He Didn’t Like How His Brother’s Girlfriend Was Planning To Prepare Christmas Dinner, So He Called Her Out For Being Cheap, And Now His Mother Is Furious
This forty-seven-year-old man normally spends Christmas at his parent’s house. But, since his father passed away earlier this year, his brother and his brother’s girlfriend, Eve, decided to pitch in to take some stress off of his mother.
More specifically, Eve said that she would cook the Christmas dinner. And being that it is his brother and Eve’s first Christmas with their newborn son, they were very excited to make it special.
After he visited his brother and Eve recently, though, he overheard the couple discussing the meal and found a bunch of issues with how they planned to cook the dinner.
First of all, he claims that this will be the first time Eve cooks a turkey. And he learned from his brother that they had already bought the turkey. This means that the turkey was frozen, not fresh– something he was pretty distraught about.
“I frowned as we always had a fresh turkey from the local butcher’s, never a frozen turkey. But Eve said that she had gotten a frozen turkey crown as it was cheaper and that they did not need a large turkey with legs,” he explained.
Next, Eve then began talking through the rest of her meal plan. Apparently, she opted to buy turkey gravy mix since she did not want to prepare gravy from scratch.
He also learned that Eve would be using tinned potatoes as opposed to fresh ones and had already made and frozen the stuffing balls.
Now, he realizes that his brother and Eve have been struggling a bit financially since Eve is currently on maternity leave.
On top of that, she will not be returning to work for a while since her son also has some additional medical needs.
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Despite that, though, he was still pretty shocked by how Eve planned to cook everything. But one more detail totally sent him over the edge.
Apparently, Eve said that she was going to cook everything the day before. Then, she planned to just reheat the food at his parent’s house– and he was appalled.
“I snapped at Eve. I told her that I know she was being frugal by not going back to work but that Christmas dinner was not the meal for her to be cheap on. Especially mom’s first Christmas after her husband died,” he recalled.
Then, he actually told Eve that if she was not prepared to make a fresh meal that was not full of frozen food and “god knows how old,” then she should never have offered to cook for Christmas in the first place. Yikes.
After he tore into his brother’s girlfriend, she left the room and claimed she needed to feed her son upstairs.
And once Eve was gone, his brother got really annoyed with him.
In fact, his brother claimed that he was super rude and revealed all of the reasons why Eve chose to prepare the meal that way.
For instance, she apparently only decided to use ingredients like tinned potatoes and cook things in advance to make her life easier.
After all, Eve is the primary caretaker of her newborn son. So, if she could take a few shortcuts in order to juggle childcare and cooking, she was going to do it.
Anyway, after this argument, his mother ended up hearing about the whole ordeal and got involved. In fact, his mom actually revealed how Eve had gone upstairs to cry– not feed her son.
So, his mother called him out for making Eve upset– especially after he knew how stressed Eve had been trying to look after her son. And now, he is pretty torn about how to feel.
“I do feel bad that Eve got upset. But, at the same time, I don’t think Christmas is the one meal to be cheap on,” he vented.
In turn, he has been left wondering whether calling Eve out for being cheap was justified or not.
Is it understandable why Eve is trying to make preparing the Christmas dinner easier for herself? Why do you think he is so opinionated if he is not cooking himself? If you were in Eve’s shoes, how would you have felt after being called cheap?
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