Some cheap meal ideas for fussy / awkward bloke?

losethedebtlou

I am moving in with my boyfriend next month and need some ideas what to feed him on the cheap. I spend around £15 a week now to feed just myself which is the lowest I can seem to get it down to due to the fact all I have to cook with is one hob and a microwave (army!)

Now I am actually going to have a real kitchen I want to make proper meals but dont want my food bill to soar. This is all well and good but the problem is by boyfriend is an awkward sod! He will only eat chicken and beef, meatwise. He does eat sausages but any other form of chop, joint, roast or mince he won't touch. So basically the ingredients I have to work with are chicken, beef, pasta, sausages and vegetables . I am looking for some cheap meal ideas as I only make a select few of his favourite dishes when I cook for him at the weekends. These will soon bore me! Any ideas will be greatly appreciated for my own interests as well as his!

crabyducky

losethedebtlou wrote: »

I am moving in with my boyfriend next month and need some ideas what to feed him on the cheap. I spend around £15 a week now to feed just myself which is the lowest I can seem to get it down to due to the fact all I have to cook with is one hob and a microwave (army!)

Now I am actually going to have a real kitchen I want to make proper meals but dont want my food bill to soar. This is all well and good but the problem is by boyfriend is an awkward sod! He will only eat chicken and beef, meatwise. He does eat sausages but any other form of chop, joint, roast or mince he won't touch. So basically the ingredients I have to work with are chicken, beef, pasta, sausages and vegetables . I am looking for some cheap meal ideas as I only make a select few of his favourite dishes when I cook for him at the weekends. These will soon bore me! Any ideas will be greatly appreciated for my own interests as well as his!

you could try vegetarian options such as vegetarian lasagne, etc or try quorn??? Hard to say im fussy too but atleast i eat most meat.


One my dads favourite saying was 'eat it or go without' you could try that but i dont think your BF would thankyou

paulwf

What does he feed himself on now?

Why not let him do the majority of the cooking and also put him in charge of the food budget?

gnvqsos

crabyducky wrote: »

you could try vegetarian options such as vegetarian lasagne, etc or try quorn??? Hard to say im fussy too but atleast i eat most meat.


One my dads favourite saying was 'eat it or go without' you could try that but i dont think your BF would thankyou

If you were to cater too well for his needs you will induce even greater dependency.Get him involved and show him how to cook.Leave him to feed himself on Sundays when chip shop shuts.Start going to a distant church,say your prayers, pack sandwiches and come home for 1pm before he can get to pub.Buy him Gay Gastronomy which is full of good suggestions and a few recipes

Please use this link

http://www.gay-sejour.com/en/a-5088/restaurant-du-chateau-de-mazan.html

gnvqsos

http://www.amazon.com/Cookin-Honey-What-Literary-Lesbians/dp/156341077X/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid

This will sting him into action
John (the cook)

gnvqsos

gnvqsos wrote: »

http://www.amazon.com/Cookin-Honey-What-Literary-Lesbians/dp/156341077X/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid

This will sting him into action
John (the cook)

And this site will give him some sartorial advice
John
http://gaycuisine.com/

Failing that the Gary Rhodes Bedtime Cookery should seal the deal

sb44

Hi

Go to the Old Style Moneysaving forum and they will give you lots of ideas and recipes, they are a friendly bunch over on that forum.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33

Any

Hi,

if he won't touch minced I seriously doubt he will touch Quorn.

I agree with other poster to stop serving to his fussy tastes. It is completely ridiculous. I could understand if someone completely refuses to eat one type of animal because dislikes the taste or likes the animal, but to eat beef but not minced and to eat sausage but not chop is just stupid.

Though what I like to do with the ingrediences you have - buy bag of cheap peppers, courgettes and tomatoes add onion&garlic (or whatever roasted veg you like) and roast it, peel it (the peppers can be !!!!!!, I don't peel courgetes) and then blend it. You can add a bit of tinned tomatoes to bulk it up, but be carefull not to loose the roasted pepper flavour completely.

Cook pasta, fry a bit of chicken breast and serve with parmasan cheese.

If you buy Tesco basic bag of peppers (red are the best, usually you get a mix so pick the one where there is mostly red pepper) and courgettes - currently for £1 at Tesco you will have enough for at least 2 meals (4 portions). Just freeze the rest of the sauce and use it next time.

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craftdaft

One of my friends managed to get her fussy OH to eat a bigger variety of foods by refusing to be 'intimate' I would def never try it but it worked for them! Not sure how they explained it to MIL though:rotfl:

Seakay

Is there a reason that you are contemplating doing all the cooking, all the housekeeping, all the shopping and all the meal planning? Are you giving up paid work?
It's not that I'm especially militant, but if he's only moving in with you on condition that you take the place of a presumably over indulgent mother then I really would think seriously about what you are getting out of this and if living with him is the only way to get it!

Otherwise, I agree that if he's the one with the food issues then he had better be in charge of food buying and meal creation. Offer to wash up and agree to help with shopping if he provides a list.