My husband insists on meat and potatoes every night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's rude-- yes, he's a grown up but rejecting the food that someone prepared for you is rude and discourteous.

If it's not okay for kids to act this way, it's not okay for adults to do it either. It sets a poor example of good manners.

I completely disagree that just because a spouse cooks food for you that you don't get to reject it...especially if it is something not to your taste and your spouse knows it. Honestly this whole thing sounds like OP has control issues and she is upset that the husband has found a way against it.

[Anonymous]

My husband is like this, where I’m much more of a “meat as seasoning” type eater. The compromise is I keep a stash of those individually cryovacced steaks and chops Wegmans sells for him. When the dinner isn’t meaty enough, he chucks one under the broiler for himself and eats the rest of the meal as a side.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is easy, op!! So easy. You tell him that you want to respect his wishes to be in charge of his own food. You say that since you don’t want to mess anything up, you’re going to give him full control of the kitchen for dinner for the next month. Once he’s planning, shopping, cooking, and cleaning up every night...he’s going to realize what a complete pain in the butt it is and he’s going to drop the rope, I have no doubt about it. It’s easy for him now because he gets to swoop in and take 15 minutes to grill a piece of meat while standing outside and checking his phone. Once he had to cook a multi-faceted meal for the family every night it’s going to get very old to him (and to your kids—a few weeks of eating daddy’s food won’t kill them)

This seems a bit much. He is cooking what he wants to eat not asking his wife to do it.

Yes, he’s cooking what he wants FOR HIMSELF. He’s offering the kids a little bit, but there’s no way he’s shopping and cooking for the entire family every week and being so picky. I think people who are rude enough to reject a meal that someone cooked for them can take over the cooking for a month and see how time consuming it is to do so. Just like the parents who don’t have to do all the rushing around to get kids ready for school in the morning or do the school-soccer-homework shuffle because they work late. They don’t GET it that it doesn’t happen easily because it’s easy, it’s because someone else is working hard to make it happen.

If he is contributing to the food budget then you're the one who is being "rude" and inconsiderate in not considering his preferences.

What if she is contributing equally to the food budget? She never said she refused to cook steak and potatoes—she said he wants it every single meal! Come on, that’s just ridiculous. You want your picky husband to drive your kid’s to be equally picky?