DO YOU COOK FOR OTHERS WHILE ON DIET?

I cook what everyone will eat, but then I manage my portion control.


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Yes my other half has his lunch out but eats the same meal as me in the evening but only more of it and he's quite happy with that. I'm lucky he is into healthy eating.

I cook for me and my boyfriend. So I just modify how much I eat. Last night we have 'healthy chips and egg'. I made roast potatoes in oven with 1 tablespoon oil, then after 30 mins added loads tomatoes, mushrooms, and onion. Then after 15 mins added the eggs to cook in the same pot. I had 1 egg, pots, lots veg. He had 2 eggs, lots pots, veg, plus bread and butter.

I eat everything but try not to eat as much. Im sure you can do it.x

I cook healthy foods for the family and manage my portions by weighing and measuring what I eat. Part of my motivation is to make sure my son does not have the same struggles with weight that I have had since a child. I figure he can eat a healthy well balanced diet just like me!

We have a dog, she eats my son's leftovers! Her metabolism is way better than mine! haha Seriously though I adjust her doggie food intake and she is in a healthy weight range so as well with her too!

it could be an opportunity to try out new healthier things with them, a lot of basic meals can be altered to be healthier

Family dinners are extremely important to me and are one of the deciding reasons why I didn't go the gastric bypass route. I cook for everyone and everyone in the house has started eating healthier. It wasn't easy at first, but after a few weeks of tears and grumbling (from the kids), we've all settled and adjusted.

I give my children small portions of food and they are always welcome to ask for more (rarely do they do so). I usually make enough so that my husband has lunch for the next day.

Occasionally I will make the rest of the family something naughty and eat something different (these are usually nights when I have a School Council meeting or dinner plans with my BFF). For the most part though, they eat what I eat.

I do bake quite often (mostly muffins) just for them. I will occasionally have a muffin or cookie (I make them as healthy as possible) but usually not. I don't have much trouble resisting so it's o.k.

Hi! Yes I cook what I know they will eat and then I cook my own. I dont think its fair because I am changing my eating habits to dramatically change their eating habits too just because now it suits me. So I am slowly making little changes to their meals. I should point out that both my children and husband do not have weight issues but definately need to eat healthier. I want this to be a gradual and positive process. I remember how it feels to be served foods I didnt like and it didnt help.
Eventually I expect we will all eat the same healthy foods and it will become a natural habit the children grow up with, not a change that was pushed onto them. That is my goal.
As for leftovers, sometimes I will have a little - its often enough to satisfy the craving and I dont need anymore.
If they are having takeaway I might have a couple of fries and thats enough and I have my own healthy food.
Do what works for you and if you have a few bites of their leftovers, no big deal, just record it in your food diary, you might be surprised what it adds upto.
Good Luck!!

there are tons of great web sites to find great tasting healthy receipes that the whole family will eat, times before when I have been dieting I had to cook two different meals and that gets really old fast. So this time we aren't calling it a diet it's a life changing plan It's only me & my husband ( who isn't overweight) now and he has been all in to all the new things that I have been cooking. Good Luck and If your family doesn't eat leftovers, feed it to the dog DON'T clean your childrens plates!!!!

NO EATING CHILD'S LEFTOVERS!!! :happy:

lol.

I cook for my family. Sometimes I make things that are figure-friendly, and other times I make their favorites traditionally, or make food substitutions to create a lower calorie version. If not that, I make myself a separate dish.

I'm allergic to seafood but my husband and son aren't so I will make a couple of seafood dinners some nights and for other nights I make and eat what everyone else likes to eat. I just watch my portions or I'll eat something lighter before dinner and save the dinner leftovers for lunch the next day. My son makes his own plate so he eats everything he puts on it.

*Shudder*

I have never eaten anything after a kid! Have you seen what they might have done to it? Before I was a Mom I would watch my niece shove waffles in her mouth, spit them out then later my sister gobble all the leftovers, I'm just not that kind of Mom!

I do half and half. I love to try new recipes and crazy things I know no one else wants to eat. Sometimes when we are all together I'll try to make what everyone likes or have some new things and some things I know they like. My husband works 12hr 3rd shifts so he isn't home a lot for dinner so I'll make the kids something, then make me something. I still make them healthy foods other then if its a night where things need to be fast but I also do a lot of pre-paring ahead so I have many things on stand-by. 90% of the time they eat REAL foods, not processed stuff.

I encourage trying new things by putting a small amount on their plate but it has also helped them seeing me eating something then they will ask to try it. With my kids, I can put the same thing I'm eating on their plate and they won't touch it. But if its on my plate only, my kids HAVE to have it. They ask more often if they can try it.

I don't mind cooking this way and I know its not for everyone, but it doesn't have anything to do with being on a "diet", it has more to do with how I love to experiment with food.

Before my husband joined here and started to eat healthier, I'd just make healthy food and he's eat it or make his own. I'm not making two meals. Luckily we don't have kids, so I don't have to worry about picky eaters who can't make their own food. If we did, though, I certainly would not finish their food just because they didn't eat everything.

I cook for my family and everyone eats the same food. It's good for everybody to eat healthier! My OH usually has a bigger portion of whatever we're having.

I don't finish my kid's leftovers. I put very little on his plate to avoid wasting. He can always ask for more if he's still hungry. And if there are leftovers, I either give them to my partner, throw them away or keep them for later.

eating their leftovers is how I got here....

I do 97% of the cooking in my house, so DH eats what I eat. I do the cooking because a) I enjoy it, b) it gets DH eating more vegetables/lean meats and c) if I let him do it, I would be eating nothing but meat and rice.
I don't have children, but if I did, I wouldn't eat their leftovers.

My son eats his own baby food, and I cook healthy food for my husband and I. I usually eat what I want in terms of food just try to make it healthy to begin with. I also watch my portions so my husband eats more than I do (and he needs to because he works out all the time).