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Dinner Ideas for Picky Partner!?

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CupcakeCafe123 · 07/08/2019 11:06

Hello!!

Apologies if this is an overdone topic. My first question on Mumsnet! I was just wondering if anyone has any dinner ideas for a picky partner. I've tried looking online for ideas but I'm struggling to come up with ideas!

He doesn't like many vegetables other than cucumber, parsnips, carrots and peas.
He doesn't eat any curries
He can't have spicy foods because of his tummy
He doesn't eat salads
He wants meat in every meal - if I make a vegetable version of a dish he prefers it with meat

Our normal dinners usually rotate between these things that I cook:

  • Chicken Pie
  • Salmon and Mash
  • Sausage and Mash
  • Fajitas
  • Pasta Bake
  • Roast Chicken

If I don't cook he normally has chicken nuggets, dinosaurs, chips, pizza, frozen pie, smiley faces, fish fingers... But when I eat I have to substitute wheat based items for Gluten Free (Coeliac Disease :( ) and I am getting quite bored of making the same thing every week!

I'm just looking for inspiration of what sorts of things to have for a picky eater and someone who doesn't want just beige food! (You wouldn't believe he's nearly 30)

Thank you so much! xx

OP posts:
WooMaWang · 07/08/2019 16:58

Where do you get GF dinosaurs?

I agree that I’d be leaving him to his own devices and cooking myself what I wanted to eat.

I’d find ways to improve the diet of a picky coeliac child (I do, for two of the buggers). But not for a partner.

Bluesheep8 · 07/08/2019 17:00

Sorry but smiley faces and chicken nuggets? Seriously? Does he behave like an adult in other respects? Could you "hide" vegetables in tomato pasta sauce like parents have to do for picky children?

KatherineJaneway · 07/08/2019 17:00

Does he cut the crusts off his sandwiches?

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WooMaWang · 07/08/2019 17:07

Tbf, gluten free bread is crap. I’m not sure I could bring myself to tackle the crusts on GF sandwiches.

user1493494961 · 07/08/2019 17:29

Make your own meals and leave him to sort himself out. If he eats chicken nuggets and chips for every meal, that's up to him.

CakeNinja · 07/08/2019 17:34

chicken nuggets, dinosaurs, chips, pizza, frozen pie, smiley faces, fish fingers...
My god I don’t even feed this kind of lazy crap to my kids Shock
Gobsmacked that a supposed adult eats it.
Bloody hell, worry about yourself and leave him to continue with his freezer to oven meals. How depressing Confused

Kanga83 · 07/08/2019 17:39

It's not ridiculous at all. Sensory issues can be at any age and long lasting without any other issues. My eldest is one of them. Has he ever been seen by speech and language to determine if he has a heightened gag reflex/sensory processing disorder (not autism before anyone assumes that's what I'm alluding too). What is it about food he doesn't like? Is it taste, texture, taught habits? Has he always been like this or was there a trigger?

Sarahlou63 · 07/08/2019 17:45

He doesn't eat any curries
He can't have spicy foods because of his tummy
He doesn't eat salads
He wants meat in every meal - if I make a vegetable version of a dish he prefers it with meat

You could be describing me - although I do like vegetables!

I cook chicken in a camembert & white wine cream sauce, salmon en croute (make my own puff pastry!), carbonara and ravioli with home made pasta, cauliflower and bacon gratin, bubble 'n' squeak, homemade pizzas, pulled pork with smoked paprika, stews, ham, cheese and spinach pancakes. Any of those possible?

OtraCosaMariposa · 07/08/2019 17:46

Get another partner.

Seriously, is there anything less attractive than a man who won't eat a whole long list of things and would happily eat dinosaur nugget things?

thesnapandfartisinfallible · 07/08/2019 17:49

Cook what you want and he either eats it or cooks his own. He's nearly 30 for God's sake, what are you, his mother?

NewAccount270219 · 07/08/2019 17:54

I honestly don't know you could manage to find a grown man doing such a spot-on impression of a toddler sexually attractive

TooMinty · 07/08/2019 17:58

Picky partner=he does the cooking

CCquavers · 07/08/2019 18:01

I think your dietary needs are more important than his. This reminds me of my DH telling me that his brother would demand and get chips with every meal - not chuck in the oven ones but potato's peeled and fried. Roast dinner and chips, spag bol and chips etc.

I would choose meals you like and then get an oven tray for DH and put his food on that. Seriously it is not your job to insist he eats veg or non beige food.

crochetandshit · 07/08/2019 18:08

He sounds sexy.

littledinosaurs · 07/08/2019 18:33

Oof @Sarahlou63 my whole mouth just filled with saliva.

OP - I thought my DH was fussy but he's not as bad as this! I think you owe him one conversation about why he eats so unhealthily and would be be open to trying some healthier things that you cook. My DH's tastes have changed a lot. But one conversation! No more. And you owe it to yourself to eat better even if he doesn't. Xx

MustardScreams · 07/08/2019 18:37

Good lord. This is a sad existence where you have a child for a partner.

Why doesn’t he cook??

My 2 year old is easier than this Confused

FinallyHere · 07/08/2019 18:40

I don’t pander really, just low on some ideas

Have a think for a moment, are you sure about that?

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