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Princess can have mac n cheese after school

I love dogs's picture

Submitted by I love dogs on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 7:27pm

After my 2 day rant about DH buying last minute lunches for SD because the only food she ever eats here isn't good enough to take because it's not leftovers (besides the pizza), SD can have her single serve mac n cheese bowls as a 6pm snack. I have potatoes baking in the oven and am about to start the grill now that my dogs are walked. Too bad if she doesn't want my steak and baked potato leftovers for lunch tomorrow, DH can deal with it. She won't even touch the sunflower salad.

I am sitting on the recliner in my room and SD walks in without saying anything and is getting scissors from my bathroom. I don't really mind since they're right there in the drawer. Anyway, the truth about taking leftovers to heat is that she doesn't like waiting for the microwave because everyone uses it and Lord knows why school lunch isn't good enough.

Since DH isn't home, I told her that she needs to have a list by Friday when I go shopping again for things she'll take for lunch when she won't take leftovers or foods that need heating. I know, I suck at disengaging.

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Aniki-Moderator's picture

Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 7:29pm

No list, you buy NOTHING. Don't make me follow you around the grocery store and smack items out of your hands! Wink

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Submitted by I love dogs on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 7:37pm

I probably won't get anything this week since she'll be gone Monday morning. I doubt DH cares too much to accommodate her list (that'll never be thought of or made- I know she heard me this time. She's been playing deaf lately). 

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Submitted by marblefawn on Wed, 09/26/2018 - 9:54pm

You should all take some cues from my dear mother...she didn't pack lunches, she didn't make breakfast, she made what she liked to eat for dinner and we sat there until it was gone.

Turns out schnauzers love liver and frozen blocks of fried cod.

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Submitted by Cooooookies on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 12:57am

LOL and the labradors my parents had loved vegetables, plain potatoes boiled to death and dry AF pork chops.  Also, throwing the food back into the pots that is sitting on the stove next to you was pretty fun too!

Biggrin

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Submitted by tog redux on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 6:30am

I say let it go, who cares? Don't buy anything for her for lunches unless she asks, and then when she says there is nothing for her to take, silently point her towards her father.  Either he will get tired of buying her lunch every day, or he won't, and who cares.

If it's about him spending joint money on her lunches, then change your finances to have a joint account for bills only and then separate accounts for each of you for other stuff.  He can take her lunch money out of this.

This is not worth the stress it will cause you and your marriage.

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Submitted by Cover1W on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 11:18am

This is what I did, SDs were both cut off from lunch help at all from me at a certain point.

If they want something and it's not on a list, I don't get it.  (when there was a list).

I never bought anything special, ever, for SD14 - her eating "requirements" were so narrow that it was impossibly expensive to meet and nutritionally awful.  DH had to buy everything for her himself - only then did he begin to see the issue.

You need to totally disengage from any lunch help.