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Heaven help us... we are going to starve!

LauraJB313LauraJB313
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This morning DH decided that he really wanted muffins for breakfast.  I'm on a wheat free GD diet, so there was no chance I was going to get any of the muffins. I decided to just let him make his own muffins, while I ate my egg and rice cake... like I do every morning... not that I'm bitter or anything.  Anyway, the muffins are from a box and have 3 total steps (preheat, stir, bake).  He's got a Ph. D.; he can handle it, right??  I think it took him over 45 minutes before the muffins went into the oven.  He literally counted the number of times he stirred the batter to make sure he followed their directions. 

I better get on making some freezer meals because I don't even want to consider how many hours dinner prep from a real recipe would take. :)  

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  • lovemybaby918lovemybaby918
    Haha! Same here... DH was in charge of making his own chicken last night, it's the easy boneless kind that you cook for like 10 minutes on each side. He almost caught the pan on fire... before he even put the chicken in it!
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  • mamaHippo23mamaHippo23 member
    Have you guys ever tried those complete "meal in a bag" things in the freezer section? I don't think you even have to open the bag to cook it. I'm thinking about trying the stir fry ones. Seems like something even a husband could handle LOL
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  • Holly_1007Holly_1007 member
    my DH is actually a pretty good cook, thank god.  okay well he's not great, but better than taking an hour to make muffins! guess he's a keeper :-p
                           
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  • mommy510mommy510 member
    I never let DH cook. He likes gourmet food, but he isn't a gourmet chef and the combinations he comes up with are often more weird than pregnancy cravings. It usually turns out good, but he never makes enough to share.
    The main reason I don't let him cook though is that he uses every available dish and utensil and leaves the mess for me.
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  • FlamingemuFlamingemu member

    imagemamaHippo23:
    Have you guys ever tried those complete "meal in a bag" things in the freezer section? I don't think you even have to open the bag to cook it. I'm thinking about trying the stir fry ones. Seems like something even a husband could handle LOL

    These are terrible for you. Very processed and full of junk. It is much healthier to premake your own foods and freeze them.

    We will be utilizing our crockpot for a while after baby is here. 


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    imageauroraloo:

    We're going to be eating takeout, tacos, spaghetti and homemade pizza for weeks.

    To be fair, MH makes really good tacos, because we make our own seasoning.

    Same here.  I literally just made the grocery list for him for next week and it is for chickpea tacos, homemade pizza, spaghetti and some other variations of the same....

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  • watercolor5watercolor5 member

    imagemamaHippo23:
    Have you guys ever tried those complete "meal in a bag" things in the freezer section? I don't think you even have to open the bag to cook it. I'm thinking about trying the stir fry ones. Seems like something even a husband could handle LOL

    I love the bertolli pasta bags... I don't think they are any worse for you than eating pasta at a restaurant.  It's ingenious the way they freeze the sauce in cubes and the pasta in birds nests so it all melts and cooks at the right time.  My DH ate so many of these when I was deployed... way healthier than the fast food alternatives, though they aren't cheap per bag.

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  • mamaHippo23mamaHippo23 member
    Trust me I know the meal in a bag are not the healthiest option! I definitely would not eat them regularly or anything, but they work if you're going for easy, quick, and simple.
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  • miss50miss50 member
    DH knows where the snack cabinet is in the kitchen.  Oh, and the vitamin shelf and where HIS drinks are in the fridge.  That's it!  Ladies, consider yourselves lucky!
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  • gracefulashgracefulash member
    You need a Ph.D. to cook?
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  • LauraJB313LauraJB313

    imagegracefulash:
    You need a Ph.D. to cook?

    In his case, I think the Ph.D. actually hurt his cooking abilities.  :)  Other people would probably not think that the "experiment" would fail horribly should they deviate from "standard preparation protocol."

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