To think my DH should have eaten the dinner I cooked

He didn’t even try it? Congratulations you have another child!!!

He’s pathetic.

I’m fed up of being the only one to think of meals, and do a food shop for everyone (mostly the thinking of meals) and I don’t work, so I really feel for you! He can get his finger out and help out.

Maybe EH should either do the shop or cook the dinner. You are not the maid !

Does he ever cook dinner?

Just a spoon full of…..

I would have told him he can cook his own dinner in future, you work hard to do a food shop and cook dinner and he acts like a baby and not even try it?!

That’s not what happened though. They are flavours from around the world and this one was Italian. We eat a lot of Italian food so I thought it would be OK. she didn’t realise that what he objected to was the cook in a bag type meal. What you have here is an entitled selfish man whose wife works and brings in a salary and also does everything for their kids and the house, he doesn’t even turn up for them. He leaves early, comes home for dinner and then works more, has the nerve to expect her to do all that and then also to really concentrate on home cooked meals he will enjoy, and if she doesn’t he is rude to her in front of their children, sulks and he won’t wash the dishes, his one contribution. I hope finances are extremely open and shared or the op should just get rid instead of telling him that was the last fucking dinner she ever cooks him or shirt she washes for him.

If my partner (who is ‘chef’ in our house) served me a meal I’d told him previously I didn’t like, I wouldn’t eat it. I strongly dislike seafood; if he served me seafood saying it’s all he could get, I’d leave it. He knows I don’t like it. Why should I eat it?

Oh gosh the how dare you upset your husband brigade are out again. It's fine to not like something but to be disrespectful and childish over it in front of DC is not on. How can he expect your DC to try new foods, have table manners and respect for you if he behaves like that in front of them. If he wants to starve or go off in a huff and buy a pizza, fine but don't make a drama of it. He's an adult needs to behave like one x

Its not about the children eating the food.
For all I care (and so should the OP) nobody needs to eat the food.
I don’t like that OP was told off in front of the children and the manchild has been pulling faces and ruined the mood at dinner.
Whatever “terrible” offence happened, he should have handled himself better.
@Rosebyanothername19 are you sure it’s about the food? Or is he (still not an excuse) taking something else out in you?

I just don’t see how anyone can sulk about food.
As for not eating the food: I haven’t ever seen anyone starve to death with a full plate in front of them, so I don’t see any problem here.

f they say @Rosebyanothername19 is not a good enough cook: great! Win-win!
As a bonus, show him how bad you are at the washing up too 😉

I don't know why some people seem to think it is ok for children to be forced to eat but not adults. Adults typically have 1/3 of the taste buds of young children, so can often gulp down food that they don't particularly enjoy but that children would find intolerable. I'd be much more tolerant of a child not wanting even to try something than an adult.

😂 That’s good. One of the kids being him I suppose…
well quite obviously so

she might as well offer to change his nappy

Yeah, well in that case he could say:“Oh honey you know I didn’t like these, did you forget about that?”

Good idea. She can reply “Oh sweetie pie, you know that I work full time, pick the kids up from school, take them to clubs, do the shopping, clean the house and cook the dinner. Did you forget about that?”

I do agree to an extent. But I don’t think children should be forced to eat food they don’t like either. He handled it really badly though.

And grow a pair (since the conversation is now all about his xxx)

Yeah, well in that case he could say: “Oh honey you know I didn’t like these, did you forget about that?”
So that they can have an adult conversation about what exactly he didn’t like.

Having said that once already doesn’t exactly buy him permission to sulk. Nothing actually does…

He’d already told you he didn’t like yhem

what did you expect

He had time to go to the shop to buy a pizza and then cook it but somehow couldn't think to do that for all of you?

I know I'm derailing but how do you cook a meal in a bag? Is it a plastic bag or a foil bag? I'm up for that if it means not having to wash pans.

The only thing I've ever cooked in a bag is microwave popcorn and I alway scorch the middle 😳

Threads like this remind me why I'm happier being single.

If someone behaved in such a rude, ungrateful and disrespectful way towards me, I'd be utterly dismayed.

Especially if I was also expected to do all the domestic chores and childcare every day.

It would be unbearable to live with someone who thought that kind of selfish laziness was okay.

Who said anything about forcing anyone to eat something?

The question was, should a grown man, have a bit more respect for his wife, who works full time, does all the parenting, shopping, cooking and cleaning by at least tasting the dinner she’s cooked before making a face, refusing to eat it and then refusing to help tidy up afterwards?

I’d never force and adult to do something they didn’t want to do.

He was acting like a child and I would have told him so. He needs to start planning, writing a shopping list and cooking. It may not have been a favourite of his but as an adult he should have just eaten it, as you'd expect your children to. I expect the pizza takeaway will become a regular for him, you're the excuse.

That rather sounds like a choice to opt out of doing his fair share at home imo

He is not being fair in the division of labour at home.

Don’t give him food next time or he can cook for the family.

if you don’t like something I agree don’t force yourself to eat it but to refuse to even try is completely rude.

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

I wfh full time and have to juggle picking up DC and taking to after school clubs etc. So don't have a huge amount of time for shopping/cooking delicious home made meals from scratch.

And later

I just struggle fitting in my full time job around everything and being expected to do the house chores on top because I'm at home rather than out in an office.