AIBU to put 2 small pieces of beetroot on his plate?

[Sapeke1]

Week in week out I cook. Seven days a week with a roast on Sunday the same boring food with the same boring vegetables (peas, carrots) that my family will eat but TODAY I cut a BEETROOT into chunks and steamed it put most of it on my plate but I gave the everyone else 2 small pieces to try. My husband reacted like it was a sheep's eyeball or something, shouting "WHY HAVE YOU PUT BEETROOT ON MY PLATE?" and scooped it into the compost caddy thus undermining any attempts to encourage the kids to try this exotic new vegetable. Should I just stop cooking or what?

[canyou]

The rule in our house is everything on the plate and leave it if you dont like it.
Your DH was OTT. It was a vegetable not poison.
My DN is such a fussy eater often just bread and strawberry jam no butter for every meal My BIL cannot see his over the top reaction to food he does not like is the reason. At least at 6 yro she knows the rules in my house and does actually eat as we take no notice of her and feed her bread and jam after if she is still hungry
Make him a beetroot cake or as my DC call it red velvet cake bet he will not complain then

[RortyCrankle]

I have a massively long list of food I hate but adore beetroot, unless you destroy the taste with vinegar yuk, so lob some on my plate OP.

[blueturtle6]

Make beetroot brownies, dont tell anyone until after they've scoffed the whole delicious lot!

[longdiling]

How childish! He didn't have to eat it, it wasn't going to infect the rest of his food with its beetrootyness. I would get him to make his own food in future.

[SueTrinder]

I love Beetroot, as does DH. The kids hate it but know they have to try everything on their plate. The more you restrict their diet (and I'd include your DH in that) to suit each fussy stage the harder it gets to get them to try more things. And offering them lots of things results in some surprises. DD1 (who admittedly isn't really fussy at all in comparison with most kids) adores asparagus and eat tons of the stuff at this time of year. DS (who will barely let a carrot cut the wrong way sit on his plate) wolfs down kohlrabi.

Your DH was rude and childish and didn't need to make such a fuss. Insist he cooks occasionally if what you offer is so terrible.

[Beeziekn33ze]

Red velvet cake, beetroot brownies, yes! Beetroot muffins are also good to smuggle past beetroot haters.
Must confess I never liked beetroot in vinegar. Then I was given some garden fresh beetroot with the advice to boil it and butter it. So that's what it should taste like, yum!

[KC225]

YABU. Beetroot is the rancid bleeding spleen of the devil.

[sizeofalentil]

Tell the kids it'll turn their poo and wee red if they eat enough of it and watch them wrestle for the bigger portion!

[WorraLiberty]

I hate beetroot.

If my DH put it on my plate, knowing how I feel about it, I'd assume he'd been at the cooking sherry.

[SquinkiesRule]

Your Dh's attitude is limiting the childrens range of foods.
He needs to be warned of any new veg being put out so he can be sure not to act like a child, and encourage the children to try new foods.
My sister hates everything, she eats here rarely, but I remind once in a while her that Dd is a great veg eater, and she's not to pull a face or make a noise that would discourage her good eating. Usually it's when she's seen what I'm cooking and groaned, I don't expect her to eat them just to support kids in trying everything.

[backtowork2015]

Your dh is bu, he should encourage the dc to expand the peas and carrot repertoire. I want to know how long to roast to beetroot for, I Iove beetroot

[Chinks123]

Yanbu I love beetroot! If you knew he hated it fair enough. But still infront of the kids I'd be pissed off as it shows them they don't need to try new things. I wholeheartedly detest tomatoes and tuna amongst many things, (there is not the option for them to accidentally be on my plate as I shop and cook) but if oh served them infront of DD I would make the relevant yummy noises Pretty much everything DD eats I think is awful but I've told her is lovely as I don't want her to be as fussy as me. She loves tomatoes but (thankfully) hates tuna anyway.

[DailyFaily]

I'd consider myself a reasonably fussy eater (not by choice and I don't like it, I just don't like a lot of stuff). I would never carry on like this - at best I'd try it but, if it was something I knew I couldn't swallow without retching (yes shellfish, I'm looking at you) I would discreetly push it to one side and quietly make my apologies when the plates were collected. This is the only reasonable response to food that someone else has taken the time to cook for you in my opinion. Double that if there were kids there.

[2nds]

I fucking love beetroot, however I'd only ever have it with salad or in a sandwich. I don't think I'd ever want it with a roast but that's just me.

I Think you could do with getting the kids to try new things when he's not around. There's that leader of the pack mentality that they might decide to follow him rather than make up their own minds.

[Nannawifeofbaldr]

You see, I'd agree with you if it was almost any other food than beetroot.

It is truly nasty.

It bleeds all over your plate, infecting other foods with its nastiness.

Assuming that you knew he didn't like it, why not just put it on the children's plates rather than his?

He's an adult he should be grateful and appreciative of the food you cook (and the effort put into cooking it) but he doesn't have to eat it or like it.

In summary he may have been an arse about it but you were still unreasonable.

[catkind]

I guess it depends on how much your DH objects to beetroot and whether you knew. Squinkies suggestion of warning him in advance is a good one. I'd do the same for the kids - I'm just going to put a bit of xxx on your plate for you to try, you don't need to eat it if you don't like it. I have a bit of an irrational thing about beetroot thanks to enforced school dinners, an unexpected lurking one could challenge my good manners too.

[Allalonenow]

I like beetroot, a favourite way is roasted served hot with a yoghurt and spring onion dressing, or in a salad with chickpeas and red onions.

I'm not sure I'd serve it with a roast though, but your DH's reaction was ridiculous. And guaranteed to encourage the children to copy his behaviour, I'd be having serious words with him about his stupidity.

[BertrandRussell]

He behaved ridiculously. How old is he- 7?

God I hate these man children.

[Grilledaubergines]

Don't stop cooking. Just make beetroot the main factor of every meal. Endless possibilities.

[MrHannahSnell]

YABVU to allow beetroot in the house let alone on someone's plate. Vile stuff.

[tibbawyrots]

Think my next meal would be beetroot soup, roast steamed and boiled beetroot with a beetroot garnish. Beetroot juice to drink. 😈

[pearlylum]

Food fussiness in an adult is a deeply unattractive and juvenile trait. i would never indulge a man behaving like this.

[DailyFaily]

Pearlylum, that kind of rude (something which, ironically, I find unattractive and juvenile in an adult). Lots of people have at least one type of food they can't stomach, why is it such a stretch to imagine there might be people who feel that way about several types of food? As I said up thread I consider myself to be reasonably fussy - I don't choose to be and I don't enjoy it - I also don't make huge deal of it. Surely the issue is how the OPs husband reacted to it which is childish rather than the fact he doesn't like beetroot. I love beetroot but if I had some I really dislike (e.g. mushrooms) served with my dinner, I would just push them to one side and quietly get on with it, not juvenile at all

[pearlylum]

Yes it's juvenile to be fussy.