Stay-Home Moms Who Can't Cook

Ladies and gents, this drives me INSANE.

I realize that stay-home motherhood has become a thing of the past, and that there are relatively few of us compared to how things were 100 - or even 50 - years ago. I would argue, however, that most of the women who are stay-home moms today PLANNED to be stay-home moms while they were yet kids...or at least teens. And if that was the case, they must've realized that a portion of their responsibilities in the home would include meal preparation, serving, and clean-up.

And yet, so incredibly many stay-home moms just...can't...cook.

Really? You didn't plan ahead for this?

In this information age, how hard is it to find a simple recipe? To read it, purchase or assemble together what you need, and follow directions? .................. Apparently, it's next to impossible.

Okay, let me start again: how difficult is it to pick up a bag of Buitoni freezer pasta and - again, following directions - throw it in a pan over medium heat and stir it once every 2-3 minutes for 10 - 15 minutes? .................. Sigh.

I don't care if you don't LIKE cooking, I don't care if you don't LIKE cleaning up after it; you have a family to feed, and they cannot live on PB&J and canned Chef Boyardee. (Actually, I suppose they could, but you're certainly not doing them any favors...like you agreed to, in deciding to be a stay-home mom.)

Learn to cook. Watch the damned Food Network. Eat at nicer restaurants so you can learn what tastes good, and then feed your family based on what you've learned.

But please, don't force your husband to make an after-hours trip to McD's for a Big Mac because you served the only casserole you know how to make - cream-of-something plus a few cans-of-something - AGAIN and it was once again INEDIBLE. Take your responsibility seriously. Feed your family FOOD. GOOD food. BE a mother. NOW.