Is anyone married to or marrying a picky eater?

I need to add that I do not expect for him to eat vegan. I cook him meat and I try to make myself a vegan version of what he is eating.

My fh is super picky as well, he has a huge issue with different textures in his food, I am somewhat of a picky eater myself but I am a little more willing to explore new foods

We're both pretty picky. It's horrible with him though because his mother was a horrible cook and everything he ate was prepackaged or every veggie was out of a can. He had me taken on his eating habits and gaining some wait. He's like this veggie is to crunchy, this ones to sweet. I'm like AHHH!!!, just eat it. I kinda started treating him like a little kid and hiding veggies in his food.lol. There's been a few times I haven't felt like making more than 1 meal and he's tried a lot of the things and liked them. Sorry I didn't help much. I mean if he really doesn't like veggies its probably going to be hard for you to make him eat them. That's like him making you eat meat or something.

Mine doesn't eat cheese. It's not a lactose thing, he just doesn't like it. I'm a huge cheese eater. And it's complicated by the fact that it's not that he doesn't eat cheese, it's just situational. He eats pizza, but that's all the cheese he can stand. And he also doesn't eat a lot of foods in their raw form (tomatoes, onions, carrots) but he will eat them when cooked or in certain types of things (like pasta sauce). And there are some meals that he won't eat because of the way they were prepared when he was young. I would say, if he likes pasta, make big batches of his favorite sauce if it freezes well and put it in single serving batches in the freezer and keep pasta on hand. If he doesn't like what you are cooking, then he can heat up his own dinner (one of the things that I do for FH) or he can eat cereal.

My fh is a vegan. Im not as of yet because im pregnant but he said that will all change when I deliver the baby. Its really hard for me becase he gts tired of eating the same thing and I have to cook 2 meals and have to figure out what to cook for him then I end up having cereal. Ughh

I took to telling him to try it (like you do with a kid) and then if he doesn't like it, he can have something else. He's up for this (and has learned that there are some things that I make differently than his mom and step mom and he likes it the way I make it). My only concern is that when we have kids this will affect how they eat. He has gotten more open to trying new things, but he still balks at some things (like meatloaf, a staple in my home growing up)

YES FH is worst then a kid I swear... we eat the same thing every week because he will not expanded his food choices. I am so sick of eating the same stuff over and over again! And then I tell him we are going to try something different and he will reply with well I'll just eat something else can you make that too? NO I am not a short order cook! ugh So we just end up having whatever he wants to begin with!

His meals are the following.. Cheeseburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and chicken. And Mashed potatoes. And I might add.. unless it's corn he won't eat any veggies and unless its grape or stawberries forget it!

Drives me nuts! And like the other soon to be Mrs. K I Have to tell him try it you might like it how do you know unless you try it but it never works! Ugh I'm so glad I'm not alone with the food debate!

Thanks ladies, it's good to know I am not the only one dealing with this. It's so bad for us because all I eat is veggies and he won't even try a meal if it has veggies in it. I will never force him to eat a vegetable, but I just wish he would be more open-minded. Just because a dish has onions in it doesn't mean it will be disgusting!

Other soon to be mrs K-Talk to him about what it will be like when you have kids (if you plan on having them). Tell him what a great example he will be setting for the kids if he is open to having new things. Mine pretty much had the same diet (except the cheese part-do you know how hard it is to get burgers without cheese at a fast food place anymore?) But he has opened up a little. Also, if he doesn't want what you are making, make him be responsible for his own dinner that night. You are right, you are not a short order cook.

FH hates cake .. pretty much his whole family does.

it's kind of annoying.

so we're ordering french fruit tarts and cookies but i pushed to also order miniature high-grade cupcakes ... after all cake isn't the devil and other people like 'em!

Oh this is the story of my life!!! I love vegetables and trying new foods but FH likes to eat the same things all the time and it never includes vegetables. He'll eat them but it's not his first choice- and since I'm not very good with cooking he'll eat one bite to say he tried it and then won't eat the rest.

The worst is he won't eat the same thing twice in one week. SEVEN DAYS- oh my gosh I need to learn how to cook or I'm going to go crazy!

I've gotten really good at making different salads to go as a side and he can just goop them up with dressing and croutons if he wants.

MyLo and I are both picky.

My DH eats everything...we both do!! I never worry about what to cook, because everything I make he always says its yummy!! Lucky me

Yup yup yup ... DH is very very VERY picky about what he will eat ... and it drives me up the wall ... I would love to make a crock pot of stew, or chili or even a couple of casseroles and put them into ziplock containers and we can eat that ... but no he will NOT eat anything with sauce on it, no mashed potatos, no veggies, and no fruit ... I can't even get him to try new things. I'll say hmm I want to make this and he'll be like okay you go right no ahead, I won't touch that stuff. So I end up eating way more meat than I think is healthy for you (a lot of chicken, pork, beef) and more pizza and burgers and I just don't like it. But I don't have the time or the money to cook 2 different menus at alll so I just sacrifice what I want to eat with what he wants to eat.

Mine wasn't raised so that he has to try new foods, so he never learned to like pretty much anything that most people eat. He doesn't like soup, peanut butter, mint, tomato (raw or cooked) vegetables, most fruits, most sauces/condiments, and a lot of other things. Plus he's Jewish, and eats Kosher. So pretty much he lives on chicken strips (not nuggets, never nuggets), pasta in Alfredo or butter sauce, a few types of fruit (oranges, purple grapes, bananas and apples), grilled cheese, cereal, and ice cream.

I pretty much will hold out a taste of anything I'm eating, let him sniff it, and he decides whether he wants to eat it or not. Sometimes I get pushy, but only if he's saying no to be difficult. Most of the time if he says no I leave it at that. When we go out to eat I like to pick places that don't have his standard restaurant food (chicken alfredo). Like when we went out with my family last month for my birthday we went to an Indian restaurant nearby (I LOVE Indian food).

Both FH and I are picky so it's going to be hard cooking for us. I have been saving lots of recipes on pinterest of foods that i like and foods I think he would like and then have him go through them and tell me what he likes. And putting a list together so when we get married it won't be has hard to cook for us.

Mine will eat anything, including my cooking!lol

First man I've ever cooked for. He says he likes it. I would cook what you like and tell him to fend for himsel if he doesn't want to eat it. He's a grown man

Or tell him that once a week he has to pick a new recipe for you to cook. Tell him it's a must or you'll come up with something yourself.

I used to do one new recipe off pinterest a week and loved it, he liked the idea too!

My DH is soooo picky! It started with his mother b/c she doesn't eat veggies at all. He has started to expand his food choices recently though. I think it's a combination of: he sees that I am trying to learn the recipes his mother has made for him growing up (they are Cuban so I am eating a lot more Cuban meals), so he will try it when I add a vegetable to his plate that I like. So far, he has learned to eat brocolli and spinach, and just today he tried mushrooms which he has always said he would never try.

In the beginning, I was hiding the veggies in his food anyways, I would cook in cauliflour into his mashed potatoes or put spinach in his pasta and just say I had added a pesto sauce. >

He eventually learned I had been doing that, and he didn't die, so he might as well try it anyways. I just think it's a matter of patience and compromise, and just a touch of sneakiness. =)

Oh also, when he used to refuse to eat in the beginning, I would tell him to go cook himself then, so he had

To either cook himself, starve, or eat the food I had already made. I think it was just easier to eat the food I had already made then to go cook something himself that made him eventually eat my food more than anything else. =)

He WAS a picky eater, before I came in his life!

Used to NEVER eat veggies, and absolutely hated broccoli. Now, he is always eating spinach, carrots and eats broccoli at least 3x a week! Still working on asparagus...

Also, I got him to like veggie burgers! That was a huge accomplishment!