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to consider a fussy diet as a big against for a potential new love

302 replies

glitternanny · 06/09/2013 21:56

and I mean seriously restricted 2:

Proteins, one carbohydrate and the same lunch everyday.

OP posts:
CharityFunDay · 06/09/2013 21:58

What's the reason for her/her particularness?

YmightBbeingU

CharityFunDay · 06/09/2013 21:58

*his/her, obv

FetchezLaVache · 06/09/2013 22:00

Go on, provide details! Is it a meat-and-potatoes diet? What's the one lunch?

Tbh, I think YANBU- I love my food, dislike almost nothing and I think it would grate if lots of restaurants were off the cards because of trying to accommodate an unadventurous eater. Let alone trying to cook for one.

lagertops · 06/09/2013 22:01

My man's diet consists of all day breakfasts and macaroni.

Run.

SaucyJack · 06/09/2013 22:02

It would put me off.

I want a man I can have adventures and fight the world with.

Not one who sits there crying because the peas are touching the carrots.

DameFanny · 06/09/2013 22:03

I'd swerve that just for the sake of not having to share a loo with someone on such a stinky diet...

Mintyy · 06/09/2013 22:03

Need a few more details but generally speaking it would put me off enormously!

It just seems so horribly immature ...

mawbroon · 06/09/2013 22:03

Hmm, depends.

expatinscotland · 06/09/2013 22:04

Swerve.

Jessicarthorse · 06/09/2013 22:04

YANBU. Fussy eaters bore me rigid.

Alconleigh · 06/09/2013 22:04

I'm with SaucyJack (-what a fabulous thing to type!); people who are frightened of food are frightened of life.

absentmindeddooooodles · 06/09/2013 22:05

Id have to run away. Im a real foodie and a reluctance to even try anything new would be a huge no no.

ENormaSnob · 06/09/2013 22:05

Yanbu

JollyGolightly · 06/09/2013 22:05

This would drive me absolutely round the bend. I once had a boyfriend who did not like dry white wine or spicy food, and that was bad enough.

MrsFionaCharming · 06/09/2013 22:05

I dated a very fussy eater. She was amazing in many ways, but the fact we couldn't share meals drove me nuts. I couldn't face eating plain pasta all the time! I also found it pretty embarrassing going out with her, or eating with other family and friends because it seemed to come across rudely...

Gretagumbo · 06/09/2013 22:08

Meh probably an obsessional control freak. Mate dated one like this and he spent mealtimes criticising her choice & weight. Run.

wannabestressfree · 06/09/2013 22:09

My dp constantly avoids carbs. He lives on salads and looks at me over a raised eyebrow as I trough my chips (I have to eat very white, carb heavy, stodgy foods....
In fact we are the jack spratt and his wife of the carb world.....

NettoSuperstar · 06/09/2013 22:10

My last BF was a very fussy eater, it didn't bother me but that was because it was a LDR and we didn't live together.
We're not together anymore, but he is so much better with food now anyway, and will try anything. (We're great friends)
Food is everything to me, I love to cook and eat, the more unusual the better, so yes, it would be a deal breaker for me.

NoelHeadbands · 06/09/2013 22:10

I want a man I can have adventures and fight the world with.

Not one who sits there crying because the peas are touching the carrots.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Grin

pictish · 06/09/2013 22:10

Yanbu. Iy wouldn't bother some people, but is one of those things that would put me off.

OnTheBottomWithAWomensWeekly · 06/09/2013 22:10

not be the wild, spontaneous type, is he?

NoelHeadbands · 06/09/2013 22:13

I agree, total turn off.

I used to occasionally fantasise about a friends DH, until she described one day how he'd pick every bit of onion out of a spag bol. l

BestestBrownies · 06/09/2013 22:14

Get rid. Life is too short

CharityFunDay · 06/09/2013 22:17

It's the OP's very specific food-group description that makes me think she MBU.

Is the partner a health-freak of some sort? (Apols if that sounds dismissive, but I know when I've been on a health kick in the dim and distant past I have adopted some quite strict diets).

If so, surely they are entitled to look after themselves in a way they see fit?

Jessicarthorse · 06/09/2013 22:19

I met a new friend for lunch once. She sat and picked all of the cherry tomatoes and olives out of her salad and piled them on her side plate. Friendship withered away, right there.