How do you fit it all in ??

Gillby1

Me too! I cook double portions of chilli, bolognaise, roast dinners etc... and my OH somehow finds the space to eat it ALL every time! I've had to start hiding it from him...

fairylights_2

I have to admit I DON'T tell DH that I've doubled up, and I put lids on the pans as soon as I've dished up otherwise he would do the same. That said, i could eat double now - I'm STARVING this morning!

Gryfon

Trouble is I'm just as bad as him! Especially if it's something yummy....just a bit more can't be that bad

rchddap1

Most of our meals have some 'component' that is frozen (usually meat or pre-prepared meal). I bag / package things up in neat little 2 portion sizes. When he comes home and starts to cook he can't serve up double, because he only has 2 portions to start with.

Badgergal

Gillby1 wrote:

Me too! I cook double portions of chilli, bolognaise, roast dinners etc... and my OH somehow finds the space to eat it ALL every time! I've had to start hiding it from him...

I have one like that too!

He also scuppers any vague meal plans I might have by whingeing that he doesn't feel like curry/pasta/whatever is planned...good thing he doesn't live with me yet!

fairylights_2

I have to admit I'm working hard at finishing his chocolate and raisin flapjack today. He will be cross when he gets home :rotfl:

squeaky

Shez wrote:

I'm still getting used to using this site - how do you keep up with all the postings?? is there a quick way? for instance: the OS get together they mentioned about the car stickers, didnt know what you were all talking about - I only found the car stickers reference last night on the email from martin!
Needlesss to say im probably too late now to get one by the time i found it!

I'm a Stay At Home Me.

I can't do a lot of stuff in one go so I potter about a bit doing house and garden things and then wander back here to my nice comfy chair with a squeak for a rest and to get on with the real work of the day... reading posts

I now wonder what on earth I used to do with all this on-line time before I found MSE. It's so much a part of my life now I can't remember

bargainqueen_2

Hehe, mine and I are also like that, if he can't finish EVERYTHING at dinnerytime (and normally he finishes my treble portions :eek: ) then he has a "supper", and once there was some supper left (Chili) so he had it for breakfast! While I was asleep! I have a VERY secret hiding place for the choccie biscuits, but the Chili in the cupboard under me knickers???? Euuuww.... :rotfl:
Anyway, browsing the boards and replying fast is easy if you a)work with a computer without barred sites, b) work from home, c) are a sahm/sahd/unemployed/sick/holiday etc. E.G., I worked in an office but was on here a lot, then started working from home so was on here ALL THE TIME and now am unemployed so don't leave the computer!!! Once I get another job that may well change tho, and you do find that over time familiar faces appear more/less regular as circumstances change. As for fitting everything else in.... If you spend lots of time here, it distracts from your time you have for cleaning- but then, would you enjoy cleaning as much? I only bake when I can, I have always cooked from scratch so don't know any different, and if I have time I grow veg. Or make friendship bangles. Or go shopping.... And I don't own an iron

nabowla

I struggle with the whole OS organisation/discipline thing. I don't seem to have any energy at all these days - and I'm young and single so can't blame it on children or OH! By the time it's 9pm I have no energy to do anything at all, even a small tidy, which is a bit of a pain as I don't get home until 7pm. So all my resolutions to be really organised and make my lunch for the following day or do an hour's ironing go out the window :-( I know the theory, it's the putting it into practice that's the problem!!!

Loadsabob

I'm at work full time, too. I leave home at 8:20, get home at about 17:30. Not the longest working day, but enough that it's hard to fit in shopping, and the like. I tend to just get on with it. There are evenings where I do absolutely nothing, and there have been a lot of those in the last fortnight! Tonight I have to make bread. HAVE to, because I'm not going to a shop, and there's none left in the freezer. I really should make it before I absolutely have to, but sometimes - like essays when I was at school - I will only get around to when I have no choice!

I do make double / triple portions when I can, and those are great for nights when I'm really tired. My job in fact is deadly dull, and very quiet over the summer, so I'm online most of the day. Which is all very well, but the novelty soon wears off, and I spend my day thinking of the things I could be making / baking and doing if I were at home. I know I would never get bored.

So - in reply, I don't have a rigid plan of any kind. I do my meal-planners sometimes just before I go shopping, though I'm determined to do one tonight for a fortnight, and shop for it all on Saturday. I do get everything done, though not always as frequently as I'd like. I never choose readymeals etc, because I find cooking something only takes half an hour, which is fine. But it does mean I rarely try new recipes, just stick to what I know.

I don't know how we're supposed to do it. I'm really in favour of a four day week, and I'd happily take a 20% pay cut in return for a three day weekend!