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3rd Trimester
Snotty Question Regarding Freezer Meals
What exactly is their appeal other than convenience? Yeah, I know everyone is tired and exhausted after having a baby, etc., etc., but are you really planning on your life being totally dysfunctional that you won't be able to cook something up quickly or have your DH/FI/BF/SO make something?
A lot of the stuff that people list off on here that they've made seems REALLY unhealthy IMO. I prefer fresh. I just don't get the appeal.
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Re: Snotty Question Regarding Freezer Meals
i don't really understand the appeal either, but i've never been one that enjoys freezer meals myself or even leftovers for that matter
to each their own though!
Me: 37
DH: 36
Married: 08-25-07
DS: 11-20-09
Name change alert: Formerly Lisswastaken
Sorry. I can't help myself.
Just. You. Wait.
I make a bunch of freezer meals once or twice a year. Child or not, sometimes I'm just too exausted after work to cook, and I can't afford to go out to eat all the time. It seriously is all about the convenience for me.
As far as nutrition? I freeze the same meals I normally eat, so it's nothing more or less healthy than usual.
Are you trying to be a hag tonight?
Really? You will understand. TRUST ME!!!!
Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011
What exactly is their appeal other than convenience?
That's the appeal....and you will soon see just how appealing that is.
this definitely seems like it was purposely written to start some mayhem.
Yeah... I guess I'll just have to wait.
What's wrong with left-overs? I've never met anyone who hasn't eaten thanksgiving dinner more than once...but like you said "to each their own"
No one has a clue about how they're going to feel right after delivery. You can have an easy one, and feel just peachy and up for cooking, or have a difficult one and feel like you got run over by a truck for a week and really not want to. Your man may be a lousy cook, incapable of doing anything short of reheating something. But, obviously, this isn't going to be a concern for you, so why are you worried about what others do? It's not your freezer.
Not really. It crosses my mind every time I see a post or comment about it. I'm pissy so I just asked.
your daughter is absolutely adorable!
hahahahahahahhaahhahaha ::breathhhhe:: hahahhahahahhahahaaaaaaaaa
"easy."
I never do this..but bwahahahahahahaaahhahaha
Let me know how that works out.
(ps..I have a GREAT dh)
1. they can be healthy it all depends on what you make.
2. quick and easy
3. some people don't have family to help them out so they'll need all the help and time saving tips they can get.
4. It'll save money and trips out by my DH
5. You can incorporate a freezer meal and fresh just add a nice side salad or fresh veggie of your choice
6. Better to be prepared and full than overwhelmed and hungry.
oh lets see, with DS 1 he was born in the dead of Winter. There was a foot of snow on the ground so we only went to the grocery store for ESSENTIALS. He had colic and wanted to cry or be held 24/7. I was nursing so I was exhausted. I had a c/s to recover from. I was working as soon as he was born.
You shall see. Just getting to the store to BUY something fresh becomes mission impossible. Let alone getting home, cooking it and getting to eat it before it's ice cold.
And I dont expect dh to cook. He works 14 hours a day outside all year round.
Thank you!!
DIES!!!
WHATEVER. Great doesn't always equal a cook. Mine happens to cook dinner every night as it is, I don't see why he wouldn't be able to do that post-baby and neither does he. We both have to step it up a little. No martyrs in my house.
BFP #3 -mm/c @ 7wks, discovered at 9wks, D&C 9/28
BFP #4 5/29 EDD 2/9 - please be our rainbow
I'm sensing a *** ton of Ramen noodles in your future. LOL
Good luck. Truly. I hope it all works out exactly the way you plan. My dh does/did do most of the cooking, but really, you just don't yet know what life will be like with a newborn. Though I gather you'll be getting up most nights with the baby, he'll also be sleep deprived....and when he gets home from work, you may need to rest and have him watch the baby so he won't be able to cook. But hey, no martyrs in your house...I hope you don't have to eat your words.
Ohh absolutely nothing is wrong with left overs. I'm just messed up from when I was a kid. We were extremely poor and sometimes ate the same meal days in a row, so once I became an adult and moved out on my own I've always liked to have something new and fresh every day. I'm trying to get better wtih it, cause DH is all about the left overs, but he understands why I am the way I am and takes them for lunch most days.
Me: 37
DH: 36
Married: 08-25-07
DS: 11-20-09
Name change alert: Formerly Lisswastaken
Do non-poor college students even buy Ramen noodles? F*cking gross.
My DH does a considerable amount of cooking in our house as well, however, we still did freezer meals. I'm pretty certain DS will be wanting a considerable amount of our time and attention while he gets used to the new addition to our family, and if we can give that to him by not having to spend up to an hour every night cooking, we would prefer to do this.
I'll be sure to come on here and tell all you authoritative bump ladies how my husband and baby and I all suffered greatly due to a lack of frozen lasagnas. Jesus.
OK - here's some experience that might be useful for you to know about. My DH is a great cook. He is the one who does the vast majority of cooking in our house. However, after the birth of my DD, immediately after coming home from the hospital, I still needed help getting up and down off the bed, the couch, the stairs, etc. I needed help getting DD up out of her crib. After being at my beck and call whenever I or DD needed anything, he was not so much able to spend much time in the kitchen making meals.
When he went back to work, I was still very overwhelmed by being a new mother. It took time to figure out how to manage DD. By the time DH got home from work, I needed him to take over much of her care so I could have some time to decompress.
Convenience (or generosity - which is what we ended up relying on last time) is a freaking GODSEND when you have a newborn. Think survival mode.
Yeah, I'll do the same. Seriously. Lasagnas aren't exactly the best way to lose baby weight either. Just sayin'.
I get why people do it, we just aren't going to. I don't think it's ridiculous, I just understand why OP got irritated - there seems to be some sort of Bump Kool Aid everyone drinks that dictates all the things you're "supposed" to do. I have no issues ordering Pizza or asking my parents to bring food over if we don't feel up to it. My DH loves cooking, and for him, this is going to be one of the ways he is supportive and contributes during the months where a newborn wants only their mother and her boobs.
are you all smoking some kind of psycho crack?
Who the fvck cares what other people eat, who the fvck cares if someone prepares their food before hand or if they sit on a god damn lilly pad with one tit hanging out saying " they feed therefore they must be fed"
I don't give a fvck what anyone does, as long as they are able to function healthily and happily.
Tree-stump I do have to say, if youre trying to start some thought provoking or at least interesting conversation, take your time and think about what you want to say first. Because all I see when I read your post is stupid, stupid, stupid, ignorant, stupid.