Females Cooking In The Home

Syl wrote:Family values have changed...for the worst in my opinion.
Many women work full time now and their families, including cooking for them, take a back seat.
I believe family meals (which means sitting round a table eating good food) are an important way of families communicating  and staying interested in one another.....I know lots of homes where this doesn't happen anymore.

However if the wife/mother is working full time, the husband/dad should share household responsibilities.....and there's no reason why cooking should be excluded from them.

Stormee wrote:

Syl wrote:Family values have changed...for the worst in my opinion.
Many women work full time now and their families, including cooking for them, take a back seat.
I believe family meals (which means sitting round a table eating good food) are an important way of families communicating  and staying interested in one another.....I know lots of homes where this doesn't happen anymore.

However if the wife/mother is working full time, the husband/dad should share household responsibilities.....and there's no reason why cooking should be excluded from them.

Yes Syl, you are right family valuez have changed for the worst IMHO.

There are more singul motherz out there than I could have ever envisaged.

When I was littul most dads seemed to work and the women ran the household, when dad came home from factory work, he had a catlick, his dinner was 'on the table', that was when the family sat down to dine together.

Husbandz, dadz in the main contributed littul or nowt towardz the day to day running of the household, today more men do help in the home when there is a stable relationship although I cannot see many being capabul of cooking a 'proper roast'..

Syl wrote:

Stormee wrote:

Yes Syl, you are right family valuez have changed for the worst IMHO.

There are more singul motherz out there than I could have ever envisaged.

When I was littul most dads seemed to work and the women ran the household, when dad came home from factory work, he had a catlick, his dinner was 'on the table', that was when the family sat down to dine together.

Husbandz, dadz in the main contributed littul or nowt towardz the day to day running of the household, today more men do help in the home when there is a stable relationship although I cannot see many being capabul of cooking a 'proper roast'..

Well many (most) top chefs are male, but initially everyone needs to be taught the basics, I'm sure most men could master a roast  after a couple of goes.

I do think casual relationships which result in children, or even being in a relationship..  having kids and not being prepared to stick it out, is the main cause of family changes, and I don't think it's old fashioned to think like that either.
But don't forget for every single mum there is a single dad.

Also the obsession with technology, that has as much to do with fragmented family relationships as anything else imo.

Syl wrote:It's odd really...we now live in a world where women are in control of who they sleep with and when/if to start a family.

Not that long ago the only choice a woman had was to say 'No'....no pill, no rights, no earning power... no nothing in her favour when it came to male/female relationships.

Yet we now have millions of single parent and fragmented families.

eddie wrote:I would never have children and then leave them with someone else whilst I went to work.
They are small for such a short while.

As for cooking, I have two lazy days: one day like a Saturday when we have takeaway or eat out, and a "chip day" when we have chips with something (usually chicken for children or salmon), but in all honesty, my kids prefer a curry or pasta than chips mostly.

(I don't like oven chips at all and don't do deep fat fryers etc so I rarely eat chips anyway.)

Stormee wrote:

Syl wrote:It's odd really...we now live in a world where women are in control of who they sleep with and when/if to start a family.

Not that long ago the only choice a woman had was to say 'No'....no pill, no rights, no earning power... no nothing in her favour when it came to male/female relationships.

Yet we now have millions of single parent and fragmented families.

There is only one boss in our house Syl as you well know. lol

I believe in a proper married male female relationship this enables the child/children to have a proper family life mainly.

I have seen far too many fragmented families during my lifetime so far, it is not usually good.

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:I would never have children and then leave them with someone else whilst I went to work.
They are small for such a short while.

As for cooking, I have two lazy days: one day like a Saturday when we have takeaway or eat out, and a "chip day" when we have chips with something (usually chicken for children or salmon), but in all honesty, my kids prefer a curry or pasta than chips mostly.

(I don't like oven chips at all and don't do deep fat fryers etc so I rarely eat chips anyway.)

The time when I was a stay at home mum was a really happy time.
I loved being a full time mum, I loved my sons company and found mums who couldn't wait to palm their kids off a bit odd....though each to their own.

You are right about them being small flying past....my grandson is now 18, and it's only a couple of years ago he was born.

sassy wrote:Quite a lot lol.

sassy wrote:Think it's timing more than anything, and knowing when something needs slow cooking and when it needs quick, high heat.   And knowing how to pack flavour in.

eddie wrote:

Syl wrote:

The time when I was a stay at home mum was a really happy time.
I loved being a full time mum, I loved my sons company and found mums who couldn't wait to palm their kids off a bit odd....though each to their own.

You are right about them being small flying past....my grandson is now 18, and it's only a couple of years ago he was born.

Wow. He's 18.... And there's me thinking you were only 21 yourself

I like being at home with them. I do moan about it sometimes and it can be boring occasionally, but then so are most things if you do them all the time.

Had a lovely afternoon today. Made my daughter a shopping list and we went to tesco after nursery, and she had to find all the things on her list....(asked me why "sweets" were not on there lol)
Did some colouring in with her - so therapeutic! - then we made her dad a valentine card.

Housework tomorrow. Pffffffff