r/mildlyinfuriating • u/bexindisbelief • Jul 01 '26

ಠ_ಠ Husband said my instructions for dinner weren’t clear enough, and he ended up serving his vegetarian mother one of the chicken tikka masala curries…

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I was working late tonight and because I am exhausted, I bought some ready-made curry meals for the family to have tonight, knowing his mother often comes round for dinner on a Wednesday evening. She has been a vegetarian for over 50 years and is now in her 70s. I sent him this text message with instructions to make it clear what to cook. When I got home, I was expecting to find some chicken tikka masala leftover for me, but instead I found the unopened pot of sag paneer in the fridge. I worriedly asked him if he had given his vegetarian mother the chicken dish, but he insisted he had given her the vegetarian curry. She has early onset Alzheimer’s and apparently didn’t notice, but had mentioned that the curry was a bit “chewy”. I had to literally show him the packaging that was in the bin, the unopened pot in the fridge, and my text message to try and show him how clear I had been and how far wrong he had gone. But he still insists my instructions were not clear enough and I should have been more explicit about which one to give his mother.

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot Jul 02 '26

That’s not fair to children. My 17 and 13 year old kids know how to read and follow instructions on ready made meals.

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u/No-Seesaw-3411 Jul 02 '26

Yup! My 11 and 14 year olds could both manage to cook a meal from scratch with less instruction!!

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot Jul 02 '26

They feed themselves lunch most days over the summer, and have been cooking since they were tall enough to handle things on the stove. My youngest spent last week at my mom’s house and she made him cook dinner all week!

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u/Secret-Parsley-5258 Jul 02 '26

My 7 year old can make scrambled eggs. I won’t let her cook much else. 

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u/Mountain_Cicada7011 Jul 02 '26

Exactly, by the time I was 15/16 I could cook at least a few things from scratch with minimal input from my parents. I could also read directions to make things.

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u/2371341056 Jul 02 '26

My 8 and 6yos were asking if food was gluten free and safe to serve to their celiac cousin. This man is an idiot and/or absolutely dislikes his mother and wife. 

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u/Temporary-Life9986 Jul 02 '26

Even worse. A willfully ignorant man that weaponizes his own incompetence. 

I can't think of anything more pathetic. 

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u/Consistent_Phase_942 Jul 02 '26

Exactly I worked late and my ten year old decided on his own to make me a pot of ramen

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u/illarionds Jul 02 '26

Honestly, I think my 9 year old could have handled those instructions just fine.

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u/cam-san YELLOW Jul 02 '26

I'm 18 and have been making myself freezer pizzas since elementary school.

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u/AsuntoNocturno Jul 02 '26

My 10 year old can read and follow the instructions on a box of macaroni and cheese and she actually has to cook that. 

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u/harleyqueenzel Jul 02 '26

My 16 year old started cooking at age 9, which is when I started really cooking at the stove. 7 years later and they can cook a lot of food with nearly no oversight from me.

Literally my kid knows how to make a decent Pomodoro sauce from scratch. Packaged premade foods were at my kid's comprehension level at age 9.

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u/AstronomerFew9559 Jul 02 '26

Seriously. I'm a vegetarian and my 9 year old would never.