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My husband's cousin, a single mother, spends her Sundays cooking for the week. She labels containers and categorizes them in her fridge according to protein, veg and carb, so that her family can quickly mix and match for lunchboxes and quick reheating.

That's how she survived hungry kids, bedtimes and working full-time.

I suggest you give your son, or whoever it is, a cooking book that lays out how to do this. I learned to cook when my first child was little. It wasn't something I learned at home. Your married bachelor, with all the insult it implies towards his wife, can learn to do all of this, even while burdened with a y chromosome.

I know a family like this. The woman is on social media all day, while the husband works from home, does all of the housework and does almost all childcare for their two kids. It is perfectly fine to believe that married people should each contribute to the family, barring serious illness. OP wants to lighten his load and I think that's great.

https://www.spoonfulofcomfort.com (they have Mac and cheese, along with soup, rolls, etc.)

https://www.southernbakedpie.com/collections/our-pies (they have dinner pies)

Not sure how much you want to spend, but you could consider sending some meals for their child from nurture life. They are organic, meant for kids (but in a healthy way - like penne bolognese or teriyaki salmon) and pretty good. I actually sent these to my elderly grandma during the pandemic when she couldn't get grocery delivery. This would make it easy to pull something out of the fridge to heat up when he gets home for work and would relieve the time pressure of getting food prepared.
https://www.nurturelife.com/menus/?navItem=heatable-meals

Lol keep it coming, OP

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Works full time and does all the cooking and housework describes a lot of women. Do you describe these women as married spinsters? Why not just ask for a good fit for a busy working parent? Why all the judgment if the guy's spouse? If he's unhappy in his marriage, he needs to shut his trap about it to random coworkers and acquaintances and deal with it

It may describe lots of women, but I don’t personally know any. The couples I know at least have the secondary cook grill or throw together salad or cook pasta. I really don’t know any other couples where the full time out of home worker - male or female - also does all the cooking housework, while the part time work at home person does not do any.

You said she worked from home.

That’s what I said, she works from home part time. I believe what he says because she agrees that she does not cook and has no interest in learning how to boil water or anything.

Definitely a bitter MIL who isn’t allowed enough grandma “alone” time with the kids

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Anonymous wrote:Works full time and does all the cooking and housework describes a lot of women. Do you describe these women as married spinsters? Why not just ask for a good fit for a busy working parent? Why all the judgment if the guy's spouse? If he's unhappy in his marriage, he needs to shut his trap about it to random coworkers and acquaintances and deal with it

It may describe lots of women, but I don’t personally know any. The couples I know at least have the secondary cook grill or throw together salad or cook pasta. I really don’t know any other couples where the full time out of home worker - male or female - also does all the cooking housework, while the part time work at home person does not do any.

You said she worked from home.

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Anonymous wrote:Works full time and does all the cooking and housework describes a lot of women. Do you describe these women as married spinsters? Why not just ask for a good fit for a busy working parent? Why all the judgment if the guy's spouse? If he's unhappy in his marriage, he needs to shut his trap about it to random coworkers and acquaintances and deal with it

It may describe lots of women, but I don’t personally know any. The couples I know at least have the secondary cook grill or throw together salad or cook pasta. I really don’t know any other couples where the full time out of home worker - male or female - also does all the cooking housework, while the part time work at home person does not do any.

I love you complaining that we're all focused on the wrong thing when you come and say additional cr*p like this.

OP- stop trying to wreck this household. You trashed the wife because you believe what this guy is telling you. We don't agree with you. This is all wrong.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you could find frozen empanadas, chicken pot pie, or lasagna on Goldbelly. I do remember some post on here for some kind of South American hand pies that sounded delicious. I also get frozen soup dumplings delivered based on a post here. Can’t remember the name. I’ll search if you can’t find it.

Goldbelly looks good thank you!

Anonymous wrote:Works full time and does all the cooking and housework describes a lot of women. Do you describe these women as married spinsters? Why not just ask for a good fit for a busy working parent? Why all the judgment if the guy's spouse? If he's unhappy in his marriage, he needs to shut his trap about it to random coworkers and acquaintances and deal with it

It may describe lots of women, but I don’t personally know any. The couples I know at least have the secondary cook grill or throw together salad or cook pasta. I really don’t know any other couples where the full time out of home worker - male or female - also does all the cooking housework, while the part time work at home person does not do any.

Clicked because I was curious as to what a married bachelor is. So disappointed that OP is just another misogynist troll.

OP, you will be eaten alive because you dared say that the woman doesn’t do her share. If she was a man no one would bat an eye.
There is a service called Shef where you order homemade. Check to see if they deliver in their area.

Anonymous wrote:I say married bachelor because he is married and busy with a 6 year old, but his wife doesn’t cook at all and barely helps with childcare so he lives a bachelor food life. I want to send something to the family. Home cooked would be ideal, but they live across the country from me. Any gifts that would give him a fresh food, home cooked kind of taste? He eats a lot of processed food and convenience foods.

You can only use this term if from now on, you refer to 90% of married women in the same boat as “married bachelorettes”. Actually, never mind. Don’t use “married bachelor”. Ever.

Anonymous wrote:Are his arms broken? Why can't he cook? And why are you being a busybody.

Yeah, I came here cuz I wanted to know what a married bachelor was.

Works full time and does all the cooking and housework describes a lot of women. Do you describe these women as married spinsters? Why not just ask for a good fit for a busy working parent? Why all the judgment if the guy's spouse? If he's unhappy in his marriage, he needs to shut his trap about it to random coworkers and acquaintances and deal with it

Maybe you could find frozen empanadas, chicken pot pie, or lasagna on Goldbelly. I do remember some post on here for some kind of South American hand pies that sounded delicious. I also get frozen soup dumplings delivered based on a post here. Can’t remember the name. I’ll search if you can’t find it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, maybe they are happy with this arrangement. I would be insulted, frankly, if someone sent me meals because they thought our takeout ratio was “unbalanced”. I don’t enjoy cooking. I like spending my time doing just about anything but. I am happy not cooking!

If he asked you specifically to send home cooked food, then find a company like mighty meals or maybe a home chef subscription. If he didn’t ask, don’t go there.

He did not ask me for a gift. It would be weird if he did. He does complain frequently that he is dead tired and he is the only person in the house who cooks, otherwise he and the kid don’t get to eat.

There are 2 sides to every story and you’re judging from the outside based on one. You don’t know what’s happening in their house, or why, and IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.