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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To be pissed off that DH has stopped eating anything with egg in it

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:01

BUT only if it has been cooked by me?

It's a new fad he's started, apparently he finds eggs disgusting now, after more than 35 years of eating it. So he doesn't eat anything with it - cakes, pancakes, anything crumb-fried and so on. Fair enough. But he will eat it at shops/restaurants/other people's houses. Makes me feel reallly annoyed, because it feels like a personal insult. The cakes I make at home he will not touch but he'll slather over and praise excessively anything someone else has made. His excuse is that he knows I'm using eggs (and sometimes sees it, smells it) whereas he doesn't know it with anything made outside the house .

I'm really pissed off and thinking of finding something that I partake in only if someone other than him is doing it. No not really, I can't be bothered with that. But AIBU to be upset?

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blackeyedsusan · 23/04/2011 23:04

buy egg replacer from the health food shop and make cakes/pancakes and see if he turns his nose up at them... then show hinm the packet

worraliberty · 23/04/2011 23:04

I think you should stay awake tonight, wait til he's fast asleep and then egg him repeatedly.

Or dress as an Evil Easter Bunny and twat him when he screams.

Meow75 · 23/04/2011 23:04

No. This sounds ridiculous. Is he trying to pay you back for something? If so, he's using the methods that a 6 year old would use.

BeerTricksPotter · 23/04/2011 23:06

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SweetDCofMine · 23/04/2011 23:06

what a tosser

AgentZigzag · 23/04/2011 23:06

Very strange.

Is there something that's made him be like that?

Or does he not fancy your cooking but doesn't have the heart to say?

If that's the reason I can think of worse ways of him telling you.

Sparkletastic · 23/04/2011 23:10

If he's going to develop extreme food control issues then he needs to better educate himself about nutrition and ingredients - 99% of cakes will have eggs as a constituent part. It does sound like he's taking his 'anxieties' out on you and they are not completely genuine as he is being so inconsistent

TragicallyHip · 23/04/2011 23:12

worraliberty speaks sense!!

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:12

No eating disorders or any issues with food that I know of.

And he likes my food, always says so and that's the impression I get from the quantity he manages to put away .

I'm wondering if it's a form of control. It certainly hurts.

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:13

at Worral.

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Piggles · 23/04/2011 23:14

Twattish and weird. If it was just a blanket thing - no eggs, then fine, fair enough. But refusing eggy stuff only as cooked by you is just so darn rude.

I think I'd start including eggs in everything I made just so he has to go and find his own food every time.

worraliberty · 23/04/2011 23:14

OMG can you just all stop posting for a second so I can print and enlarge TragicallyHip's post?

Seriously though, perhaps he's just developed a really strange phobia?

PumpkinBones · 23/04/2011 23:15

Are you changing the meals you cook in order to accomodate this fad?

AgentZigzag · 23/04/2011 23:16

What does he say put him off after 35 years Clockwork?

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:16

A phobia of my cooking anything with egg in it? Is there a name for that?

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MCos · 23/04/2011 23:17

My DH stopped eating meat. In anybody's house. Now, that is something major to work around. Sometimes I do, and we all eat the same meal. More times I don't, and he has to fix something for himself or work around what we have. AND, he doesn't like eggs either!

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:18

No I haven't changed anything. If he doesn't like it he doesn't eat it and makes his own arrangements.

Zig he says he just finds the look and smell of eggs disgusting. I think he woke up one fine day and decided that.

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Casmama · 23/04/2011 23:18

I think I would be tempted to ask him to take over the cooking or just make every meal or every second with eggs in it and tell him if he doesn't want it he doesn't have to eat it. I would also tell him every time he goes to eat something outside the house that there are bound to be eggs in it. However, i am a bitch.

GreenEyesandHam · 23/04/2011 23:18

What a twat!

Phobia my arse

BeerTricksPotter · 23/04/2011 23:19

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ClockworkMouse · 23/04/2011 23:19

MCos at least he's consistent. It wouldn't feel like a slight to you :(.

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EllieG · 23/04/2011 23:20

worraliberty - just read your post and it made me snort my tea up my nose

worraliberty · 23/04/2011 23:20

A phobia of my cooking anything with egg in it? Is there a name for that?

Yeah it's known as going hungry!!

It does sound odd but it seems as though the 'not seeing the egg going in' or 'not seeing the empty shells' is what makes him manage to eat it outside the home.

Inside the home, it's a bit like he's got a weird raw egg phobia

I want you to think hard about my next question....

Has he ever shagged Edwina Curry?

PumpkinBones · 23/04/2011 23:21

I was just thinking if it was a control thing, he would be making you cook different things / dictating family meals, etc, but as he's not, that's even odder.

Perhaps, as he is acting like a child, you respond accordingly - ignore and distract, don't engage in conversations about it, or in anyway encourage him to talk about it - if he makes himself another meal, just carry on as normal, and make no comment - and perhaps he will get bored with the whole thing!

AgentZigzag · 23/04/2011 23:22

Spousalovophobia?

Apparently Alfred Hitchcock had an egg phobia.

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