Fed up of this!

Yes I'm the bearer of all answers!!! We do it well unfortunately! 🤣

Several elderly widowers told me in the past”I never realized how hard it was to think of what to have for dinner”
The good thing is you can make what you fancy,I made a master list & when I’m stuck I just look at that,but it is frustrating.

I am 87 and I am afraid I do this to my daughter. She is very kind and keeps answering my questions that she answered last week. Payback!

Only on husband's and children's birthdays did anyone get a choice. Every other day, they ate what I'd prepared.

All of the above! Also - can you message DD and ask her …..? When he’s sitting there on his phone! 😂😂😂

correction: We both ask

keepingquiet

And women never ask questions?

Indeed.

We ask both each other for 'help' - people want to help, imo.

There’s a guy on YouTube called Richard Franks who has a character called ‘Mum’. His videos are SO spot on with exactly this type of frustration. They make me laugh so much.🤣

Jaxjacky

I wouldn’t ask what people want to eat, just say ‘we’re having xxx’, if they don’t fancy it, they can sort themselves out.
Google is their friend for a lot of daft questions.
Fortunately I don’t have the problems the OP has, maybe because people know me better 🙂

That is what I do. Plan a menu and we all eat the same, whether it is just me and DH or wider family.

On wider questions, I ask as often as I am asked.

The very last thing you should do is ask children what they want for tea they will ask for something that is awkward

And women never ask questions?

I never ask what people want for tea. I just make something and tell them when it's ready. It's what my mum did and it still works.

Quite apart from anything else, I don't have several quick options available at any one time.

We – that is, usually, DH as he likes shopping and I don't – buys fresh meat and fish. I freeze it all and get something out each day. I add anything extra that I might need for a particular recipe to the shopping list. Maybe this is the trick: he basically knows what's available and helps choose what is bought, then I decide what I can be arsed with.

Fresh veg too but that doesn't get frozen, except for frozen peas, obvs.

If they can't choose, don't ask.

My Mum used to say that my Dad was always saying: it’s the first I’ve heard of it. It definitely wasn’t! Lol

Oh yes Eva, drives me absolutely mad !
"Well, what would you like to do" ?
""I'm asking you.
Walk out too.
I feel like screaming "You are not a child, how about being a little proactive "

Dh ‘Where are my glasses’

Me. ‘On your head’

😂🤣🤣

My all-time irritating contribution:

'What's happening today then?'

I usually walk out.

If DH turns his nose up at what I suggest for tea, I tell him if he doesn't want it then we can have fish - immediate back tracking.

Try I am Your mother not f@&:g Google. Works for my DW

Multi tasking and organisational skills are part of a woman’s DNA. Unfortunately men are very slow to learn these things because they have mums before wives !!!

Urrgh!
I've not heard of that before.
Air pie and kick of the cat was usually on offer when my mum was asked.

My standard reply to "What's for tea?" has always been, "Elephant's trunk and chips" - never anything else... They stop asking after the 50th time 😄

Things like how long it would take to get to London or to microwave something: tell them to google it!

What would you like to eat? If no replies are forthcoming, you can do one of two things: either serve something you like, and if they don't that is just to bad. or tell them that next week they make tea.

I was Hermione Granger, long before the Harry Potter books were written, so it does not bother me at all to be the family lexicon.

Howabout "did you remember to put the chicken in the fridge?"

We have pretty much a routine, Roast or similar on Sunday, leftovers for a couple of days, Curry or Sweet&Sour mid week, Fish Friday, which only leaves Thursday & Saturday and it’s easy to do a Salad or Pasta for them.

Loved this post! I had a good chuckle! Now I know I'm not the only one in the world who is expected to know everything! I think my (least) favourite is "Have you seen my (insert item)? I left it here x years ago (where x is any number between 1 and 10) and it's not here now!
My problem is compounded as I used to be a children's librarian, and it really seemed to be my job to know everything, or at least how to find it out!!
(Just waiting to be asked what I'm laughing about!)