Husband complaining about my food

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, do you make the same things? You said you rotate through the same things for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. That has got to be boring. Share what you make so we know if he is right.

OP here. This is what we eat

Breakfast: Food choices are eggs, oatmeal, yogurt, smoothie, or cereal. I try to make the eggs different with veggie scrambles and eggs muffins. I switch up the toppings of the oatmeal and yogurt. We have a variety of frozen fruit for smoothies.

Lunch: I make enough for leftovers with most dinners. If not, we do a sandwich or salad with a side of chips.

Snacks: I keep if variety of snacks like yogurt, fruit, veggies and hummus, crackers and cheese, nuts, protein bars, etc.

Dinner: I do chicken is salmon with a side of veggies and a salad or potatoes, pasta, stuffed peppers, meatloaf, tacos, Salisbury steak, etc. I try to mix dinner up but we do fall into having the same things depending on the week. If I don’t cook, we eat leftovers or order takeout.

I don’t have time to cook elaborate things for breakfast and lunch. I keep it quick and filling.

You cook him breakfast, lunch and dinner?? He sounds like a spoiled brat. Do you have kids? do you work? I would just stop cooking all that for him. He can eat cereal or crackers for all I care.

Most people don't have 3 hot meals a day unless they are in an institutional setting. You are doing fine.

Have him buy a cooking magazine, pull out recipes that look good, shop and then try to make them. You can help at first if you must.

[Anonymous]

Your DH can make something else for him to eat. I don’t like my DHs cooking but I don’t complain, I just don’t eat it. I’m not in the mindset I have to eat anything I don’t like. I don’t even make my kids eat something they don’t like, but I make them try a dish at least once. To me eating is such an individual experience. Life is way too short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have kids?

If not, then make single servings for yourself. When he says something, you say, "well, you don't like my food so I figure you can make your own."

Also, DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN WITH THIS MAN

Way to read the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, do you make the same things? You said you rotate through the same things for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. That has got to be boring. Share what you make so we know if he is right.

OP here. This is what we eat

Breakfast: Food choices are eggs, oatmeal, yogurt, smoothie, or cereal. I try to make the eggs different with veggie scrambles and eggs muffins. I switch up the toppings of the oatmeal and yogurt. We have a variety of frozen fruit for smoothies.

Lunch: I make enough for leftovers with most dinners. If not, we do a sandwich or salad with a side of chips.

Snacks: I keep if variety of snacks like yogurt, fruit, veggies and hummus, crackers and cheese, nuts, protein bars, etc.

Dinner: I do chicken is salmon with a side of veggies and a salad or potatoes, pasta, stuffed peppers, meatloaf, tacos, Salisbury steak, etc. I try to mix dinner up but we do fall into having the same things depending on the week. If I don’t cook, we eat leftovers or order takeout.

I don’t have time to cook elaborate things for breakfast and lunch. I keep it quick and filling.

You cook him breakfast, lunch and dinner?? He sounds like a spoiled brat. Do you have kids? do you work? I would just stop cooking all that for him. He can eat cereal or crackers for all I care.

Yeah, this is weird. Why are you making him breakfast and lunch? Even if you SAH, normal adults make their own breakfast and lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, do you make the same things? You said you rotate through the same things for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. That has got to be boring. Share what you make so we know if he is right.

OP here. This is what we eat

Breakfast: Food choices are eggs, oatmeal, yogurt, smoothie, or cereal. I try to make the eggs different with veggie scrambles and eggs muffins. I switch up the toppings of the oatmeal and yogurt. We have a variety of frozen fruit for smoothies.

Lunch: I make enough for leftovers with most dinners. If not, we do a sandwich or salad with a side of chips.

Snacks: I keep if variety of snacks like yogurt, fruit, veggies and hummus, crackers and cheese, nuts, protein bars, etc.

Dinner: I do chicken is salmon with a side of veggies and a salad or potatoes, pasta, stuffed peppers, meatloaf, tacos, Salisbury steak, etc. I try to mix dinner up but we do fall into having the same things depending on the week. If I don’t cook, we eat leftovers or order takeout.

I don’t have time to cook elaborate things for breakfast and lunch. I keep it quick and filling.

You cook him breakfast, lunch and dinner?? He sounds like a spoiled brat. Do you have kids? do you work? I would just stop cooking all that for him. He can eat cereal or crackers for all I care.

Yeah, this is weird. Why are you making him breakfast and lunch? Even if you SAH, normal adults make their own breakfast and lunch.

OP here. I don’t. I said I make him breakfast because I make myself the same thing. If I eat something simple, he gets his own breakfast. He makes his own lunch and gets his own snacks. I make dinner.

[Anonymous]

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Unless he has a physically demanding job, I would quit with the making breakfast and lunch nonsense. Let him figure it out. You’ll make dinner with more creativity and enthusiasm because it’s one meal a day.

OP here. He takes the baby and gets him ready in the morning while I make breakfast. He has the baby in the evenings while I cook and cleans up the kitchen. I don’t mind cooking since he does plenty around the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Unless he has a physically demanding job, I would quit with the making breakfast and lunch nonsense. Let him figure it out. You’ll make dinner with more creativity and enthusiasm because it’s one meal a day.

OP here. He takes the baby and gets him ready in the morning while I make breakfast. He has the baby in the evenings while I cook and cleans up the kitchen. I don’t mind cooking since he does plenty around the house.

So, do you have a problem or not?

[Anonymous]

I cooked through a few different cookbooks during covid. Joanna Gaines recipes are usually reasonably easy and family friendly. I now have a spreadsheet of all my favorites from all the books I went through and that’s what I refer to each week before going to the store.

[Anonymous]

Your food probably sucks. And you make the same slop over and over. And no that's not meal planning. That's why this little bish don't wanna eat it.

Tell him to make his own food or get takeout. They have a lot of prepared foods at certain supermarkets that you can just heat up. Then he does not have to deal with you and your bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Buy some cookbooks or download the Yum or AllRecipes app. Nobody wants to eat the same, boring, ill-prepared foods all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband doesn't complain. He won't eat it, so we waste a lot of food. My kids won't eat a lot of the food either. It sucks, and he complains about take out like pizza because its $$$

So your husband nor your kids like your cooking? What are you doing about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do most of our cooking as well. If my DH said that to me (and sometimes he does complain) I tell him to shut the F up or he can cook for himself. I HATE knowing that I have to cook for my family EVERY DAY FOR ETERNITY. I would prefer to eat the same thing every day, which I used to do before when I was single.

This made me laugh. I feel the same way.
I like to cook, and I particularly enjoy cooking for my family. But knowing that I have to cook or at least plan a meal for my family every day for the next 3,000 days really gets to me sometimes.
I didn’t eat dinner every single day when I was single. I certainly didn’t have a veggie, starch, and protein. Can’t we all just have oatmeal sometimes? Do we have to do this whole ritual EVERY DAY?!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your food probably sucks. And you make the same slop over and over. And no that's not meal planning. That's why this little bish don't wanna eat it.

Tell him to make his own food or get takeout. They have a lot of prepared foods at certain supermarkets that you can just heat up. Then he does not have to deal with you and your bullshit.

Oh, look, an 8th grade boy has joined the conversation.

[Anonymous]

If you are cooking the same food over and over again, anyone would get tired of it. Cooking is not hard. There are millions of YouTube videos and recipes on the internet. Take 15-20 minutes a week and look around. You may be amazed at how easy cooking new dishes is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:get hello fresh for some new ideas. you can do it together.

Hello Fresh used to be awesome. Now they are losing money so surprise charging people $200 for their cheapest items in the largest quantity.