To Judge The Daylights Out Of DP?

[queeneileen]

I'm judging his food tastes. He's judging mine.

We had salad for tea last week (I'm eating salad now and it's reminded me) and I think salad is great for all the nibbly bits you add on: tomatoes, onions, pickled onions, sweetcorn, beetroot, peppers, mushrooms, carrot, coleslaw, mayo, etc.

Dp reckons it's just lettuce. With mayo. Thassit.

He says I'M the wrong one.

This is just the tip of the foody iceberg. He doesn't like the texture of onions, so I have to blend pasta sauces.

And he eats round food he doesn't like, and leaves it in a little pile.

And he doesn't understand the appeal of coffee or olives, as they're "too strong"

My heart loves him, my stomach says LTB.

Morris sounds like a plan!

What is an ideal meal for this strange man?

Either something kid tea-ish (fishfingers, spaghetti hoops,and waffles) or chicken stirfry (plain stirfry veg, nothing too exciting). He does love fresh fish and meat. And plain veg.

He's ok when we eat out, weirdly. He'll just eat around food.

But really. REALLY.

My salady habits are normal. Lettuce is a transportation tool for nicer things.

He once said that if he could take a tablet every day instead of food, he would do.

I reconsidered our relationship at that point.

YANBU!

Apple and nuts are great with salad too. He is BU of course.

But anything pickled is just wrong.

YABU TendonQueen

A real British salad has celery sticks served in a pint glass.

"It" had better be massive. YANBU.

AdoraBell your salad sounds the best so far, how do you make it?

I agree with everything you've said. But mushrooms on a salad bleugh. ......

YANBU, and I argue for the British salad more often than anyone would expect. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, salad dressing, spring onions, celery nearby... Yes yes yes.

I have my own salad fight on my hands. Something in a plastic tub from Marks and Spencer's, with the word salad on the front with what is clearly pasta and capers or cous cous or just weird looking beetroot inside? No no no. looking at you MIL Way to ruin a perfectly good BBQ.

I dislike leaves

my salad has finely chopped celery, red onion, pepper, cucumber, olives, toms and feta

Sometimes -shock - my salads don't have lettuce in them at all.

He's thinking of the 'salad you grew up with if you're over a certain age' salad. If he was my age and nationality, this abomination involved not very well-washed iceberg lettuce that tasted of nothing, an underripe tomato cut in quarters, luncheon meat or spam rolled up like a Swiss roll, Russian 'salad' out of a tin and a dollop of salad cream. You weren't supposed to like it - it was duty food. It makes me gag thinking about it.

My DH is another nightmare eater! He does not touch any vegetables, and only likes apples and bananas (which he has very rarely as is).

Stir frys are two separate woks- his is just noodles, chicken and sauce, and I stuff myself silly with double the amount of veg for one portion. It's hilarious watching him eat fajitas. I cook, so I add in all the peppers and onions I want and he will carefully pick them off of any bit of chicken he wants to eat. He then adds salsa, which is a teaspoon of 'salsa juice' no bits- which he has to press down on top of the jar of salsa so none of the bits get into the spoon.

He's such a weirdo.

Best thing with a salad is those marinated anchovies. Yum. Only for the hardcore though.

Food is one of the big things OH and I have in common.
We both love cooking and eating and have a lot of tastes in common.
A lovce of seafood, olives, good cheese, middle Eastern spices and vegetables.
Neither of us aer fussy at all.

I couldn't bear fussiness in a man- I find it a very juvenile trait.

As long as there's salad cream it's salad.

SaucyJack

Full I keep telling him that it's fine, I've dragged a picky eater up to manly 13yr old-hood and he eats well now. DP is next. I will bend him to my will. Bwahahaa.

Mind you, I'm not overly fussed on bacon. I feel like I've let the whole Internet down. I can eat it if it's proper bacon and crispy, but honestly I prefer a sausage.

Maybe he's sat at his now thinking "Jesus, my DP is fecking fussy with her breakfast meats............"

Starting to think my DH is a bigamist .

15 years ago he was diagnosed with mild IBS & after a visit to a quack at a health food shop started an exclusion diet which led to him giving up caffeine, mushrooms, melon, cucumber & sweetcorn.

Last week he was diagnosed with gout. We have a pretty good diet, although could reduce red meat intake.

He is currently on a self imposed dairy, red meat, fish, wheat, sugar, alcohol & yeast free diet until it clears up.

Tonight's dinner looked like a giant had thrown up into a bucket of wallpaper paste & didn't taste much better.

I feel your pain OP - YADNBU!

I think a salad can be anything - we tend to have build-your-own salads where all the components available are on the table and people can put them together, or not, as they wish. As DH gets older, he is reverting to the tastes he grew up with (plain meat and 2 veg, this is hard as he has been diagnosed pre-diabetic and needs to eat more fruit and veg and fewer carbs). I like my food on the exotic side - spicy, crunchy stir-fried veg, seeds and nuts, things grilled and marinaded. The DDs are not fussy at all. It gets hard sometimes.

I've told them all that I will not cook more than one meal a night, so if anyone wants anything different, they're on their own.

I love onion but raw onion on salads gives everything a nasty tang imo. Celery and feta cheese added to one is awesome.

Ooooooooooooooooh feta.

He likes cheese. That's in his food favour.

salad is
lettuce
cucumber
cherry tomatoes

and its served alongside
coleslaw
florida salad
ham
cheese (medium or mature)
sweet pickled onions
pork pie
sausage rolls

and supplied with a buttered Bap/roll and a selection of crisps.

you may keep your large pickled onions, beetroot and celery.

Coffee is vile. HTH!