To think my DH should have eaten the dinner I cooked

There are plenty of things I wouldn't need to try because I know I won't like it. If there's something in it I don't like then I know I won't like the dish.

I have voted you are being unreasonable for the below

My partner would of been very respectful and tried his dinner if it was something he didn’t like he would of then politely declined to eat it, however I have the same respect for him that he has for me so would not of served him something that I knew he didn’t like last time

respect working two ways

as a child I was forced to eat and was told I would be fed with a tube if I didn’t (by the doctors not my parents) therefore mealtimes in our house are very much early morning chats of ‘what would you like for dinner tonight’ and visa Versa if he cooks

If you wfh I would eat a big meal at lunch, cook something for the kids in the evening, have a sandwich yourself and do nothing for the selfish bugger.

Served with cous cous?! Or was the original one? Honestly just try to get a couple recipes that take twenty minutes to throw together and as a rule he cooks half the time. You're noone's maid.

He should have tried it at least.

Slow cooker is your friend on days like that. I had four kids. Swimming, football, dancing, music, French. athletics, riding, cubs, scouts, brownies and a DH that worked away more than he was home every month.
I used to be up early and put the evening meal on and prep the veg before everyone was off to school and I was off to work on days when things clashed or I was child minding. Then just potatoes or rice or cous-cous, pasta etc to put on.

I would also suggest he learns to cook. DH is a much better cook than he used to be. Practice makes reasonable and he makes a great roast now.😁

He’s a grown man if he didn’t like the meal on offer he’s free to sort out his own meal.

So what if it isn't "cooking" according to your definition. You've entirely missed the point here.

I'd never cook for someone who was so spoiled they couldn't cope with beans on toast or the occasional pre-seasoned meal and was rude and dismissive when presented with it. Especially if I was working full time and also left with 90% of household and parenting chores.

If my dh did this he'd be cooking every other day from here on in.

There's nothing wrong with saying you're not keen on something be by the way you've written your post he sounds like he was being g plain rude about it.

It's not just children that don't eat things they don't like... most normal people don't eat things they don't like either.

the whole thing isn't ideal though. I wouldn't cook something i know my DH really doesn't like, but then he wouldn't do that for me either. And definitely making a fuss in front of the DCs isn't modelling good behaviour.

So I'd suggest to him that since he's fussy, he cooks 2 days, you cook 2 days and on Fridays you each take a turn with one of the DCs so they can learn to cook. Weekends you can decide how to handle it.

But the whole family takes part in meal planning. And the team that don't cook, clear up the table and the last bits in the kitchen (since you will be teaching the DCs how to clear up as they go)

No one’s worked up. Just making the point that you are missing the bigger picture.

@pootlin I didn't say any of that. But that's not what the op asked. Don't really understand why you're getting so worked up about it.

I like this idea, do this every day indefinitely.

And if he refuses to do washing up just use plastic plates.

He's rude and being really out of order to now refuse to do the minimal amount of household jobs that are his responsibility because of it.

So the knobhead gets out of picking up and dropping off dc, of doing the foodshop, of dropping kids to after school clubs and cooking, and if he also deems the dinner unworthy of him he can also refuse to do the dishes?

@pootlin but the op didn't ask if she could be pissed he didn't do the dishes. She asked if he should have eaten it. And tbh I wouldn't want to do the dishes if my DH cooked something id told him I didn't like.

It’s not a separate issue. Because to punish OP, he also refused to do the dishes.

Th amount of people excusing the knobhead is nauseating.

You do seem to have a wider DH problem!

Next time you fancy a boil in bag thing just say ' hey DH I'm making that stuff you don't like tonight so you'll probably want to sort yourself out something else?'

Throwing some shite-in-a-bag into a pot and boiling it up is not 'cooking'. I wouldn't eat it either

He sounds rude.
Does he ever cook for you you?
Just cook for you and the kids until he learns some manners.

Divorce the rude, lazy bastard, more like.

Hang on, so you work full time, do the school drop offs and pick ups, clubs, food shop and do all the cooking? What does he do? How does he contribute? If he doesn’t like your cooking, put him on cooking duty, get him to do something around the house.

@pootlin but that's a separate issue. Be mad and annoyed about that. Sure. But don't get mad at him for not eating something he's said on at least 2 previous occasions he doesn't like.

I take it he does 50% of the shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry ?

He'd already said he didn't like it...