"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>
> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Alice Faber" > wrote in message
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>>> 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.



Well then, that's a different story.

Cheri