Convenience food

[judecorp]

Someone (nikki_herself?) once posted that someone insinuated to her that it should be a lot easier for her to eat well since she is now a stay-home parent. I guess the thought process was something like: no cookies/cake/goodies around the office, no candy jar, no "working lunch" at a less than health restaurant, no tempting fast food, etc. The rationale was, "You can fill your house with healthy food and then just eat that! No problem!"

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have eaten nothing but CRAP since I have been home. And it's not even like my house is full of crap, but it has been, by necessity, overstocked with convenience foods like macaroni and cheese or instant oatmeal or frozen lunches. Processed crap. Never mind the fact that it is so tempting to go through fast-food drive-throughs while your child naps in the car seat behind you rather than considering lugging her out to get something proper... or trying to eat when you get home and she inevitably wakes up.

But even when I'm NOT eating processed junk, it's still junk. Let's take now. What am I eating? Potatoes. I'm not kidding, I'm eating potatoes. Leftover potatoes from dinner the other night. There was a tupperware container in the fridge and I opened it and there they were. Potatoes. So I heated them up, and here I am. Eating potatoes. With a slice of cheese on top. (A guy's gotta have some protein, you know? *g*)

Comments

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

I pity the man.

If he has a family, then it must be a terrible, lonely existence. It's sad that he resents his family and home life so much that a mere picture of them is something he finds distasteful.

It also much be a hollow existence to be so devoid of feeling for his own children that the prospect of someone else actually WANTING to see a picture of their kid is alien and worthy of ridicule.

I wonder how much of a role, if any, his own father played in his childhood.

He clearly has no respect for his wife or her duties if he finds running away from them is the appropriate course of action. No wonder he has such a poor understanding of what a stay at home mother actually does with her day.

Perhaps Jen should salt the next Secret Santa or Yankee Swap with a few copies of "Mr. Mom."

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh he's a tool alright. And yes, he has two kids - one of them is a couple of weeks younger than ours. He is ALWAYS spouting some sort of family-hating nonsense but then pretends to be kidding. It is MADDENING.

When his wife was having his second kid, it was a scheduled c-section. C-section means 4-5 days in the hospital. He was back at work BEFORE SHE WAS RELEASED! I was so pissed on her behalf, but at least she had her family with her. Ugh. He also kept telling Jen how she should be like him and sleep on the couch so her sleep doesn't get disturbed and all kinds of other BS.

He's an asshat. I feel bad for his wife and kids.

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, if his wife has any kind of a spine (or grows one later) she'll be able to take his uninvolved ass to the cleaners in the divorce.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I don't know what her deal is. I've never met her.