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"Karen" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:33:45 -0800, in alt.food.diabetic, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Karen" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:15:52 -0800, in alt.food.diabetic, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"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.
>>>>>
>>>>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.

>>
>>I have tried that and I do tell him to shut up all the time. I do know he
>>is suffering right now but there is nothing I can do about that. I have
>>tried to buy/feed him only the foods that are purported not to make his
>>medical condition worse and perhaps even make it better but he does not
>>want
>>those foods. Alas his favorite foods only aggravate the condition and
>>won't be a party to that.

>
> Sorry. I don't know what to say then. It sounds like no matter what
> you do he will be unhappy. Just do the best you can and try not to
> take it personal.


That is what I am thinking. But I just wondered if there was something I
was missing. I don't like fruit at all and I tend to eat the same
vegetables most of the time.