How do you cook for your family?

i'm doing this not only for myself but for them also! i want my kids to eat healthy. i want my husband to eat healthy. cooking a lean protein, a whole grain carb, and a veg for dinner every night is balanced. you can take short cuts and use frozen veggies (and even frozen brown rice!!) to make dinner more quickly. kids learn to LIKE dinners that don't include mac and cheese every night. i don't worry about their portion size (just mine.) it's waaaaay too much work to make more than one meal for your family. and they will be healthy right along with you!!

I also do both! I love skinnytaste.com the food taste amazingand it counts everything for you per portion size. For the most part I cook one main meal, but with picky eaters, some things are swapped out. Like today we had rice beans and roast pork (sound like a lot, but I measure and weigh all my portions). 2 of them didnt eat beans and one just didn eat meat.

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I cook one meal for both of us, and my husband gets a bigger portion. He eats his own snacks during the day, mostly nuts, and I don't restrict his food, but he is not into calories and macros like I am.

He is not picky at all and just eat what ever I cook (probably because he doesn't know how to cook...:ohwell: ). Kids are all grown up so I don't have to worry about cooking different meals.

I live with my husband and our 8 year old son. Most of the time I make us all the same meal, though every once in a while either I or my son and I will eat something different. It's DH that's picky, though, and not my son. So if we're eating something DH won't eat, I'll either do it on a night where he can eat leftovers from the night before, or I keep a few frozen pizzas on hand for him in case he either fusses about what I made or I'm not going to be around at dinnertime.

Really, it's good for the rest of my family to eat lean meats and veggies, so there's no reason they need to eat something different, though Mr. Picky sometimes rears his ugly head :grumble:

My husband and I eat the same healthy foods. I save a little extra calories for dinner so I can make something that's 400-500 calories if I want to. Then he'll just eat a larger portion. For instance, tonight we had salads but he put on extra feta cheese, olives, and extra salad dressing to make it more calorie dense. Then he has healthy snacks while I work out so I don't see him snacking. It works out really well.

I have 2 sons. They eat whatever I'm eating.

I will make one meal for my wife and I, but I will make small changes to meet our needs. On steak night, I make a baked potato for her and stir fried collard greens for me. I make shepherd's pie in individual casseroles so she can have mashed potato on hers and I can have mashed cauliflower on mine. Having a variety of side dishes lets everyone eat what they want.

I have an interesting situation in that my husband is actually under his healthy weight range, so he's trying to gain weight. He also hates half the stuff that I'm trying to eat more of, like whole wheat pasta and brown rice instead of regular pasta and white rice. So, I usually make little tweaks to the meal so that it works for both of us. He has spaghetti with beef, I have whole wheat spaghetti with turkey. He has tacos, I have taco salad. Things like that. I'm still figuring it all out, but so far it's working pretty well. That way I can stick to my diet without having to cook two completely different meals.

Smart *kitten* answer: I cook the same as I do for myself, just more of it :P

one healthy meal that everyone eats

if it's healthy, it's healthy.... i refuse to feed my family crap that i won't eat.
If they want it they can get it for themselves but i refuse to contribute to their eating problems myself any longer.