By skyforbes I’m pregnant now with severe nausea so I don’t cook, but before my pregnancy I was trying to cook maybe 4 times a week so my husband and kid had healthy meals. My husband almost always skipped my food and ordered out (affordable where we live). I always assumed he didn’t want to put in the effort to heat the food (he likes to eat after distressing from work for hours so maybe around 8-9, and at that time I would already be in bed with our toddler since I keep her hours).
Anyway today he mentioned the reason he never ate my food was because I only cooked 1 dish at a time.
For instance, when I cook meat stew with root vegetables and serve it with bread, he considers that an incomplete meal. If I cook pasta with sauce and chicken slices and some veggies mixed in, he feels this is incomplete and needs protein on the side. If I roast a chicken with some veggies, he feels this is also an incomplete meal (even though he orders grilled chicken with only sauce all the time from restaurants). If I do ribs and serve it with potato buns and corn, that’s incomplete. He also said I do a lot of “all in one pot” meals which he also feels r incomplete (think chicken kabsa which is chicken and rice with Arabic spices).
I felt I was doing well because we had home cooked meals most of the week… both him and our kid are very picky so it was already hard for me to navigate all their restrictions and all the veggies they hate.
Anyway today he mentioned the reason he never ate my food was because I only cooked 1 dish at a time.
For instance, when I cook meat stew with root vegetables and serve it with bread, he considers that an incomplete meal. If I cook pasta with sauce and chicken slices and some veggies mixed in, he feels this is incomplete and needs protein on the side. If I roast a chicken with some veggies, he feels this is also an incomplete meal (even though he orders grilled chicken with only sauce all the time from restaurants). If I do ribs and serve it with potato buns and corn, that’s incomplete. He also said I do a lot of “all in one pot” meals which he also feels r incomplete (think chicken kabsa which is chicken and rice with Arabic spices).
I felt I was doing well because we had home cooked meals most of the week… both him and our kid are very picky so it was already hard for me to navigate all their restrictions and all the veggies they hate.
I told him I felt his parent’s home kinda of spoiled him (meals had soup, salad, main course and sides… and they are very ritualistic about it). And the meals I cooked were good enough and had all elements most of the time. Honestly I’m a bit hurt because it is just annoying to hear his reason…
Most of the time he wouldn’t even check what the food is and just order pizza directly. Pizza or burgers which I feel are a lot less complete than what I cooked anyway.
P.s. I’m an average to good at cooking.