My husband always puts together a big salad in the morning to take to work. When he over sleeps, he very angrily assembles the salad. I say "honey, just buy lunch today, one day is not going to break the bank." It's like he can't understand how to alter his routine, MUST MAKE SALAD.

My husband always puts together a big salad in the morning to take to work. When he over sleeps, he very angrily assembles the salad. I say "honey, just buy lunch today, one day is not going to break the bank." It's like he can't understand how to alter his routine, MUST MAKE SALAD.

Indian spices AND coconut oil! Come on -- it's like a festival of flavor...four hours later, cold, after you've been berated by your boss for being late for work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who wakes up late and, knowing they have a presentation to prepare for, decides to cook lunch? When I wake up late, I'm figuring out how much of my morning routine I can condense or cut out to save time. OP and her husband just don't seem very bright.

Hate to pile on, but I am curious what ethnicity or from what culture OP is.

She sounds very WASPY to me.

No, based on the reaction to the fried tuna, the given recipe/spices, and the absolute lack of communication between her & her DH... I am thinking there is an ethnicity.

No way on earth would any of my Indian friends eat anything so disgusting! That's like what a clueless white girl does with Indian spices.

Anonymous wrote:You've posted before about your differences with DH on the long commute, right?

Anyway, you need some perspective, OP. And you need to get it quick before you have kids. Most of us woke up at 6am, did not have the luxury of eating breakfast, let alone fixing a lunch that involves cooking, dealt with tired and grumpy kids who suddenly remembered they need to do something important for school before they go, haven't even spoken to their DH for a few days as there hasn't been time, etc.

It's such a shame that we never appreciate what we have until it's too late.

Agree that the OP needs some perspective ( not to mention better time management skills!) but enough with the mommy martyr bit.

Believe it or not, many parents do somehow manage to eat breakfast most mornings. In fact, almost every friend of mine who is also parent has the "luxury" of eating breakfast almost every morning &, if they don't, it's generally because they chose not to for whatever reason. This is even true of the my friend who is a single parent to a special needs preschooler & an elementary schooler, my friend who has 4 kids under 7 & my friend with 3 kids at three different schools whose husband travels often, all of whom work full-time. If you get up at 6 & still can't manage to grab a quick breakfast, maybe you also need to learn some time management skills.

Signed,
A fellow mother who is sick of so many of her peers acting like modern parenting is the equivalent of single-handedly performing emergency brain surgery on an orphanage full of dying children with no tools at your disposal other than a tub of play doh & 2 broken Barbie doll legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JBwQ4kyKqQ

Chef Ricardo will walk you through the Lightly Fried Canned Tuna sandwich recipe.

You're welcome!

Anonymous wrote:Are you this Katie Williams, OP?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/193497/tuna-from-can-to-frying-pan/

That uses butter and teriyaki sauce. OP is much more refined.

The phrase, "lightly fried canned tuna" will make me giggle for the foreseeable future.

For some reason the accent on lightly makes it that much funnier to me!

and coconut oil!!! Oh god...

Your house must stink

Anonymous wrote:Are you this Katie Williams, OP?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/193497/tuna-from-can-to-frying-pan/

I can't believe 16 people actually tried that recipe.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Divorce.

Honestly ... +1.

But then the only two people in the universe who eat lightly fried spiced canned tuna will not be together.

Stops you dead in the original post, doesn't it? Like blah blah blah and then she just nonchalantly throws out there, "then I fried up some canned tuna..." and you're like, STEP BACK.

Are you this Katie Williams, OP?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/193497/tuna-from-can-to-frying-pan/

Anonymous wrote:Divorce.

Honestly ... +1.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you dont like sitting in traffic why cant you take the metro... or wake up earlier?

In another thread, she goes into the reasons why she refuses to take Metro, even though it leaves her hanging around town for hours after work.

Can someone please link to this thread?

I don't remember the name of it. But she apparently gets claustrophobic on the Metro so she won't ride it but she also hates riding in the car for her "long" commute to the suburb where her DH makes her live. She is convinced they would have better lives if they lived in the city where she wouldn't have to commute by either car or Metro and would live near other people who are in a similar place in life as they are and enjoy lightly fried canned tuna. Her DH also doesn't like to go out a lot I don't think and OP likes happy hours, which she could enjoy more in the city, along with lightly fried canned tuna.

Lightly fried SPICED canned tuna. Come on, it's not like she's just frying up plain old suburban canned tuna. It's spiced! The way city people eat it. In the morning. When they're late for work.