I need your help. I was just going to do a poll on the side of my blog, but decided that I needed to explain my reasons for why I need to know the answers to some of the questions I was going to ask. My OH and I have been going over his eating habits for years. He loves food, but he has a weird sense of some foods, like we all do. What I need your help with is some of his weirdness. You see, the way we grew up with our families, and what we ate must have been totally different. There are certain foods he won't even eat, BUT it's not because he has tried it and just doesn't like it. It is because he has NEVER tried something and says he doesn't like it because of what it looks like. Or it's because his family never did that so it is not normal to him. So what I am going to do is list some things that he doesn't like or something that he thinks I am weird for doing, and I want all of you to tell me if you like it or if you think I am just being silly. I know we all have things we don't like, so this won't be a list of things like that. I would really love to hear your opinions on the matter!!
1. What He Hates: Salad dressing. When we eat green salads, he doesn't put any dressing on it. So it is just lettuce, cheese, croutons, carrots etc, but no dressing. So it is just a dry salad.
I love salads, and I love salad dressing. I actually use a lot of dressing. The more the better.
The Problem: I have never even seen him try salad dressing and when I ask him if he has even tried any, he won't give me a straight answer. I don't think he has ever tried dressing on his salad, so he just says he doesn't like it. The funny thing is, when we make spicy chicken wraps, we put ranch dressing on the tortilla shell. What's the difference?
2. What He Hates: Potato salad or Pasta salad. It drives me crazy that he doesn't like or says he doesn't like potato salad. I love it and I can make a really good potato salad. But I rarely make one because he won't eat it, and why make potato salad for only one? He has eaten a couple bites of the potato salad I make, but he makes funny faces. He also won't eat any kind of pasta salad. None. Zip. Seriously? How can one not even like one kind of pasta salad? I mean, they aren't my favorite, but I will still eat them!
The Problem: I also think he has never tried them, and he just doesn't like them because of what they look like. It isn't about him not liking the taste.
3. What He Hates: Yogurt. He has actually told me he has never had yogurt, and he still hates it. How do you know you hate it if you have never had it before?
I eat a lot of yogurt and I love it!!
The Problem: He doesn't like the look of it. He has never tried it, BUT the other night I was eating a blueberry yogurt and I grabbed a spoon, scooped out a small spoonful of it and made him eat it. I know that might be cruel, but really? You can't hate something that you have never tried before! It was quite hilarious watching him eat it. He would stick his tongue out and barely touch it, and he made funny faces the whole time. I told him to just stick the whole spoon in his mouth and eat it! I mean, he likes blueberries! It took him at least 10 minutes to eat one small spoonful. He says it left a funny taste in his mouth, and he said it felt like there were live things crawling inside his mouth after he was done. Live things? Yogurt isn't made of worms!
4. What He Hates: Ketchup. Well, it's not that he dis-likes ketchup, but he will only put it on a hamburger or a hotdog. He won't eat ketchup on his french fries. Or anything, for that matter. He prefers dry french fries. Does this go back to the dry salad thing?
The Problem: Again, I don't think he has ever dipped his fries into ketchup. And as part of my food experiment, I made him dip his french fries in ketchup the other day too. He barely dipped the fry in. I told him to dip it more. He actually did. I didn't really get a response. Hmmm.....
5. What He Hates: Breakfast for dinner. Actually he loves breakfast, but years ago I mentioned that I wanted breakfast for dinner. He thought I lost a few marbles. I grew up eating breakfast for dinner! I love it! After hockey games, we will go out and get something to eat, and a lot of times I will order breakfast. Yummo!
The Problem: His family never made breakfast for dinner, so what he thought was normal was to not have breakfast for dinner. But when he met me, well, either I am not normal and am the only one in the world who eats breakfast for dinner, or he was deprived and never got to experience this. But I know I am not the only one who does this. I ask him all the time, "Why do you think restaurants serve breakfast 24 hours a day?" I know it isn't because I am the only one who likes it! And yes, I have made breakfast for dinner, and I have made him eat it. He still thinks I am weird and that it is NOT normal.
I won't even get into horseradish sauce. We love spicy foods, and again, I made him try it. He still is on the fence about it.
I know everyone has there likes and dislikes with food, and a lot of foods are an acquired taste. But some of the things he "doesn't" like just seem very strange to me. I also believe you can't hate something until you have tried it. And I think a lot of what he doesn't like, are foods he has never tried before. When we met he wouldn't eat tomatoes and eggs. I now have him eating eggs like they are going out of style. And he will eat tomatoes if they are cut up small. (He says the eggs goes back to a bad "egg" experiment, and he just didn't like the taste of tomatoes, which I think is because he had never had them before!)
I know forcing him to eat things he says he doesn't like sounds cruel. But I am only forcing him to eat them because I know he has never had it before. I will be counting how many yogurts are in the fridge and I will keep a close eye on them to see if any disappear.
Please let me know how you feel about any of these dislikes. Is it just me? Or is my OH a finicky eater? Or is he just being weird? Do you say you don't like something when you have NEVER had it before? Or will you try anything, no matter what it looks like? I will be sharing your comments with him, so please let me know what you think!!!! We will be waiting for the results!
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This was a very funny post! Did you write it after a few sips of New Year's champagne??? ;) I thought it might be about one of your dog or cats dislikes. But nope- it's about the OH! I did not know he was so picky, since he likes to cook and eat I figured he liked everything!
The dry salad thing I don't get, there is nothing worse than a dry salad, LOL!
I am a picky eater too. I love cheese, but don't LOVE it on a hamburger (will tolerate it.) I don't like mayo, but will tolerate it on stuff if I'm hungry enough and of course I put it in my tuna. I just don't like A LOT on my stuff.
I used to hate mustard and still hate the yellow stuff but love Grey Poupon or the fancy stuff.
I noticed the yogurts in your fridge, I guess he bought them for you! Yogurt has live cultures in it and is good for your digestive system! Maybe your OH has some kind of extra-sensory tongue sensors (ESTS) and actually CAN feel the living bacteria on his tongue?? ha ha!
I wonder if food issues are learned or genetic? Maybe some people do just have issues with tastes/textures. I do think little kids tastes change, as kids they won't eat things because of how it looks or the texture, but they often outgrow it (some not until adulthood- like me!)
Now, maybe since you want the OH to try new things, is there something YOU have never tried, that you don't think you like??? Or have you tried everything you don't like?
Sorry for the long response. Since you posted this recently, I'm assuming you got the day off?? Enjoy!! Happy new year to you and the OH! Maybe his resolution will be to try a new food every week!
Hello!!! Well.. your cowboy certainly has some definite ideas about what he likes or "dislikes". I, myself, love MY potato salad.. but not always other folks versions. I also love ketchup on my french fries, generally, but sometimes I eat them, just salty. When I lived in Idaho, the Mickey D's there had "fry sauce", which was a combo of ketchup and mayonnaise that was a pale orange and came in little cups that I have yet to see at any other McD's in other states..which is kind of strange. On the other hand, I really don't like horseradish... or very little in recipes. I do love having breakfast for supper on occasion.. so, that's just my preference.. but I do love a great rare steak for breakfast with my eggs too. Also, I hate escargo... NOPE... never actually ate any either...but, snails and I do not agree with each other....I know my tummy and my definite "can't tolerate its".... and slime is one of those "its". My suggestion... let the guy eat what he wants... and YOU eat the potato salad, the dressing..(although I really eat salad myself just FOR the dressing-- maybe you can coax him into trying out some new tastes first, other than just ranch?.. I make one using raspberry chipotle barbeque sauce and orange Sunny Delite...and its awesome). As for the yogurt... it leaves it all for you, if he doesn't want to try it out... I hated cottage cheese most of my life as well as pineapple, until one day, I tried it and discovered that pineapple and cottage cheese tasted mighty fine together...and now, I love the stuff!!!... I don't know how this will figure into your poll..but.. my suggestion is still... eat what you love and fix smaller portions.. if he won't indulge... and let him do what he wants... it may be, that he's just being a little stubborn... like when a mom tries to interest her kids in eating more veggies.. spinach wasn't anything I would touch until I got much older... and then, only fresh or buried in cream cheese... life is too short to worry about these differences... as long as he loves YOU... I'd think he's a Keeper!!! LOL... have a wonderful New Year!!!.... just think... he would have to learn to like Grits for breakfast at MY house!!!... LOL... Shadow D. (Comancheshadow)
It may be the fact that I was raised by Depression Era parents, but we ate everything. There was no excuse, it was put in front of you, you ate it and was glad you had it.
My husband was funny like that and some of this he inherited from his family. Fried squash, for example, was something he never tried...because he did not like the SOUND of it.
Another thing was cooking with peppers and garlic, he does love that now after thirty-seven years.
There were many things his family never ate but ours did. I was surprised when he had never had some of the meat I prepared. Now he loves what I cook.
Breakfast is always a good standby for dinner. When it has been a long day, it is the quickest meal to cook. I still get the urge for a scrabbled egg and tomato sandwich when I have worked outside all day. It just seems right.
I did notice that he seems to avoid acidic items. Could be that he has a low tolerance to sour.
I use to cook meals with one thing for him, one for me and one we both liked. Those days are gone, he eats what I cook or he cooks himself.
I do have some things I do not like; sweet potatoes make me sick(truly, throw up sick), I do not like buttermilk except in cooking, I do not like cottage cheese. I have learned to like yogart with all the new flavors.
I have a sour problem too. I use to eat all kinds of fruits but now I seem to squeal like they are all lemons.
I never, ever get hungry for beans. I eat them but it is not something I long to have.
Sounds like you were raised the same as I ,try it before you say you dont like it. But my hubby has had less variety and is at best hesitant to try new things. As for ther potato salad , I don't care much for it either ,I am told I make a really good potato salad and am always asked to make it for family events , but I don't usually eat it(I thinkI had it too much as a kid) Good for you for trying to show him some variety.
And Happy New year
Some people are just cautious about food, I guess - they would have been the ones who survived in prehistoric times because they didn't eat the mushrooms!
I'm one of those people who likes almost everything - I've never really liked oysters (too slimy), and it took me a long time to warm up to mushrooms and blue cheese. I'm a vegetarian now, so I actually try a lot of new things and taste combinations now.
Textures are important to many people - he seems to not like slimy/saucy things - salad dressing/yoghurt/ketchup and perhaps not sour tastes.
If he like oil/vinegar, you could try that plain for salad dressing and potato salad. Yoghurts come in all sorts of flavors and textures, from solid to almost liquid and from plain (sour, which I love - I actually make my own) to sweetened with fruit, flavored with vanilla, etc.
I have a daughter who also doesn't like breakfast for dinner, which I love, although she will eat it in a pinch.
Maybe you could have him mostly eat things he likes and then just have one dish "just to try" and if he doesn't like it you can finish it. My family doesn't much like spicy food, which I adore, and it's always a challenge to get them to try that.
1. What He Hates: Salad dressing.: Me, too. I don't mind if it there is a little spritz of it, but can't stad the thick creamy kinds, like ranch. Makes me gag when I tr it!
2. What He Hates: Potato salad or Pasta salad. :Same thing. Makes me gag. I've eaten it at picniks and BBQ's, but only a few nibbles. I feel like I might vomit. Again, it's a textural thing for me.
3. What He Hates: Yogurt. I love yogurt....sometimes. If it's very thick and almost solid, not creamy and runny. I like when my yogurt is so firm it stands up by itself. The creamier yogurt makes me gag. I also don't like fruit yogurt with chunks of fruit floating around. It must be smooth yogurt, like Greek Yogurt with honey or vanilla. yummo!
4. What He Hates: Ketchup: I never ever put ketchup on my french fries. Makes the fries taste sour and turns them soggy and gooey (and then I will gag!)
5. What He Hates: Breakfast for dinner: I do love beakfast for dinner and my parents or family never served it for dinner, so I don't know why, when, or how I ever started serving breakfast for dinner, but like you I could eat it 24/7. An egg, potatoe and green chile burrito is goo any time of the day. And french toast for a late night snack? yummm!
*horseradish sauce: Ewwww! Too sour and bitter and thick! My Dad used to try to get me to eat it as a youngster by telling me it would put hair on my chest. Ummmm, what teenage girl wants hair on her chest anyway? gah! lol!
I've tried it as an adult, though, and I just can't eat it....even the smell is horrible!
I'm also weird in that I can't stand raw tomatoes. I'm allergic to tomatoe vines, so I can't grow it which is fine with me. The watery, acidity of tomatoes just doesn't taste right in my mouth.
And cheese is another thing which I cannot eat without gagging. I can eat mozzarella, but only in lasagne and on pizza....but not alot. Any other cheese is just to thick, and rancid tasting.
I think most of the foods I dislike are due to textural reasons. Sounds like your OH may have similar issues.
~Lisa
Oh that was really a cute post, and I understand that sometimes we have to shake our heads with how others choose the foods they like.
My grown girls hate mushrooms.. they say they have chosen to be a mushroom free family, though my grandkids only dislike mushrooms cuz their parents claim to dislike them! Mushrooms are so tasteless, how can someone hate mushrooms?
If you ever have some little kidlings. make sure they try everything young... so as to avoid continuing this unusual (yes, unusual!) behavior!
That is a funny post - people (including myself) have funny ideas about food.
Salad without dressing - I find that a bit odd. It would be so dry without something - I do prefer a homemade oil/vinegar dressing to creamy stuff like ranch though.
Potato/pasta salad - I like these and make a wicked potato salad, but I am a bit picky when eating someone else's...especially if sitting outside in the sun all day at a picnic! My Mom makes hers with eggs, which I do not like...
Yogurt - I like yogurt, but I've noticed that different people like different textures/flavours. For example, I don't like plain yogurt, it tastes like sour cream to me. I also don't like yogurt with aspartame... I have tried them all though to know this! ;-)
Ketchup - hmmm I love ketchup on my fries, but my hubby likes to just dip the teeniest bit of his fry.
Breakfast for dinner - I have no problems with this - I like spaghetti for breakfast too, so not sure how valid my opinion is though!
As for me, I can't stand eggs - they leave the worst aftertaste and make me gag. I think part of it is in my head, but I've given up trying. I also don't like fish or seafood. I've tried a couple different things and have decided from that that I don't like any of it!
You and your OH just crack me up!!!! It is funny to combine likes and dislikes/childhood memories and different eating habits in one household. It sounds like some of his "dislikes" are really based on fear of the what the food looks like! Maybe a blindfold is in order?
I am not picky, but I haven't had meat since January of 1979. I was 11 - almost 12 years old and I don't really remember the taste. Brian isn't picky at all and neither is Maizie. When I first married Brian though he refused to have "breakfast for dinner". Now, he even requests it. He never eats in between meals, which is completely counter to how I was brought up. My mom and I grazed all day and it has been hard for me to change that.
Very amusing post.
If only there were more things in this world I didn't like. But alas, I love food and I love to eat.
Many people with more rigid upbringings than mine (ours) can't loosen up enough to eat breakfast for dinner. Or pizza for breakfast. Similarly, a lot of people don't like foods that are normally served hot served cold -- like potato salad or pasta salad, both of which I like. I hate tomato juice because to me it's just cold tomato soup. Ditto gazpacho or any kind of aspic. Yuk.
He's an adult and he's going to do what he's going to do. His loss. Unless you have kids and then you have a houseful of picky eaters, which is not fun. Ask my sister-in-law...
Things I don't like: lamb, roast beef, beef stew, olives, truffles, caviar, mushrooms (I'll tolerate them), doughnuts (what's up with that?), bananas, brussel sprouts, cooked spinach or any other cooked greens (ugh - limp & slimy). I only wish there were more.
This is so funny, I think your OH and my hubby must have been brothers. To top off the "I can't make breakfast any time after 10:00 a.m., I also can't make fish any night other than Friday".
It amazes me what he thinks a meal is and what I think a meal is. GREAT post, I could be here all night responding! LOL :)
Forgot to say that I will try anything once, regardless of what it looks like. And I even try things multiple times periodically because they say our taste buds change every 7-10 years. I never liked beer until about 4-6 months ago.
Well, I like just about everything, there are a few things I am not fond of, oysters being one. Oh, I used to eat them but that was before biology class when we had to dissect muscles ...ugh... they popped sometimes and that ended the oyster eating! LOL
I will try anything once, unless it is really weird.
When our daughter was little and she would say she didn't want something; we told her she had to try just one bite. If she didn't like it then she didn't have to eat it but she did have to try one bite and eat it. Maybe you can try that with you OH, "just TRY one bite dear, for me!"
I wouldn't worry about it too much some people just have different tastes. You eat what you like and let him eat what he likes. My neighbors husband when he doesn't like something he calls it "woman's food"... what ever that means???? LOL
Fun post Paint Girl! I know what you like and don't like, since I'm your Mama!
I hate salad without salad dressing. I like a lot. I love good potatoe salad. Nana Vi taught me a secret. Use some pickle juice in it! Yogurt I love. But it has to be vanilla and I like Activia the best. Ketchup is good, so is breakfast for dinner! And I can eat horseradish if I mix a little mayo in it. I like putting some in tuna, or ground up roast beef that I make lunch meat out of. Safeway has a wonderful horseradish cheddar cheese.
Things I dislike-eggs! I can only eat deviled eggs, or egg salad or hard boiled eggs.Sometimes scrambled with lots of veggies. I hate dark meat-chicken or turkey. It makes me gag. Has a weird taste. I love seafood, but not sauted. I love all veggies but carrots are my least favorite. I love all cheese! I can eat mayo out of a jar! I know, weird! I hate dry sandwiches. I am really liking mustard right now. Just plain old yellow mustard. I think it's the texture that people don't like.
Oh girl you gave me the giggles! I won't even go into my food strangeness... I'm a picky eater but there are some things I like that are not 'normal' (at least not to most people around here! lol)
Just a few quick points:
The dry salad - my advice would be to just leave him alone with that one. Its probably healthier to NOT have dressing, and hey at least he's eating salad!!
Yogurt - I have a friend who is exactly the same as your OH. Her excuses are totally the same. However she will eat frozen yogurt!
Breakfast for dinner - totally acceptable! Although Pie thought I was weird when I first exposed him to that too.
Tomatos - are evil. (just my opinion) They are icky on their own but delicious in soups and sauces. But to actually EAT a SLICE of tomato... **shudder**
that is hilarious. wonder if it is a cultural thing...i don't know anyone who doesn't like any of the things you listed except yogurt...men and yogurt for some reason can be tricky. don't take him to europe...he will lose weight. one time my husband was in portugal and accidently ordered an eel! yes, it had its head on the plate...he ate and he said it wasn't that bad! ;~)
Ha Ha Ha, well sweetie it is just like that alot of times when you try to merge! My niece eats just like your OH, no ketchup, salad dressing, mayo, etc. Now my hubby is just as weird! He can NOT stand the smell of cooking food in the house. So we eat out alot. Who would have thought that food would be such a problem in so many peoples lives. He also gets hung up on certain foods and will eat nothing but that food day in and day out and then eventually never eat that food again....just too flippin weird! Well I tell you after 25 years you finally just forget about it...I mean you just got to. It used to hurt my feelings because I am a great cook and used to love to do it...what is a girl to do?
Paint Girl! This post was so funny! And your OH sounds like he can be very trying with his funny eating habits! I think it is so funny that sometimes he is evasive about why he doesn't like something or if he has eaten it or not! That is the little child in him coming out!
Most of the things you listed that he will not eat I like A LOT. Take Yogurt for example. I love it. But what I have noticed (because well, I love it so much that I am a bit of a yogurt connoisseur) is that some yogurts are very creamy, and some are quite cobwebby in texture. Most people who claim they do not like yogurt (in my experience) have only eaten the cobwebby kind and therefore find all of them very gross. And that is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater!! Second example: Breakfast for dinner. I love doing this. But then again eggs and toast and bacon and pancakes are some of my fave foods on earth. My husband: he's with your OH. Does NOT like breakfast for dinner. In fact, when we "resort" to this meal, my husband scoffs at it! Yes! He actually scoffs at the food on his plate, as if it can hear him and feel ashamed for showing face post 10am. My only objection to breakfast for dinner is that it probably is not the healthiest thing to plop in your belly after 5pm. But it is probably one of the yummiest. And finally: the Dry Salad. This idea, of crackling through a dry salad, make me giggle in disbelief. I am just wondering: how can a dry salad even taste good? Is your OH satisfied with his dry salads? Does he eat heaps and heaps of dry salad? That is so funny! He sounds like a tortoise! I think they eat dry salads too!!! Well, if they taste really good to him dry (although it makes me thirsty just writing this), maybe that's not so bad. Better dry salad than dry.. OATMEAL!
Thanks for writing such funny posts.
Hey there Paint Girl!!! I have missed reading about you and your sister's adventures...
LOL about you and your man''s differences in cuisine. :)
Well I never eat fires with ketchup either. I don't see anything wrong with letting him eat his fries the way he likes them. Anyway my Hunny refuses to eat mushrooms, liver (which I love) and ckra along with several other things that I like to eat. People are different and If he likes it that way why try changing it?
Sounds like some people have figured out why OH only eats certain things. The not thinking breakfast for dinner is okay though? DUDE!!! Breakfast rocks anytime of the day.;)
Myself-the only ordinary thing I can remember ever saying I didn't like without ever tasting it was Guacamole. I don't know if it was the mashed consistency and the color or what, but I insisted I hated it. A friend of mine insisted I try some of her husband's fabulous guacamole and would not take no for an answer, so finally I touched my chip in it and ate it. It didn't make me gag, so I tried a little more and a little more and actually decided I LOVED it. Now I am not nearly so dead set against trying new stuff. Sometimes I have to close my eyes if the "look" of it isn't appealing.
My Honey on the other hand, will eat whatever you put in front of him without complaint. All those years of working International, he said he learned that you do not ask what something is. You eat it. If you like it, you eat more. If you don't like it, you eat enough to fill you up.
Good luck with adapting OH's palate. Hopefully he will find a few new things he can enjoy.
Oh boy, this was good:-)
1. Salad Dressing: I love it, surprised he can eat it dry, but it's healthier that way for him, so I'd let it be.
2. Potato or Pasta Salad: Where was he raised? How did he escape trying those? There are so many varities...I love them! I also put pickle juice in mine for moistness. And some mustard. My DH loves this! I say he should "at least" try them, but no one should have to eat something they dislike.
3. Yogurt: It's good for you, and again many varieties. Some better than others. I love it.
4. Ketchup: I love it on fries, but MD fries I like dry. I also use it on omelets and hot dogs!
5. My DH and I LOVE breakfast for dinner: Pancakes, eggs and sausage! YUMMMM!
NOTE: Now with all that said? Trust me, we have some similar issues....
My DH has fits if I put cooked onions and peppers in our scrambled eggs. He wants "plain" food all the time.
I like to add those to omelets, eggs or potatoes because I love it, and it's healthier, but he hates it.
So you are not alone...
I have NEVER seen so many LONG comments on a post before...CUDO'S Paint Girl. Being form the restaurant world myself...I came up with this though based on my experience with all the weird ways people ordered their food. It goes like this...People are sometimes more picky about their food than they are about their sexual partners!
Avacado is the ONLY thing my Loving Husband won't eat!!!
It does sound a little weird to me, but then I guess we are all a little weird in our own ways. I guess if it's your turn to cook, you cook what you wan and if he eats it great, if not, he can fix his own!
By the way, I read this when you first posted, but forgot to come back and comment that night. I just wanted to let you know I fixed sausage, eggs and toast for the kids for DINNER that night! They loved it, I'm training them up right!
You're cracking me up, girl! I never liked dressing on my salads, won't touch yogurt, and have a multitude of other dislikes that you'd probably find strange.
I think it's you.
:D
Wonder why you care if he eats his salad without dressing or fries without ketchup. Does he insist you eat things his way? Seriously, if this is the only issue in your marriage, I say you are one lucky woman. Eating is a personal choice, let it go and be thankful.
Anonymous~ This was meant to be a FUNNY post about some food behaviors I find funny and odd about my other half and wanted to hear my readers comments on what they think and what, if any, dislikes they have, not comments on why I CARE.
In no way did I ever mention that I "care" or that food is an "issue" in our relationship, obviously you don't follow my blog or you would know that we have a very committed and loving relationship.
So much for trying to do a funny post, huh? Maybe you should lighten up a little bit and have some fun with this too, what do you dislike? Why don't you share with us, like everyone else has?
Oh my goodness! My husband flipped out when I mentioned Breakfast for dinner, too!!! He thought I was crazy! I LOVE breakfast for dinner!! French toast, sausage, and eggs!!! I think your OH needs to relax, just like my husband needs to relax.
I am a picky eater. My husband used to tell me he hated cream cheese, sour cream, and onions. But I cook with those three things ALL the time and he LOVES what I cook. He would never eat them separate but mixed up he never knows!!! whuahahahahah (evil laugh)
I don't think it's bad to make him try new things. I am like you, if you have never tried it then you can't say you don't like it.
Good luck having your OH branch into new food groups!!
Lots of comments ... and no time to read them all, so this may be a repeat. I am a finicky eater. Or maybe I have a food fear or phobia of some sort. Mom used to have to chop onions so small they were microscopic and gawd forbid I bit into one! I would eat dressing & croutons, but no lettuce. Lettuce salads came in my 20's. I am 48 yrs old and just NOW started putting lettuce on my subway sandwiches. I say I don't like things because of how they look or smell. I'm weird though, because I love seafood which turns a lot of people off.
I bet the longer he is with you the more he will start to eat other things. My husband eats everything and I found that even though I didn't like something, I needed to cook it for he & the kids. And then I started eating it too.
I was so tickled while reading this post Paint Girl. I see an ongoing theme here.....for the most part....dairy being the culprit! Perhaps some of the other comments touched on this already but I didn't have a chance to read them all! LOL! Also, did you know that lots of guys don't care for ketchup aside from hamburgers or anything with red sauce for the matter? It also sounds like a texture issue. I'm a dry salad person too, but for different reasons....say all the bad crap they put in dressing like monosodium glutamate and xanthan gum to name a couple. And you have a bunch of fat in salad dressing as well....the non-fat is grotesque so I choose dry with more spices sprinkled on and dry nuts for flavor or yeah and dried fruits are good too. Have you ever heard of the Eat Right For Your Blood Type book? I stumbled onto this one when I started eating more healthy and it rang very true for me. You actually crave only the foods that are right for your specific body type and chemical make up! I'm an 0 positive....kind of a fun read. I would have been one of the "cave men types" that could digest meat the best because I naturally have more acidic genetics, thereby breaking down the meat is made easy. However, I don't eat a lot of meat now and have to try to keep a more alkaline base. My OH is A (I think, it's been awhile since I've read it) should eat more veggies than meat (but he HAS to have his meat) for his system because he has a more sensitive digestive. Your body is predisposed to certain diseases when you introduce wrong food over a long period of time. Should be more alkaline than acidic! I don't naturally like dairy and it said I should avoid most of all it! People think I'm crazy because I could live without cheese and ice cream! LOL! Is your OH very systematic in the way he does things? He may just not like change but I will confess....I made my kiddos at least try every kind of food when they were little! Have fun with it! Luanne
Very funny, Paint Girl!! I wonder if it's a texture thing, somehow? I have a friend that has issues with anything like that: salad dressing, mayo, ketchup, etc. To me, it's kinda weird, but hey to each his own. I would say he might be a bit on the picky side, from the sound of it. Me, I'll try anything and I usually like it. Maybe that's why I dislike my hips so......
Oh my! This is too funny! The boyfriends fave saying is "the fat kid'll eat anything". I don't consider him fat, but he went from a 26" waist, skinny little stick in high school to a 36" waist now and calls himself the fat kid.
It's not entirely true though. He will not go near white gravy. He claims it's from a bad experience in his past, but he won't touch the stuff. I love it, so that makes me sad. I have gotten him to eat my chicken gravy, but that's as close as I've gotten. No biscuits and gravy for us! :(
He also thinks I've got a screw loose when I suggest breakfast for dinner. Apparently, it's just not done. Personally, I'm a big fan.
He does dressing on his salad, but never, never any croutons. Works out fine for me, cuz I love them so I get his in a restaurant. I pretty much drown my salad in dressing, not sure how a person could eat it dry.
Other then that, he's pretty open minded. I'm probably pickier then he is, but that's a story for another day. ;)
We have a tradition at my house where I cook a full breakfast for dinner for my nephew's birthday. Eggs, bacon, grits, sausage, biscuits, gravy and pancakes... he has requested it since he was 6. Yummm.....
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