Husband's attitude to Food
By babykay
@babykay (2131)
Ireland
December 10, 2007 12:39pm CST
Sorry I seem to be complaining quite a lot recently.
My husband is very, very fussy about his food. He won't eat hardly anything green, doesn't like milk, cheese, hardly any beans or pulses, only potatoes among vegetables and no fruits. He loves all meats and processed foods.
U guessed it, he has many health issues! My guess is that as he gets older his health issues will escalate. But anyway, that's another discussion.
The issue here is, he wanted one of his steak and kidney pies tonight for dinner. So I am a vegetarian so I prepared lots of veg to put in the oven alongside (but separate from) his pie. So, I put my veg on and then he announces that his steak and kidney pie "won't cook properly" alongside the veg!
So I suggested he leave simply leave his pie on a bit longer, no that's not good enough. My veg has to be cooked, taken out of the oven before he will put his precious steak and kidney pie on. So its another half an hour before the dinner is ready. How anal and ridiculous is that? He said to me that I could just go ahead and eat on my own. I said to him that one of the points of cooking and preparing a dinner is that we eat together as a family but he insists on this stupidity.
He has a totally weird attitude towards food - its astonishing. He claims not to be allergic to certain ingredients but when he eats them, without realising, nothing untoward happens. He looks for excuses not to eat food.
I am sick of it at this stage!
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6 responses
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
15 Dec 07
Boy is he picky. He surly does not know about heat distributation and how an oven works. Your veggies will not get their cooties on his preciours steak and kidney pie.
My hubby is not picky when it comes to varieties of foods its the way he eats them. He has to make his own plate so he can dish the food up in the order he wants to eat it. I say OK less work for me.
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@babykay (2131)
• Ireland
17 Dec 07
You are lucky with your husband!
My husband has other weird beliefs about food - some of them are to do with frozen food. He believes they are the spawn of the devil! He would rather eat canned and tinned carrots than frozen, claims he can taste the difference.
I am a bit like your husband. I like to eat all the potatoes first, then all the beans, I don't pick and mix!
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@kurtbiewald (2625)
• United States
10 Dec 07
hmmmmmmmm
soundslike maybe YOU are the utterly intolerant one
you have to have 2 separate kitchens if one person is vegetarian and the other is carnivorous
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@GloomCookieLex (6073)
• United States
11 Dec 07
Don't listen to him, he has no brain.
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@urbandekay (18278)
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10 Dec 07
Hmmm, not really about food, about some other issue, thinks I
all the best urban
@urbandekay (18278)
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10 Dec 07
Hi,
Yes, I'm sure there is some problem with food but this smacks to me of using the food issue motivated by some other issue. It is like a power game, I can make you cook your food separately.
all the best urban
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@Kaeli72 (1229)
• United States
18 Feb 08
He's a spoiled man, that's what.
Now, my husband and I started off with different diet intake: kosher vs non-kosher. He was very understanding as was I. I didn't eat certian foods in his presence and even if I did, I had to make sure I brushed my teeth afterwards.
Now, three years later we have the same diet, but he works late and nights so instead of having the family meals we used to, I've learned to make either a the whole dinner and have the children eat at the normal time and just have hubby warm up his own foods or cook two dinners.
Yes, I know that's more work, but that's the sacrafice a wife and children make.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
11 Dec 07
What is he three years old? Does he cook or do you have to cook for him? If that's the case stop cooking for him. If he's been like this for a long time it's likely he won't change so instead of trying to change him you need to change your attitude about the situation. Don't stress yourself out over this. Leave him alone. You cook your own food and let him cook his own food then everyone will be happy.
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@blueunicorn (2401)
• United States
17 Dec 07
I'm sorry, baby. I'm not picking on you or trying to tell you how to handle your marriage, but I would stop cooking for him. As wives we are help mates, but we are not slaves. It sounds like you try hard enough to bend to his needs as it is. I would start cooking one meal, with a seperate meat dish, and offer that for dinner. If hubby doesn't want to eat it he is welcome to cook something for himself. I do think that what you are doing is showing your son to treat his wife with unkindness as well as to be picky. I wish you the best of luck. I know it is hard to handle situations where you feel stuck.
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