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"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "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.

>
> That would be my suggestion. Not only would I *let* him shop for himself,
> I would insist on it. Within a few days of his being "difficult" he would
> also be cooking for himself. There's always a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew
> in the pantry if mine wanted to act like that. LOL


But he can't right now. And I won't get into that here.