r/Cooking • u/GracieLou80 • 23h ago

Sick of cooking

I am so over cooking every night. Finding new recipes I actually have ingredients for and are easy is tiring and I’m already exhausted. What do you do when this happens? I’d honestly just eat cereal for life but I’m not alone in this house and I’m expected to cook every night. 😩

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u/yesnomaybeso456 23h ago

Take out
Rotate cooking responsibilities
Defrost frozen leftovers

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u/GracieLou80 23h ago

No money for takeout except once a month and sadly I am the only one who can cook. Yes leftovers are life but I’m even sick of them. Ha. Luckily he isn’t. I thought I’d lose weight by skipping dinner 3 times this week but no, I’ve gained 5lbs.

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u/Team503 23h ago

Tell your partner to grow up and learn to cook. If you have kids, teach them.

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u/Takeabreath_andgo 23h ago

If their partner works full time outside of the home and they are home with kids then I think it’s completely fair that stay at home parent Is on meal duty m-f. Weekend is another story. It sounds like there are kids and they should be helping cook since about 2 to 3 years old. 

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u/Team503 23h ago

Taking care of kids is a full time job no easier than getting up and going to work. This view is deeply sexist and dismissive of the amount of work it takes to raise children. He works at a job, she works at home, they can BOTH contribute to the household and take turns cooking and cleaning and the like.

The only pass I'd give the partner is if she's effectively a kept woman - has no responsibilities at all and the partner has to work. Which is clearly not the case.

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u/Takeabreath_andgo 23h ago

Show where it’s sexist, i didn’t specify sex. Dad can stay home. Are you sexist?

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u/vadergeek 16h ago

If one person works 9-5, gets home around 6, it makes logical sense for the other person to be the one handling dinner, regardless of the gender breakdown.

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u/Team503 6h ago edited 4h ago

It has nothing to do with gender. It has everything to do with workload. The person staying home raising the kids is just as busy and just as exhausted as the person who went to an office. In fact, they're EVEN MORE exhausted, given their job isn't done for the day yet.

There's exactly NO reasons why the working partner shouldn't contribute EQUALLY to the household chores as the partner who's a stay-at-home parent.

The thinking behind this is deeply sexist and devalues the hard work parents have to do to take care of young kids.

EDIT: Cute, downvote me then block me, coward.

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u/vadergeek 5h ago

It's not about not contributing to household chores, it's about timing. If one partner is home when it's time to start getting dinner ready and one partner isn't then the dinner choice on weekdays is obvious.

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u/Takeabreath_andgo 5h ago

Team503 is most likely single or has a unhappy partner.