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

Personally, if we’ve been out hiking or sightseeing all day, we’ll be back at our holiday place having something nice to eat after a soak in the bath or a shower. We’re not up for going out to eat. We like our relaxed evenings in, with peace and quiet, but obviously not everyone does. It depends on so many factors - what sort of holiday you’re having and personal preference too. No Pot Noodles here though

Because they're a couple? 🙄

what is the problem with letting him enjoy what he wants and you do the same?

‘Foreign muck’ no doubt, not like good ol’ British Pot Noodle 🥲

They have not gone all inclusive for this holiday. They have done so in the past and found it a good compromise.

The whole thing sounds odd; why go all-inclusive if you want to explore local food options? And if you have gone all-inclusive, why would he go to McDonalds? I wouldn't care about him having pot noodles with him, it actually makes sense for him to have a small amount of food in the room if he's worried that the food provided won't be available at times he wants (although that information should be available if he looks for it). But he should also make sure he'll have a way to cook them; electric kettles aren't standard issue in Italian hotel rooms so he may need to bring his own (and a plug adapter).

@Astridastro you need to take him to Japan

https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/

I meant “aren’t wrong or greedy” obviously

LTB

I couldn't stand this either. Deeply unattractive

That’s totally fine but they should realise that those who like trying different foods are wrong or greedy or somehow wasting money.

It’s equally as important as seeing the sights.

Or they have and only ate Pot Noodles? 😁

There was a thread a few years ago where a poster had a similarly rigid husband who only ate about 3 things. When it was suggested that he might be neuro diverse if he had such rigid thinking, the OP said “no I don’t think so, because he tried chicken in 1998 and again in 2004, so he will experiment.”

God makes people and matches them sometimes…

It isn’t the “food is a waste of time” element to the OP. It’s the rigidity of the husband.

Im calling neurodiversity here. In spades.

The number of people who think pizza and pasta is a majority of Italian food is quite eye opening!

Possibly have never been to Italy.

@5128gap nope I see nothing wrong with that either- it just annoys me when I see posts implying that spending hours over meals isa waste of time as they have 'better things to do ' - the honest answer is 'different things to do' - I appreciate that the eating and drinking aspect isn't important for some, but for some it's one of the things that differentiate between being at home. It is indeed a really individual thing and it also hinges too on having a partner in the same mind space if you aren't on your own-

Some of these answers are MN gold. And not in a good way.

He's a man who is not particularly switched on by food, who eats to live. Get over it everyone! People like him exist - and they can be cultured and adventurous in every other way.

OP, just do your own thing, or get him to pot noodle early and join you in the restaurant with a drink later in the evening. And have a great holiday!

😂 fair enough. You’re entitled to your opinion. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question, especially because you’re unwell at the moment. Get well soon. 😊

I absolutely love Italy.

OK, fine.
Got a cold and am probably grumpy.
My last visit was to Calabria, where they are stuck 70 years backwards with pictures of Mussolini around and insisting on being called Calabrese, not Italian.
Overpriced area, nothing nowhere, food suitable for vegetarian sparrows.
I could go on, but this made me give up on Italy, especially after so called pandemic.

Summer evenings are long. You can do these things and eat out, especially in mediterrean places with more casual and later eating cultures.

On a recent holiday to a France we ate out every evening and still found time to watch a son et lumiere show projected on an ancient church, walk around the old town and see an insane fountain display set to music, go to a wine festival, join in an outside dance class, walk around the Cathedral walls, go to a beach party, watch France go through to the Euros semi finals with a crowd of noisy, football mad French people in a tiny old fashioned market place bar.

Do you not think there's any snobbery in calling people who don't want to eat out immature, little Englanders and a turn off, with the implication being they aren't sufficiently cultured to enjoy international cuisine? I'm a person who prefers to do other things with my evening. I don't think this makes me superior and its about as far from snobbery as you could get. Truth is, my annual leave and budget are not limitless. I'm 55 and will not be able to afford extensive travel opportunities in retirement, so I need to make the very most of the time and money I have now, and to me that means seeing and doing as much as I can. The things I've spent my evenings doing and my money on as an alternative to meals out in the past have included: Walking round the old town when it's cool enough to do so, including climbing hills for views I'd not climb in 32 degrees in the day. Going for a night swim. Taking an evening river cruise (a third of the cost without a meal included) visiting attractions that offer cheaper rates for late afternoon/ evenings. Going to an evening party at a thermal spa. None of these things were joyless and to me a better use of my time than eating, which i can do in my home city when theres nothing better to do. I dont suggest for a moment that they are superior. Its each to their own, but there's definately a stridently expressed majority view on this thread that this approach is wrong. Why is that?

For me, that would be a waste of time when I could be sightseeing or hiking instead.

I like sightseeing and hiking and eating well on holiday.

These aren't mutually exclusive activities.

We don't eat multiple course meals or late, but we don't want to throw down a meal before we dash off to the next activity either.

You must have a very action packed holiday to not find time to enjoy a meal.

Out of interest isn't it possible to be of the Rohan jackets , rucksacks and hiking brigade 'and' enjoy restaurants and meals out?? Seems everyone on here who likes the aforementioned think time is too valuable to enjoy lazing around in tavernas when you could just be walking miles? My mum and her husband used to love both !! I'm not talking about general sightseeing I'm specifically talking about hiking and mountaineering etc -it seems to build in to some a kind of superiority complex that the rest of us are just wasting time lounging around- whereas the reverse can also be true that they think walking round countryside for miles every day is a waste of good book reading// lounging/ long lazy lunch times. Don't get me wrong I love a good walk - I don't like the snobbery and fixed mindset that seems to come with it for some.

Yeah I just can't wrap my head round this.

How does a person who enjoys food and pleasure date a man like this and think, "Yes, you'll do, I'll marry you"?

I mean, maybe he has other really amazing qualities that we aren't aware of, but it doesn't sound like it if he's deliberately being a dick and threatening to ruin OP's enjoyment of her holiday with his stupid pot noodles.