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

Don't make a big deal out of it. Most important is you all have a nice time together. Sounds a nice occasion with your family and you wont be eating together all the time.

Gym boy wouldn't eat sausage if his diet is chicken, avocado and homemade mayo. Think about what's in a sausage.

Not everything because she understands (ish, from a very privileged bubble) costs but she would love it to be. About 80% organic.

a lot of people have mentioned stinky farts and sore bowels on this thread. Dd doesn’t get either of those.

that’s why it’s so hard to argue against, she’s thriving.

I dated a few gym bros and they would only eat the white breast meat. There was no way they would eat the (what they called greasy) thighs and wings😬

I hope it all goes well for you OP and he's a decent lad. Your menu sounds lush!😋

This. He can surely have extra meat and his fucking avocado before or after someone has generously hosted him. Rude fucker. Does he need the comfiest chair too? Can't believe people pander to this bullshit.

i might roll my eyes but if we are hosting we try to accommodate everyone, especially on a special occasion, I’d buy a packet of sausages and cook them around the chicken. It’s not a big deal and won’t take extra time or effort and others might enjoy chicken and sausages too.

I don’t get the honey on carrots or parsnips. Surely these veg are sweet already? This is coming from a sweet toothed person 😂

And I would so come for lunch at yours and eat all of the things. :-)

It may only cost a tenner but presumably OP has already spent quite a lot of money considering she's catering to 11 people.

The wedding breakfast should be interesting.

Presumably he's an adult with manners. He can eat only meat if he wishes but he takes the same amount of meat as every other adult and, if he's still hungry, he either eats the trimmings or eats more meat when he gets home.
I went on a date once with a man who sat at a table with a black coffee for the entire date ( it was lunchtime) and refused any food. He was 'shredding' to get down to 12% body fat because he liked the look. He talked about it for the entire date. There wasn't a second date.

Hmm, I used to train at a gym where the Paleo ethic was quite strong, big lads who played rugby, etc. I even tried it for a while, still fat as fk.

They were still keen on all the veg. This just sounds more disordered eating.

Amen! Some of the replies are bonkers.

If I was meeting my partner’s family for the first time over a roast dictating what I’m eating purely because ‘I’m on a cut’ would be the furthest thing from my mind. So rude! Unless a veggie/vegan or with allergies/celiac etc I’d eat what I was given (to an extent) or meet them another time if my diet was so strict.

Mumsnet is full of the ‘I’m a cool mum ‘ brigade. Mugs!

Can you let us know this goes? I’ve been gone to the gym for 20 years so I know many many lads/men who have gone through this sort of phase or trained for a competition. but never any that we want to whole chicken, avocado, and home-made mayonnaise.

Most of them would just suck it up and eat some chicken and veg and then go home and eat whatever they want. This is quite bizarre.

if you’re on a strict diet or training for a competition, most people I know just bring their own box of food.

Unless he’s only about 19 so it doesn’t understand that he’s being a bit rude. Very interested to hear how this goes down…

OP loves a heaving table

How ridiculous. I'd say he'll eat what he's given or bloody starve. Meat is expensive.

Darling... It'll cost you a tenner max to buy some extra meat for this guy.

I wouldn't think about it twice, easy problem, easy solution. I don't understand how that's become 'a thing'.

YOU read the posts. The problem is a potentially VERY unreasonable guest.
Plenty of food for everyone

I think I've heard everything now. Seriously. So a dude rocking up at the house of people he have never met, and scoffing a WHOLE chicken to himself with nothing on the side (and requesting this prior) - that's A-ok and absofuckinglutely normal. But if OP finds this weird - now that's extremely rude.

Can I come to your house? I eat only Kobe beef and drink only Macallan 1926. Bollinger would do at a push, if you're poor.

How about fucking eat what you're given (within reason, illness/allergies excluded) or (now there's a revelation!) don't come at all? I mean, it's entitled to the absolute extreme, being invited to dinner to your girlfriends' relatives' whom you've never even met, and dictate what you'll be piling your plate up with.

Although I suspect it comes from the sister. Something tells me he'd adapt and wouldn't just straight away take the whole chicken for himself. If he's at least a halfway normal person.

This thread has two main tenets of MN lore: the everlasting chicken and the six foot strapping rugby playing son/son in law.

All we need is for someone at the lunch to have a massive salad and someone else to block the OPs drive and we have a full set.

Blimey
Calm down dear lol