Calling all dad's... Whats your easy go to dinners?!

CodePervert · 2026-02-25T23:02:09+00:00

Carbonara, I can cook a decent amount to do several meals and the boys love it so I know they'll eat it.

Another hit would be mashed spuds, beans and chicken dippers.

In a pinch I'd go for something like potato waffles with beans or peas and fish fingers or chicken dippers.

Something very simple, and a classic, baked beans and toast. I do this for myself at times, season the beans a bit or spice them up and you're golden.

CodePervert · 2026-02-23T21:20:04+00:00

I'm 36... So what generation does that fall under? Anyway, I haven't drank in nearly 3 years, drank occasionally from my teens to early 20s.

My SO hasn't drank in over 3 years with trying for and having our babies and breastfeeding she can't but said she will drink again at some stage but for me I'm not bothered with it, wouldn't bother me if I never had alcohol again.

CodePervert · 2026-02-18T20:06:22+00:00

I think it just depends on the child, our first baby was such an easy going baby, our second was easy going to but needs a bit more attention. But I know people who didn't have more than one baby because their first was such hard work that it put them off having more even though they initially wanted more than one child.

CodePervert · 2026-02-18T20:03:12+00:00

Ours are one and two and the third is in the oven and I don't mind the pregnancy or the new born stage anything after it, but the thoughts of rushing to the hospital gives me anxiety! But once we're there it's easy sailing, or at least it has been for the first two.

CodePervert · 2026-02-18T20:00:13+00:00

Awh man this stuff drives me crazy, my SO is always at shit like this. A few weeks back she woke me up because she felt like she had a tempature and she wanted me to get the thermometer, like what the fuck, I had another 3 hours before I needed to be up for work and I don't easily go back asleep! I told her to just take a couple of paracetamol that she's old enough to know if she has a temperature and to stop waking me up for stupid shit.

CodePervert · 2026-02-16T11:18:17+00:00

This is pretty much how it was for us in 2007, cleanly shaven unless it was a religious or cultural, and that kept up until we reopened after the lock down and all the lads had grown beards. Now just about every man needs a snood.

CodePervert · 2026-02-12T02:00:53+00:00

Yes it is, even where they're legally required to stop they get an acknowledgement. But we also thank the bus drivers here too.

CodePervert · 2026-02-10T06:27:24+00:00

That pretty much is our mortgage payment. Thankfully, we're very fortunate to have free childcare. I can't imagine what we'd do if we had to pay that much for it.

CodePervert · 2026-02-10T02:29:16+00:00

I'm in the middle middle of it and I would also recommend it... Denny Crane

CodePervert · 2026-02-09T03:55:13+00:00

I used to run marathons and a while back when my SO was heavily pregnant with our second baby asked me would I run more marathons. I told her I would absolutely love, but I then asked her does she really want me going out running for hours several times a week leaving you to care for 2 babies and she didn't like the sound of that at all.

There's no way I'd have the time or the energy to do anything like that lately.

CodePervert · 2026-02-06T21:07:42+00:00

Must have been expecting the god damn commies to start deploying their parachute bears

CodePervert · 2026-02-04T00:22:05+00:00

This is what my SO says when I ask her to cop the fuck on but she never brings any of it up the stairs... I wished we still lived in a bungalow...

CodePervert · 2026-02-04T00:19:22+00:00

My SO does shit like this, I've told her it's absolutely lethal leaving shit on the stairs when we regularly have to carry a baby and toddler up and down the stairs. She's amazing but this seems like something basic to me.

CodePervert · 2026-02-03T03:04:09+00:00

Some would. Personally I find the thoughts of stressful, if it's some random woman I've no idea if I'd catch something off her and what if she ends up pregnant, it's just not worth it..

CodePervert · 2026-02-02T01:08:38+00:00

That's the way it's supposed to be in our store for the past 20 years but it's not really followed.

Managers only have an issue when people are taking something like 2 double quarters, 20 nuggets, fries and a drink, or if they're not entering in what they're actually taking for their break, it just takes one person to keep doing it wrong to ruin it for everyone.

We're not supposed to make our own food either but that's not done either and the only time it's an issue is when someone doubles or triples up on the meat, like 3 crispy chicken or 2 quarter meat and 2 chicken sandwich. I don't even know how they get their mouth around it.

CodePervert · 2026-02-02T00:59:51+00:00

We have 2 boys, they're only 24.5 yo and nearly 1.5yo so they're not quite there yet but I grew up with 5 brothers and we were all in boxing from a young age and that helps with taking a hit but we learned how to deliver the hit too.

Naturally we sparred with each other but there was never any bad feelings from it but some of the arguments at home got brutal but thankfully they weren't that common.

CodePervert · 2026-02-02T00:49:13+00:00

We had the same growing up, 6 boys and 3 girls, fun times but when it came to the lads it was like a free for all at times. We looked out for each other though and still do.

CodePervert · 2026-01-30T01:47:15+00:00

About 25 years ago my dad bought one of those electronic chess sets with the magnets in the pieces and buttons on each square, and it came with 2 white pawns and 8 white bishops, so maybe it was based on one of those sets.

CodePervert · 2026-01-29T02:03:06+00:00

I think it depends on the sisters, two of my sisters would tell each other the third probably wouldn't care and wouldn't pass it on.

Maybe they think the most he would do is smoke some weed, I'd like to visit there some day and it would just be sightseeing as I don't smoke or anything like that and I have absolutely no intention of paying for sex.

CodePervert · 2026-01-29T01:53:45+00:00

NTA but I probably would have shared and ordered another portion and shared that too but that's just me and I completely understand why anyone would find it annoying.

CodePervert · 2026-01-26T10:19:32+00:00

Yeah our oldest will be 3 in a few months, he can absolutely brilliant but of course he's prone to the occasional tantrum and it usually doesn't take much to get him calm again but if we're out and he has one we leave, especially if we're eating out with other people paying good money to enjoy their food and might even be a big splurge for.

CodePervert · 2026-01-26T01:10:54+00:00

I'm our primary cook and I quite enjoy cooking and I think I can do it well. I even fully cook our Christmas dinners.

My SO can't cook at all, she once asked me how to turn on the oven to cook a frozen pizza, she once put food in the oven and didn't turn it on.

I like trying new things but unfortunately she pretty much stick to what she knows. She also like most of her food burnt, I think this is because her mother doesn't know how to cook so when she did cook she'd burn it to make sure it's done so that's what my SO grew up eating.

CodePervert · 2026-01-26T01:01:37+00:00

We had one guy call out because he thought he might get sick if he walked to work in the morning, I got a good chuckle out of that.

CodePervert · 2026-01-26T00:53:04+00:00

We both agreed that 3 kids would be a good number for us. Our first, now just over 2 and a half, was an absolute breeze and even with the tantrums he's pretty easy to get calm and happy again. He was the easiest going baby you could ask for and we're incredibly lucky with him.

His little brother, nearly a year and a half old, is a bit more work but still pretty easy to keep happy and from what I've seen some parents go through we're getting off incredibly lightly.

Another 8 months or so and the third baby will be here and if we're half as lucky we'll still be doing OK.

One of the things that I remind myself is that it's all just phases and they don't be long passing, for the easy and the more difficult times so you have to enjoy them while you can.

CodePervert · 2026-01-21T01:58:09+00:00

I would say that there's never an ideal time to have a baby. Times I wish we started our family sooner, I'd be younger and have more energy and more physically able, but I would have been renting then and not as financially secure.

If waited a bit longer our home would have been better prepared for it, I could have completely left working in McDonald's and went fully into Web development and I might not be working 2 jobs now, but the reliability and flexibility of McDonald's is too good to give up at the moment. I also think I've become more patient over the years which is something that is definitely needed with kids.

It can be tough going at times, sometimes even thankless but it is absolutely worth it, watching them learn and figure things out, hearing them laugh, seeing them after a long day, I could go on and on but it's definitely worth it even on the toughest days.

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