To think my DH should have eaten the dinner I cooked

God I wouldn't even put up with that behavior from my children.
Not everything is going to be everyone's favorite meal, but there's absolutely no excuse for being so rude and ungrateful and settling such a bad example to the kids. It's chicken and vegetables for goodness sake, take a few bites, say thanks, excuse yourself politely and fill up on something else later. Man child.

FFS bunch of kids on this thread "oh I couldn't eat what I don't like" "oh I have food trauma from childhood" I didn't even get fed half the time, being given any food even if it wasn't my favourite was a bloody bonus. We have a rule in our house, as long as it is edible we eat at least half of it. Can't cater for everyone all the time.

He needs to share the cooking and meal planning.
You need a serious conversation with the ManChild.Food is too expensive to waste

God, it's chicken with veg and couscous with a bit of Italian flavouring. And some posters on this thread sympathising with the DH and acting like the OP dished up a shit sandwich.

I wouldn't cook for him again. He can sort himself out

I don't think I've ever said this before but Leave the Bastard!

I can't understand how anyone who enjoys food could find a fussy eater attractive enough to live with. Let them pair up with a compatible fussy eater and be fussy together. Anyone who loves decent food and gets together with a fussy or phobic eater is signing up for misery and resentment. It turns every meal into a potential battleground and as OP has shown it requires one partner to have to subjugate themselves to the other's whims.

He's an adult - you can't make him eat up his dinner if he docent want it! It's not as if he expected to make him something else!

No, I’d be perfectly happy if my husband bought this for dinner. He does most of the cooking in our household.

Yep.

And nobody is saying she should force him to eat. The women on here who are not subservient doormats, are simply saying that he should not have reacted with such petulance and rudeness and he needs to play an equal role in the home.

The handmaidens berating her for daring to give Him a meal he disliked are an embarrassment and are letting women everywhere down.

But its not equal. She does everything

Me too. Also, I was brought up not to fuss about food. I have about two things I really really don't want to eat, but would still eat some/eat the rest of the meal if someone served them to me. Although one of them (raw fish) is highly unlikely to get served up, in my circles anyway!

Its his rudeness , attitude and expecting her to do basically everything plus a full time job thats the problem

Thank you.

I did find that after I'd posted (should have read all of OP's posts first) but appreciate you taking the time to tell me (and not tell me off! 😁)

It sounded OK to me.

But then, I'm both a woman and the main cook in the Viper household - if anyone cooks me a meal I'm just so glad I haven't had to prepare it myself that I scoff the lot! 😄

So he does nothing at all if his share of cooking , childcare and house stuff. Time for - a change, you are also working full time

He was rude. I’d be telling him he has to do the food shopping, meal planning and cooking from now on because you’ve had enough of his disrespectful attitude.

OP says it was 'Mediterranean chicken with peppers, courgette and carrots done in the bag (so juicy - if you get my meaning) with Cous cous'

I mean, even if that's not your favourite thing in the world or the best ever version of it, it's hardly offensive, is it.

Hes just rude. Tell him to cook himself then. You are doing 2 jobs one employed and one running the home and looking after the children, i would not cook for him anymore or do anything at all for him

This.

If he turned his nose up without even tasting it, he would have been wearing it as far as I'm concerned.

Had he tried it and said "Sorry. - this isn't to my taste. I'll just make myself a sandwich" then fair enough.

What was it, just as a matter of interest?

A lot of these responses are wild.

This man-child does none of the parenting, housework, shopping or cooking and sits in his office until ‘mummy’ calls him for his tea, only to make a face about what she’s cooked and then refuses to tidy up afterwards because he’s so cross with her… And people’s response to that is that it’s op’s fault for cooking him something he doesn’t like or to give suggestions of how she could do better?

Did people miss the part where the man is a shit partner and does nothing to help? Has my Time Machine worked?! Are we back in the 1950s?

He sounds like a dick - why do women put up with this shit?

So tonight he sits down to dinner and just pulled a face and said I'm not eating this. I'll just make a sandwich. This caused my DC to say I don't want it either!

This is incredibly rude and disrespectful.

From now on, let your DH make his own sandwiches/dinner. Do not cook dinner for him again.

My husband is a fanny when it comes to food so I no longer choose what to eat and let him do it all. He is fussy to the point where he will not eat something one day and then the next day he will enjoy it. There will be a (made up) reason why he enjoys it one day and not the other (ie. The potato was cooked then reheated and he can’t eat reheated potato). He cuts bits off his meat where there’s “fat” so that most of it goes in the bin. It’s exhausting. YABU, he needs to grow up.

Why do you not know what he eats?

Me and DH have opposite food requirements so never eat the same thing, neither of us would ever force the other to eat something we know they don't like or can't eat.

Them bags are rank all you can taste is salty plastic

Let him do his share of picking up DC and taking to after school clubs, plus shopping/cooking. Then see if he minds if you sit with a face on, after modelling bad food behaviour and bad manners for your child.
I can't be doing with picky eaters, especially not adults who've had the thinking, shopping and cooking done for them.

The way he handled it was very childish, especially in front of the kids. I have no patience with fussy adults. It’s food, you don’t have to love it in order to eat it.