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I Don't Know[_2_]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:30:47 -0800, wrote:

>On 11/13/2013 8:31 AM, pavane wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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>>> On 11/11/2013 6:00 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> Frankly I am about ready to kick him to the curb over this but...
>>>> Husband is wanting fruit and vegetables and not the food I have been
>>>> serving him, which has been a wide variety of things. But... Always
>>>> with a salad to start, which he does not eat. Complaints range from not
>>>> enough dressing to too much dressing to that he wants real food and not
>>>> that. *sigh* Of course I have tried dressing on the side and changing
>>>> dressings. He is no help as to what dressing he will eat. I just try
>>>> to give what he orders in a restaurant.
>>>>
>>>> I stopped buying fruit aside from what Angela and I eat because he just
>>>> wasn't eating it! We have a banana tree and I just threw out a bowl of
>>>> little apples and oranges. He said he didn't see them. Nor did he see
>>>> the grapes in the fridge. Or the pears. This after I had quit buying
>>>> and he insisted that he needed fruit.
>>>>
>>>> I have thrown out countless kinds of raw veggies that Angela and I won't
>>>> eat or have tried to work them into a stir fry when they were a bit past
>>>> their prime, only to have him not eat them.
>>>>
>>>> I have cut up raw veggies, bought hummus and other dips for him. He
>>>> complained that the dips had too much fat so I bought "light" or "lite"
>>>> dip. We always have bean dip in the house. All go uneaten. So do the
>>>> pricey little packages of cut up veggies and fruit with cheese cubes or
>>>> a dip. *sigh*
>>>>
>>>> Any cooked foods that I leave in the fridge for him to eat, go uneaten
>>>> unless perhaps I am here to heat them up, but again he will usually
>>>> complain. He likes to eat what he calls "pops", frozen strawberry fruit
>>>> bars with HFCS in them, chips, cookies, muffins, sandwiches, etc. Seems
>>>> no matter what I serve him, this is what he resorts to. And if I don't
>>>> have these things in the house, he complains that I don't have them.
>>>>
>>>> I rather feel like I am in a no win situation. But is there something I
>>>> am missing here? Angela and I have no problems getting our own food and
>>>> much of the time we do eat raw veggies. I have been on a bean tostada
>>>> kick and those things are super easy to make. I just microwave them. No
>>>> cooking involved. But he even complains about those because it isn't
>>>> enough food for him.
>>>>
>>>> So is there something I am missing here? Is there some sort of food in
>>>> the fruit/veg category that I could just leave in the fridge for him?
>>>> And that he could serve himself? I have even tried the prepared
>>>> fruit/veg trays. The problem with those is that he either won't touch
>>>> them or won't eat some of the food they contain. Like tomatoes or
>>>> blueberries. Sometimes he will eat the cut up melon things. Sometimes
>>>> not. But they have to come that way. If I cut them up, he won't touch
>>>> them. Also seems incapable of heating up something that I have
>>>> prepared. Like soup or a stir fry. *sigh*
>>>>
>>>> There is probably no answer for this but I thought I would try. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Maybe the man just needs a new cook.
>>
>> Maybe the cook just needs a new man.
>>
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>You are new here, aren't you?
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It's amazing how it's always his (JB's husband) fault.

She won't kick him to the curb over this, she needs his money.