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06-28-2006, 12:52 PM
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my partners are not picky till i make them picky by making a diet for healthy living...i cant help it, i want to be in tip top shape all the time and i think my woman should be kinda close to tip top too...ok so im really into looking and feeling good
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06-28-2006, 05:13 PM
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Well aside from the "normal" criteria for getting married you know love, lifepartner, grow old together etc etc etc....  There were three additional criteria that she required.  Cook, Clean and Repair. Lucky for me I I did all three although I do get cursed out a couple times a year for something about having to stop eating some of my cooking or something like that.    Now if we could just get our daughter to want more than just pasta or pasta. |
06-30-2006, 07:16 PM
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When my significant other, or S.E.(spousal equilivent), got together, I don't think she ate anything that was not on a sesseme seed bun, or have the prefix Mc....
5years later, and ALOT of the ol "I'm not leaving till you try this", she is almost adventurous! she asks to go out for Indian, Thai, Vietnemmese, and even got her to eat some Ethiopian....not to shabby.
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07-01-2006, 03:48 PM
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Well, good on you both crazyTATT. I think a lot of us are handicapped by the sometimes very modest cuisine of our youth. I had a hard time getting DH to eat fish. Memories of boarding school. He didn't realise what it was like here. And he had a hard time getting me to eat various other things, like ethnic food. But the funny thing was we went to a chinese restaurant he had seen chinese folk going into in a steady stream, so decided we must too. We were the only europeans there, and, frankly, did not like the food. I guess it was too authentic.  |
07-01-2006, 07:38 PM
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I shan't say anything TOO bad about my significant other. However, her idea of cooking usually involves a microwave and a can opener when I'm not around. It's not that she CAN'T cook, she just prefers NOT TO cook.
We got together when we were both stationed in Spain. There was no lack of decent edibles near our house.
We both like to eat and since I'm one of those professional cooks (a/k/a work for a modest living), when I do cook at home - and that's often - it's pretty decent grub.
The answer to the question: If she DIDN'T like to eat, she wouldn't be my significant person.
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07-02-2006, 09:42 AM
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My girlfriend thought she ate everything until she met me.. |
07-02-2006, 10:39 AM
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I like food and my DH really likes food. I have a few allergies (mushrooms, scallops & bananas) and dislikes (salmon, eggplant, liver). DH, on the other hand, will eat anything.
The best thing for both of us, is we will try new things. If we don't like it, no biggie.
But, yeah, it is hard for him as he loves mushrooms and I can't have them. He orders that and scallops out at restaurants. |
07-05-2006, 07:50 PM
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My wife does not like to cook. I do 
So, she eats what I cook, and seems to like it, no matter what. |
07-15-2006, 01:42 AM
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| |  What a great thread.....
I myself am married to the most non-foodie guy in the world. He would be perfectly content living on frozen pizza, hamburger helper, chips and dip etc... (which is often what he gets when I am too tired to cook after work  ) He is generally willing to try most everything but never really has an opinion about anything. To him, its all just fuel and "food is food." It gets pretty frustrating that I can rarely "WOW" him. I have a very few things that he is impressed enough to mention to other people. I just wish I could get a genuine MMmmmmmmm out of him. At least he's not terribly picky but he really can't tell (or doesn't care) if its my special simmered-for-ever spaghetti sauce or sauce from a can. Everyone else tells him how lucky he is to be married to a chef, maybe I should start making really crappy stuff so he has some basis of comparison. I've been cooking for him for 17 years so maybe he is just spoiled! Ha Ha! |
07-15-2006, 11:38 PM
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Mine lil partner likes odd stuff like Campbells Tomater Soup. Swear I could make mo betta soup than that using ketchup and warm water. She thinks everything is either too hot or too salty. Now she got the very best Chicken Fried Steak..fried taters..fried okry and nanner pudding in Foat Wuth. Also the best tater salad. I guess her good points outweigh the bad. Guess I keep her for a bit longer despite the high mileage. Had an offer to trade her in for one of them low mileage sporty models just a few years back.
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Originally Posted by Quinn01 I just thought this would be interesting to see how everyone else deals with this situation.
I myself have a girlfriend who happens to be a very very pickey eater. It drives me insane me wanted to be a chef and love food and all. I would eat anything. Shes never had some kinds of steak.
She just mainly eats chicken. It kills me.
How about you guys? Do you have girlfriends/wives, boyfriends/husbands who love food or are pickey eaters? | |
08-04-2006, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Quinn01 I just thought this would be interesting to see how everyone else deals with this situation.
I myself have a girlfriend who happens to be a very very pickey eater. It drives me insane me wanted to be a chef and love food and all. I would eat anything. Shes never had some kinds of steak.
She just mainly eats chicken. It kills me.
How about you guys? Do you have girlfriends/wives, boyfriends/husbands who love food or are pickey eaters? | Hello! I do have to say that I was at one point one of those people who was a very picky eater, but not to extremes like a lot of people I know. There were certain things I would not eat, but mostly ate the same thing 2-3 times a week until I was in my early 20's. I'm now 25 and have been in a relationship for three years. If it weren't for my boyfriend who challenged me to "at least try" things, I WOULD HAVE NEVER TRIED sushi, corn on the cob, snails, garlic, Thai food, gnocchi, and many many other things. I think if people tried things, they would come to find that they might like it. It might not be the way they grew up, but maybe learning to live in another direction isn't so bad -- take it from me, trying all sorts of food is more like an experiment, which I love!
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08-04-2006, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Mannlicher My wife does not like to cook. I do
So, she eats what I cook, and seems to like it, no matter what. | It seems like you have a smart girlfriend. I use to be like her, but liked being in the kitchen with my boyfriend and one night, he asked me to help him with a more than one person meal task, so I did and since then, I've not been able to stop cooking...
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10-10-2006, 07:30 PM
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My wife is a VERY picky eater.
I remember the one and only time we had Christmas Eve dinner at my parents:
Spaghetti and Anchovy Sauce (don't know how to spell it in italian)
Fried Calamari
Octapus
Shrimp
Scallops
Different fish fillets
She had a hot dog if I remember right.
With her it's pasta, chicken and fast food...... go figure 
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10-11-2006, 12:35 AM
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I cant remember what v1.0a likes.
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10-11-2006, 06:33 AM
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iggygirl35 You are talking about me !!!!My Hubby is exactly the same and yes it is "fuel " not a delicious 3 hour prepped meal with blood,sweat and tears included !!!I get frusterated and say I should serve up sh*# on toast and he wouldn't know the difference !!My Hubby is one of 11 children and they ate very basicly as you can imagine....Meat and three veg...Fish on Sunday !!!!Even the feeding logistics is amazing...eating in two sittings, two loaves of bread for lunches, a box of apples a week !!!Sorry getting side-tracked...So prior to us getting together he had not eaten Pasta,Mexican,Italian,Chinese... You name it.He is really fussy but has come along in leaps and bounds in the last ten years. The down side is that our kids eat fairly plainly too, as I'm not doing the restaurant short order thing here every night.!!!Great to hear there are some other foodies out there too like me !!!:
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