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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 09:20:05 AM
I made a soup last night that my dh ate 6 bowls of in February--could NOT eat it fast enough! I even wrote on the recipe, "Keeper, Jus really loves this!!!"...it was pouring down rain yesterday and just gross, so I thought it would be a perfect soup day. Made the soup and he didn't eat it, just sortof "pushed" stuff around in the bowl. When I asked "how's your dinner?" He responded, "It's alright. I'm not too crazy about the texture..." I was a little taken aback by his comment, considering how crazy he was about it in the Winter. It was like he'd never had it before...and I was frustrated, because, well...it's been like this for weeks. He only wants to eat meat and potatoes and no vegetables and only starch. It's like we've reverted backwards or something! I NEED vegetables and light things for dinner. I don't want rice-a-roni. But, I'm also not going to make 4 separate meals like my mother did. I felt terrible that he didn't have anything to eat, but then thought, "it's his own fault if he's still hungry!!!"
Anyone else have a difficult eater? What do you do? Maybe I should get that cookbook that was mentioned here to sneak veges into otherwise non-vege foods!
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| Marcy |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 10:33:19 AM
I must be nuts because I always make seperate meals for my two boys. They never like what we eat (sometimes I even make seperate meals for hubby and me because I am fussy, too) hmm, I wonder where they get it from :-) So sometimes I make four different meals. At least they are eating something they like and I always make sure that it is as healthy as possible. Looking at this I think I am nuts, lol. Honestly, I really don't mind cooking as long as it is something that they really like and will definitely eat.
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Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 10:31:59 AM
Oh, Nikki!!! What a hoot! Of course, a West Sider would have goetta in the house!!! Mine is from Mt. Adams (4th generation on "the hill"), so he's a goetta man, too. I like it for breakfast, and it's great paired with eggos and maple syrup, but NOT IN SPAGHETTI SAUCE!!!!! In fact, I don't look at as "meat" like others do :)
Glad to know we think alike--I am sure, at Goetta fest, they've made Spagoetta, and sold plenty!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
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| NikkiSAllen |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 10:04:35 AM
Jonni!
"Spagoetta"!!!! Ha-ha!!! Oh my gosh, it's so nice to know that I'm not the only wife on the planet who has had this dish served up to them by a well-intentioned hubby!!! Ha-ha!!! I had never heard of goetta (I'm from Kettering, OH originally) until I married my German-descent Cincinnati West-sider husband!! I don't mind it for breakfast, in fact I kinda' consider it a cultural thing for my girls to experience, but I had to draw the line at putting it in spaghetti sauce!
Take care!
Nikki
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| frannie |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 09:42:42 AM
i used to spend a great deal of time trying to figure men out. i was incredibly naive, i think or maybe i just had delusions of adequacy.
now i am older and wiser, i have the whole thing figured out. i will never understand men.
there is a freedom in accepting that. i have lots more time now that i am not busying myself with this unsolvable question. i have learned in my fashion to accept the things i cannot change. ....and i have reunited with my tribe, the tribe of woman, who really provide a lot of what i at one time erroneously thought that the man in my life was to provide. to be honest and fair, i was very naive, and innocent about men, well into my 30s and really had a very unrealistic idea about what the man in my life was supposed to be.
my man is my best friend, not to be confused with my best girlfriends.
i count my blessings on this dh, he loves the written word, he is a witty fellow and he does love me.
but he lets me know now and then that it is testosterone that courses through his veins and although he can garge sale and estate sale with the best of them, occasionally he lets me know that "the phoophoo meter has tilted in the wrong direction".
so for now, i have taken a long break from using my energy on figurin them out. cause in the past, just about the time i thought i had the subject nailed down, he would change, this creature who insists that he just cant change, what ya see is what ya get.
oh well, i think i'll just hang some lace curtains in the bedroom, my phoophoo meter is registering a little low.
love
frannie in texas
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 08:59:54 AM
I've thought of that, Jenn...he's very good at breakfast (omlettes) and ham and cheese melts, but the last time he was in the kitchen (bless his heart), I was tired from work and he thought he would help me by making dinner. I agreed that "something easy" was just fine (i.e, pasta, sauce and garlic bread, grilled cheese, whatever), so he elected to make what is now hauntingly referred to as
"SPAGOETTA"...some of you have no idea what goetta is, but if you're german or from Kentucky, Ohio or Pennsylvania, you might. It's a mix of pin-oats and leftover "bits" from meats, mostly pork and beef and you slice it and fry it as a breakfast meat. Glier's is the famous producer here, but homemade is good, too--if you like Goetta.
While I was sitting in the bath, I smelled what had to be, the worst smell ever, and hollered "Jus, you need any help?" No response, just pans banging and things getting tossed into the sink. So, when I came out to the kitchen, it appeared he was making spaghetti and meat sauce, but the smell....what was that smell???? "I didn't find any ground beef or turkey in the freezer, so I just used the goetta..." I mentioned that "no meat" is just fine with spaghetti and he said, "It will be good, just go sit down and get outta my way." as he was slinging pans to and fro, plates piled up high. So, I did. The stuff never even made it to the plates. He took one bit of "spagoetta" and spit it out in the garbage....
I think he could accomplish something...but what, I'm just not sure :)
Frannie, that's a hoot!!!! I love the descriptive of your father...he's built just like Jus!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| frannie |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 08:49:50 AM
jenn, i agree that is a good idea, and i think men should cook and experience creating meals, i just cant seem to get mine to realize that part of making the meal is cleaning up the kitchen.
also, i have always been fascinated that when the do the work, they are doing a "favor" but when we do it well,its just kinda par for the course.
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| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 08:46:02 AM
Have you suggested he fix dinner once in awhile. That way he can make what he likes. |
| frannie |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 08:19:32 AM
well, all this talk of food, (bsides making me hungry) has reminded me of a childhood event that happened at our table one night.
my mom was a good cook, dad was a good eater. he was a small man, but everyday he took 3 sandwhiches for lunch, 2ham and a jam, he also got a generous slice of ppound cake, and candy bars. oh, yea and a thermos full of coffe. he weighed about 135 his whole life. good metabolism i guess, but he also did heavy construction work at times. anyway, we were catholic so in those days, friday was always a no meat day. as kids we would gather at recess and drool over the thought of hamburgers or hotdogs....but no, we would have some kinda variety of meatless meal, and supper was the same.
well, we would sometimes have shrimp, and on rare special occasions we would have baked crab or crab gumbo, but it was usually FISH.
it was just as walter cronkite used to say, the way it was.
every friday, some variety of fish.
so one night after my parents had been married about 25 years, my sister and i must have been about 13 and 11. my mom puts supper on the table, and its fish. my dad, who really was a very easy going sorta fella, just rolled his eyes and said, leonora, not fish, you know i hate fish! to which my mom replied well, after 25 years of fish on friday, you might have said something.
who knew?
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| nubidane |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 08:06:57 AM
OK I am the lucky one I think. My hubby will eat anything I make(except beets, cherries & sauerkraut.. I think I can work around that)& if I let him, he will eat the whole pot or dish of it. After 10 yrs of marriage, he is just finally starting to learn the meaning of leftovers. He never criticizes something; if I ask him if something is terrible, he might say, "I've had worse", but that is the most critical he ever gets. One time I made a dish of millet with kale, onion & chicken broth & I gotta tell ya, it was a big gloppy gross blob. I took one bite & stopped. I went in the other room & he was sitting there watching TV, happily eating a whole bowl of it. GROSS!! Then last weekend we cooked burgers over the open fire, & got into a deep discussion about someting else, & forgot about the burgers. They were burnt beyond recognition & quarter sized. Hubby took 3 of them, put a slice of cheese & a bunch of mustard on them & happily munched away. Jonni, if you ever want to cook for someone & feel appreciated, call my hubby. He will gladly oblige. |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 06 2008 : 05:53:03 AM
I'm good, Karin, really :)
It looks like we all have our "picky picky's" and my gran used to say. Last night he wanted grilled cheese, so that's what he got. Nothing else, just grilled cheese. And he only hate 2 thirds of one half of it, so I guess it's just too darn hot around here.
Aunt Jenny, my dad was like your husband, too...only he'd say flat out: "Barbara (my mother)..don't make this again." and she would get SOOOOO angry! All the rest of the dinner, there was dead silence and the scratch of forks on plates. He was a burnt meat and potatoes guy and didn't eat chicken, or green beans, or really, anything else. So, she'd always try to cook new things for us to change it up.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 10:13:39 PM
Mine is pretty picky too. He will eat things but say little comments (he calls them constructive critizism) about things alot. The kids and I have learned to just smile and keep eating. If he really hates something he is welcome to make something else. I only make one meal. The kids get to pick two items they never have to eat..ever...besides that we just eat what we have. If he were picking supper it would either be cold cereal or steak every night..haha. I am very lucky to not have kids that are picky eaters...all 7 of them arn't picky.
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 1:20:29 PM
Jonni- You could have my husband, who comes home, looks at what I've cooked and asks if there is anything else that we are eating. After 27 years of living with this man, I just look at him and point to the refrigerator. I'm a good cook, but I don't cook fancy things because he won't eat them. If I add the word "healthy" to anything I make, he rolls his eyes and groans in disgust. He is just the pickiest man on Earth and I'm the lucky one that got him.
Unless you want him. Really.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 10:58:39 AM
Yeah, I guess I did get my feathers a little ruffled, Frannie. You know about the only thing (I think) I do best is cook and I love to cook for folks, like you do...and he usually will eat whatever I put in front of him because I actually do sortof cater to his palette. And it's evolving more and more.
Agreed! If I say, "we are having halibut with fruit salsa tonight for dinner" don't shovel it around on the plate and say, "I wasn't really in the mood for fish."
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| frannie |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 07:59:59 AM
sorry, jonni, it sounds like your dh kinda hurt your feelings.
i try myself here to establish some of the rules that the other girls talked about.
basically, what ya see is what ya get. if you dont like the food, you can always make yourself a ham and cheese sandwhich, but really i usually work pretty hard at cooking and i aim to please so i guess i take it personally as well when they get picky about it.
now having said that, i also know that sometimes you really have a "yen" for a certain food, thats fine, but let me know that....and not as we are sitting down to eat.
at any rate, your soup sounded yummy, i think you are right though that dh is just entering his summer no eat zone.
love
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| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 07:38:28 AM
I have always gone with the "if you don't like it make your own" rule. It is spring and everyone is working harder. Maybe he is craving what he NEEDS, for the energy. The proteins and the carbs.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 05:42:41 AM
I see your point, Tina. I also think he's started into his "summer non eating" phase because I can't even get him to stomach something for breakfast, and that's usually one meal he will eat.
If he would only eat salads! I have a mess of gorgeous greens outside in the garden and he wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole! After all this terrible rain we've had, spinning lettuce is going to be a chore, so I don't even want to fool with it for a few days :)
Well, maybe tonight will have a turkey burger or something nice and simple, and refreshing. The recipe I use has granny smith apples in it, so at least there's "something" in there good for him :)
At least I know I'm not alone...and I'll figure him out. He just likes to keep me on my toes!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 5:20:36 PM
oh gosh..if its 90 out no way no how do I want soup..and if its humid..uggh...yep..I'd have turned the soup down too..sorry, but when its really hot out the last thing ya want is something hot...so don't take it personally..I can actually sort of relate to Jus.
It has been 92 degrees here lately and humid and just bleccky out..all I want is something cool and refreshing. Salads and sandwiches are usually the main things here in the summertime.
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 3:44:58 PM
Well, I am going to be the bad wife here, but my family gets what I put on the table. Now I know there are things hubby absolutely hates, like mushrooms and such but I am not a short order cook nor does he do the shopping, putting away, prep and clean up so I say better get it while the getting is good.
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 3:43:01 PM
Jonni - I think your husband and mine were separated at birth!! My husband is extremely picky, although to hear him tell it he is the lowest maintenance person on the planet - go figure. I wish I had words of advice for you but I'm in the same boat - I would be happy with a salad and he wants meat and potatoes. |
| juliet79 |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 3:31:34 PM
My husband barely eats during the summer, and although I usually want to eat healthier this time of year, some days I feel ravenous! I think its chasing after the kids outside, gardening, and doing more activites. The way I see it, I'm not a short order cook nor do I intend to be unless I get paid the big bucks in some restaraunt! LOL. So sorry he hurt your feelings, but maybe next time he wants something special, he can lend a hand in cooking it! Good luck! |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 10:38:08 AM
Yep, Alee...he LOVED it in February.. Raved about it, wanted it night after night (thankfully, it made leftovers :))...so I was sortof surprised.
I know what you mean about food phases, though. I do it too. He also has a weird "summer" food thing where he simply has no appetite when it gets warmer. It's been 90 this week here, and humid, so maybe that has something to do with it. But...it was weird. And frustrating.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 09:57:04 AM
Jonni- Did you point out that he loved the same soup in February? I do go through stages however where I just only want a certain thing. I often go through a "Wheaties" kick where for a week or two- morning, noon, and night I just eat Wheaties cereal.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 09:33:00 AM
Ha! That made me laugh, Sherri!!! The whole night was like "opposite night" with him...so much so that I thought I was on candid camera or something!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jun 04 2008 : 09:23:06 AM
When we got married, my husband would only eat three vegetables, corn, peas, and green beans. Not only was his diet limited to these three - he ate them begrudgingly and acted like he didn't know any others existed. Well, fast forward only 37 years, and he's now eating almost every vegetable I put in front of him - no cooked mushrooms or cooked cauliflower, but he will eat those raw. So hang in there Jonni - by the time you're ready to retire, he'll come around!
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