Andybody been on one of these before? Due to an incident in the week I am feeling slightly underappreciated by my partner, and I don't think he realises how much better home cooked food is because he always gets it! lol

I have just done my weekly shop and everything I have bought is pre-made, even down to the mash! haha I have bought tinned curry, microwave rice and everything. As much as I don't want to eat it and I love cooking I want to prove a point. I'm just going to be gutted if he prefers the ready meals haha

hubby would just fill himself up on junk food if i went on a cooking strike!

My husband could just live on bread and cheese.
The thing is though, I actually cook purely for my own benefit.
I love cooking and I love to eat what I cook, so if I appreciate my own efforts he can lump it or leave it.

He does appreciate my cooking, though, but he is not vocal about it, unlike our relatives and friends.
Never will he say "yum" or "that's lovely"

When we had the kitchen ripped out we had to live on micro meals for a week, my hubby was crawling up the walls towards the end as he hated them. Now he appreciates every meal he gets & so do I.

This is what I'm hoping for Colors lol I do love cooking and it's a scarifice on my part. My boyfriend wants meals with meat every night but because he doesn't do the shopping, doesn't realise meat is expensive. I try to balance exciting meals, on a budget, therefore I do about 2 or 3 vegetarian meals a week but always something different. He also doesn't like english food, so I can't buy mince and make a big shepherds pie and freeze the rest etc. I'm hoping the tinned chicken curry makes him realise that even though it has "meat" in (I use that term losely) it is still not as nice as a fresh vegetable balti for example. Fingers crossed....

Good luck with that. I am sure he will realise what he is missing. Eating meat every day is bad for him anyway. I would tell him to cook his own meals if he isn't saticfied.

Strike didn't last long

I also go on strike just after lunch till just before dinner

Strike starts tomorrow, as I do my weekly shop for Monday-Sundays.

Good on ya OP! People who don't cook just don't seem to appreciate the effort, thought and love that goes into home cooking to a decent level. I have to say my efforts are always appreciated, although the buggers are quick to tell me if there is anything slightly wrong!!

If you really wanted to make a point you should have just shopped for one

lol I was tempted Rainbow, but he would probably starve or live on crisps.

I can't understand why you'd want to go on a cooking strike and put yourself through the same thing. If your husband doesn't like your cooking then make him get his own.

If my wife ever did that to me i'd say fair enough. You cook for yourself and i'll get my own. While she was tucking into her microwave lasagne, i'd be eating home made beef bourginon with dauphinoise potatoes making sure she didn't get any. That's the good thing about being a husband who's a trained chef. I will never go hungry.

Besides I do most the cooking in our house anyway. If my wife lived on her own she'd be living off pizza and micro chips.

Too much of a pushover Wiz. If i was cooking myself something nice, I would always end up dishing him up some if it was there.

I wonder why you think he's not appreciative ?

I sympathise with you OP. Although I do think my OH appreciates my cooking (even though sometimes I get no thank you), he hasn't cooked for me since my youngest was born 21 years ago. We do go out or get take away sometimes but I'd just love him to cook me a meal sometimes .

Never been on a cooking strike but make my partner cook at least once a week usually (he's got very good at bolognese so now have to broaden his repertoire!). Last week I got fed up of being the one to plan all our meals so I made him do it.

Fortunately, I don't usually feel under appreciated.

Never occured to me to strike I cook for my husband because I love him, not for the cudos or praise.

Have you actually talked to him about this ?

And no neither of us have gone on cooking strike. Mrs does home catering so cooks 90% of the time anyway.

I really hope it doesn't back fire and he doesn't even notice the difference. That would be embarrassing for you.

I personally wouldn't go on strike mainly because I don't do things for the thank you, I just do them. All the appreciation I need is if the plate is empty, and I honestly don't care if it isn't either.

It's not that i'm doing it for a thank you at all. When somebody comes in and basically rolls their eyes in a huff at something you have spent an hour cooking just because it doesn't have meat in it, it is quite upsetting. It makes you realise that that person reallly doesn't appreciate the effort you put it, whether you personally enjoy it or not.

So what you're actually saying is, he doesn't like what your cooking for him because it's not got the things in it that he likes to eat, so to make him appreciate your efforts more, you're making him eat ready meals instead?

How do you know he doesn't prefer ready meals to your vegie alternative?

It sounds a rather odd thing to do. It's like saying my husband hates my cooking so to teach him a lesson i'm giving him something he might actually prefer instead. Huh?

Wouldn't it be better to cook him something he actually likes (like something with meat in) rather than try to get him to eat something that you want him to like? Just because you've slaved over it all afternoon doesn't mean he has to like it. Maybe you should try asking him what he'd like for his tea or what kind of things he likes to eat rather than spend all afternoon cooking something he's not gonna appreciate. That way no more rolling of eyes.

Sorry i'm not trying to sound horrible but if my wife continued to put food in front of me that I didn't like I think i'd be inclined to tell her. My wife keeps insisting on making her own pizzas and every time I try to tell her I don't like home made pizza. In fact i'm not a great lover of pizza in general. It's one food I could cheerfully never eat again. I eat it out of politeness because she's gone to the trouble of making it but in the end I had to tell her to stop making it for me because I really didn't like it.

I gave him the option of picking the meals and he said we just wouldn't eat? lol Eating meat everynight is expensive, like I said earlier I try to balance home cooked mid week meals on a budget.

Shopping was delivered and I told him I got all ready made food, even down to the mash and he nearly had a break down lol the tinned chicken curry was what really pushed him over the edge though hahaha he has eaten 1/4 of his dinner tonight and left the rest. I even got a apology, and it's only day 1.

What a bizarre thread!

If you want to "strike" to make a point, stop doing the washing and ironing. That'll teach him!

A home cooking "strike" can be easily circumvented with a visit or a phone call to the local chippy, Dominos Pizza, Chinese or Indian take-away!

Don't flatter yourself that a man actually requires your ability to cook!

I understand op why youre doing it.