cooking for a picky eater

[somegirl]

anyways, it looks like ya'll have confirmed what i was already thinking. cook what i want and if she doens't want it then tough shit. she can make pb&j sammiches.

I think that is the best way to go.

[He Man]

read the first few post.... so excuse me if my post is a bit confusing maybe i didnt get the initial point of the thread.

Clean out the house of current foods. Starve yourself for 3-4 days with water and crackers only. Then hit up a few unique restaurants. There is no flavor better than hunger. Because of that above reason, i eat almost anything now and appreciate it. Well I didnt starve myself, i was just waiting on a check to clear. 

[Popeye the Sailor]

make something that is good to everyone but different from what she would normally eat and ask her to try it.  my ex used to be a real picky eater, but i got her to change by having her try stuff that i liked until she got used to it and i started doing that more often.  when i met her she HATED mexican food and it is my favorite, but by the time we split, she loved it.  when i wanted her to try calamari said "its good and youre gonna have to try it someday, or im just gonna slip it to you and say its something different" and it turns out she loved it.  the only thing i could never get her to eat was sausage.

I see why she's your ex.

[mitt]

I still like Jeff's suggestion of a little booze before dinner.  A few glasses of wine while cooking would do the trick too  

mitt

[OverCaffeinated]

I see why she's your ex.

[OwnyTony]

I see why she's your ex.

Darn it, that was my punch line.

Send her to a 3rd world country.  Im sure she will learn to be less picky then.

[toaster]

I see why she's your ex.

and whats so bad about that is that shes now a lesbian (she had told me about doing things like that in her past but still).  and her new woman is a very butchy looking thing and is bigger than me and is downright scary looking.  and by bigger, i mean she looks like she weighs more than me and im about 275.

[Grampa]

I'm a gluten-free picky bastard. 

lm and I try to plan meals around my problem. That means I eat more yucky green stuff than I did in the past. On bike nights, she and the boys have gluten nights where they eat all the stuff I cant... pizza, pasta, sammiches.

We have a bread maker, so every now and then I/we make bread using rice flour. I'm making jalapeno cheese bread this weekend.yuuuum

[OverCaffeinated]

I'm a gluten-free picky bastard. 

lm and I try to plan meals around my problem. That means I eat more yucky green stuff than I did in the past. On bike nights, she and the boys have gluten nights where they eat all the stuff I cant... pizza, pasta, sammiches.

We have a bread maker, so every now and then I/we make bread using rice flour. I'm making jalapeno cheese bread this weekend.yuuuum

Gluten free by choice or intolerance? My wife has celiac, but when she works I have pizza hut on speed dial. Have you tried gluten free pasta or other products, there not bad?

[Grampa]

Gluten free by choice or intolerance? My wife has celiac, but when she works I have pizza hut on speed dial. Have you tried gluten free pasta or other products, there not bad?

by choice..... I choose not to sit in the bathroom cramping and crapping hours on end   

bobs redmill stuff is da bomb 

[KnightofNi]

I still like Jeff's suggestion of a little booze before dinner.  A few glasses of wine while cooking would do the trick too  

mitt

she doens't just drink. if we go out with friends she'll have a drink, but she won't drink with or just before a meal.

i'm just going to stop catering to her in that area. i'm going to make something that i find fun and tasty and if she eats it then she eats it.
i just need to remmebr what i used to make and how to make it before i started cooking for her.

by choice..... I choose not to sit in the bathroom cramping and crapping hours on end  

bobs redmill stuff is da bomb 

i have the same reaction to milk.

[Grampa]

i have the same reaction to milk.

for years.... I thought it was milk.

[TiNi]

i had no idea kathy was that picky... good luck travis 

[teddy037.2]

wow...

I agree w/your conclusion. just cook for you, and let her come 'round if she wants.


that said, I feel bad for you man. I don't think I could  know I couldn't be w/a girl like that.

[JEFF_H]

she doens't just drink.

Now we come to the heart of the real problem.

doesnt just drink...
<shudder>
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