Weird food combos

[MrsMaxwell]

DH isn’t very confident when it comes to cooking. So if he does cook I try to just leave him to it.

He’s been off work for two weeks and at home (he’s in the forces and lives on base so when he’s home he’s not working but I am).

He’s been cooking dinner every night for the first time in 8 years which is great.

But he does some really weird food combos. Pie with baked beans (two wet things?) and chops with mash and cauliflower cheese (two carbs?) are two examples.

I wouldn’t and haven’t said anything but WTAF?

They aren't odd at all. He is probably recreating what he sees on offer in the mess.

^This. I think it's good he's cooking family meals, maybe you could show him some of your favourite combinations and how to cook them? You never know what fun you can have in a kitchen!

You don't have gravy with pie?! Unless it's chock full of gravy inside, isn't it really dry? You're the weird one OP

Cauliflower is very low carb, cheese is low (or zero) carb. Cauliflower cheese is pretty carb. I probably wouldn't serve it with mash, but there's nothing 'weird' about it and it's not 'a carb'.

Pie (maybe not Kiev) is served with gravy and/or beans pretty much all over the UK in cafes and pubs. It's totally normal, including in the South.

I think your ideas are odder than his. Maybe you affect his confidence.

^ "Cauliflower cheese is pretty low carb" that was supposed to say.

It's not a starch like potatoes or rice. I serve it with roasts all the time, and eat it when I am doing ridiculously low carb dieting.

Cauliflower and cheese aren’t carbs 😂

Cauliflower rice is sold as a low carb alternative too

I either do cauliflower cheese or potatoes 🤗

I don't understand where the rule about two wets or two carbs has come from?! Don't people have egg and beans in a breakfast, or pie and mash/chips etc? Or a roast dinner which contains who knows how many sauces and carb combinations? The meals he's making sound fine!

Cheese is about 80% fat. Cauli is a vegetable. There might be a little bit of carbohydrate in the white sauce. Definitely not a carb

I think it's pretty unanimous that your husband is the normal one in your house

Op imo you are the weird one! Cheese is high fat / protein and low carb
Cauli is def low carb
Nothing wrong with pie and beans!

Cauliflower cheese or potatoes??

My DS & DH would be starving after just cauliflower cheese as an accompaniment - nothing like enough calories.

There is carbohydrate in the flour in the cheese sauce, but not much overall.

As for pie & beans/gravy/mushy peas, yes, absolutely normal - I'm from the Midlands & live in Yorkshire.

You have dry pie op ??!

Nowt worse get some pea wet on it!

And Kiev, new potatoes and beans is amazing ya

But the beans mix in with the pie filling

So ?

Have you never had cheese pie and beans op ? It's food of the gods.

You don't have to mix the beans in, but it's fine if the two combine. Beans & other wet accompaniments best eaten with the pastry, IMO.

I prefer ketchup/fruity sauce with pie, rather than beans as it happens, but beans are good.

Cauliflower is not a carb.

My pet hate is when they give you two carbs, like rice and chips with a protein and no vegetable, or wraps with rice (yuk)

Your partners meals sound lush.

Tell us more about the meals you serve up....

I think this thread has established that your DH ain't the weird one when it comes to food OP!

I reacted very similarly to the OP, but my excuse is I'm a foreigner . Though don't see the issue with pie and gravy.

I think it's pretty unanimous that your husband is the normal one in your house

I second this ^

I almost wonder if you are being deliberately provocative by continuing to insist your DH's food choices are weird when most people find them outstandingly normal.

I almost wonder if you are being deliberately provocative by continuing to insist your DH's food choices are weird when most people find them outstandingly normal.

I cannot believe you are taking this thread that seriously

This is hilarious. Yep is definitely you that's weird OP. Cheese is not a carb, cauliflower is a very low carb veg. Basically your DH served meat, potatoes and veg which has got to be the most normal of meals you can get!