Tonight I have cooked cheesy bean enchiladas. He has eaten and enjoyed them before (I know, because I’ve written the recipe into my cooks notebook - anything that gets ‘the face’ on first eating doesn’t make it that far). I’m a pretty good home cook, so I’m not serving up burnt offerings. But TONIGHT he decides that said enchiladas are ‘problematic’ because they don’t contain any beef. They have never contained beef at any point we have previously eaten them. The recipe is really tasty (I’m fairly critical of my own food, if I thought it was crap I wouldn’t mind).
This happens often - meal previously eaten is now not ok, for a variety of reasons. Also, if I introduce a new meal, it must not be ‘too green’ or he won’t eat it at all - I.e. more than one v small portion of a green vegetable on the plate. Broccoli, spinach and carrots would be unthinkable. He claims this is because he doesn’t like too many vegetables - but if I produce a meal full of red and orange vegetables (carrots, peppers, red onions, red potatoes) he will eat the lot (unless we’re having one of those days where he suddenly doesn’t like it anymore). AIBU to choke him with a fish slice the next time he comes out with one of his ‘pronouncements’? For context, he cooks 2 x a week (under pressure) and I am always expected to say how tasty/amazing it is.. (I did once suggest his repertoire was getting boring and he needed to expand, he met this with extreme injury and disdain)