“I don’t want to date a girl who won’t even eat a burger”: Ungrateful boyfriend complains girlfriend’s cooking is too healthy, she puts her foot down about his man-baby demands and considers breaking up with him

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jan 18, 2025 12:00 PM EST

Welcome to CheezCake, internet lovers. For those of us who are seasoned in relationships, we know that simple things can easily become a space for tension in ways we never expected. Who would have thought that the color of our car would be an issue, or the brand of our toothpaste? Food is a particularly emotional topic for people. 

In the age of dietary restrictions, anti-body shaming, and veganism, food can be just as controversial as your political opinions. If you don't see eye to eye on what you like to eat, mealtimes, or comfortability around eating then it could be a deal-breaker. Many people these days are more and more particular about what they eat, for good reason. What we nourish our bodies with will make a difference in every aspect of our lives. Of course, nourishing our bodies also means fulfilling our cravings for "unhealthy" foods. Is pizza or a burger really all that bad? Everything is good in moderation, and at the end of the day we need to enjoy what we're eating.

In this story, the protagonist is a woman who's made a New Year's resolution to eat healthier. With her busy work schedule she has become accustomed to take out and convenience foods. Since she's trying to eat healthier, she signed up for a healthy prepared meal service. 

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    AITAH for telling my boyfriend that if he doesn’t like what I’m making for dinner at my apartment he can get his own food or just not eat at my place?

    "If you don't like my food you shouldn't come over"
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    My boyfriend (25/M) and I (24/F) have been dating for almost a year, and this is the first real fight we have had, we have disagreed about small things but never actually gotten into a fight until now.
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    We both work very busy jobs and one of the main ways we make time for each other during the work week is to just have dinner, watch a show and sleep over together at one of our apartments. I usually get off work an hour before he does, and he
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    works not far from my apartment so 9 out of 10 times it is him who is coming over to my place after work.
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    I have been relying pretty heavily on processed ready-to-eat food from the store and takeout for the past year or so, I have just felt too tired to cook after work and have not been making the healthiest choices. One of my new year resolutions is to change that, so I signed up for a meal kit
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    and chose a plan where I get healthy options that I can make in under 30 minutes, and it's honestly been a game changer. I am saving a ton of money and eating much healthier, and maybe it's a placebo effect but I feel like I've had more energy lately too.
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    My boyfriend came over for dinner last week and the recipe | was making was cheeseburger bowls- basically everything you'd put on a burger, just in a bowl with no bun. I also added some roasted potatoes in the bowls so it wasn't like totally a salad. When he came in the kitchen and saw
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    what I was making he started rolling his eyes and saying that I should "just eat a burger with the bun because life is short" and then started saying he didn't want to date a girl who wouldn't even eat a burger. I told him I am definitely still going to eat burgers but that this was the
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  • Kind of extreme to take this one meal and act like it's the past, present, and future…

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    recipe I had for tonight and it didn't come with buns and I didn't really care if I had one or not. I pointed out it was a complete meal with all the food groups and he said that wasn't his point. He told me he's sick of me choosing all the fit and healthy options on the meal plan
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    and that he wants some "real comfort food again”. I told him this was my apartment and if he didn't want to eat what I was making he could get himself fast food or something on the way here or just not come over and he got super offended.
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    He said he wants to keep having dinner with me but have his opinions respected and just have me make "something he wants to eat" at least some of the time. I haven't been making stuff I know he doesn't like, just different stuff from my usual KFC, pizza, and grocery store sushi rotation I had going before this.
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    I told him that I don't want to go back to eating junk all the time, and now he hasn't come over in a few days and is acting really weird towards me. I'm thinking about breaking up with him over this but then part of me is wondering if I should at least try to be more accommodating? I
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    feel like it would be different if we lived together and split grocery costs but this is my apartment and my meal plan, why shouldn't I get to pick the meals I actually want to cook?
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    NobaedyUnoe •13h ago NTA He's testing your boundaries. If you cave, be expected to cook for him all the time.
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    AnxiousTelephon... 13h ago NTA. Don't let this man drag you down. Keep focusing on your health, and what small daily improvements you can make to feel good about yourself. He's a big boy and he can get his own dinner now.
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    Born-Horror-5049 13h ago NTA. • You're dating a child and this will only get worse. You absolutely should break up with him.
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    I should at least try to be more accommodating? This is how you become a bang maid. It wouldn't be different if you live together. It will be worse. He's conditioning
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    you to do this all the time. Once he has you locked it via a milestone like living together he's not going to magically change.
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  • My honest opinion is that they're both being very immature. He's being a whiny baby and not offering help or being empathetic to her situation, and she's being dismissive and defensive. 

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    Life Scratch_2807 • 13h ago homeboy comes over for KFC, pizza, and fast food for free. Now op is getting their healthy together they don't come over.
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    OOP call it what it is. He's more interested in what you can give him than in actually spending time with you.
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    KindlyCelebratio... • 13h ago Just stop inviting him over for meals. Now you've stretched your budget even further. Cook once, eat twice. The portion that would have generously gone to him can now be your lunch the next day.
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    If he wants to eat with you AND dictate what will be served, he can start inviting you over for meals he is cooking. But the best resolution is just end it. He's an a.
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    Caspian4136 • 13h ago NTA He's showing you his true colors, so believe what you see with him. He's totally okay with you "cooking" for him, when you were buying fast food junk.
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    Now you're making real food that's actually healthy and starting to feel better. No, it's not a placebo effect, you really do have more energy as you're getting more vitamins and minerals in your diet that fast food lacks.
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