It is going to be a long rant.. It is only one of our problems but at the moment is very annoying. DH, I would say, has a very poor taste in food - he only likes some of his ethnical food, which is basically rice & meat all the time!!! Meat can only be chicken, lamb or goat (he does not like pork or beef), and can only be cooked in two ways - either stew with tomatoes and onions, or roasted in oven. Occasionally he would eat beans (but only cooked with tomatoes and onions) or fish (but only if roasted). He does not like potatoes, pasta, veggies, pies, casseroles, cheese... nothing that normal human being would eat! There can be three meals at home but if it is not rice & meat, he would cook for himself.
Before we had a child, I used to adjust to his taste and more or less cook what he likes, and then cook for myself occasionaly what I like. Then DS came along, and when DS started eaten normal foods, I came back to my tastes, because is much more variety, because a child needs variety and a child does not need meet 7 times in a week. So nowadays I only cook for myself and DS, we enjoy our food, eat different things, and I am not bothered anymore that DH has to cook for himself because he wouldn't eat my food. I used to offer my food to him or try to convince to eat something which is already cooked but nope! He wouldn't!
As a reason of that we mostly eat separately, because we cook separately and I want DS to eat no later than 7pm, and he usually cooks and eats later.
Last night I got so angry with him because we argued about other things and he moaned how much he is suffering because his wife does not cook for him, how he is a poor miserable thing because of that. I felt weird and angry :( Although I cannot change his taste, but I think DH is being narrow minded and unreasonable, and does not make a single effort like, for example, to eat my food at least once in a week.
It wouldn't much harm for me if I cooked his dish once or twice in a week, I have cooked for him every day in the past, but to be honest I am annoyed that he is the "picky" one and he dares to complain. (This is without mentioning that I am 36 weeks pregnant and already do most things in the house, and am a breadwinner in the family).
It is very sad that because of that, we can't share a joy of having a meal together, our DS doesn't see a good example of parents eating separately, and I cannot think of how much DH is loosing joy in life of being such narrowminded, not to mention selfish to complain that I don't cook for him.
Just wanted to moan, really..