It's the thought that counts, OP!

Then have him eat along :P

He out in the effort, he tried to be nice. Yeah you can deal with eating shitty food

Have a great lunch later to make up for it.

Here is how it goes. You eat it , say mmmmm and that's it. He brought you breakfast that Is amazing. Not everything my gf cooks is good but I know better and I say "mmmmm".

Now just think, you have another activity you can do as a couple: teaching him to cook.

I'd actually prefer if my significant other told me that my cooking was bad. You could both have a laugh about it and go out for breakfast.

Actually, you don't. It's that whole communication thing again. I cook a lot for my wife and sometimes it's not good. She tells me that because I can learn from it, you should probably think of doing the same.

My husband and I tell each other when we don't like something that has been cooked. It could be a taste preference but it could also be that that it simply sucked. I don't want to cook something he hates for the next 50 years. That's a waste of my time.

Women gripe about men not trying, then you gripe it's not good. You probably also gripe about the way he does the dishes too.