trying to get my bf on decent food ideas please ......

[tobytomcat88]

He is 27 and has the worst diet
his mum died when he was young and he lived on kids meals eg fish fingers and chips or takeaways

we have a 4 mo baby and I am determined to get him onto a better diet my main obstacle is he think rice and chicken everyday is eating right!

He hates tomatoes and onions.
he will try veg but I can't push too many at him at once

I want to cook him something nice for Valentine's day any ideas?

Cook something reasonably ordinary.... steak, salad and baked potato, for example. Like dealing with a fussy toddler, offer a wide variety of good food and, if they make a fuss, take it away rather than compromising. When he cooks supper he can revert to chicken and rice. When you cook, make it something more interesting.

For special valentines dinner how about roast free range or organic chicken, roast potato, mash potato, gravy, and one or two veg that he is likely to eat. (Cauliflower Cheese and carrots??)
We only do roast dinners on special occasions. Obviously wouldn't work if you already do this regularly...

How about paella?

It has thinks he like sin it (chicken and rice), and you can add other things (tomatoes, peppers, spinach, pork, chorizo, peas, onions,seafood) etc so he has a chance to try those things alongside stuff he likes. Then later you can use those ingredients without them being in paella/alongside chicken rice IYSWIM

I think a roast dinner with chicken is a very good idea for Valentines Night, and he already likes chicken so you are halfway there!
Keep things simple, both from a cooking point of view and for things that he knows and likes, so maybe peas and carrots for the vegetable?
You could buy ready made gravy (don't mention onions!) to make it easy for yourself.
Don't forget a bottle of wine, rosé might be nice.

For a simple pudding get some largish strawberries, melt half a bar of dark chocolate in a small bowl or mug, leave the leafy bit of the strawberries on, dip half of four or six of the strawberries in the chocolate and leave them to set on grease proof or silicon paper, do all that ahead of time. To serve put the strawberries on two plates with some icecream or cream or mascarpone cheese, decorate with the chocolate dipped strawberries, crumble some chocolate flake over the cream.

Have a lovely evening, enjoy your cooking.

My DP lived on sandwiches and Pringles when we met, it is possible and really rewarding to watch them discover 'real' food. What does he eat when you go out? Cook similiar things to that. Chicken and rice can be jazzed up in loads of ways with different sauces. Include peppers for veg and dice onion really small so he doesn't notice until he isn't bothered about it. Mine thought he hated mince, but I started him on curry/spicy meals as they taste interesting and gradually introduced similiar things like chilli which is mince based but he didn't seem to notice and now he'll eat cottage pie and spag Bol no bother.
Watching cooking programmes helped too as he saw things that he liked the look of and we could try at home.
Good luck

Hoping valentines went well. Have you tried risotto? Another take on chicken and rice.

This is good - I make this a lot - chicken and rice but with chorizo for extra flavour, just chop the onions small and you can hardly see the tomatoes.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1167651/chicken-and-chorizo-jambalaya