Oh no Snuggly! Hope it goes before you pop.
Meadow thank you for sharing how new experiences feel to you. It helps me to understand DS better and I admire you hugely for overcoming your discomfort and facing your fears to do things so many people take for granted. (Also, your DH sounds completely wonderful!)
Fool i also think your dinner sounds nice. I love brown rice, DH doesn't though. He and I usually eat together and as long as I avoid the completely hated foods (cheese, mushrooms and lamb) he will go along with it graciously and eat it and thank me, even if it isn't his kind of food. He doesn't cook at all though so he knows it is quite reasonable that i have most influence over what we eat. Hence usually brown carbs. I love healthy food AND treat food (cake, nuts,crisps). Really never been keen on beige food though.
I always said I wasn't going to be someone who cooks several different meals but DS never eats what we eat. With his ASD I am glad he eats anything even halfway healthy. I also think that feeding kids is harder for most people than they'd imagined anyway - I think many struggle with this! I hope more food common ground will evolve over time within our family, then I'll be living the dream.
Abs - I presume I have some buried somewhere. Never seen them. Are they the ones that complain the day after a massive laughing fit?