OMG I am sooooo stuck on dinners...

lorishultis
lorishultis Posts: 95 Member
edited October 7 in Health and Weight Loss
My family is PICKY and i am at a loss on what to make... Dinners are getting boring and what they want is too much salt or too high in calories... WHAT DO YOU DO?

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  • tigressmomof5
    tigressmomof5 Posts: 21 Member
    I kind of have the same problem.Tonight I am making the kids twice baked baked potatoes, but I am eating a lean cuisine and a large salad with a little bit of dressing. There is no way I am going to be able to loose the weight needed if I eat what the family is eating. :-(
  • SavCal71
    SavCal71 Posts: 350 Member
    1. Don't be a short order cook. Cook one meal and everyone eats it.
    2. Consider appeasing your picky eaters with side dishes. i.e. If my son doesn't like the mediterranean chicken I'm making as the main dish, I'll use couscous as the starch and green beans as the side because he loves couscous and green beans. If my daughter doesn't like salmon, I'll make sweet potatoes as the side because she loves those. That way, each night, there is at least one component of the meal that each person likes.
    3. Allow for "options". The kids may want mashed potatoes and gravy, so I'll make a very light version of mashed potatoes, then they'll add their own extra butter and gravy on theirs - I'll eat mine plain.
    4. Separate things before finalizing. If I'm making say, chicken taco soup, and I want it spicy, I'll make the base soup, then put 1/2 in a pan to keep for the kids, and then add the spicy ingredients to the other half for me and my husband. I didn't make two meals, but i was able to accomodate both tastes.
    5. Involve them in meal planning - let a kid choose the meal one night, with you having veto power and "healthier option" power. ie. Your kids want tacos. So, you use lean ground beef or turkey instead of regular, and you use steamed corn tortillas instead of fried.
  • SavCal71
    SavCal71 Posts: 350 Member
    I kind of have the same problem.Tonight I am making the kids twice baked baked potatoes, but I am eating a lean cuisine and a large salad with a little bit of dressing. There is no way I am going to be able to loose the weight needed if I eat what the family is eating. :-(

    Then don't. You shouldn't eat what they're eating - instead, they eat what you eat. Healthy meals are good for them too. Make one meal and you all eat it. If they don't like it, they can make their own meals.
  • km47
    km47 Posts: 34
    my kids have learned to love sweet potatoes! they like them any way I can make them and have taken to cooking them in the mocrowave as a snack! They are 11, 14 and 15!!!!! Never would I have guessed that! Same for veggies! We make a bowl of steamed broccoli the other day and ate it like popcorn while watching TV. Stir fry is fun for little kids. I get my kids to help. They like it if I don't "mix" the veggies together, but cook them separately and put them in little bowls and then they add it to their own concoction. Just a thought. K
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