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.

LeGavrOrf

From one biggish organic chicken I get oast chicken for 3 of us. I then strip every inch of meat off. Put carcass in a bag in the freezer. Leftovers make a chicken 'pie' for 2 - chicken with lots of veg, stir in some flour and milk to make a sauce, stir in cooked pasta, top with bread crumbs, oven and eat. Then I make a chicken curry or stew with the rest of the leftovers. There's usually enough for a sandwich for me at some point. Then I make soup from the carcass.

I grant you that's only 5 meals but it's something like 12 portions (including the soup). The trick is spending more on an organic chicken - you do get more for your money because there's no water. And loads of veg to bulk out the other meals.

I think my mother has been brought back to life!

Her portion size was legendary in its' stinginess..

She thought everyone was greedy because they wanted more, we were just actually starving after eating her meals.

She would give my dad 3 fishfingers, one slice of thinly cut bread, a spoonful of peas, and a handful of chips.. after he had done a days work, and then wonder why he was stuffing himself with crumpets and toast an hour later..

Kotinka thanks - I find it frustrating but she actually eats well within her limited diet (and at home!) so I don't really want to rock the boat.

She is a very, very stubborn child who needs little sleep and has boundless energy. But is very particular about what she eats, what she wears and her general comfort zones. Think a tiny Mrs Thatcher. But tougher

I'm like oblo my visitors can barely get out the door after I feed them. I love cooking tho with work I do keep pot noodles for the boy if he's peckish while I'm at work he can and does cook but he doesn't like to spend too much time away from laptop

My ex was a real fussy eater and survived mostly on muesli. He put on 3 stone while we were going out and expanded his diet (even to oysters) which made him look well and strong (not fat) as opposed to skinny adolescent.

Nope kotinka, and when you've paid £12 for a farm shop chicken you really do need it to go a long way . I know, it's a ridiculous amount of money but I'm very fussy about the chickens!

Read most of the thread and had a nosey at the wedges and the quiche another one steadfastly ignoring RL and the huge ironing pile
Three of those wedges? THREE?! No wonder the poor sod wants more than that, give him a plateful!
--could easily inhale three of those and still have room for piles more in this house, they're not exactly huge - I was expecting Monster Sized wedges or something!

I think quiche and salad is insufficient and I am a fairly small woman never mind a hulking great man! Let him have 5 wedeges.

had to laugh at the thought of DH as a hulking great man I weigh more than him

Kansas thank you - its a nightmare isn't it. DD is very suspicious of pasta sauces now because I hid too much veg in one. She can find a grain of carrot... I got her to eat a tomato pasta sauce with fresh herbs in at a restaurant on friday but she had her eyes closed and hands over her ears and gagged a lot. I am not convinced it was worth it. We get dairy in through hot chocolate made with milk (also good for hiding the vitamin drops) and she knows she HAS to eat a piece of cheese or yoghurt every day. I caught her out last week after she pretended to eat her yoghurt at school but threw it away so today is cheese. I am dreading her coming home and having not eaten it and having that battle.

DH tucks away an impressive amount of food. When we first started living together I followed his lead (breakfast + 2 main meals a day) but quickly put on weight despite going to the gym almost daily.

Now we've settled into a good rhythm. We both eat main meals at lunchtime at work then in the evening he eats a ready meal (plus extra pasta as it's never enough) and I eat soup/sandwich/whatever.

At the weekend, he has a ready meal (again with pasta) at lunchtime and we eat a main meal in the evening together (home made).

DH also hated cooking but would happily eat ready meals/the same thing again and again. It only changed when I was pregnant then knackered with a newborn and he had to provide food for both of us and I refused his readymeals . He now cooks a fairly wide range of meals and voluntarily!

However we are both anticipating a problem. We currently polish off a family-sized meal (according to recipe for 4 or 6 people) in one sitting - mainly due to DH. But DS will soon be eating with us and already DH is telling me we will need to cook bigger meals whereas I suggested he start having starters and/or puddings instead (especially when it's a meal like fishpie or shepherds pie where the pie dish is already full to the brim!!!)

As for a fussy eater - I was very fussy as a child. With all food - so I didn't like pizza, burgers, crisps, ice cream, puddings, sweets as well as your usual fruit/veg.

Also, I just didn't feel hungry most of the time so you couldn't bribe me with pudding (especially as I didn't like pudding!). This was also why I didn't eat much - as I wasn't hungry, I couldn't see the point in eating something I didn't love.

The best thing my parents did was not make a fuss. I ate a lot of sausage and mash, fish fingers and mash and baked beans but gradually got better and now eat a wide range of fruit, veg, can eat out no problem as well as at friends' without embarassing myself.

As an adult he can choose how many wedges he wants so just give them to him.

Nicolaeus that is very reassuring, particularly that it was good your parents didn't push it.

DD doesn't like pudding either so no bribing her. Hates sweets too (too fruity!).

I am trying to get us all to eat variations of a meal. So if we have pasta, pesto, tomatoes and olives -she has the pasta but with something else (no idea how she can eat dry pasta!), last night she had fish cakes with spaghetti hoops...

Ha ha! DD hides from bananas, OJ and yoghurt (apart from the one brand and flavour she will eat).

She eats biscuits and chocolate. Just not sweets or puddings.

Wedges are awful. Skinny chips or nowt.

Yeah, I generally ate the same as my parents at the weekend (roast dinner plus one other "adulty" meal like casserole, steak & chips, fish pie, chicken pie etc.) but in the week me and my brother ate "children" meals (see above - sausages and mash!) and my parents ate "adult" meals.

Sometimes my mum would try to have us all eating the same, eg. spag bol but after a few days of those meals she and my dad were craving vegetables so would have, say a stir fry with the leftover roast meat whilst we ate....leftover meat and mash (can you see a recurring theme?! )

I think the only saving grace in my mum's eyes was that I ate a decent breakfast (milk + a mix of cereal : shreddies, bran, cornflakes, rice krispies). I never ate yoghurt or drank milk.

Oh and bananas were literally the one fruit I ate

DB was an appallingly fussy eater as a child.

Now he is the one "sourcing" breed-specific black pudding and tsking that the supermarket doesn't stock samphire.

Five and think yourself lucky your dh will eat quiche

Have just seen the frozen wedges they aren't big I thought you meant real wedges.
< goes away to ponder why you would ever need to use frozen wedges>

The pastry in a quiche is probably less healthy and less filling than potato wedges. Will your DH eat frittata? If so, then he could have more wedges!

Frittata based on trad quiche (serves 6 - leftovers are good cold):
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/679639/quiche-lorraine-frittata?beta=1&utm_expid=13353178-7&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbcgoodfood.com%2Fsearch.do%3Fkeywords%3Dfrittata

Frittata with lots of veg (even more filling and nutritious):
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/420652/easy-cheesy-frittata?beta=1&utm_expid=13353178-7&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbcgoodfood.com%2Fsearch.do%3Fkeywords%3Dfrittata%26pager.offset%3D10

When kids friends come, I go to the freezer, wack out a bag of wedges, pizza or two and chicken tenders. Throw in a Aldi bottle of ketchup and away they go, I would never starve other peoples kids. The sheer delight is something to behold.

Let's face it, it's quantity, not quality I'm talking!

Sorry - did not know you were talking about frozen wedges.

in previous post, I was talking about DIY ones - they can be cooked in the oven at same time as frittata. But as earlier poster said, baked pots even healthier, more filling, and simpler.