Stew question

JulieGeorgiana

adelight wrote: »

Personally, i'd knock him out with the block of frozen stew but all the sensible replies of sneaky reheating are much better
my OH has a thing about mince... "cheap" frozen mince he won't eat, and whenever fresh mince is frozen he says it smells funny when being cooked and gets it in his head it tastes gross and is making him feel sick!! I just don't tell him

There's a difference between butchers thawed and butchers fresh mince? Alert the media!

LOL I love your idea though... don;t tell him!

meritaten

looking through the replies - us OS wives are a decietful lot! but then, our OHs are a bunch of fussy wussies! where do they get these strange ideas from though? were they all brought up on garden fresh produce? their mums didnt own a freezer so they think frozen food is evil? didnt they have school dinners?
How come its usually the men with these strange food fads?

JulieGeorgiana

meritaten wrote: »

looking through the replies - us OS wives are a decietful lot! but then, our OHs are a bunch of fussy wussies! where do they get these strange ideas from though? were they all brought up on garden fresh produce? their mums didnt own a freezer so they think frozen food is evil? didnt they have school dinners?
How come its usually the men with these strange food fads?

In my instance... my OH's mother just mollycoddled him and made him a seperate meal every night!!

Blah!

And she tells ME how to bring up my son (who at 8 eats everything)!

bluebag

meritaten wrote: »

looking through the replies - us OS wives are a decietful lot! but then, our OHs are a bunch of fussy wussies! where do they get these strange ideas from though? were they all brought up on garden fresh produce? their mums didnt own a freezer so they think frozen food is evil? didnt they have school dinners?
How come its usually the men with these strange food fads?

My OH was 'minded' by his grandma while his mum worked, as a result of her spoiling him he would only eat baked beans and tinned peas as vegetables, nothing, and I mean nothing else.

It's a form of child abuse if you ask me. I soon sorted that out though.

claret1980

Just serve it. He'll eat it or starve. Tell him he's being pathetic, which he is, and you won't stand for it any longer.

gemini12

I bet I can beat all of you on fussy OH. After 36years of marriage I have never managed to change him. If he doesnt like what ever it is he wont eat it as food doesnt really bother him. He is almost 6ft tall and weighs between 9 and 91/2 stone (I wish I did)

It is quicker to list what he will eat. Bacon for breakfast - nothing else just bacon. Doesnt eat lunch as he retired and doesnt see the mornings. No problem this way the morning is mine.

Dinner will eat chops, steak, roasts, occasional shepherds pie, fry ups, stew but only with mushrooms no other veg allowed, fry ups. Wont eat curry, pasta, rice, most vegetables, pies except ginsters pasties which he has for supper about 3 in the morning.

I wont go on but you get the idea. Cooking on a tight budget is a nightmare.

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clare64 wrote: »

Jackieo, my Husband is like your friend -he will only read brand new books.
Infact he prefers to buy them from Amazon, as oppose to a shop, as no one will have been looking at them while 'brousing'!
Clarex

Buy him a 'Kindle' then he can download all the books he wants to read at a fraction of the cost.and he will only have to touch his own Kindle I treated myself to one in September with my leftover holiday cash and its brilliant .I think it can hold about 3.500 books all told .Lots of the classic cost nothing to download and it takes only seconds to do.best thing since sliced bread in my opinion

bluebag

gemini12 wrote: »

I bet I can beat all of you on fussy OH. After 36years of marriage I have never managed to change him. If he doesnt like what ever it is he wont eat it as food doesnt really bother him. He is almost 6ft tall and weighs between 9 and 91/2 stone (I wish I did)

It is quicker to list what he will eat. Bacon for breakfast - nothing else just bacon. Doesnt eat lunch as he retired and doesnt see the mornings. No problem this way the morning is mine.

Dinner will eat chops, steak, roasts, occasional shepherds pie, fry ups, stew but only with mushrooms no other veg allowed, fry ups. Wont eat curry, pasta, rice, most vegetables, pies except ginsters pasties which he has for supper about 3 in the morning.

I wont go on but you get the idea. Cooking on a tight budget is a nightmare.

That's hard going. The only way you can economise is to try and source the things he will eat as cheap as possible. The way I got my old man to try things was to ask him to taste them ,a tiny teaspoonful literally and tell me what he thought. I kept at it and said he didn't have to eat them, just taste the spoonful as it was much healthier foods.

Eventually he would say, well put a tiny bit on my plate then and slowly the amounts crept up to a normal portion. Some things he will still only have a little of such as lettuce and it had to be with something such as baked spud, no way he could eat it on it's own.

Left to his own devices I'm sure he would live on steak or fry up... and nothing green or vegetalble like, end of.

He truly vomited on tasting cauliflower though, I was really wicked and fell over laughing, there must be a hot seat in hell for me for that.

Sublime_2

I'd reheat it, and enjoy every mouthful of it. I'd leave a portion, just in case he changed his mind.

Often tastes better the next day.

clare64

Jackieo
Great idea abou the Kindle - I never thought of that!
Clarex