My MIL is an amazing cook, there's no denying it and I think that this simple fact has created a challenge in our lives.

Before meeting my DH, I always prided myself on being a great cook but right from the early days, every time I cooked for him,, he'd take over - adding a bit of this, a pinch of that, ingredients I wouldn't have used and insisting his version was better. I just let him do it (and lost a lot of culinary confidence) and, before I knew it, he was doing most of the cooking.

Well, earlier this year, he got ill with an arthritic condition that makes him tired and in pain all the time - so he really doesn't feel up to cooking. Since the start of this year, we've spent almost £1000 on take away and I've put on 2 stone (DH had gained a lot of weight, too).

Initially I thougt nothing of it - I just thought he fancied take away a lot- but since trying to get healthy for TTC I've been paying more attention and I think I know what the problem is: He hates my cooking but is too tired to cook himself

Over the last 5 days, I've pre-planned 5 meals and on two of those occasaions he has opted for take away instead, even if I go ahead and cook the pre-planned meal for myself (yes, you read right, I was eating baked salmon and he ordered a pizza). On Sunday, he even suggested take away when the meal was on the plates because he said the meat wasn't cooked properly and, once it was done to his satisfaction, the vegetables were overdone.

Now I know I'm not as good a cook as his mother but I'm really not that bad, I'm sure.... anyone else face this? What on earth do I do?!