What can i feed the fussiest eater in the world?

zippychick

You've had some fab ideas already, I'll merge this with our fussiest eater thread later on

Good luck
Zip

puddy

rozmister wrote: »

I like root veg mash with sausages or chicken breast and maybe crispy potatoes.

Get all your root veg peel, boil and mash with a bit of low fat spread.

With your chicken breast I fry mine in spray oil with an OXO cube and then seperately I boil my potatoes and then add them to the chicken frying pan when the chickens half cooked so they taste of OXO cube. It makes them quite meaty tasting which shouldn't be too flavourful for your man but if it is then just fry the potatoes with spray oil and steam/put in the oven in foil the chicken.

I'm on WW and I eat this at least once a week and it's a 7- 9 pp meal depending on if you use chicken or sausages or quorn sausages.

He sounds like a fussy !!!!!!, what you said about Fray Bentos pies makes me think of my stepdad! He loves them but my Mum phased them out after he came to live with us. He also loves to buy things that comes in cans (my parents have a misguided wartime belief they last "forever") and we have had up to 16 cans of beans at any one time from where he has gone to the shop for a 'few bits' and bought a 4pack of beans 'just in case'. Men, eh?

i cant stand the sort of stuff he would eat, ive never even seen a real fray bentos pie until i met him

ive cooked the chicken breast in an oxo cube before, it was too 'salty' for him!

he's just phoned me and mentioned the celeriac chips again, he is obviously fretting about them, strange unknown items will make him anxious

yes, i did a root veg mash the other night, dish was delicious. i often buy asdas turkey sausages as they are lower in fat and just as tasty as normal sausages. i browned them in a pan and then added 3 sliced onions without oil, cooked them down until they were floppy, then added a mug of gravy and cooked it all down until the gravy was thickened. i served that with mashed celeriac, one potato and a turnip. it was gorgeous and he liked it (although the sausages should have been browned more...:cool:), however, i just wanted to experiment a bit more rather than stick to roasting or mashing

puddy

zippychick wrote: »

You've had some fab ideas already, I'll merge this with our fussiest eater thread later on

Good luck
Zip

fussiest eater thread??? have you met him?

Primrose

Grating the swede and the celeriac makes a nice winter salad, especially if you add a few sultanas and a dash of mayonnaise (or low calorie salad cream).

Frankly if I had somebody who was a fussy eater like you've got, I'd stick a simple "Learn How to Cook" book in their hands and tell them to get on with cooking their own food, and then it will be exactly to their taste. Then I'd cook some delicious meals for myself and let them sit down to an empty plate and salivate. Try this for a week or a fortnight with no concessions and you might find attitudes start to bend a little.

puddy

Primrose wrote: »

Grating the swede and the celeriac makes a nice winter salad, especially if you add a few sultanas and a dash of mayonnaise (or low calorie salad cream).

Frankly if I had somebody who was a fussy eater like you've got, I'd stick a simple "Learn How to Cook" book in their hands and tell them to get on with cooking their own food, and then it will be exactly to their taste. Then I'd cook some delicious meals for myself and let them sit down to an empty plate and salivate. Try this for a week or a fortnight with no concessions and you might find attitudes start to bend a little.

see above, we cant afford for him to eat what he would cook. he is also overweight with diabetes and shouldnt eat the sort of things that he would buy and cook. he knows how to cook the very limited things that he would eat but we cant afford for us to eat separately

Fruball

I'd just put his meals in front of him and he will soon get used to it. Quite honestly, if he has health problems then he should be grateful to you for making healthy food for him.

Tastes change and the more you eat a food you don't like, you will learn to like it. Explain that to him! I had a fussy ex but he soon learned that if he spent more time enjoying food rather than poking and pushing it around his plate, then it was actually quite nice.

Couldn't live with a fussy eater now - he'd be out on the streets!!! But clearly you aren't as mean as me

puddy

thanks, but he wont change or get used to it, i used to do this when we started living together, but all he would do is push the food round his plate, leave it all, waste a load of what i'd cook and go out and get some chips or kfc

we cant afford it and its not good for him, so to some degree i have to tailor things to him a bit

however, i have got him eating quinoa, bulgar wheat, cous cous, some soya mince dishes, a nut roast the other day (although it was too moist - he likes his food cremated)

PennyGSD

Sounds like the perfect combination of ingredients to do the River Cottage 3 root roast from River Cottage Everyday.

Basically cut everything up into 2cm square chunks (approximately, it's not that critical), spray a large roasting tin with spray oil and tip the veg in. Add a chopped onion if you have one as roasted onion is to die for. It wants to be a single layer only if possible.

Mix together about a tablespoon of olive oil (don't panic - it's spread over a lot of veg), some wholegrain mustard and some honey and pour over the veg, stirring to make sure everything gets a tiny bit of a coating. Salt & pepper to taste.

Cover roasting tin with foil and bake in a hot (180 - 200 degree fan oven) for 10 mins. Peel back foil, stir, replace foil and bake for another 10-15 mins. Continue like this until veg is just soft (approx 25-30 mins), then remove foil completely , place chicken breasts on top, turn down heat a little and continue to cook until chicken is done.

This is absolutely scrummy - very very faint sweetness to it and the mustard adds a slight savoury edge, but you'd be hard pushed to recognise what the flavours actually are once cooked. Each cube of veg generally gets a caramelised edge to it - and you can probably get away with telling him the white cubes are potato!

I do a huge version of this including any other chunky veg I have around - butternut squash is a good one - eat some as is, freeze a few portions and then turn the rest into soup by blitzing with some veg stock. Very filling, but very low calorie too. Also good turned into a savoury crumble for lunch the next day too.

Primrose

No wonder he's overweight and got diabetes with the type of food he's been eating.
You've obviously had a real struggle with him over many years and I sympathise. You must be at the end of your tether and quite apart from discussing on here what he will or will not eat. maybe it's time for you to realise that inadvertently you've been colluding with him by pandering to his fussiness all these years.

Why not just tell him you don't feel you can cope with it any longer and that from now on you'll only be cooking for yourself. You say you can't afford to eat separately, but the two of us in our house regularly do this because our busy lives often mean our eating patterns can't coincide. But if your fridge and food cupboards are only filled with healthy options, he may soon learn to start whipping up some simple healthy meals for himself.

puddy

we;ve only lived together for 18 months, i dont 'pander' to him but neither would i want someone cooking something for me constantly that i dont like

as i say, cooking seperately would simply mean that he goes out and buys ready made processed foods, which he eats the whole of, such as a whole jar of curry sauce and 2 large chicken breasts, he constantly over cooks rice, potatoes whatever and then that has to be thrown away because he wont eat left overs. its much more stressful for me to have him shopping and then cooking his own food believe me, i have tried this