‘Just the meat for me please’ Sunday Lunch issue ’

As noted many times now, this carnivore diet sounds extremely unhealthy, as well as unappetising. https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/carnivore-diet

This cracked me up too! 😆😆Brilliant phrasing @Horsie

Haha, get onto that OP. A beluga caviar and truffle only meal perhaps? I imagine your sons might also want to refine their diets too once they've met this Adonis!

It's shocking that anyone over the age of five would do this.

I am happy to cater for allergies/vegan/vegeterian/lactose free/casein free/no pork/no beef etc and have done all of the above, but I'll be damned if I'm going to invite anyone rude or greedy to eat at my table for a second time.

The entitlement shown by those awful guests is really shocking to me.

Not really. I only eat lean protein and veg. I don’t eat food with oil / cheese added. I don’t enjoy it and I end up with indigestion when I do eat it. I don’t see why that’s more disordered than deciding to be vegan. I’m always happy to bring extra salads to share. Or extra meat.

I’ll never forget when I did a small roast for my sister in laws 40th and I had a baby and toddler at the time and she messaged me a couple of hours beforehand to say that the current bf she was seeing at the time ‘didn’t like roast potatoes and could I whack him some frozen chips in instead?’ Who the fuck chooses a frozen chip over a home cooked roast potato? I told her it was one meal of his life and quite frankly I didn’t give a fuck if he didn’t like it, the meal was for her and not him and he could get on with it as originally planned or not come. He came and finished his entire plate. I also cannot stand the clucky women around men who enable them to have everything they want, unless it’s allergies, he can get on with one meal of his life not being to the exact perfection he wants

Have you all started planning your dietaries for their wedding op? Maybe you only eat green food and your dh only eats oysters by the time the wedding is scheduled? They won’t blink at catering to it I’m sure.

Please update us.. I’ve been constantly refreshing mumsnet to see what’s happened, although truly it is none of my business… describe them to us, how was everything, was the body at the beginning or middle of his body building journey, I’m too invested now..

This is a form of orthorexia. I'd be quite annoyed at a guest expecting a bespoke diet of solely the most expensive food item in the meal when invited for lunch, but I guess we don't know if he is demanding it, or your sister, OP. I'd do some extra meat but I'd be watching out for any other entitlement.

i think anyone who has such particular requirements should refrain from accepting invitations to meals, and jusst sort themselves out. Say they can just come later for a drink.

World has gone mad

I’d provide extra meat because he’s a guest and my husband and I would privately laugh heartily at someone so afraid of a potato.

It is very very unlikely that this man is good in bed, and even less likely that he can laugh at himself.

I won’t eat potatoes or “trimmings” or cauliflower cheese or Yorkies. I would eat veggies without fat or sugar added but you haven’t listed any so yes would be meat only, wouldn’t eat a huge portion of meat but prob 1.5 x what others would eat.

Sorry I think you are being unreasonable. Just give him some steamed cauliflower or broccoli or green beans or an undressed salad and a chicken breast. Or a tin of tuna. I’d happily bring own food or contribute a low fat vegetable dish for all.

His own private chicken

I missed that. So does "more like a chicken to himself" mean that Dsis does, indeed, want OP provide a whole chicken just for him? His own private chicken? That IS rude. I'd probably do it for my DN's sake, since they are marrying, but I certainly wouldn't be as happy about it as I would be providing just another couple of chicken breasts or something.

Surely no one can really expect to have an entire chicken to themselves???

OP didn’t ask anyone to bring anything, she said when her DSIS advised she’d bring some raw pork chops for OP to fry, that she wouldn’t be frying anything.

She”s got 11 adults for dinner, so why would she want to start frying.

The fad dieter has been asked to Sunday lunch, Sunday lunch consists of meat, potatoes and vegetables. If he doesn’t eat those because he’s fad dieting, then he’d be better to politely decline and stay at home with his plate full of meat.

Fad diets are irritating, they’re not required and you exclude yourself from normal meals and invites.

Remember this is not a lifestyle choice, ie vegetarian, where one food group is excluded, it’s just a fad and he can’t/won’t continue just eating meat without carbs, vegetables etc…..

I was meaning he could bring a Tupperware of his own cooked meal to just shove on a plate. Not bring ingredients to make something!

You've edited your post but we can see the original version which says that nobody asked OP to provide a whole chicken. That's not entirely true...

Mondaytuesdayhappydays · Today 14:24
Listened to message DSIS tying herself in knots , it will literally be a large plate of meat and no veg but he will brings some prepared sliced avocado and homemade mayo.
Won’t eat gammon, more like a chicken to himself and any more going left over
Will get a tray of thighs as-well I think
alongside what we would normally get.
Should be fine, but odd but fine xx

Chicken in a panini for a woman doesn't sound like there'd be much chicken in it. People eat more of it when it's a roast affair, and men tend to eat more than women.

You've lost me, I'm afraid. I literally have NO idea what you're talking about.

You: Those who value their family don't demand their family makes a whole chicken just for them.

Me: Nobody has asked OP to provide a whole chicken for this guest.

And then you starting saying things that make zero sense.

No way, you are already doing 2 chickens and gammon, this is ridiculous!

Oh here we go. The perpetual MN chicken. Why stop at 7 people, why not use one Chicken to feed the whole neighbourhood. It’s enough for everyone for have a sniff and then pass it on.

Okay, so it's the latter option I gave. Thanks for confirming.

Coming late to this but thoroughly enjoying this thread, as a fellow sexy veg lover. Love nothing more than a butternut squash and chestnut wellington.

It's the height of rudeness to go to the house of someone you don't know (barely anyway) and expect them to cook you a massive plate of meat through. It's fine if you're a veggie (and can just eat the trimmings) or there are ethical/religious/health reasons why you can't eat certain things, but making a fuss for no good reason is terrible manners. Expecting someone to cater to your expensive vanity is insane. Bringing your own avocado is the cherry of rudeness on the rude cake.

I'm confused...you said why should OP get a whole extra chicken just for him, and I said that the OP's Dsis has not asked for that. I don't know what you mean about playing with semantics or unsustainable point.