Are you married to a meat & potatoes kind of guy?

AnnapolisLari

MH drives me freakin' crazy sometimes. He insists that every dinner has to have meat featured prominently.

It's 93 degrees, humid, and I don't want to defrost a hunk of whatever and heat up the kitchen cooking it. I honestly don't even want him to grill anything, because he expects it to be all ready, and he just does the grilling part. I have other crap to do.

How do you get your carnivore to eat a damned meatless meal every once in a while?

CleoKitty

My dh will happily eat vegetarian meals without complaining, but he FAR prefers a big slab o'meat. For father's day we took him to a local butcher and let him pick out a freezer full of meat, LOL.  We've now renamed the holiday "Happy Meat Day!"

Purrrfect433

My husband is ridiculous about food. He is SO picky and has so many foods he just refuses to eat. He makes me crazy. He has a mega-easy default meal that I can always turn to when I want to make something different for myself or if the kids eat an easy dinner earlier. He really feels like each dinner should contain a meat and TWO carbs. He rarely eats veggies unless covered in cheese. He's worse than a damn child.

JOEBunny

I buy a $3.99 pre-cooked chicken, take it off the bone and throw it on top of his serving of what ever I happen to be making.

katie277s

Yes, he likes to eat meat at every meal.  I am used to pasta dishes without meat, but he feels there isn't enough "flavor".  But he is good about cooking on a regular basis, so I don't argue too much. 

Marce921

DH is a meat and potatoes guy, but not to the extent that yours is. Just last night, we had cheese stuffed ravioli, no meat. I really have no clue what to tell you. Sorry.

DandelionMom

I buy him the jenny-o turkey smoked sausages (he isn't supposed to have red meat) that he can throw on top of whatever meal I'm making if he thinks it needs meat (I'm a vegetarian so rarely make meaty meals). 

shouldbworkin

Mine eats a big lunch and usually just wants salad with tuna or chicken on it when he comes home.  It's annoying ot me b/c I eat a little lunch and want a bigger dinner when I come home.  But, we've scaled back a lot this summer, we're just too active for big meals.  I do use the crock pot and make something that will have lots of leftovers that I can freeze to pull out later, like a turkey breast or roast.  Rotisserie chicken is good and you can usually get 2 easy meals and a soup out of it.  Frozen meatballs are good for making pasta sauce or sub sandwiches.

littlemissy

I am a meat and potatoes kind of girl LOL.  I use my steamer to make veggies, potatoes, and an Echrich sauage all together.  Good-for-you-steamed veggies with the meat and potatoes; it also doesn't heat up the kitchen. 

Here are some other ideas, if it's considered enough meat for your DH.  I brown ground beef and keep it in the fridge to put in with dishes:  spaghetti sauce with added ground beef makes spaghetti with meat sauce....mac ' cheese with added ground beef (I also add broccoli cause I love the veggies too) , etc...  Or breakfast for dinner: scrambled eggs with some ham and cheese or with ground sausage.  You can add onions or peppers for veggies.

Andrewsgal

My DH is like this. During the summer he grills everyday. I prepare the meat in a very small way, for example today I put salt and pepper on pork chops for him to grill. I steam some veggies in a steam bag and throw in a quick rice or pasta side. Honestly I prefer it this way. It litterally takes me 20 minutes from start to finish with very little clean up.

EliseB0323

Yep, it doesn't count as food unless there is meat in there somewhere according to DH. I will sometimes get him a roasted chicken from the grocery store or cook up some sausages to supplement whatever meatless thing I make.

winery

I'm married to an ice cream and candy kind of guy.

I have a friend whose husband is like that and she laments it's equally as annoying.  She cooks meatfree dinners when he's not home. 

heyitsme

Nope, I'm married to a gourmet kind of guy who grew up with a family in the gourmet restaurant business. I think it's just as bad, though.

Zenya

heyitsme:

Nope, I'm married to a gourmet kind of guy who grew up with a family in the gourmet restaurant business. I think it's just as bad, though.

I married a gourmet guy, too (although he didn't grow up that way.  He's revolting against his sausages from a can childhood).  It is just as bad.  when he's away I get a frozen pizza and it's awesome. 

AggieCouple

I'm actually more of the meat person than H, but I've toned down a lot since college, when I constantly craved beef, it seemed.  Meat doesn't appeal to me a great deal anymore, except when I'm PMS'ing.  We both get a little sick when things are too fleshy.

H really likes salads (but he does like grilled chicken on top) and beans.  He's known to order veggie burgers and such.

It's our kids that I have to make meat for.  ML will eat some beans, and TB only recently finally decided he liked edamame, but neither will eat tofu and in general, prefer meals that have ground beef or chicken as the prominent protein.  I tried to take us more down the route of vegetarian, but they just really don't love beans and will mainly pick around it.  Sometimes I'll do eggs, instead, if I didn't defrost meat.  I'll fry it with some rice and make some quick vegetarian fried rice.

 

heyitsme

Zenya:

I married a gourmet guy, too (although he didn't grow up that way.  He's revolting against his sausages from a can childhood).  It is just as bad.  when he's away I get a frozen pizza and it's awesome. 

LOL I was so intimidated by DH's tastes that I rarely cooked for us during our first few years of marriage. He works evenings (5 nights a week) and I'd cook for DD and I then, and he'd cook on the nights he was home. Now I've learned to cook more and play with recipes, so I cook for us all now... but I do love it when he cooks. The man doesn't use a cookbook (that's sacrilege!)... in our 6.5 years of marriage, he's only messed up 2 dishes that I can think of. Otherwise he just tosses things together and it comes out delicious!

Zenya

now that sounds awesome!!

Carol*Brady

No...not really.

laughteriskey

My idea of the perfect summer dinner is a huge salad with some serving of protein on it (salmon, tuna, chicken breast, shrimp or even steak strips).  I could eat this every single night for the 3 months of summer.

Joe, on the other hand, has to have a meat and carb with every dinner.  It sucks, especially since it's not something that can really be precooked (like the proteins I mentioned above could). 

Even pasta (which we are having tonight) needs to have 1lb hamburger cooked and added to the (jarred) sauce.  It's just not complete without the meat.  It's really annoying.

*Amy*

Do you have a BJs near you.  The boneless rotisserie chicken breasts (it is with the rostisserie chickens near the deli) are awesome. You can eat it on the plate, cut it into a salad, etc.  You get SO much more meat than buying the whole rotisserie chicken and all you have to do it cut it.  Love them and I just bought one for dinner tonight.

Yodajo

I am, but thankfully, he isn't too picky.  He grew up having meat and mashed potatoes at every meal.  I don't mind meat, but I just make what sounds good at the time and don't notice if its there or not.  He never says anything, but if I serve red meat, he'll say something along the lines of, "Now this is my kind of meal!"  He will complain if we have chicken too many days in a row.  Apparently, that doesn't count as a meat.