Post by shostakovich on Aug 24, 2015 21:50:58 GMT -5
We meal plan together about half of the time (and H does it solo the rest of the time), and H does about 90% of the grocery shopping because I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it so much.
Things are the WORST when H is on tour for more than a few days. I never want to meal plan or think far enough ahead so that I can have groceries delivered. So I just let the fridge and cupboard slowly dwindle and get increasingly creative with meals (Pickles and cheese and watermelon? Dinner!).
If it were up to me, I would either graze or just eat the way Cher does in Mermaids for dinner every night.
Post by mrsukyankee on Aug 25, 2015 4:32:09 GMT -5
Mine works too long hours during the week to plan or cook (though he will have an opinion if I ask him). He loves cooking so I try to get him to do it at least once at the weekend but many times he's just exhausted and just wants to relax (so we order in). When he was working less hours, he would cook a lot more often and go to the store with me. I don't mind planning or cooking, though sometimes I just want to relax too!
I try to meal plan, but mostly buy chicken and beef and hope I'll come up with a plan when it's time to make dinner. I try to have a good stock of frozen and fresh veggies, canned tomatoes, stock, cheese, etc so I can improvise easily.
H does not cook and rarely helps with planning. He will go to the store with me but if he's on his own he'll text pics of everything on the list to make sure he is getting the right thing. So I rarely send him alone to shop. He does all the dishes, even if he isn't home to eat dinner. He also does a lot more of the cleaning (or did before we hired a house cleaner).
Post by lightbulbsun on Aug 25, 2015 7:08:58 GMT -5
We have a shopping list app, and we alternate grocery shopping weeks. I usually do a meal plan, but sometimes he helps.
He takes for-ev-er when he shops. He'll leave work at 5:30, go to the store, and not get home until 8. And sometimes he calls me to ask where to find something.
That's a big fat NOPE. I work Mon-Fri (teacher), sometimes Saturday morning as well. He works (as a sous chef at the clubhouse in our subdivision) Wed. lunch service, Thu-Sat lunch and dinner, and Sun brunch to closing. He has absolutely NO desire to cook dinner on Monday or Tuesday when he is actually home. Tonight, I have a meeting after school from 4:30-6:30. He will go pick up a pizza, and last night we had a FANTASTIC mushroom quiche that he had cooked at the restaurant (and it wouldn't last until Wednesday, so he brought it home). Grocery shopping? That's all me. Meal planning? That's all me, too.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Aug 25, 2015 8:12:52 GMT -5
I plan the meals and he will sometimes grocery shop what I ask him to get. Although, he does plan meals and grocery shop when we're at his place. It's awesome! He cooks so well.