I also think what some other people said here is right: Even the healthiest person likes to eat some junk food once in a while. It's a nice treat, and people need variety in their lives. Maybe sit down and have a RESPECTFUL conversation with your family about what they'd like to eat aside from your usual cooking, and see if you can't come up with some kind of deal. Maybe one or two 'junk' meals a week, as long as they understand and apologize for that fact that they really hurt your feelings when they said that. On the plus side: Having an easy junk meal a couple times a week will give you a break from cooking to just relax with your family and enjoy their company.
yolololol3 17
They should be thankful that you cooked.
CS_Pats 9
Hope it wasn't your husband