very picky eater

emma_b_4

ps hes great in every other way!!!!!!

hilstep2000

I'm sorry, but he would drive me mad! And why do you say it's not his mum & Dad's fault? Of course it is! They made his eating habits when he was a kid. I decide what we're having for dinner, and you get no choice! What's more, you eat it, or you go without! My kids have never been fussy. The only concessions are, my daughter doesn't like fish much since she got a bone caught in her throat, and my son will not eat peas, but any other veg, so if I'm doing peas, I throw a couple of broccoli spears in the same water for him.
Tell your OH to get his own dinner, go on strike! Men are just the same as kids, treat em the smae! LOL!

Savvy_Sue

Even though my son did once retch on a peanut butter sandwich (I thought it was something else, honest!) it sounds to me more as if your bf is doing it to get attention. If he can eat the veg raw, they're hardly going to kill him once they're cooked. Try ignoring his behaviour for a while.

I know it's not the season for salads, but you could serve his veg raw. I know it's a bit weird, but my son preferred raw carrots so at Sunday lunch I would leave a raw one for him.

Rikki

Savvy_Sue wrote:

I know it's a bit weird, but my son preferred raw carrots so at Sunday lunch I would leave a raw one for him.

My two are the same with carrots. They won't eat them when they have been cooked in a stew but if I cook them aldente its fine.

Curry_Queen

hilstep2000 wrote:

I'm sorry, but he would drive me mad!

Me too! Actually my first partner was a very picky eater and it did drive me mad LOL! You know what it's like when you first set up home together and you want to impress them with your cooking skills ... only to be met with disapproval because they won't eat certain things :wall:

Fortunately my second partner loved his food and would eat every scrap I put in front of him, and more! ... plus he was a dab hand in the kitchen himself so we shared the cooking, which was very handy when I was on shift work!

If I were to ever meet anyone else then I think one of the main criteria would be that they have to enjoy food and cooking

Curry_Queen

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Even though my son did once retch on a peanut butter sandwich (I thought it was something else, honest!) it sounds to me more as if your bf is doing it to get attention. If he can eat the veg raw, they're hardly going to kill him once they're cooked. Try ignoring his behaviour for a while.

That's something I never thought of! My first partner would retch at certain foods, as well as when it came to changing nappies or clearing up something unpleasant produced by either the kids or the animals :rolleyes: ... so I wonder if it was just his way of getting attention, or more like getting out of doing it :rotfl:

emma_b_4

yes i do think its his mum and dads fault, thats wot i meant, esp as BOTH their kids are the same!
i do just ignore him now i have given up trying really! but just wanderd if any1 would have any recipe ideas or anything?!
done me good to have a rant though! when he came out of hosp he would eat salad (ie raw pepper grated carrot etc) on the side of every meal but now he says he cant be bothered. its motre his health that im worried about rather than him driving me nuts im just used to it now. but when we have children he will have to buck his ideas right up!

when we moved in together i was the same, whipping up all kinds of HM food, dead proud of myself (esp as i was only 19!!) and he would just go ugh and make a microwave pizza!!
i think im making a curry tonight i might try and blend up some onions courgettes etc into his sauce and see if he notices.

Katgoddess

emma_b wrote:

i think im making a curry tonight i might try and blend up some onions courgettes etc into his sauce and see if he notices.

I think thats the best thing to do for now. Hide the veg in the sauces!

You can look at the pizza threads for recipes that taste better than shop brought. You can hide veg in the tomato sauce.

Oven bake the chips, less fat that way.

Will he try "healthy-ish" cereals like Shreddies, Shredded Wheat Bitesize and Special K? Even if you have to put sugar on them?

A glass of orange juice (without the bits?) will give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C.

Hope that might have given you some ideas...

i am a very fussy eater simply because my poor mother was such a bad cook. I don't like eggs, don't like chicken, don't like anything spicy and much more. Simply because of the way she cooked the food. Presentation is the key with children, and I wasn't going to eat a half raw omlette with lots of egg shell left in. (Still have nightmares :eek: ) It's taken me years to become re educated.

Good luck!

carol_a_3

My ex OH wouldn't touch any milk puddings especially custard after being forced to eat it at school, it's amazing how things that happen in childhood affect the whole of your life food wise, that's why I would never make my kids eat anything they didn't like and now they eat almost anything (except the one who's a veggie and she won't eat anything that's been within 100ft of meat either!). I would really try not to make an issue of it and let him sort his own food out if he won't eat your "normal" food. I eat salad all year round . PS, does he take a multivitimin pill? Might be an idea.

calleyw

hilstep2000 wrote:

And why do you say it's not his mum & Dad's fault? Of course it is! They made his eating habits when he was a kid.

Sorry but I don't agree. I was having a chat with mum the other day about my 30 year old brother he is a few years younger than me. And he is very fussy. Only veg he eats is raw carrotts and is fed up with potatoes. Eats no fruit. Will cut away half a piece of meat so that he removes the fat. He does not drink tea or coffee or any hot drinks.

When he was little she would mush allsorts up and he would eat it. Drink tea etc.

I remember his first day at school. When I was called over to make him each his lunch. As it was sausages wrapped in bacon. Something we never had at home. It was new to him and he steadfast refused to eat it.

On the bbc site there was story about a young lad who would only eat peanut butter sandwiches. And the texture and smell of other food made him gag.

You can't make someone eat something if they don't want to. You can't hold them down and force it down there throats. I assume there is nothing that you don't eat.

Yours

Calley