I'm from Mexico and here it's normal for the wife to wake up at 3-4am, myself included, and make lunch for the husband.
And it's always a warm meal for example: some kind of meat, with side dishes, tortillas, a drink, etc. Basically a restaurant meal lol.
I've seen girls on Instagram that are cooking steaks and making 2 different salsas just for one meal.
It's kind of exhausting tbh. Why can't we be like the Dutch? They're happy eating cheese sandwiches every day. Add a slice of ham if you're adventurous.
I wonder how Americans do it??
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I make extra portions during dinner for myself and my wife to take for lunch.
Does the food stay warm for 8 hours until lunch?
I don’t think I would ever make lunch for someone that wasn’t a child. And if I decided to, they would be eating what I’m eating which might be a small bag of chips and some cake if I feel like it.
Do you go to your own job after that? Who makes you lunch?
no of course that’s not normal, that’s psycho to expect that
I’ve never heard of anyone doing that, and if I did, I’d probably tell them to tell their husband to make it themselves
I often pack a lunch the night before, or my wife does it for me.
She does not get up early and cook, that would be silly. She has enough responsibility already.
>Why can’t we be like the Dutch? They’re happy eating cheese sandwiches every day. Add a slice of ham if you’re adventurous.
A sandwich along these lines is probably the single most common lunch eaten in the work place.
Well it’s traditional to eat lunch around noon here. Are y’all eating lunch at the ass crack of dawn?
If it’s done it’s almost never that elaborate
Very few people are making elaborate lunches like this. In my family we just have leftovers from last night’s dinner or we throw together a sandwich.
No. It’s rare that someone here wakes up at 3:00 a.m. to make a hot lunch for their husband lol. I never heard anyone do it. My mom never made lunch … any lunch for my dad
Uh, that’s a bit above and beyond.
No, because America women usually have to go to their own job.
As an unmarried man my gut reaction was, “are you fucking kidding me?”
I would hate to do that and I would hate for that to be done for me
Not normal. They just want husbands to follow their account.
Most guys either pack their own, go out for lunch, or their wives will make them an easy sandwich like peanut butter and jelly or lunchmeat.
I meal prep for both of us on Sundays (just because I’m the one who cooks more).
In the US both spouses work outside the home so everyone usually gets their own lunch. In households where only one person works outside the home it isn’t unheard of that the other person makes them lunch, but it is usually fairly basic like a sandwich or something.
Absolutely not. We both work. My husband can make his own food.
No, it’s not normal at all. I guess some people do that. I make extras of whatever I cook for dinner and my husband just takes those in. Or fends for himself.
We don’t.
Maybe the wife will make him food if she feels like it, but no one is getting up at 3am to cook for their husband. He can make his own food.
While there is an inscrutable trend on social media involving trad-wife nonsense, most Americans don’t do anything of the kind you describe.
For most Americans? No it’s not normal. For Mexican-Americans, especially those who work in fields like construction or oil+gas? Yes.
I make my wife’s lunches the night before, although that’s usually just salad with chicken and some fruit.
If my wife woke up early specifically for that, I would be grateful, but confused. If she did it habitually, I would tell her she doesn’t need to interrupt her sleep for me.
In my opinion, if a man can’t make himself lunch, he’s pretty useless. If you were going to be up anyway, then it’s thoughtful and welcome.
It’s not typical here at all, but my wife often makes me dinner or lunch, but just as often, I make her meals to take to work. We both work long hours on very alternating schedules. She knows just how to prepare my favorites, I know just how she likes hers, we both make them extra special beyond what we’d make for ourselves.
Again, not the normal, but we both love cooking and love each other.
My husband is an adult and makes his own lunch. If someone wakes up and makes it because they want to then that’s nice, but it’s not an expectation that’s I’ve ever encountered.
Warm? Fuck no. In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics. A warm lunch can not possibly stay warm from 4am to 11:30am.
We meal prep on Sundays. Together.
All meals, including lunches, are prepared, cooked, portioned, packaged for the entire week… on Sunday morning.
Makes life much easier. Cheaper, too.
Men have hands. They can make their own lunch.
LOL…NO!!!!
Grown up people are responsible for their own work meals.
IF, a spouse feels like getting up and doing this, it is a Nice to have, not an expectation. Well, unless you are into a certain sub-culture.
TBF, my husband makes my lunch for me some days because he is sweet and we have leftovers that will only make a lunch or he is up doing his thing and he throws stuff together for me. It is not a daily occurrence nor an expectation…and he gets fully thanked each time.
BTW…it DOES sound exhausting…..maybe have hubby start doing his own lunches.
It’s not normal. If your “husband” expects it, you don’t have a husband, you have a slave owner.