To think my DH should have eaten the dinner I cooked

@Rosebyanothername19 Can you please do me a favour and start a new post with exactly the same text but with your and your DH’s roles reversed (he’s the one cooking and you are the one sulking about the dinner) and then ask if you’ve been unreasonable?
I would be incredibly curious how that thread would evolve…

Please let us know if you did.

😂😂😂

I've done chicken /meat in a bag before with herbs etx

Cooks it really moist /falls off the bone

Tho guessing if add veggies in bag as well are they very soft and squishy ?

So not as nice ?

Yes if he doesn't like then u feet and why he didn't eat it

But was rude about it

And needs to cook some evenings his self

My DH is an incredibly fussy eater, it’s ridiculous. But I asked him to be mindful of any comments he makes as I don’t want his fussiness to influence the children. I don’t think it’s a lot to ask someone to try it or at least be subtle about how they reject it.

Every message I read at the moment makes me glad to be single. I had the opposite when I lived with my ex, he was the most amazing cook and refused to let me do anything in the kitchen - if I so much as cooked a piece of salmon he’d criticise me for how well or not well it was cooked so I gave up trying.

It would then take hours though for him to cook so we’d eat at 10pm every night - and in the meantime I’d be bored out of my brains watching rubbish TV and starving hungry by the time he served up. I tried to talk to him but no compromise was made. I’d suggest the OP comes up with a plan - maybe they meal plan together, one person buys ingredients together and the other person cooks.

Now I am on my own, I take joy in cooking simple meals and if they’re not all a huge hit with my daughter then she doesn’t starve as can always add some plain pasta or rice maybe with some chopped tomatoes and some broccoli or something for her.

What bothers me for the OP is that she is taking on all the load and then he is still being ungrateful. It’s not okay to refuse to wash up/load dishwasher because the meal wasn’t to his liking. Two wrongs don’t make a right and not all of us have endless inspiration when it comes to cooking! X

Yeah, this is it; I mean, it's not like she served up something actively offensive, or even particularly strongly flavoured, which I could understand a bit more. At worst it might be a bit bland perhaps?

After 4 kids, I’m so sick of meal planning and cooking for 6 - not every night is going to be gourmet night. My DH sometimes gets ready meals when it’s his turn, which I don’t like, but frankly I’m just grateful someone else is doing the cooking so I’ll eat them!

@Willyoujust I'm calm 😂. I think she's probably heard of a slow cooker, hardly life hack of the year. She's explaining why she picked something she thought would be convenient not asking for you help. It's not titled "what can I do to be more efficient with cooking healthy meals for my DH?"

I’m not giving her advice on how to keep a man child happy. She said she struggles with finding the time to cook healthy meals from scratch so I suggested a slow cooker incase she hadn’t considered it. You need to calm down 😂

@Willyoujust OP doesn't need good little woman advice she needs a decent DH with a better attitude.

What is the matter with people who always minimise the real issue and give advice on how to keep a man child happy. It doesn't matter if the OP served up gruel, she's the one who cooked dinner and is soley relied on to do so....it's not acceptable and the least he can do is not be an AH if he doesn't fancy what she's plated up. It's not that he didn't eat it even, it's the drama he's made and the bad example he's set for his child. What is it with people (worse when it's a woman) who think because a man "works hard" he gets a maid not a mate.

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Wow!!

Exactly how much salt do you think is in it? You're bonkers. Assuming they're not babies it's fine as a one off.

children should never be eating that volume of salt.

No. A good shout would be to stop accepting bad behaviour from men who do absolutely nothing to contribute to the household.

Slow cooker is a good shout for the position you’re in. Get a large one so you can do enough for a couple of evenings.

@Otherstories2002

so?? Not every meal has to be low salt

This.

What 'effort'. Boil in a bag food? No thanks. I'm team DH on this one, although I do think he needs to be proactive about cooking instead of just grumbling. I think it was a bit silly of the OP to provide yet another bake in the bag meal when he had already said TWICE that he didn't like them, but the way he went about refusing was a bit churlish. I sort of feel him because I get bad tempered when I'm hangry and it was silly of the OP to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Nope, it's right there in the OP. Did you read it?
Lol

No, she doesn't say he doesn't like boil in the bag
Yes she does

So? Just because he ordered a shitty alternative doesn’t mean the meal is suddenly low salt.

Put the husband in the bin.

And I don’t think any woman should be expected to twat around any man like a 1950s housewife when she has a full time job and is also responsible for child drop offs and pick ups. If he’s expecting Cordon Blue meals every night he should learn to cook them himself!

It doesn’t matter what I cook … my husband will eat it! He doesn’t even care if he likes it or not he will just stomach it 😂 he said if I cook anything for him he is grateful so he doesn’t care what it is. He grew up pretty poor and if he didn’t eat what was put in front of him he simply didn’t eat so that probably helps. I’d be really pissed off at someone who didn’t even taste what I cooked. That’s just childish!