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Default Vegetable/fruit ideas?

In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Julie,
> >
> > Please let us know. Are you just complaining to get it off your chest or
> > are you asking for advice? Your post is not clear on that so we don't
> > knwo if we should just shut up and listen or should offer you some
> > suggestions if we have them.

>
> I thought it was pretty clear. Yes, I am complaining. I did ask for
> suggestions but I have a feeling there is no answer to this. He won't eat
> hummus, any dips, raw veggies, salad, stir fries... I did buy 5 different
> prepared salads of fruit, nuts and meats, also fruit like Waldorf and a
> vegetable slaw. Also a prepared chef's salad.
>
> Not really sure what else there is. Angela and I mainly eat either canned
> green beans, other beans or raw veggies. He said he won't eat beans either.
> Would not touch the bean relish that I made.
>
> We are not fruit lovers so I don't want to buy fruit to have to throw it
> out. I did buy two cups of watermelon. He did just eat one. And I bought
> cottage cheese with pineapple.
>
> I think it might all boil down to him being as my FIL used to put it,
> "difficult". Perhaps if someone could just agree with me on that, it would
> help. Because he is making me feel like *I* am doing something wrong by not
> giving him the right food. But... If he can't tell me what the right food
> is, specifically, then I am always wrong. Right? I think...


Stop trying to read his mind! Let him go grocery shopping himself.

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