Wibu to only ever cook pasta again?

[AdmiralCLingus]

Just pasta. No sauce. No cheese. Just plain boiled pasta?

Yet again two dinners are going in the bin because dd and he dad won't eat it. It's not like I've cooked something fancy.... just chicken and rice, with some carrots and sweetcorn. No matter what I bloody cook, someone has to pick fault or they dont like it or part of it.

The only thing that I can guarantee will get a clean plate and no waste is plain flipping pasta. I BLOODY HATE PASTA!!!

so wibu to only ever cook them pasta again??

[AdmiralCLingus]

She gets in the car after school and is starrrrrrrrrrving and will then pester me until dinner is ready. She will refuse to eat no matter what time we eat!!! Unless itsum plain pasta...

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

Is it possible that your dd genuinely isn't hungry enough when you are offering dinner? I wonder if she is having a cooked lunch you may be better of doing her something lighter in the evenings. You could do scrambled egg on toast for dd and dh (would pass as breakfast food) leaving you free to have whatever you fancy. Then you could tackle dds fussiness at weekends. The fact she eats at school is good as it means she's not phobic. I'd keep offering a combination of things she likes and new things to try. If she refuses things you know she likes just keep it and give it back if she complains later. I think in your situation where possible I'd serve meals in their component parts where pos. I e serve mince with mash instead of cottage pie.

[MLGs]

Don't cook for him. he can eat breakfast cereal if it's his breakfast or cook for self.

Dd can eat what you make for her or nothing.

(disclaimer - I do allow my fussy ds plain yoghurt or fruit pudding regard less of whether he eats his main course. Which is what the rest of us will be having normally)

[Pickled0nions]

My 3 yr old DD is very fussy. I must be enabling that by trying her with different foods all the time hey Bertucci

[Squeegle]

I have a feeling that you're not that keen on your partner for other reasons. His fussiness is inexcusable. He can cook for himself.
As for your DD, well I share your pain. My DS is 12, he used to eat all arts but he has become so fussy. He likes: pasta. Salmon and pasta. Chilli con carne. Breaded chicken. Heinz tomato soup. Everything else he leaves. But he raids the cupboards for biscuits. It drives me insane.

[AdmiralCLingus]

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[AdmiralCLingus]

He had to YouTube a video how to cook pasta when he had dd during the summer holidays.... apparently the packet instructions just aren't enough for him. I'm quite sure I've been able to make it myself since I was about 10.

The thing is I'm not giving him huge portions! He has one chicken breast, and about a serving spoons worth of rice and veg!

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

I think I would just make them plain pasta - plus something really nice for myself - dish it up with no comment and act perfectly pleasantly. Repeat daily.

And if/when they say anything, just say pleasantly that you thought that was what they wanted - you've stopped cooking anything else for them since they evidently never like it.

[Secretmetalfan]

The pasta has instructions on the packet. Assuming your DH can read the jobs a good un. What does you DD eat at school? Presumably she is on school dinners?

[Catsize]

I can understand him not wanting huge portions of hot food for breakfast, but then again, he can just get himself some cereal. Get him the basic Delia book for Christmas. Can't understand how people get to adulthood with no ability to cook, but it seems to happen.

[AdmiralCLingus]

Hes like a rake and his bmi is so low it doesnt even register but I know that he will happily Wolf down junk food! When he was at home all the time he will eat normally and at the same time as me and dd, but his argument is that he can't eat my ENORMOUS portions half an hour after getting up

[Graphista]

Is he very slim? I think it unlikely but could it be an eating disorder? Even if it is it would then be even more important NOT to teach your daughter his attitude to food.

[KatharinaRosalie]

5-year olds can be a pain. Just keep offering, they will all start eating something else but pasta at some point.

But honestly, the first time my DH whined about the food I cooked would be the bloody last time I cooked for him.

[Twinchaos1]

It is really annoying! One of mine won't even eat pasta, the other one won't eat fish fingers. DH has a healthy eating fixation at the moment. Ahhh!

[icy121]

Let him live off shreddies then if he's too useless to cook.

Cook for you and the kid, and eat together. Don't let him eat with her if she's going to learn to be a critic off him! Fussiness is so SO unattractive I agree!!

[AdmiralCLingus]

ma I'm incredibly tempted tbh...

[MaQueen]

Kiiilllllll him...

[Penhacked]

Honestly, your 5yo is completely normal. I have one at that age who is so bloody fussy and has only just progressed from pasta al pomodoro to al ragù! We did blw and have a very varied diet. It was definitely his devlopmental issues! Dd on the other hand will eat anything you throw on her highchair. She eats insects on the floor. Literally anything she can stuff in her mouth, she does! So May have no connection to dh fussiness.
I just make what i want to make, usually Minus anything salty or spicy, and give it in a somewhat deconstructed form so he can take any element from the meal and eat it. If not, it's fruit, bread and yogurt!
Your Dh is not allowed to be fussy like that. It's cook his own boring pasta or shut up

[DashboardLightParadise]

Ha to parents enabling fussy eating in children. Mine have been fed the same, one will give anything a whirl and loves most of what's put before him, the youngest (5) is a fussy mare. She's very similar to yours op and it's definitely a texture thing and is no different in school. Loves pasta too.

Your dh however I would tell to get a grip, if he doesn't like it he can make his own.

[Leanback]

I bloody love pasta

[AdmiralCLingus]

No no no... a chicken BREAST. not a chicken breastfeeding!!!!!

[AdmiralCLingus]

He's left some or all of every meal. I don't care what he says about portion size (tonight's huuuuge portion for him was a chicken breastfeeding, half a bag of micro veg and a third of a bag of micro rice) no matter what is put in front of him something is wrong.

I made chasseur. He won't eat chicken on the bone so I asked the butcher to fillet some chicken thighs. He wouldn't eat the chicken because it tasted funny.

[Starlight2345]

For DP...serve him a bowl of weetabix as it is breakfast...See how he feels about that.

For DD as she will eat it at school it is a control thing or learned behaviour from partner. She might prefer foods in separate piles to all mixed up together that is common in little ones.

[Graphista]

And in the past week what's your partners behaviour at dinnertime been like?

[AdmiralCLingus]

There are foods she genuinely doesn't like... but i think it's a textural thing rather than flavour (she won't eat cooked onions but will eat raw for example) but I either avoid them or allow her to take them out. Its just getting bloody ridiculous now.

In the last week the only meal she's actually eaten is pasta bake. She's gone to bed without eaing anything yet again