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Default Vegetable/fruit ideas?

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:15:52 -0800, in alt.food.diabetic, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"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.


Can you give him pen and paper and have him write suggested veggies
and fruit and work off of his list? Then if he complains tell him to
be quiet. At that point if he still complains you know he is either
just a cranky old man (yes, younger ones can be that ;-) or just
being difficult to annoy you.