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

I hate food being plated up for me. Why do people need everything on offer being dumped on a plate even if they don't like it? What is the point? Sure I get the meat aspect of it if it's been carved but the veg and trimmings it just wasteful.

I've never had someone bring their own meal, but that sounds like a PITA because they would have to muscle in on the kitchen to cook it. JUST what you need when hosting - a fucking randomer in your space trying to cook alongside you and not knowing where anything is! And to bring their own meat, they'd have to live relatively close to avoid the meat going bad.

People who have weird diets should eat before they get there or after they leave. Or bring something that doesn't involve a kitchen, like protein bars.

There are lots of dietary requirements these days - which honestly, makes me think it's better to eat out.

Have you actually met him before given they have just got engaged? Did you not know this before?

Exactly! Because the cost is prohibitive. He should know how much meat costs and bring a contribution himself.

Hm...how does 'eat what you're given and say THANK YOU' sound?

So rude!

You mean his weekly shit. I bet he blocks the toilet with his decomposing depth chargers and has chalfonts like pulsating snooker balls

Can't help wondering if this is SIS talking & he might actually be a normal person?

OP, you must make the most delectable pudding/s,carb heavy of course. Thinking apple pie,the aroma of spices as you take it out of the oven or a decadent trifle.
Gym bunny can chow down artfully arranged plate of melon.

And yours smells of cabbage of course.

What do you mean by lifestyle reasons? I have no diagnosed gluten allergy but if I eat it I have stomach pain, diarrhoea and I ache all over and feel ill for a week, so I choose to avoid it. That’s not the same as choosing to eat nothing but expensive meat for vanity reasons.

He'd rather like to eat a whole chicken but his contribution is an avocado?😂

Sounds a great chap!

Late to the thread but sorry… this is going to be gross…all I keep thinking (as a lifelong veggie) is God, I bet his morning shit absolutely stinks.

Now I want to see this BF. I don't suppose you would post a pic on Sunday?
I'm hoping he looks like Desperate Dan, but he used to eat cow pie, whereas this guy would just have neat cow.

Please please @Mondaytuesdayhappydays report back on what receptacles he brings the sliced avocado and the homemade mayo in. I really want to know.

That’s just rude. You don’t accept lunch at someone’s house and then dictate how much of their food you want to eat. Why should you have to pay extra just because of the way he eats.

Thanks for explaining.

Pretty much just means cutting calories, carbs, and fat from your diet to reduce body fat after a bulk (gaining weight - the aim is to build muscle rather than fat which demands an excess of calories, but some fat gain is inevitable, hence the cut after the bulk)

Pork would be a no-no during a cut and limited during a bulk because of the high fat content, so he is not cutting or bulking, and if he is, he is doing it wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/bulking_and_cutting

No she doesn't, the BF sounds like a selfish, greedy, self centered pig with an exercise and muscle-building fetish. I certainly wouldn't be pandering to this sort of nonsense and I also wouldn't be allowing him anywhere near my toilet either! He sounds deeply unattractive on every level. And OPs sister is a king sized CF for even suggesting that OP caters to the BF's disgusting dietary demands.

It just means being in a calorie deficit to lose body fat. Bodybuilders go through cycles of bulking (eating in a calorie surplus to gain muscle mass) and then cutting to drop body fat to expose the muscle, sometimes in preparation for a show.

This thread has reminded me of Japanese gay dating show I watched on Netflix last year where the guys all moved into a house share for the duration. One of the guys was an enormous, v muscular Chippendales-type dancer who ate masses of meat. They had a fixed budget for food and everyone else had to go without to sustain his lean protein requirements.

There’s nothing stopping your DN’s bloke bringing extra chicken in a tupperware box and supplementing his dinner. The cost of living is making hosting more challenging. When people make expensive lifestyle choices they can’t expect other people go foot the bill.

Okay, I might have missed it but I have to ask what "on a cut" means. Never heard of it, looked it up and couldn't see an explanation, but people are posting as if everyone would be familiar with it.

I have a feeling the bf probably did say he’d bring his own food (hence why he’s coming with his own avocado and mayo) but OP’s sister jumped in and told him not to worry about the meat and OP will provide it (in a bid to try and make him feel more welcome) and that’s why she’s in a tizzy now.

A whole lot of fuss over nothing. He arrives, gets served a reasonable portion of meat (so the same as everyone else) and if he decides not to have any veg then fine. He can eat another meal when he gets home if he’s still hungry. He’s hardly going to expire at the table if he doesn’t hit a particular protein target.

You are being very accommodating op. More so than I would be.