to get irritated by DH always, without fail, picking bits out of his dinner and leaving them on the plate

[Twiglett]

OK I was brought up to clear my plate but it's not so much about that

I just made a big minestrone soup .. it's kind of a chunky, stewy one .. offered him a bowl

"ooo yes" he says "I love your minestrone soup"

pick, pick, pick .. all the onions and celery and lumps of tomato at the bottom of the bowl .. which means he's drunk the liquid, eaten the carrots and pepper and picked round everything else

and it winds me up

am I? am I bu?

of course YABU.

IT's still fking annoying though.

he appears to do the same with most meals .. picks something at random and eats around it

NYANBU! What was the point of chopping up all that celery carrot onioin whaytever if he s not going to eat it. I t would annoy me too.

Blend it next time.

i do this
I can't help it - even if someone says what's wrong with that bit i can say.. sorry

how old is he?!
looked at this message misreading ds for dh..
tell him its a bad example to the kid/s

oh he'll never change

I'm just blowing off steam

cos it's so annnnnooooooyyyyying

That sounds v. annoying.

I hate it when DH tells me how delicious his supper is but then smothers it in BBQ sauce. Odd. I do take offence but just think that next time, he'll get a plate of BBQ sauce.

Stick a farking great handful of peppercorns in his bowl next time, and shudder with concealed laughter as he eats round that

(That's the voice of experience, that is)

It drives me mad too. How am I supposed to get the Dc's to eat properly when their Dad is such a picky eater?

my mum used to cook 2 different versions of the same meal for my DB when we were kids
his wife just cooks it & tells him to pick the bits he doesnt like out

I would say carry on making your lovely soup which you obviously enjoy & give him a plate to put the things he doesnt like on - might shame him to just get on with it

I think you must be talking about my DH here..... he always finds imaginary bits of gristle - esp if it s "crappy Sainsbury's meat"... and you are soooo NBU !!!!!

it depends

dh dislikes some things eg cooked cheese but I just ignore him

if I make a fish pie or something I'm not going to fanny around leaving a bit without cheese on so he can just bleedin well pick it off

equally if I go to pil's house and they give me salad with raw onion in I leave it at the side

but we have very few real dislikes so it is not big deal

if he leaves something almost as a matter of principle I would make him sit there until it was all gone or he wouldn't get a biscuit

God I'd hate that.

He'd be wearing a minestrone hat if it was me who'd made it.

YANBU...that drives me mad too, my dh also guilty of same.

What annoys me more is my DH (and his whole family) squirt tomato ketchup over everything before even tasting it...irritates me. Especially when i cook lovely Xmas meal with lovely gravy/cranberry sauce/bread suce etc etc then they all refuse these and squirt tom K all over everything.

at squirting tomato sauce all over a lovely Christmas dinner. Nooo!

dh does this all the time. or does a horrible gagging noise if, god forbid, i use onions in a cooking sauce, or dare put ANY vweg on his plates, accomapnied by huge loud 'eurgh thats disgusting i wont eat that'. so rude and so unnesscessary, and its a really bad example to set the kids.

@ minestrone hat.

I'd be annoyed too Twig.

lol at minestrone hat.

I had a (male) friend who did this - extremely annoying and very childish IMO

I wouldn't have married DH if he did this

I'm a picker.. Sorry!

In my defence, I always apologise as with some things the texture can give me an instinctive vomit reflex. I'm sure people would rather I left large chunks of onion than throw up over their dinner table.

I have come to love the blender, as I love the taste of onion in foods, I just can't handle the texture. I either dice it so tiny as to not be able to feel it, or blend it away completely.

Agnes

Blender is the way to go, got Dh to eat alsorts and now he doesn't set bad example to dc.

I like smooth soups myself - no waste - and it's easier to freeze a batch for later.

YANBU though - grown men shouldn't be so picky.

DH inspects chicken like a surgeon whenever I serve it up with a faintly suspicious look on his face. He also does it in restaurants too. IMO if you are so scared of chicken do not order it or ask for me to make it at home.

YANBU - is extrememly irritating.