how do you ladies react...
... When you work really hard making a beautiful meal and your DH /kids turn their nose up at it?
eat it all and enjoy the fact that there might finally be left overs - but this would probably never happen in my house because my SO will literally eat ANYTHING even if he doesn't like it he'll still eat like 3 plates of it. he eats more than anyone I've ever met in my entire life its craziness.
Dh only eats 8-10 specific meals, give or take, so he never turns it away, as it's something I KNOW he eats. My 15 yr old son eats everything I cook....my 13 yr old daughter is quite picky. On the nights I cook something she doesn't want, she just makes something else herself.
I don't experiment with new recipes unless I know dh won't be home for dinner. I DID have a meatloaf incident this last summer (read directions wrong & added double the amt of ketchup into the meat mixture.....which resulted in mushy meatloaf). My son actually ate it....dh & daughter....nope. I was a little hurt....BUT, it was more my fault for messing up, lol.
Have this issue a lot .. SO has a mild form of SPD and won't eat a LOT of things bc of textures and taste and whatnot . It's hard bc I grew up making homemade biscuits , spaghetti from scratch, homemade ziti , lots of flavorful things and he won't touch most of it with a 10 foot pole. It hurts my feelings especially since when we have kids it's going to be SOOO hard to get them to eat correctly after they see daddy eating something on the side . It hurts my feelings a lot
One of my kids did that last night, he went hungry, he had a bath and went to bed early. He's 9 so he knows by now that if he doesn't eat he goes hungry.. All my kids have had it happen so they all know I'm not making a separate meal for them if they don't like what I wave cooked..
Mind u the nxt morning they eat what ever I have made them for breakfast.
I think I am the one who complains more when my food isn't to my liking?..my husband and children have always loved my cooking... My husband actually always says a thank you prayer after eating a meal I cooked... And tells me he enjoyed it, I even get a phone call from works after he's eaten ?
My SO is a picky eater. We live with my family so I try to make food everyone will eat but sometimes to just doesn't like it. It definitely hurts my feeling when I'm eating dinner with my LO and he goes and and gets fast food. My daughters 16 months and loves food so she hasn't turned her nose up at anything I've cooked. She even likes jalapeño soup. Do even when he doesn't eat what I've made I just focus on how much my daughter likes what I've made.
My son isn't old enough to eat food yet but my SO is the pickiest eater. I try new recipes and he won't eat half of them even tho I will usually get his approval about the ingredients. He's always changing up what he says he likes and doesn't like. Drives me insane. So I make whatever and if he doesn't want it then he can make a sandwich or something
I cant imagine my husband doing that. He's an adult so if I make him dinner he eats it. He's honest about what he thinks about it though so if he didn't like it I probably wouldn't make it again or maybe tweak it. I'm the same with him. Kids are another story that I cannot wait to experience. Kidding!
The only time it's acceptable for anyone to not eat dinner is if they're sick or they genuinely hate what I've made. If it's something I know dd hates, she's allowed to have leftovers or make a sandwich. If it's a new food she has to try it. I made Tortilla soup not too long ago, and it was delicious but quite spicy. Dd tried a bite and couldn't handle it- that's acceptable.
My dh is super picky and chooses to make a sandwich over what I make about once a week. Usually I know he doesn't like what I'm making and warn him so he can prepare to figure something out for himself (I also cook for my mom and grandfather so at least one person isn't going to like what I cook every night). I don't really care, you don't like it fix yourself something else (except my grandfather, if I know he won't like what I'm cooking or can't eat it I'll make him leftovers or soup). The kids don't have a choice. They eat it or they don't. But I always make at least 3 things and I know they'll like at least 2 out of 3 of the things. They never go hungry.
With the kids it wouldn't bother me. With DH I would probably get my feelings hurt simply because I mainly cook for him. I am a picky eater and about 75% of the stuff I cook, I don't eat. DD eats anything as of right now.
ETA: I wouldn't get mad or say anything about it, but in my heart I would be a little bummed. Oh and like others have said, I would also tell him to fix his own food. ?
If my husband did that he'd be eating pb&j sandwiches for a week. He's never complained about what I cook, even when if I burn something or it doesn't turn out right.