and it drives me insane at times especially when we go out for a meal,he hates any veg or salad stuff on his plate and asks for them not to put any on and if they do he sits and moans all evening about it, i told him to take it back or take it off his plate but he says he can still taste it on his food, anybody else have a problem hubby like mine lol xx?
2007-02-02 08:21:14 · 25 answers · asked by MAD FEMALE 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
My boyfriend is the same way. He's in his 20s and it drives me NUTS! I'll want to go out for a nice meal (a "date") and he'll want to go to Burger King - it's his FAVORITE restaurant. (Yes, I have tried to explain the difference between a restaurant and a fast food place....) And he always orders the same thing "a burger, plain and dry... just the meat and bread."
I can count on one hand the meals he'll eat....
1. Hamburgers - plain and dry
2. Chicken - grilled or baked, no seasoning... must be served with flour tortillas, but he's picky about those too!
3. Cheese Pizza - but not all brands
4. Turkey sandwiches, just turkey & bread - preferably from Subway
He used to like steak, but has recently decided "it's too heavy."
I have had to take undesirable food off his plate and wipe the plate with a clean napkin in restaurants... I say "I had to" because there was no way I could enjoy my meal with the way he was picking and pouting at his plate.
I love him, but he eats like a five-year-old. I blame his mother... he says she eats the same way.
I keep trying to introduce him to "new" foods - like pears - but he hasn't really liked anything yet.
2007-02-02 08:40:54 · answer #1 · answered by Annie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mines absolutely the same, he's driven me mad for 25years. We were on holiday in a small fishing town in France and couldn't find a restaurant that served anything he would eat I was starving an drooling over the thought of sea food, we ended up with pizza. Very French! I will only go on all inclusive holidays now if he can't find anything he likes he can starve. I only cook a couple of times a week it's too boring to do the same thing again and again. He gets the same 3 ready meals again and again and is quite happy! I sent him to the supermarket to get something he would like for his dinner' he came back and said he couldn't find anything. 5 a day he can just about get to 5 a week. It's his funeral! But I have to sympathcise it's when you want to eat out that life becomes very difficult, with all the coverage of healthy eating on TV he is getting a bit better.
2007-02-02 08:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by chewystuff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd think the annoying part of this would be the b!tching and moaning about it later. I'd tell him to knock it off or order another meal (and leave a big tip for the poor harried waitress). If he can still taste it (which I very much doubt) then he should order another meal. If he doesn't send it back then he has no right to keep moaning about it.
Seriously, wow. I don't think I could marry anyone who couldn't keep up with my epicurean adventures, much less who complained all night if a piece of parsley touched his steak. (On our second date my bf of three years and I split a box of chocolate covered crickets b/c we both had to know what they tasted like - like giant rice crisps, truth be told.)
We used to have a neighbor, Dave, who prided himself on only eating vegetables twice a year ( a forkful at christmas, a forkful at easter). He an my dad used to have this silly competition to see who could buy the othere guy the most useless thing at Sams Club (ie: five gallons of banana pudding). He got our family a case of canned peas (one of the few foods my mom depises). My mom blended up two of those cans of peas and put them in a batch of brownies for him. He didn't realize it until he'd eaten half of them and my mom told him.
He did eat the rest of the brownies.
No point to the story, just hoped to make you laugh
Good luck
2007-02-02 08:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by LX V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have the same problem. I am very fussy eater. Always wondered why. But i suppose must be something in my childhood, my mum stuffed me with too much food. I now cannot bear the sight of stewed veg.
2007-02-02 09:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by selfish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dad would never eat anything he couldn't see ... unless of course my mom hid it from him ... lol.
For example: He would not eat spaghetti with meat sauce.
He had to have the pasta served separately.
The tomatoes as canned stewed tomatoes and/or ketchup.
The meat as hamburger patties.
It was all the same foods, just in separate little piles on the plate.
My mother would have to cook it both ways every time.
He refused to eat chicken eggs ... they came from the back end of a chicken after all ... but he would eat foods containing egg like the breading on a pork chop for example. I guess he had haunting memories of collecting eggs with less than "clean" shells from the chickens his family kept out back when he was a child.
He wouldn't eat mushrooms.
He also had to have his meat cooked "dead" ... "well done", and of course I wanted to be like him so I always asked for the same. Now that I am a grown up I go for anywhere between rare and medium rare. I love Carpaccio when ever I can get it. Just show the meat a picture of a flame and it's cooked too much for me ... lol.
He later in his life went on a diet where he would not eat any food within 5 days of having eaten it previously. Think about it. If he ate wheat flour today, he could not have ANY product containing wheat for the next 4 days: bread, pasta, cookies, crackers, most cereals, anything that had wheat. And same for sugar. And the same for cow. Think about that! On one day you "use" your right to eat any cow product or any food containing a cow product, like butter, milk, cheese, and beef for 5 whole days.
On such a diet you eat mostly raw fruits, cooked vegetables, simple whole grains (and legacy stuff like kasha and quinoa), and lots of fish with moderate amounts of meats. Healthy in the extreme, but you mostly have to prepare EVERYTHING yourself so you know what is in it, and because most prepared foods have so many additives that they simply wipe out too many products all at once. One cookie or piece of cake would take out bread, beef, sugar, etc ... all at once.
On the other hand: On the day he could eat bananas, he would never eat just one ... he'd eat a whole bunch.
Oh and he had to keep scrupulous records ad list to know what he could eat and when.
Why would someone do such a thing? Well he lost over 50 pounds to and lived his last 25 years at his ideal weight, and forever "lost" all his food allergies that had plagued him all his life.
2007-02-02 08:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by David E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Mad, I'm sorry (for you) to say I have the opposite. My husband doesn't "like" veg or salad particularly, but he eats what he is served. He actually eats anything - and usually lots of it. He's tall, lean, muscular, can eat like a horse and not gain an ounce - the opposite metabolism of me.
2007-02-02 09:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by Lydia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if he is only a "fussy" eater at an establishment...then I would insist I get my food as I order it. He is paying!!!!! after all.
Next time insist that the food be taken away, or tell him if he puts up with the incompetance off the waiters, that you won't listen to him complain all night. It's really, really simple.
2007-02-02 23:37:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sabine5 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It might be too late to retrain him. I have a girlfriend whose husband doesn't eat anything green but since he has kids he has reformed a little. My husband eats everything. He started out saying he didn't eat chicken. I thought to myself "who doesn't eat chicken?" So, I started sneaking strange things into his food, lamb, fish, etc. He would eat it without knowing and discovered he liked a lot more than he thought. I don't know you will manage that with your husband. I wish you the best of luck.
2007-02-02 08:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by Diane T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well your husband sounds like he was a spoiled brat when he was growing up. And since nobody has told him he hasn't grown up yet and the world doesn't revolve around him. SO maybe it's time.
2007-02-02 08:35:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't call it fussy - he sounds like a spoilt attention seeking child. (Polite version)
It must be very awkward for you to cope with him, and embarrassing when you are out.
I used to have a partner who wouldn't eat anything unless it was smothered in tomato sauce, including the Sunday roast - really insulting.
2007-02-02 22:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋