Picky family

[WebLady]

I have discovered that DH can be a little picky about things; sometimes more so than me, and I am pretty picky ;)

Like I love potatoes and like them all kinds of ways; baked, mashed, scalloped, roasted, french fried, hash browned, etc ... DH only likes baked and french fries. I can get him to eat mashed or roasted every now and then, but too often and he complains :bbrolleyes:

I am not big on tomatoes and a few other things that he will eat, but since I have been trying to come up with new meal ideas I have noticed more things that he either doesn't like or is not interested in trying :p

With pastas I normally prefer white sauce over red and DH is the other way around. We both will eat both occasionally, but he gets burned out on the white faster than I do.

So I have been trying to find other pasta dishes with different kinds of sauces or just lightly tossed in whatever, and he doesn't seem to like that much either. He says it is too much pasta and not enough sauce :whyme:

He seems to prefer rice more than I do too. I like rice just fine, but I usually think it is sort of blah unless you have some sort of sauce with it. I did use to make a saffron rice that I liked, but it is really high in sodium and we are trying not to eat that much sodium these days.

The other day at the store they had cube steaks on sale and had some samples out too. I haven't has cube steak in years and never made it myself. I probably wouldn't have breaded it if I made it but he didn't seem interested, especially when I said most people would make mashed potatoes with it :whyme: So I didn't get any.

I don't want to just cook whatever with no regard to him (my mom seems to be this way; Dad says he will eat it or make something himself), but sometimes it is frustrating and I feel like we eat the same things all the time.

Anyone else have a picky hubby/FH/SO or other family member that is tough to cook for?

[SkippyNXC]

my FH isn't "picky" in that he won't eat things.... he's just picky about how he likes things made... when we first moved in together I would cook meals for us all the time and we'd sit down together at the table n eat a meal...
our schedules were so different when i started working that we just started cooking for ourselves... that seems to work out best... he makes a meal for himself and i make a meal for myself... if i want something that's gonna have leftovers... i make it n usually said left-overs are gone by the next day b/c FH has eaten them for breakfast LOL
in addition when FH comes home it's dinner time... so if i'm making something that godforbid takes more than 10 minutes then he just made something else n then would have my food for 2nds LOL

so i guess i'm like ur mom LOL unless FH asks for something specifically... he's on his own... if he makes a request i will generally try to learn how to make it (it's usually something out of the ordinary like pho or "cuban food" or something i don't know how to make)

[gwenshack]

DH and I rarely ever eat dinner together - if we do we eat out - we're on such different schedules. The number of times we've eaten a cooked meal together is less than 10! I think I've cooked one of those...DH takes all the credit in the cooking department...
But if we WERE to eat together there would be big problems. I don't eat any meat except chicken, turkey and shrimp - DH loves all meat, especially seafood and sushi - is a huge pork fan. DH hates tomatoes and I put them on, in, around or over whatever I'm eating. I'm a big vegetable person - DH...not so much. DH puts mayo on anything he thinks he can get away with. He used to live on Jack in the Box!

So...picky...? You betcha! I think that a lot of families do what your parents did - just suck it up and eat what the wife/mom makes. That's how I remember my family to be!

[Kfancii]

Well, I guess you could say my DH is picky. It isn't that he doesn't like many foods, it is more the types of food he cooks that makes him picky. While I can cook, he does most of the cooking around our house because I cook "regular" meals and he cooks "gourmet" meals. He warned me before we got married that if I ever served him Hamburger Helper or Tuna Casserole he would divorce me! :eek:

Now, when it comes to baking, I rule the kitchen!

[amisteratwisterandme]

ummm. I am the picky one. If it has onions in the recipe, I won't eat it unless they are sauteed first. There are so many things that I won't eat, it would be hard to list them here. However, I am allergic to a lot of things that are pretty normal, things like some veggies and almost all fruit, so it does make things difficult.

FH does most of the cooking, and I either pick out what I don't like, or eat something else. He definitely works around my fickleness though.

Another thing I don't like is when food is soggy or mushy. So if we do breakfast, I have to have my syrup on the side so that pancakes don't get soggy. Same with with french fries, or bread or anything like that.

FH was in the military, and will try anything at least once, so when I do cook, I don't have to think about what to fix for him.

[FFC]

Wow Brandi - is your DH related to my DH? :rofl:

Matt loves potatoes as long as there's ketchup on them - and he does prefer fries. He likes red sauce on pasta - with ketchup of course :irked:, and he isn't a fan of a lot of what I eat.

I guess I can say Matt is very traditional. He likes his meatloaf, french fries, burgers, and spaghetti. Anything out of the ordinary and he has to smother it in ketchup - or he will make a PB & J.

Me on the other hand, I love to experiment when I cook. Sometimes I feel guilty for doing it because he isn't into it as much as I am.

However, we're coping - in other words we're sticking to his burgers and fries and it's all going to my butt :rofl:

[Ninedays9]

We are lucky when it comes to food. Neither of us is too terribly picky. He will eat most anything. He doesn't really like pickles, and that's about the only thing I can think of for him. I, on the other hand, do not enjoy: tomatoes, onions, olives, celery, seafood (except tuna), potato salad, egg salad...

I finally decided to try fresh fish that was battered... it was ok, but I still prefer every other kind of meat to it (except other seafood type things). I've been getting less picky since I've grown up, but there's just some things I can't force myself to eat.

The only thing with us is that I love chicken and he loves red meat. So we don't have chicken nearly as often as I would like to!

[WebLady]

Oh yeah, DH doesn't like meatloaf, roast or anything like that either. Of course I am not a huge fan of these things, but I bet I could make it pretty good every now and then, but noooo :p

He likes fries with his ketchup, but doesn't put it on anything else ;)

[KMS]

Both Chad and I have a very similar way of eating, thankfully! He is up for eating pretty much anything that I cook and I'm the same way. I feel like I don't ever really have to worry if he'll like something that I make and that makes meal planning so much easier. As long as there's no animal products in something we are good to go.

He grew up a total meat and potato guy and his way of eating has changed so drastically over the last 7 years. His family's still the same way (so is most of mine) so cooking for them for holidays gives me a little taste of what it would be like everyday. I don't think I'm patient enough for that! :innocent:

[EarlyBird]

I feel the same wayyyy!!!!! dh will say we eat the same thing over and over agian but then as soon as i try something different or mention trying something different its complete chaos and i end up feeling like he convinces himself not to like it.. dh did the same thing with the cube steaks.. i bought them, was told flour and make them on the skillet - with some lime and onions.. dh saw me flour it and i knew that minute he never planned on liking it... he said he didnt but i think that it tasted lke hamburger a little... something he loves.... i didnt get it.
i wish i could trick him sometimes haha into eating what i want

[mitch]

There were two rules in the house when i was growing up.

You either eat what's infront of You, or You starve. :bbeek:

If You're late home (From playing outside as a kid) Then Your dinner is in the Dog.

I was never late in. I ate what was put infront. And was thankful for it too.

Fortunately, DH and Myself like the same kind of food. But most nights We live on snacks like Sandwiches or something on Toast. We both eat at work so a majority of the time We are not hungry.

If DH hasn't had a chance to stop all day at work. He will phone Me and ask Me to put some dinner in the oven. I never know what time He will be home. So i don't look at the clock and think "ooh, He'll be here in under an Hour, better get cooking" Nor do i have to think about what to cook. Although i do ask Him what he fancies. (He normally replies "My Wife" but that's another thread lol)

Weekends We make a point of cooking something together.
We were both at work on Saturday and had some friends round for dinner in the evening.
DH got home before Me. I walked in to find Him slaving over a hot Chilli.
Even the Laundry and washing up was done. :)

[EmmaM]

My FH is a vegetarian and he doesn't like cheese! This makes eating our awkward! Tend to go for Asian restaurants, which are more likely to handle his quirks! And if he cooks a stirfry it is still mostly raw, I like mine a little more cooked, so tend to put it back in the wok!

Although I’m not veggie, I eat veggie most of the time and it doesn’t both me at all. Just now and again I’ll buy some meat, Dane will even cook it for me if I give instructions!

[sandy03]

Although I am the picky one as far as things I don't eat, DH is really funny about not wanting to try new things. I have discovered that it's best to just cook it and give him a very simple description of what it is and 9 times out of 10 he will like it.

The perfect example of this is when I made Risotto the other night. Even though he had tried it once before at a restaurant he didn't remember the name so he made faces when I told him the name. When I just told him it was a creamy rice with garlic and parmesan cheese, he tried it and ended up eating three helpings!

[WebLady]

*hehe* I used to know someone that hated cheese and wouldn't eat it, but would eat it if they didn't know there was cheese in it ;)