What do YOU eat when OH is away?

celyn90

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Can you really trust your OH to eat what you prepare and leave in the freezer? Mine is even incapable of doing that much. I prepare a lot and put in freezer, but I always have to get it out, thaw it and cook it.

He would just get takeaway every day if I wasn't there to cook for him. Gosh, just realised how bad that sounds. Good job I am there for him, isn't it? He has takeaway every Thursday when I go to college.

My OH does that too, he'll just eat sausage rolls and fry stuff if I'm not there, so I don't worry when I'm away and I don't bother leaving things for him now. He refuses to buy takeaway reguarly though as he thinks it's overpriced but will cook. I'd rather he bought takeaway to be honest - he always leaves the kitchen looking/smelling foul :rotfl:

I just eat crackers and cheese when I'm on my own. I can never be bothered to cook for myself.

morganlefay

I eat leftovers and also MW baked potatoes with baked beans or tuna and/or grated cheese. Then I have healthy days when I make a huge crunchy salad with cuke, tomato, shredded little gem lettuce, perhaps olives or anything I have lurking in the fridge.OH hates kedgree so if he's gone somewhere nice I treat myself to kedgeree which does 2 days, and I sometimes make a big bowl of brown rice and then keep in fridge (only for a couple of days, and add stuff to it and heat in MW (cheese, beans, ham, tuna) It all has to be quick. Sometimes I just get scotch eggs and slather them with Hellmans, but I wouldn't admit to that in public - or pork pies. Oh dear ! But I do eat lots of fruit when he's away and don't bother with puds which he loves. Waitrose do a lovely tin of spicy beans, which does 2 meals with grated cheese on top - really nice.

If I were away he would not even be able to find the fridge I sometimes think. He'd go to M&S or Tesco and buy those expensive 'steamer' ready meals, and eat a lot of ice cream. When he retires next year I plan to send him on a basic cookery course !

thriftlady_2

Choclate and ice cream of course

filigree_2

Hard to say because we've only been living together for a few months and this hasn't cropped up yet! I'd probably eat food he doesn't like, like fish. It would be a good opportunity to use up those odds and ends of the cupboard that aren't quite enough to make a meal for two.

Ideally I'd take the opportunity to follow my diet to the letter without having to find compromises that he's willing to eat. In the real world I think booze and chocolate might feature

xnikkix

OH is away this weekend so i'm attempting to eat the contents of the fridge/freezer so I can defrost it! Might have to get some help to eat it all!
Eggs on toast are one of my easy favourites!

nicola1982_2

Anything vegetarian as he moans if we don't eat meat every day! I usually go for something easy with little to no washing up involved as OH is usually responsible for doing the pots and I don't like the extra job

Skint_Catt

xnikkix wrote: »

OH is away this weekend so i'm attempting to eat the contents of the fridge/freezer

I hope its not an Amercian style huge one and full too! :rotfl: :rotfl:

jcr16

hubby and i have never spent a day apart, but on occasions when he has to work late and won't be wanting dinner i always cook meals i love that he hates.

like faggots , mash and mushy peas
egg and soliders
omelette,
mushrooms on toast
sweet and sours chicken with chips
fish pie

Nothing wonderful , but just meals i love and he doesn't.

rach

i don't currently live with (or in the same town as) my OH so live alone, mainly cooking just for me.

i eat a lot of jacket potatoes, veg/quorn chillis, homemade soup, sausages and instant mash, ryvitas & cottage cheese, and i often cook something and eat it at least 2 days running. i often churck loads of stuff in the slow cooker with passata and see what comes out. OH hates things like that but they are easy and healthy.

i don't eat bread any more but when i did i had loads of meals of beans, egg, spaghetti, tinned tomatoes on toast.

freyasmum

I would have stuff on toast or things that he didn't like. I also like MW baked potato with sweetcorn and coleslaw - that it something my ex hated, but I absolutely love.

My dad worked away regularly when me and my sister were growing up and when he was away my mum would cook the things that he couldn't have/didn't like.

Lx