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Dear Abby: I can’t stand my husband’s cooking

She says he refuses to follow recipes, misuses seasonings — citing cinnamon and cloves on zucchini — serves nutritionally imbalanced meals and has burned food twice in 10 years.

Published Jul 7, 2026, 6:06 AM EDT | LehighValleyLive

DEAR ABBY: I never want to eat my husband’s cooking again. He refuses to follow recipes because he says they are “too hard.” He doesn’t use seasonings -- or he uses the wrong ones. An example: He recently put cinnamon and cloves on zucchini and agreed with me that it tasted terrible.

In addition to almost never being tasty, his cooking is usually nutritionally imbalanced -- like a meal that has zero vegetables, or a meal that’s all carbs. In the 10 years we’ve been married, he has lit the food on fire twice.