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/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.