Sharing food

Lucille4444

For all of you that have families and cook up two sets of meals, I respect your dedication and energy. For me, visitors who stop by can either eat high carb meals prior to coming over, or eat the kind of food I make for myself.
My son visited yesterday, so for lunch we each had a large burger, no bread, with cheese, and a side of green beans mixed with a few tablespoons of dried onion soup mix and cream cheese. He cleaned his plate.

ki4eld

Yeah, I don't cook two meals and never did. I don't run a restaurant. The meal choices have always been "take it" or "leave it." I do work around allergies and religious restrictions, but that's because I'm not a moron or a jerk. Otherwise, eat it or don't.

Sunny_Bunny_

I just cook the fam a side dish along with the low carb main dish I have and I don't add as much fat to the main since they don't need to be eating high carb/high fat... Then I'll add extra butter or cheese or whatever to mine in my plate. They don't seem to be satisfied without a side dish. Weird huh? Lol

lithezebra

My husband has bread, popcorn and things like that around, and he likes meat and vegetables, so it hasn't been a big issue. I'm the one who might start wanting mac and cheese.

nvmomketo

I make side dishes too. I have a kid who gags on most vegetables, and a husband who isn't far behind, so they get a potato, rice or noodle side dish on most days.

Otherwise it is usually meat/eggs/fat main dish, a veggie side dish and the starchy side dish.

carlsoda

Both my husband and I (and kids when they come home) all eat the same thing. We just keep some stone fire naan in the freezer and pop in the toaster super easy! We do keep some ginger snaps in the house for the kids to have with coffee for dessert, it's one of those things I would never reach for when I'm hungry

MissMaggieElizabeth

I just cook two different meals for each of us. Many times we eat the same meat. My hubby does wonderful things for me in other areas of our relationship I feel the least I can do is cook good meals he wants for him. Let me tell you it is difficult to cook him waffles and raisin and french breads. Custards for desert and fortunately he is not excited about eating cookies right now. PHEW because they were the worst for me to keep out of. The dough and the cookies. But this is MY decision to eat this way. I will face these resistance decisions for the rest of my life. I feel it is good to just get used to them now.

nicsflyingcircus

I make a starch most dinners, if it's not one of our crazy nights, and just choose not to partake.

Example: I baked potatoes the other night with roasted asparagus and grilled steak and salmon
I had my ribeye and asparagus. My husband had salmon, a baked potato and a little asparagus. One of the kids had salmon, half potato, asparagus. Two had steak and salmon, plus half potato and asparagus. The fourth had steak, salmon, asparagus, no potato... And she buttered her steak.

This is pretty typical of our family meals. Meat, veg, starch with people eating as they like from that. Only rule for the kids is they can't have - only - starch and if they choose to eat too lightly at dinner, no carby snacking later.

My husband can eat as he pleases, he is a grown *kitten* man of normal weight and good health and even if he wasn't, he's a grown *kitten* man.