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Original poster

To divorce DH over this?

161 replies

StoneCuttersStreet · 08/07/2015 13:00

DH is incredibly fussy.

For supper I am making a watermelon, halloumi and bulgur wheat salad (I know, but I meal planned when it was boiling hot). He likes all of these things separately, not just tolerates they are high on his favourites. But he does not like the idea of fruit with savoury. He has made it very clear that he is sceptical about it but has agreed to try it.

AIBU to think that he could just eat the watermelon and savoury parts in separate mouthfuls (the salad will literally be chunks of watermelon, halloumi, bulgur parsley and pumpkin seeds - dressing on the side Hmm )and just not say anything?

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Original poster
StoneCuttersStreet · 08/07/2015 15:13

Side note to all you fussy eater sympathisers out there I am cooking something alternative for supper as we speak.

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WingsofNylon · 08/07/2015 15:15

I love toast and I love ice cream, wouldn't put them together. You are being plain mean to him. Just don't add the watermelon for his.

Chewbecca · 08/07/2015 15:22

Actually, have you ever tried brown bread ice cream? It is yum

FraggleHair · 08/07/2015 15:23

Toasted brioche with ice-cream is yum.

Original poster
StoneCuttersStreet · 08/07/2015 15:58

Concur

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WixingMords · 08/07/2015 16:19

pizza with pineapple
duck l'orange
lemon chicken
Chinese stir fried duck with pineapple

Foods of the devil.

Fact. (He told me)

OhEmGeee · 08/07/2015 16:22

Coconut. The absolute food of the devil.

cardibach · 08/07/2015 17:50

He's going to try it, so it's a bit of a non-issue isn't it?
It wouldn't be the sweet/savoury that would be my problem, it would be texture. The three textures just don't sound as though they would go together. Watermelon is all soft and wet, haloumi is chewy and vulgar wheat is gritty and grainy. I like all 3, but don't imagine the texture of them together in the mouth to be pleasant. I'd never, for example, order it in a restaurant. I do think it's a good idea to discuss new food with all the people who are going to be expected to eat it before shopping/cooking.

BabyFeets · 08/07/2015 18:57

That sounds lovely

Apricota · 08/07/2015 19:18

Not for me either. Yuk.

loveareadingthanks · 08/07/2015 19:21

Not everything you like individually goes well together, OP.

Three of my favourite foods are
fatty pork belly with crispy crackling
nice and sour natural yoghurt
tinned mackeral

I really wouldn't mix them together!

Sometimesjustonesecond · 08/07/2015 19:27

Not rtft yet but I think it sounds lovely.

In this house, dh eats whatever I make or he does his own food.

goodnessgraciousgouda · 08/07/2015 19:31

I think he eats what you cook, or he cooks for himself.

Why are you pandering to him?

Xxxparisxxx · 08/07/2015 19:34

Gawd .... He either eats it it he doesn't. Personally I have more things I could be pee'd off with!

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 08/07/2015 20:03

I am on the fence. My DP would eat old tyres if I served them so can't say how annoying it would be....

Appleblossom82 · 08/07/2015 20:06

I think i might divorce you if you gave me that for my tea. Sorry op, sounds rank! Wink

Original poster
StoneCuttersStreet · 08/07/2015 20:13

I made something else! Grin we had watermelon for pudding.

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Appleblossom82 · 08/07/2015 20:15

Good decision Smile marriage saved

WizardOfToss · 08/07/2015 20:21

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Fluffyears · 08/07/2015 20:40

Sweet and savoury is awful. No I don't eat pineapple on pizza or gammon, lemon chicken, chutney or duck a l'orange because I don't like them and as an adult I am allowed to decide what I eat. DP would drive you nuts he has very limited repertoire of meals and refuses to try anything new.

Castleonacloud · 08/07/2015 20:52

I can't believe how many people got so angry about this.

I can understand your frustrations OP. If you're on a budget and want to try new foods but cant because you're limited by someone else's tastes, you have to go with their needs cos you can't afford both. Its not you or your kids dont want to try new things, its your OH.

I'd say well done for your kids not being fussy and it must be frustrating when you sit down as a family and you're not eating the same. Maybe ask your OH to do the shopping and cooking from time to time, to see how difficult it can be.

Although personally I wouldn't have chosen to make the salad for myself, if I was served it I would have eaten it and I can understand you were trying to build a different dinner with ingredients you know he likes.

Do you have a few more of the approved ingredients that perhaps we could send recipes for? Almost like a virtual ready steady cook?

DoJo · 08/07/2015 22:49

I don't understand why you made something else? You said that you wanted to try new things and find it frustrating that your husband's limited diet means that you can't. Yet instead of making the salad anyway and saving a portion without the watermelon in it for your husband, you made something else and thus denied yourself the opportunity to have the salad that you wanted.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 08/07/2015 23:11

Sweet and Sour is the sweat of Satan and he is definitely behind the current fad to have sweet potatoes with everything. And if all else fails they lob a bit of pomegranate on your salad - I like pomegranate just not in my fecking salad!

(Cathartic)

morethanpotatoprints · 08/07/2015 23:15

God that sounds awful, not just sweet and savoury, but any of them is disgusting.
Give him a thick slab of cheese on toast or a pizza.
better still tell him to get his own.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/07/2015 09:15

cardi - I know it was a typo but I love the new name "vulgar wheat" Grin