Oh dear, the idea of finding pigs trotters in aspic with hairs still on them taking over my fridge now would be a little frightening, let alone that happening to a child! You poor thing!

I had no idea about the Dutch food but good to know!

Just replying to your question about specific food dislikes. I’ve considered this question before when doing email questionnaire thingy’s. My response has been poorly prepared food. Too oily, overcooked, or sometimes “man-in-the-kitchen” food. I say that because my husband will cook things that he’ll love that my daughter and I will find foul. My late father had a knack for this too. They think more is more..whereas often less is more..as far as combining herbs/spices etc. So my husband will do scrambled eggs (overcooked) with chunks of raw capsicum and thick-cut onions, dried spices from the pantry, torn up pieces of bread thrown in and maybe last nights Hokkien noodle stirfry stirred in it too. Then he’ll pour sweet chilli sauce over the top and follow that with mashed banana in a bread roll because he’s still hungry.

I don’t like to eat anything with artificial sweetener.

Plain, individual meringues I will give a miss. (My meringue needs to be eaten with something complimentary).

Oh.. caramel slice I find too rich and sweet.. it makes me feel a bit ill when I eat it.

Cheap Woolworths sausages that are soooo fatty.. and garlicky. I love garlic..but I find lately I have trouble digesting my food if garlic is infused in fatty meat especially.

When buying mince I buy beef about 10% of the time.. the rest of the time I buy pork mince or lamb mince.

The square, uniform, processed bacon pieces from a supermarket deli, I’ll avoid. The kind you get on cheap bacon and cheese rolls as a topping?

Condensed soup in cans.

Pigs trotters (my parents used to make pigs trotters in aspic when I was growing up.. I’d come home and the fridge would be emptied..and the shelves filled with soup bowls full of the pigs trotters in that salty, pig-fat tasting jelly. The trotters would still have some singed hairs on them).

Dutch licorice.

A lot of prepackaged things made in Holland!

In the words of Jennifer Patterson (one of the Two Fat Ladies).. “If it’s Dutch, don’t buy it”… lol!

I think that’s about it Lorraine?!

Hehe your husband doesn’t sound anywhere near as fussy as my hubby who grumbles when he has to eat cakes and biscuits-he grew up eating fruit and never ate cake (cakes when they were young were frozen bananas shaped into a cake). I have a friend who doesn’t like melted cheese, unmelted is fine but melted is a nono but Pizza is fine! Do you have any food aversions/dislikes? I just don’t like raw eggs, aspic and Durian or foul smelling food.

I too adore meat and salad together and yes a crunch is always much more satisfying!

With my husband not being a fan of coleslaw (because of the raw cabbage)..and hating cucumber.. I think this one would just be for me!

Anyone would think he was a fussy eater by the amount of times I mention what he doesn’t like.. and he isn’t really… (as in, I know fussier people). He has a wide palate.. with some specific dislikes. Cucumber/cabbage.. passionfruit/mango.
Peanut butter/coffee flavoured anything (but loves drinking coffee).

Anyway.. I would tone down the mint in this. I love it..but not in abundance.

When I eat a crunchy salad.. especially one with some meat in it.. I feel satisfied more easily.