to not want to go on holiday with DH as he’s taking Pot Noodles?

With lovely Italian grub 😱 I can't understand why you would.

Blimey I would struggle with this as picking where to eat is part of my holiday- husband has a friend like this though- once said to me that he's not bothered about nice meals out as food really is just fuel - whereas I'm not interested in things like old churches etc - guess we are all different- just leave him OP to his pot noodle and go out with the kids

He sees food as fuel not pleasure? A Pot Noodle is surely the worst of both worlds.

bout ONLY compromise is-one of his sightseeing-is you eting proper food. you tolerting his mnky preferences(which fortuntely arent time consuming)he goes with you,taste /order food is optional(for him)
Believe me, I sent my 15 yo ds1 to his dds to sty(overnight)when he mde pot noodle one time//never have i ever.
IF he is so self restrictive with food youze needy gree on compromise tht mens both eat

The concept of noodles was Chinese and then stolen by the Italians.

Traditional English food was pottage ( root veg eg turnips, swedes and carrots, peas) The wealthy are meats with no veg.

Potatoes were taken from Americas.

Pasta became popular in the 1980s as did curry.

The idea that Italian food is just pasta and pizza is ridiculous. That’s the equivalent of Italian fish and chips. There are so many different dishes but you have to go to more expensive restaurants.

Obviously a pizza is not decent unless cooked on a wood burning oven and a decent pizza chef has learnt their trade for some time.

My son is ASD and hated to go out at night so we brought back cheeses, fruits and bread , salad mozzarella etc. Going to the market was a lovely treat and we also bought a bottle of wine.
Slightly better than Pot Noodle ( full of chemicals).

You could agree to alternative - evening in and evening out.

Not the same at all.

I live in Canada and our food in North America is not comparable.

That said depending on where you are you'd miss out if you were in New Orleans. New York also has incredible food. California has gorgeous healthy restaurants as does Portland.

No one goes to the states though for the food. Italy is known for theirs.

We used to do road trips in the US, 4/5 weeks, and the most liberating thing was deciding that we didn't have to always eat out every evening, especially after a long day driving and site seeing.

Utterly different scenario. Hardly in Italy on holiday or road trip for 4/5 weeks, then you'd get an apartment with a kitchen, duh.

Honestly?? I wouldn't go with him. I couldn't be married to someone who didn't enjoy their food. This sounds like my idea of hell!!

Where are you going to be, approx, OP? I love Italy and Italian food. Make sure you try fritto misto (deep fried shellfish with occasionally bits of veg) it's utterly divine.

We had a gorgeous holiday starting with 2 days in Barcelona.

The first thing DH wanted to do was go to McDonald's to get a McRib.

I feel your pain

He did make up for it though as we went to Cecconi's both night (thanks Amex)

A few posts in and it's "is he neuro diverse", and a poster saying it's "abhorrent" not to eat all types of food. Op, you'll be lucky on this thread if you aren't being advised to go to couples therapy.

I know I was like "WTF?"

For me a holiday is so much about the food, from getting up early and taking a walk down the village/town, picking up fresh bread and eggs, and evening trips down and having tapas ( bar snacks ) here, main course there, dessert elsewhere...

Im happy with picky food, a bit here and a bit there, DH is a meat and veg man ( he hated Greek food on the Island we were on ) so we compromise . I refuse to cook but will throw a salad together, stick a pizza on ( thats not cooking in my eyes) so he will still come and eat out and enjoy the evening, knowing if theres nothing he likes , he will get fed :)

He loved the food in Italy though and would go back in a heartbeat. Theres always something that the most pickiest of eater can find to eat in Italy, food is lovely

That’s a very narrow view of Italian food…

Ah, just leave him alone with his pot noodles while you show your child what amazing food is. In Italy. You, my dear, deserve it too.

Anyway, I'd leave a man who couldn't feed himself or me or DC with nutritious fabulous food. It's the basis of life. And one of its pleasures.

If he lives on crap food like that, he has a problem....

Well. I’m glad YOU are married to him. What an act of sacrifice for womankind. I don’t mean that…but FUCK ME that’s one way to suck all the joy out of life.

At last, an intelligent comment! We used to do road trips in the US, 4/5 weeks, and the most liberating thing was deciding that we didn't have to always eat out every evening, especially after a long day driving and site seeing.

😂

It really doesn’t. And, honestly, even the umbrella of ‘Italian food’ is pretty misleading, as it varies so massively (and deliciously) from region to region. I could travel across Italy for a month and eat a different dish for each meal, every single day, with neither pasta nor pizza touching my lips.

Some people like what they like. Will he sit at a family meal and have drink to be apart of the table? Some people just can't eat outside their comfort zones.

Why can't he have his pot noodle at 5pm and then come out to the evening meal? A tiny pot noodle isn't going to fill up a fully grown man! Or is it simply he's just being too tight to pay for one evening meal?

How utterly depressing.

Sometimes the wait for a man has been long and any man without big problems will do. This one is a small problem

Good job pizza and pasta are just a tiny fraction of Italian food then! It’s just the stuff that’s caught on abroad.