While many expressed horror at David Beckham’s revelation that wife Victoria has eaten the same dinner – grilled fish and steamed vegetables – almost every day for 25 years, so they never share meals, I just shrugged in solidarity.
My fiancé Andy, 50, and I have been together for eight years, and a shared meal is such a rarity I could probably list them from memory.
It’s not that I follow a Poshstyle abstemious regime to maintain my girlish figure. More that I’m a vegetarian/ pescatarian who can’t drink alcohol (the hangovers became too crippling four years ago) and loves chocolate and puddings, while he is an omnivorous rural Scot who grew up eating venison, pheasant and catching his own fish in the loch at the bottom of the road. He hates anything sweet apart from poached pears, and is never more than three feet from a bottle of red wine after 6pm.
He’s also allergic to mushrooms, which I love, while I’m allergic to nickel, which is found in nuts, pulses and soy. I used to be a strict vegan, due to my love of animals, but was forced to give that up two years ago, when my allergy got so bad I could barely eat anything.
We are, in short, the real-life Jack Sprat and his picky wife.
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