Cooking for yourself and someone who isn't dieting

make him the same meal but give him more of it than you give yourself, If I am making a salad or something with no meat I will add a chicken sausage or some other meat to his dinner.

My boyfriend thinks "healthy" is a baked meat, potatoes, a side of mixed veggies or green beans and mac n cheese lol. Or a grilled chicken salad. I don't compromise my food unless we are at a restaurant. I totally got lucky too that he will eat what I put in front if him. I've made all kinds of things "cajun chicken pasta" with ww pasta, tacos with ground turkey, whole wheat waffles with yogurt, shish kabobs, I find it pretty easy to feed us both!

When cooking for my whole family, I try to make healthy stuff that they like, and I watch my portions very carefully. Once in a while we'll have a splurge, but on the whole I've found that they enjoy (most of) the same healthy things I like, too. Sometimes I'll cook different things, like pork chops for my husband & chicken or shrimp for the rest of us. It's been working fairly well so far.

Mine normally just eats a bigger portion of what I do. Everything I cook is still really good, I just have to watch my own portions. He'll also eat my "lighter" deserts and lightened up recipes without complaint.

Yes, this has been an ongoing issue in my house. My husband loves healthy food, so that is good. But for the most part I try to make a meat, starch, veggie for the plate, then put some fruit in the middle of the table for after. I usually take the meat and slice it and throw it on top of a salad with all the other veggies. When we have something like spagetti, I just have a smaller portion of the spagetti and we always have salad with it so that's easy.

I'm not sure if you have problems with lunches, but I buy Nature's Own whole wheat bread. it's not too healthy tasting so my husband and kids like it. The best part is that it only has 50 calories per slice!

Besides those tips, I just have a smaller portion than my husband, I'm smaller right, so I don't need as much...seems to work.

I've found that I have to prepare my husband and son's dinner separate from my own. They certainly don't want to eat baked chicken, tuna, veggies, etc. all the time like I do. It takes some getting used to having to do that but it works for me and my household...

I don't; I guess I am just mean; my husband is slim muscular, he doesnt care what I cook as long as he doesnt have to. He will make a comment here and there, if it's too healthy.

Since I don't consider myself "dieting" this really isn't an issue. I still make the foods we both love, I've just found healthier ways to make them! And if it's just not realistic to make it healthier....I cut my portions. This is my way of making lifestyle changes I can live with for life instead of "being on a diet"!

I have custody of my 17 year old brother and I have to cook for him and my husband. So that is NOT an easy task when I want to eat "diet" food and I have two guys looking at me like they havent eaten in years!~!~!

So what I do is give them more meat than I will be eating and I usually make them a carb. I try not to eat carbs at dinner because I usually have them with breakfast and lunch. So I make rice or mashed potatos, stuff like that and they are usually satisfied with that and whatever veggies we are having. If I ever feel like I might run short on food for the night I make it a point to "make" them eat a salad before dinner. These guys will eat til their eyes pop out so I gotta make sure they are eating healthy as well.

I'll make half of a dish adjusted "healthy" and half "normal"

If I'm making something like sheppherds pie I'll fill half of the cassarole dish with plain (no butter or cheese or sour cream) potatoes and fill the other half with potatoes stuffed with butter and cheese and sour cream (like he likes it) that way we both can be happy I made him a boxed pasta dinner thing the other day and stole some of the chicken, cooked myself a side of whole wheat pasta (I had plain) and some steamed veggies. It's a little more work to do it this way, but it's not two complete seperate meals, and for us it's worked out great

I've found a lot of low fat or low cal substitutes for our favorite ingredients and try to bulk up with veggies instead of starches. Hubby isn't too fussy but he used to be of a mindset that healthy meant tasteless. After making a few things without letting him know beforehand then seeing what he thought and spilling the beans, he started to come around. The only things he won't accept are black beans and spaghetti squash. So I do make a couple recipes just for me and pack them for lunch.

I'm also in the "no deprivation" camp so I make what I like and am just really careful about portion sizes so I can still stay within my calorie limits (most of the time).

My wife and I are both changing lifestyle, and eating habits, so its VERY to cook for her. Even when I have friends over, I cook what we need to be eating and they never know that I am serving them healthy food. lol.

I am a native of New Orleans, and grew up with a love for good food, and cooking is a passion of mine. when we started to eat right, I just modified my recipes to fit in with our diet needs. I am 100% against the idea that because you are changing what you are eating that you have to eat boring food with no flavor. the good news is that I love creating and experimenting in the kitchen and I am developing quite a collection of new recipes that are quite healthy. I should actually write some of them down someday.

even our "cheat" meals are getting healthy, I made a smoked tomato and poblano bisque about a week ago. it was only about 200 calories to a bowl, but FELT like a very indulgent treat. they ate just about every drop and I barely had to wash the pot by the time we were done. lol

I live with my parents, but the only meal we have together is dinner. Since they're home quite late, I've usually eaten before. If I cook them something, I find it really easy to resist trying whatever I'm making and I have a lot of fun with it. It's nice not having to think about protein/carbs/calories so I end up going a bit overboard with the ingredients but they like it!

They're completely fine with this. Sometimes I'll just make my own meal around the same time, they're used to the way I eat which is really helpful.

I will occasionally make my family something extra that they love and I won't eat. Like boxed mac n cheese. But for the most part if they don't like what I'm making then they either need to give me suggestions for dinner or go make their own. My hubby usually just eats bigger portions. The other night I made pork carnitas and he didn't want anything to do with it so he ate left overs. If we didn't have left overs he would have just eaten it lol. I'm not on a diet really I'm just trying to eat healthier.

Holy crow. When i was 15 I went vegetarian and my mom's response was, 'you don't want meat, cook it yourself' and I've totally adapted that. Now, i'm single and occassionally cooked for a roommate, but when I visit my family and cook they eat what I make, it's how my family functions. if someone wants something else, they're making it. Especially if they're grown@ss people.