"Alice Faber" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
He won't and currently can't. He is at the moment more disabled than me but
won't get into that here.