oh driving me mad!

Bexstars

my hubby gets home around 6 and never wanted what I had made so I stopped bothering and me and my daughter had tea around 5 that was until he got fed up of eating the same old ready meals which I refused to eat. I said to him well I will make a meal for us all but you eat whatever I make and he agreed so we now all eat together when he gets home from work. He does sometimes pick some of the veg out but its what I make or nothing

Crazychik

conradmum wrote: »

In our house the person who does the cooking gets to choose the meals, and as that's me most of the time everyone has to eat what I like! If they don't like it, they are told they can cook next time then. :rotfl:

Seriously, don't stress about it. If he doesn't like it, so what? It's just food at the end of the day. Why pander to his whims?

My oh drives me round the bend when, after I've had to think what to cook for six days of the week, the one day that he cooks, he asks me what I want! Because he can't be arsed thinking of something himself! :rotfl:

Took the words right out of my mouth!
I never ask, kids & OH eat wat they're given. Tough if they dont like it.
Fussy eaters really do my head in, and if OH wants to be picky, then he can do it.

Sometimes I say do you fancy X or Y for dinner, usually he's retty good at chosing. So that does help me with the decision making.

PasturesNew

vij wrote: »

am I the only one with this problem every night/week I ask what do you want for dinner, do you want me yo get anything when shopping..... reply I dont know/not really. As I cannot get an answer I will cook something I think he will like or suggest something and be told its not what he fancies....Ill ask what would you like instead to be told "I dont know" the only thing I can win with most of the time is steak or burgers and not always those.

Im so so frustrated.........................

has anyone solved the riddle of feeding man yet?:mad:

I've never fed a man, but boogah him. Just cook what you fancy and eat it. Let him sort himself out.

odds-n-sods

I tell mine, or say you want x or y?

He's not fussy, I'm lucky that way. But I dont usually give him a choice, its what I plan on due to what we've got in the fridge.

Hardup_Hester

My hubby is a very fussy eater, I blame his Mum, she used to cook a different meal for each person.
If I do a meal plan he never fancies what's on the list, so now I turn the list to the wall so he can't read it & just serve up what I've cooked, he can eat it or starve, he alwys eats it.

Scarlett.1974

My H is a bit like this and it drives me around the effing bend :mad:

We've recently had our LMB and things are now VERY tight .

He's worse than some because a. he's a fussy eater and b. he has IBS (which I take into account, I'm not completely evil :rotfl: ) but it all came to a head last night when I said I was doing sausages (fresh ones, taken from the freezer that morning) mash and gravy.

Him: "oh, I'm not too keen on those sausages"
Me: (through gritted teeth) "well, the shopping isn't coming until tomorrow so there isn't much else to choose from, but feel free to have a look"
Him: (peering into the freezer, looking gormless) "I can't see anything else I'd like"
Me : "tough **** then really"
Him: (looking sulky)
Me: (reaching 'fishwife' at this point) I do NOT think you appreciate how difficult it can be to feed us all on a 50% less budget than we were used to before. I am DOING MY BEST (yes, I'm shouting at this point) AND IF YOU DON'T WANT WHAT I'M COOKING THEN DO YOUR EFFING OWN.
Him: (looking a bit scared now)"okay dear, sausages will be fine"

I don't think he'll complain too much in future

Once I'd calmed down a bit I told him that being "fussy" (IBS issues aside) is a luxury we can NOT afford anymore. You get what you're given in this house from now on, or you go hungry, simple. He agreed (not too surprising really, I think at one point he thought he'd be wearing the dinner :rotfl: ) and has promised no more complaining.

Until tonight.......... if he utters one word I will beat him with the frying pan. That'll teach him

Scarlett xx

torbrex

I notice that it is all women complainig about their men being fussy or not able to make their minds up, I am sorry girls but the only choice that you should be giving them is 'eat it or cook it yourself'.

Not very moneysaving but a female friend of mine was getting so fed up of her fussy husband not being able to choose, she would cook both and put them on the table at the same time, the one he did not eat that day, he got cold the next (this was before microwaves). This did not last long before he realised that if he wanted 2 hot meals in a row, choices had to be made.

frogga

I've got a husband like this!! If he gets an incling that the dinner was cheap he instantly doesn't like it! I have to keep hiding the packaging!:rotfl:

He is rebelling against the moneysaving I am trying to instill in the family ~ I think sometimes I go a little too far though as we are not THAT poorly off. I just don't like waste!

He often doesn't want what I cooked , but can't think of an alternative!:mad:

However, we all have things about us that are a bit irritating to others ~ I would NEVER dream of leaving him to cook for himself though. He often works a 12 hour day 6 days a week. He is a Brilliant dad and an almost perfect husband and we are a team in our house and one of my roles is to do the cooking (and I wouldn't want it any other way!)

Still, we must be doing something right as we have been married since we ran away when I was 16 and he was 18 and that was 18 years last month:T ( and they all said it would never last!)

sammy_kaye18

Sounds like my OH. He says im starving and i say what do you want only to be met with' i dont know just make something'. Not that he is a masterchef and i think in the 2 years we've been togehter he has cooked twice. one was jsut inedible and i wasnt going to touch it for fear of food poisoning, the other was pizza which i dont eat.

Softstuff

Depends what I have in mind for dinner, sometimes OH gets a choice of A, B or C... sometimes I'll just announce what we're having. But if he doesn't like it I'll do something else or get take out. It's just dinner, I've learned not to get irate about it or just ask what he'd like as that just leads to tetchiness. It's not really a hardship if he doesn't know what he wants as we'll just have what I want.