Meal Prep!

[Lee-Bee]

I have another idea how this would be great....I am not good at delegating. I am all about the...If you want a job done right, do it yourself....I know, I know...not good. It's the control freak in me that has developed over the years of doing everything, for everyone. Trying to change that is tough. With this, I can pick the meals and print out. Then pass it to my husband who will have a grocery list and then a step by step "idiot's guide" for meal preparation and cooking for each and every meal. He isn't stupid but as a result of me being the doer, he automatically asks me questions which make it not worthwhile...in some ways...to even ask someone else to do it. This way he could totally get on with this independently...I swear I'm talking about a grown ass man lol not a child. I'm liking this more and more!

Totally get this. My husband is a smart, bright completely capable man but I dread asking him to do stuff because it just SEEMS easier to do it myself. To ask him to put groceries away means him asking me where each item goes as he does it (that's NOT helping me). We got a decent system down now where the shelves in the pantry and freezer are labelled so he can read where things go. When I explain that it isn't helping me any when he asks me a million questions...his response is along the lines of wanting to ensure he does it right. Ummmm just throw it randomly in the cupboard and we're good!

Love your idea on helping him manage cooking on his own. My husband once tried to help prep food for a party. I asked him to take on baking a tray of frozen appetizers. Box had clear directions. While I was working in the kitchen he came in, took the tray out of the oven and rotated it 90degrees. I was like WHAT are you doing. He showed me the box that said to turn after 10min. he was SERIOUSLY upset when I took the tray back out and turned each appetizer over with a spatula. In his mind he was doing EXACTLY as the box stated. My husband is an engineer...yet he totally didn't see that simply turning a pan around did nothing to help the appetizers bake through evenly. His mother proudly tells the story of when they had him cook a pizza from a box when he was a teenager. he set the timer and went to read on the couch. They came home to a kitchen filled with smoke and yelled at him that the pizza was burning...his response "it's not done yet the timer says another 5minutes".

Needless to say we have a fire extinguisher in our kitchen and he is banned from cooking unless I explicitly request him to.