Re Potato Wedges and DH - he has agreed to abide by MN decision (trivial)

[MsGee]

So MN jury its up to you - DH has agreed that whatever you decide, he will stick with...

Last night we were discussing what to have for tea tonight - agreed quiche and salad. He eats half of a family size quiche.

He thinks this is insufficient (with salad - bog standard so I don't drip feed, lettuce, tomato and cucumber), so I am doing potato wedges with it.

The wedges are big. He wants FIVE. I told him this was pure gluttony and three would be sufficient. He thinks I'm being silly.

[Oblomov]

Quiche can be eaten as a snack.
I don't like pork pies, garlic sausage, frankfurters, or quiche. But they are almost permanently in the fridge. And are consumed with gusto, by dh, and the ds's. as a snack. mid monring snack.
I like brie, camembert and stilton. No one else does. But it is often in my fridge.

[MsGee]

Maryz I am the same. I am so jealous of what your DS1 has eaten already.

I have had fruit, cereal and yoghurt. And not even the nice bits of cereal - just the dusty bits that no-one else wants.

And I had to stop myself having toast. With lots of butter.

DH has also gotten better looking as he has aged. Even his grey bits of hair look nice.

I have just sagged, gone flabby and grey.

[MsGee]

Oblomov now I want cheese.

Brie and warm crusty bread

[flowery]

No way could I eat quiche as a snack. Quiche is a dinner/lunch for me, way too much for a snack, and certainly not worth buying just for me, especially once you factor in the faff of cooking it.

[gotthemoononastick]

my washing is all creasy now from languishing for too long in the machine due to reading here! DH says quiche is woman's food as well and suggests steak egg and 10 wedges!!

[MumnGran]

So how many wedges is DH getting for tea then?

...well, considerably more than 3, if he is anything like my family (we are all slim type body builds).
A quick mid-week cold salad meal (be it quiche, cold meats, or whatever) would usually include green salad (as you suggested but probably also with spring onions, sliced pepper and celery) plus possibly beetroot, plus a generous helping of potato salad - or a jacket potato + coleslaw. Rustic bread if I happen to have been near a bakery on the day.... but that is an indulgence
Substituting wedges as the carbs? .....I would say a large handful.

Not comparing you to his mother at all in saying that my MIL spent her entire adult life on a diet of one kind or another ..... and that became her 'normality' for meal sizing. We used to eat before going there for a meal !!

[mrsjay]

no see as we are on about quiche when is a quiche a flan My nana used to call quiche flan , just thought id throw that in

[tabulahrasa]

3 wedges? 3? I mean...3?

Don't wedges get counted in handfuls? one for a smallish child, two for an adult, three for a teenage boy...

[mrsjay]

DH says quiche is woman's food as well and suggests steak egg and 10 wedges!!

[quoteunquote]

And he won't cook

He will, he just needs the right incentives.

You do not expect to be in an adult relationship, and opt out of creating tasty meals.(It is 2013, just in case he hasn't realised)

Tell him to man up stop being lazy, look up a recipe, youtube will take him through anything, and get cooking.

[ALovelyBunchOfCoconuts]

I haven't read all the thread but quiche and a salad really wouldn't be enough for a main meal in my house. I would expect to be served some sort of side dish (jacket potato/chips/wedges etc)

And 5 wedges certainly doesn't sound much. Let the poor bloke eat what he wants!

[WallaceWindsock]

This thread reminds me of the 'anality of PILs' one in classics. Counting out an exact number of wedges for each person - madness. I would chuck half a bag in the oven for me and DP. DP is very thin, bordering on being too thin. He doesn't have fat, just muscle as does sports, karate etc. He eats loads. I always slightly overdo the amount I cook to be sure he gets enough to eat. If I gave him 3 or even 5 wedges he'd laugh and ask where the other half of his dinner was, eat pudding and still snack after dinner. The only time I've known him to be really full after a meal is at a Chinese buffet when he's had 3 plates full of food.

Maybe try doing loads of extra food and see how much he choses to eat. You might be surprised.

[Badgerwife]

If I just did quiche and salad for dinner, my DH would probably stuff himself with bread afterwards to make up for it; I'd give him as many wedges as he wants, he is not a child that you should tell him how hungry he is.

[plainjaney]

Slightly OT but there is an amazing recipe for wedges in 'The Takeaway Secret' book...

2 Potatoes
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1/2 Tablespoon Plain Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Onion Poweder
Pinch Salt
Pinch Black Pepper

Preheat oven to Gas Mark 7, wash and dry potatoes. Cut Potatoes in wedges then put in a bowl and add all the above ingredients.
Toss them round until covered then bake, middle shelf 30 minutes on a greased baking tray turning occasionally.
You can also add stuff like chilli flakes etc to spice them up a bit.

They are bloody lovely

[BrianButterfield]

I would eat more than 3 of those wedges while dishing up! (Cook's perk).

[MsGee]

Ok -he is eating the whole fecking bag of wedges now

quote DH is not at all lazy, he does all the cleaning in the house, does his fair share of everything else. He does the cleaning, I sort out food. If he were in charge it would be a ready meal or cereal every night - and he would be happy with that. He is like DD, he will eat the same meal every night if its easier. Food is just fuel to them 90% of the time.

I honestly do not restrict his food - this is the first time that this has come up. probably

MIL is also always on a diet and has food issues. Her best comment was that sometimes she just licks the wrapper of FIL food and that is sufficient for her We don't have a lot in common ...

[WallaceWindsock]

Yes see thinking about this more the only time we have quiche it would be with green salad, potato salad, cold sliced meats, crusty bread, scotch eggs and cheeses. That'd be a normal amount of food for two adults and a toddler. Neither of us are overweight. We are quite active but I would be starving and end up snacking unhealthily if I ate less than that and then probably would put on weight.

[mrsjay]

I didnt think wedges needed a recipe cut tatties into chunks throw in some oil a bit of a mix and bung in oven is my recipe -or by macains--

[plainjaney]

I didn't think they did either mrsjay but the addition of garlic and onion powders, which a lot of people wont think to add makes a huge difference.

[FruitSaladIsNotPudding]

Wow, I'd eat at least 10 and I'm short, and a healthy weight. Although I do want to be thinner - perhaps I need to examine my portion sizes!

[mrsjay]

I might try it Janey I do love a wedge

[lockie1983]

I'm just wondering ... do you cook the quiche? My mind is boggling at the idea of putting the oven on for 5 wedges ...

I am loving this thread for a bit of mid-morning work distraction. A bag of frozen wedges lasts for the most two meals around here - as a side. (2 + a little one).

Homemade are much nicer, bigger and generally actually taste like something. Have to make about a billion of those though and fight them off the pan or they'd all be eaten before they got to the table.

[plainjaney]

I think I've just done a complete about turn with what OH is having tonight now because I'm craving a wedge myself now.....

[LiegeAndLief]

I am gobsmacked by the fact that you are deciding how many potato wedges to eat. Tonight. At 10 in the morning.

My grandparents used to insist you decided exactly how many slices of brea you wanted for breakfast the night before. But they never made me decide how many potatoes I was going to eat eight hours in advance.

Oh, and if I put 5 potato wedges on dh's plate he would get the rest of the packet and put it in the oven himself. Dd is 3 and she might get three, but even then I'd probably be feeling a bit stingy.

[Oblomov]

Flowery! What about one of those tiny, individual ones, made in a deli, home made, hot , cheesy, oniony, bacony.......... yum-yum-yum
OMG, goes off drooooling.
How can you deny yourself