A COUPLE are grimly going through the motions of making a disappointing stir-fry solely because they bought all the ingredients to make it.
James Bates and Lauren Hewitt, both 38, robotically buy the necessary ingredients for the bland chicken dish every week due to a lack of imagination and the irrational belief it will somehow be nice this time.
Now they must glumly prepare, cook and eat the hated meal after putting it off all week, while unconvincingly justifying their poor decision-making by repeatedly saying it will be ‘healthy’.
Bates said: “We’ve bought the flavourless beansprouts and the cheap chicken will go off soon, so we’ve got to make it. We are the architects of our own destruction.
“I feel I deserve something tasty like a cheeseburger just for making it through another fraught week of work in our increasingly troubled world. But instead it’s pointless baby sweetcorn and the packet stir-fry sauce we dislike the least.”
Hewitt said: “It’s ostensibly a Chinese stir-fry but any restaurant that served it would be out of business in a fortnight, and rightly so.
“Once I’ve eaten the bare minimum I fill up on Chocolate Buttons and Wispas from the cupboard. That’s fine because it’s sweet and sour, right?”
Each week the couple agree to snap out of their rut by never buying the ingredients again, a plan which will come to fruition in 2029 after a further 196 identical meals.
