Account Deleted By User This is the 2nd time I'm posting today but fuck it, I've had coffee and am ready to rant.   PT 1: Mom obsessed with food PT 2: Dishes PT 3: The bathroom This time we're going to be talking about cooking and kind of general diet stuff. My mom and dad consider themselves to be good cooks (they both used to work in restaurants for a while). Again, everything is bullet points and "she" = my mom, "he" = my dad. Oil. Fucking..........oil on everything. I'll elaborate in other bullets. Putting oil in the pasta water "so it doesn't stick" and then 1. not stirring it enough and 2. not rinsing it off after they drain it. Starchy pasta water makes the pasta all stick into a glob of pasta + pasta is usually either slightly undercooked or slightly overcooked. Oh and they always make an entire box of pasta. Sometimes they'll let the leftover pasta sit there for 2 hours before packing it into ziplock bags and putting it in the fridge. Sometimes they'll just leave the leftover pasta in the pot overnight, until someone throws it away and scrapes all of the dried-on pasta out of the pot. "Garlic bread" that is just bread with a shit ton of olive oil and garlic powder on it. Cooked until it's practically a hockey puck. Use 2-3 tbsps of oil whenever they sautée anything. Even if it's just some vegetables with salt and pepper to go along side some other dish, there's always a shit ton of oil. Even MORE oil when roasting anything, especially veggies. :( If I want anything that isn't a refined carbohydrate, I have to cook it for myself. No one in this house eats anything whole grain/whole wheat. Cooks a shit ton of rice as well. We have one of those rice cookers you get from the asian supermarkets that feeds like 10 people. She regularly makes 7 or 8 cups of rice and just...stores leftovers in the fridge. So much food going to waste smh Peanut butter. Oh my god the peanut butter. They get those giant 40 oz jars of peanut butter and can go through it in less than 2 weeks. My mom gets mad at me if I don't eat the things she cooks, by the way. As in, full on meltdown about how she's not good enough and a horrible mom, etc. etc.. Somehow whenever my mom cooks broccoli it tastes wrong. I can't describe it other than....wrong. It's not really overcooked, maybe it's undercooked? It tastes like really bad quality lettuce. It's the weirdest phenomenon because all she's doing is boiling it, and I've done that before and it turned out fine. My mom hoards foods and refuses to let me throw any of it away or redistribute it into other packages. Currently, our pantry has about 6 bags of white rice that are ~1/4 full. Fucking bisquick. I hate the stuff with every fiber of my being. She makes somewhere around 10 waffles every Sunday along with a shit ton of hash browns and an entire package of bacon. Somehow my family manages to devour all of it and leave very few leftovers. "I feel like being healthy and having salads for dinner tonight" she says. What is in the salad, you ask? Iceberg lettuce, grilled chicken (cooked in a ton of oil ofc), croutons, parmesan, caesar dressing, ranch, the full 9 yards. No idea how you can even call it a salad at that point. She eats chick-fil-a for breakfast almost every day. Her usual order is 2 boxes of hash browns, a spicy chicken biscuit, and an extra biscuit. If we go to a coffee shop, she'll order a 400 calorie drink and then ask to go get some food an hour later because "oh coffee isn't really breakfast" Ordering food is always far more food than anyone could ever need or want. Pizza? Get 1/2 a pizza per person + cheese bread + hot wings. Italian? Get like 8 different things so we can all "share" + 2 orders of breadsticks. Chinese? 5 different dishes + egg rolls + hot wings + fried rice + extra white rice. You get the point. Binge drinking almost every night is always fun to watch. Especially when you know they work the next day, and are going to be even more of an unproductive piece of shit to their employers tomorrow. Baking chicken means buying 3 whole chickens (cut up before hand ofc, because "eww raw chicken and effort") and then making a giant pot of white rice. Convenience foods everywhere. Kraft mac & cheese (my mom will eat a whole box prepared with 3 or 4 tbsps of butter in it, easily 1200 calories), frozen french fries, chicken tenders, pop tarts, granola bars (teehee it's healthy right?), etc. Bringing home cupcakes, ice cream, etc. at least 3 times a week from the shitty grocery store bakery. Gotta cut this post here so I don't end up wasting too much time. Sigh....it's disgusting to watch. I wish I felt bad for them so I wouldn't seem like such a heartless bastard, but honestly they can eat themselves to the grave if they want to.