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Original poster

About DHs new breakfast habits?

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 11:47

I’m six months pregnant so that could be affecting my judgement.

Over the last month or so DH has started eating some (IMO) really odd things for breakfast, and it’s seriously turning my stomach.

His go to favourite is now a cheese and quorn bacon slice or egg mayonnaise sandwich (sometimes all three ingredients together) He says he’s sick of toast, beans, cereal etc and that in other countries eating different things for breakfast is totally normal. I suppose I can’t really argue with that, but I can’t help being somewhat revolted by it. It doesn’t help matters that I went off quorn soon after falling pregnant and the sight/smell of it still makes me feel queasy,

I was looking forward to having a lie in with him this morning, until he went to the kitchen and came back eating quorn cocktail sausages! I’ve had to get up now cos I can’t stand being near him while he smells of quorn.

AIBU to want a husband who just eats cornflakes like a normal human being? I can’t even eat breakfast in the same room as him because my stomach can’t take it!

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Juells · 10/06/2018 12:43

I'd find it a bit creepy and deliberate that just when you're pregnant and feeling more sensitive to smells he chooses to eat exactly the kind of smelly things that will upset you. Egg mayonnaise stinks at the best of times. Seems a bit passive aggressive.

LustfulInMiltonKeynes · 10/06/2018 12:43

Is this some kind of pregnancy humblebrag or something?

No those arent weird and no your husband doesnt need to change his eating habits for you.

LighthouseSouth · 10/06/2018 12:44

I think he should keep away from you

I wasn't pregnant and had a flatmate who used to put vinegar in the water for boiled eggs - I cannot begin to say how ill it made me feel. It was a very small flat and she kindly stopped when I told her (though it took her a while to find a flatmate who coped with her chain smoking in any case).

so yes, I'd talk to him, he needs to be careful about it at least.

LighthouseSouth · 10/06/2018 12:44

also egg mayo, urgh.

JobHunting4 · 10/06/2018 12:47

As someone who had superhero olfactory senses with pregnancy one, I think hes being completely unreasonable by being in the same house as you.
However I didn't get the superpower with my youngest, so I understand why people think you're over reacting

expatinscotland · 10/06/2018 12:47

Quorn is rank. Just leave the room when he comes in eating it.

I abhor breakfast. I haven't eaten yet today.

But when I do eat it, it's never rot like cereal or toast but actual food.

Juells · 10/06/2018 12:47

your husband doesnt need to change his eating habits for you.

Why not if the smell is upsetting her? It's not as if it's a long-established habit, he's just started doing it.

Honestly, some posters on MN think women are unreasonable if they expect any accommodation whatsoever to be made for them.

Tell him to fuck off with his smelly farty sandwiches, and eat them outside, and clear up in the kitchen after himself so none of the smelly stuff is around. There are no halos waiting in heaven for the good little wives who put up with bad smells.

LizB62A · 10/06/2018 12:48

My sense of smell was on overdrive when I was pregnant - I had to leave the kitchen when my then-H put a piece of pitta bread into the toaster to warm it up as I couldn't stand the smell !
So I sympathise and he could be a bit more considerate....

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 12:48

Pregnancy humblebrag? I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean?Confused

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Juells · 10/06/2018 12:48

Vomit on his plate 😂

DerelictWreck · 10/06/2018 12:52

Eggs mayo sandwich, Quorn cheese and bacon slices, Quorn sausages,

So eggs, bread, cheese, bacon, pastry and sausages. All seem like staple breakfast foods to me!

What's weird about them?

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 12:57

Thank you Juells I might just do that.

Or make him eat on the balcony as another alternative...

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 12:58

Liz I went through a stage of not being able to stomach the smell of toast/bread. It’s so weird isn’t it?

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Juells · 10/06/2018 13:00

What's weird about them?

The smell, when someone is pregnant.

If a man met a fantastic sexy woman and was trying to impress her, and she told him that the smell of egg mayo made her feel physically sick, do you think he'd insist on his inalienable right to eat exactly that for breakfast? In a pig's eye... 😂

Debfronut · 10/06/2018 13:02

I went off garlic when I was pregnant and really hated it. My DH thought I was being silly until I vomited on him and then he stopped eating it for a while! Taught him a useful lesson. Or if he did he kept away from me in the spare room. When you are pregnant the oddest things can turn your stomach he needs to be a bit more mindful for the next three months that's all.

Liverbird77 · 10/06/2018 13:02

I am also pregnant and totally with you on the q word! He needs to pander to you at the moment as pregnancy nausea is the worst. After though...I suppose it's his choice. I bet it won't bother you as much then though.

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 13:04

That’s a very good point Juells

DH would have set his quorn on fire early in our relationship if it had meant getting laidGrin Now he eats it in the sodding bedroom.

Marriage is great isn’t it?

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Juells · 10/06/2018 13:04

I'm not wanting to cause trouble, but I'd be keeping an eye out to see if anything else vaguely PA was being done 'innocently'. I've been on the receiving end of that kind of fuckery.

PurpleDaisies · 10/06/2018 13:06

What's weird about them?

The smell, when someone is pregnant.

That’s not what the op said though. The thread title is about weird breakfast habits. There’s nothing weird about what the dh is eating. He’s just not doing it in a particularly considerate way.

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isthismummy · 10/06/2018 13:09

Actually vomited on him Deb? I might try thatGrin

Ugh garlic. The downstairs neighbors cook with it all the time and it just stinks.

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Elspeth12345 · 10/06/2018 13:10

Could you just politely ask him not to eat quorn/egg mayonnaise whilst you're pregnant?

If he's off cereal then I'm sure there are tons of other options!

SasBel · 10/06/2018 13:11

YANBU, we have a no food upstairs rule because certain smells turn my stomach.

I am veggie and cannot eat quorn because of the smell even though I am not pregnant!

PastBananas · 10/06/2018 13:17

I'm a bit suspicious of Quorn....

FASH84 · 10/06/2018 13:18

I don't think what he's eating is the problem, it's where he is eating it that's inconsiderate

cariadlet · 10/06/2018 13:22

YBU to think his new breakfast habits are disgusting. The food sounds perfectly fine and reasonable.

YNBU to let him know that you are very sensitive to certain smells while you're pregnant and he should show more consideration.