Men and salads

My DH is a salad fan and is more than happy to make them, especially when they include produce that he’s grown.

This is quite good, filling, easy to assemble.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/parsnip-spinach-artichoke-wild-rice-salad

I do know what you mean Aveline. My partner and me don't live together and I have got used to eating mostly salmon, salad, rice, chicken or potatoes. When he does come over he often wants a casserole, roasted veg etc. I inwardly groan as apart from not having the energy anymore I also have Coeliacs Disease which is a nightmare to navigate especially around gluten. He doesn't cook and lives on jacket potatoes or take outs. Can your DH cook? If so let him. There's so much expectation on women to do all the cooking. Our tastes and appetite change as we age. Glad I mostly live alone. Had my years cooking great meals for family.

I can't be bothered with all these complicated salads with lots of ingredients that at the end of the day do not taste as nice as simple fresh vegetables chopped with a nice dressing.

A plain potato or rice salad or colslaw beside the fresh vegetables is nice, but more than that, the results, even when others make it never seems worth the effort.

paddyann54 It helps that I like to cook.

I could spend all day split between cooking in the kitchen and working in the gardens. I love to cook as does my husband.

We eat salad(s) at lunch and dinner. I think enjoying salads may be down to making delicious dressings, which keep a few days, refrigerated. A large variety of vinegars, oils, herbs, juices is necessary, imo.

My dad always called it ‘rabbit food’ and a meal wasn’t a meal without meat.
DH isn’t terribly keen on salad, but then he never had it as a child. They were definitely a meat and cake family.

PS, he doesn’t cook, but invariably clears up the kitchen and loads the dishwasher, and to me the clearing up from a roast is definitely the worst bit!

watermeadow

I thought this was a built-in natural difference between men and women. In my family the men liked meat, the women liked cake. The women read fiction, the men didn’t. Men grew vegetables, women grew flowers. Women like salads, men don’t.
Any man mad enough to want a cooked dinner in a heatwave must, of course, cook it himself and clear up afterwards.

The other day I had earmarked a joint of pork (already defrosted, needed using up) for dinner, but was going to roast it early and have cold with salad/potato salad.

Dh said he’d really like it hot, with roast potatoes and gravy! So that’s what we had.

At our local golf club there's a meal called Golfer's Salad - it's pie beans and chips!

I thought this was a built-in natural difference between men and women. In my family the men liked meat, the women liked cake. The women read fiction, the men didn’t. Men grew vegetables, women grew flowers. Women like salads, men don’t.
Any man mad enough to want a cooked dinner in a heatwave must, of course, cook it himself and clear up afterwards.

Tizliz

Greyduster

My DH absolutely loved a salad. I hate them, no matter how carefully thought out and imaginative they are.

My DH likes a salad - with half a cos or iceberg lettuce. I only like a Glasgow salad (chips!)

😂😂!

Greyduster

My DH absolutely loved a salad. I hate them, no matter how carefully thought out and imaginative they are.

My DH likes a salad - with half a cos or iceberg lettuce. I only like a Glasgow salad (chips!)

The men in my family are and were big fans of salads.
But our salads are rather adventurous-extremely varied and adventurous and always with a nice dressing .
As salads are light they enjoy a pudding afterwards- maybe that's part of the attraction !

I like a ploughmans, with chips as well!
My lad declares regularly that he "hates" veg, salads and all the things he used to eat.

I quite like to add a few chunky chips to my salad.😋

I’m always thankful that dh will happily eat whatever he’s given, which lately does include a lot of salad. I usually add some sliced white cabbage, for the crunch factor, plus it keeps so well in the fridge.

My husband likes a salad but does insist on potatoes.
Easy enough this time of year though with the delicious Jersey Royals in the shops now.
I just boil him a few of these and add them to whatever salad I’m having - doesn’t matter if it’s not in the recipe or whatever.
I think he was bought up on meat, potatoes and veg each day so this is a compromise. (He does like curry, Chinese etc, etc so no problem there).

My DH absolutely loved a salad. I hate them, no matter how carefully thought out and imaginative they are.

My husband and I never eat the same thing haven,t for 40 years.I,m pescatarian with a twist I don’t eat bread ,potatoes rice or pasta…no tomatoes no fruit except for berries
OH likes meat off all kinds ,has mostly chicken but loves his roasts
He doesn’t cook so I cook meat for him.Last night he had lamb with rosemary and garlic potatoes and green beans I had a cheese omelette.
The adult children don’t eat lamb ,so sometimes it’s three different main courses.Our Son and his family last night had quiche..with bacon in it.Same veg as OH
My late mum did the same when we were young …she was a fussy eater and wouldn,t have expected us to eat something we didn’t like .It helps that I like to cook .

The lack of carbs is since a diagnosis of T2 diabetes which I got under control with dropping carbs.

I can’t remember my late DH eating a salad. He liked the meat and two veg type of meal.
My MIL’s summer salad consisted of a slice of ham, a tomato and lettuce leaves and that included when the Bishop came for supper.

I really enjoyed an imaginative salad and with say baby potatoes no one can say it’s not filling.

My DH is not too keen on salads, I “jazz” them up as much as possible but I’m not cooking in this mad heat other than to hard boil eggs and cook salmon!!

In this weather a roast is unimaginable! I'll get him a few ready made curries that he can microwave if a salad is, somehow, not enough.

I do want a substantial meal once a day but in summer if salads replace vegetables that's fine. Sometimes I will put a baked potato in the microwave and add to a salad, but it's no big deal.
We have a roast most Sundays then cold meat for 2 or 3 days, fish one day various on the other 2.

I add seeds, dried cranberries etc to salads, finely sliced dates, halloumi or feta or grated cheddar … anything I have really.

I agree a good dressing is essential, I make my own, the shop ones are too acidic.

I love all these salads and regularly include potato salad and rice salads. With hard boiled eggs, tuna/salmon, olives, potato salad etc etc I've explained to him that, along with the mayonnaise he slops on, the calories count us just as high as a hot meal. But somehow it doesn't count