The people you did all that for phones you to say they cannot make it. I have that happen loads of times , to the point i do not even feel like making an effort anymore.
2007-03-26 02:30:28 · 18 answers · asked by Duisend-poot 7 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I wouldn't put up with that for long! Your friends need to learn some manners. I'd probably give them the "three strikes and you're out" treatment. It is unacceptable to cancel at the last minute like that ... unless you're canceling from the back of an ambulance.
2007-03-26 02:37:08 · answer #1 · answered by Tom ツ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah--this happens to me every day. I love to cook and bake, but considering I have two NOTORIOUSLY picky toddlers (3 years old and 20 months old), I try to limit my foods to semi "normal" dishes. (Nothing ridiculously spicy, no truly strange ingredients, etc.). Doesn't matter what I make, they always ask for either a hot dog, peanut butter and jelly or chicken nuggets. One time I spent nearly 3 hours (and a boat load of money, to boot!) making beef stroganoff. It was so tender you didn't even have to cut it with a fork. It just melted in your mouth. Those two little ingrates wouldn't even touch it!! Anyway, I *realize* that children of this age are supposed to be picky, and they will grow out of it, but still--it's disheartening when it happens!
One day--one day when they "grow up" and will eat this type of stuff, they'll be (probably) teenagers and I won't be able to afford the ingredients for dishes like beef stroganoff because they'll be eating me out of house and home by that point. No way am I buying $50 worth of beef tenderloin. I'll just eat that and offer to make them chicken nuggets. :D
2007-03-26 12:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
know what you mean.
what i do is wait till last minute and let them turn up, offer them wine in the sitting room whilst im on the phone to a take-away and wait for the food to arrive.
then wait in the window so no one sees the man with the food. dish it out hiding the containers and wrappers and serve.
even if the notice that you could'nt have made that, tell them and then you have a laugh aboout it.
2007-03-30 08:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They cannot be good friends if this has happened often. Try to choose your friends. Another way to make them feel guilty is, if they do ring and say that they are not coming pack some of what you have made and give it to them when you see them.
Or tell them that that is a shame, you will have to find a homeless person to give the food to.
2007-03-26 10:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by zakiit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bugs me ?, it drives me crazy !!.
I'll only cook for friends now when I'm assured they will turn up?, Ive spent many a long hour in the kitchen thinking I'll treat someone to something really nice and they either ring to say they can't make it or even worse... they just don't bother ringing and not turn up !!.
2007-03-26 09:40:43 · answer #5 · answered by Richard 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That would happen twice and never again. Why bother wasting all your time on people like that. It also appears that you need to make NEW friends and limit time spent with the ones that are doing this to you.
How nice of you to do this for people only to get crapped on. We feel your pain !
2007-03-26 10:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by Kitty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES!
Someone I know once cried off once too often, claiming to be feeling unwell (again!) so I took everything round to hers to cheer her up. Should have seen her squirm when I arrived to find her and some of her friends on their way put to the cinema!
Dumped girlfriend!
2007-03-30 09:21:28 · answer #7 · answered by Samantha T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the efforts and preparations, it would surely bug me. Fortunately, it never happened to me yet I kind of feel that way though when my other half is suppose to come and didn't. You know, shaved my legs, put on sexy clothes, then he calls and he can't make it, grrr.
2007-03-26 10:02:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
bug is a mild word for the way I would feel, and not friends so much but my husband won't eat half the time and I end up throwing the food in garbage--and I hate to waste food, sometimes I can freeze it but it's not the same.
2007-03-26 09:41:34 · answer #9 · answered by luminous 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe you aren't a good cook but no one has the balls to tell you that or maybe you are the greatest cook in the world and people say we cant eat her food it is to great.
maybe your friends aren't friends
if you were cooking i would come over a help you cook
2007-03-26 10:16:22 · answer #10 · answered by matzaballboy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋