Hubby thinks I am a magician..........

euronorris

Steel wrote: »

Sounds familiar! My hubby will spend £20 on a supermarket 'takeaway' meal, pudding and a bottle of wine. One night's food.

He gave me £20 a couple of weeks ago to 'get something nice for dinner' and I did the entire week's food shop.

Haha! My OH is the same. He's always amazed at how much I can get for €20!

I've realised that the reason for the difference is that I am willing to cook from scratch, whereas he wants something that can just be stuck in the microwave or oven!

He still hasn't quite grasped that he's paying almost 5 times the cost of the meal, just because someone else has prepared it for him. Fine for the odd treat, but we'd be doing it every day if it was up to him! Eugh, all that wasted money and un healthy food, can't be doing with that.

Steel_2

euronorris wrote: »

Haha! My OH is the same. He's always amazed at how much I can get for €20!

I've realised that the reason for the difference is that I am willing to cook from scratch, whereas he wants something that can just be stuck in the microwave or oven!

That's it precisely! He will buy pizza, I cook one from scratch and usually using the ingredients I've bought for other meals during the week.

He'll buy 'takeaway' ready-cooked curries (and try and scarf some of my portion because his is usually not enough), I make them from scratch and make so much I have to freeze the leftovers.

I usually accept if he's popping out for something for dinner, it will be my night off cooking. He hasn't yet fooled me into thinking he can't operate the microwave the way he has the stove :rotfl: