"Kajikit" > wrote in message
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> DH has a restricted diet and I'm running out of ideas for things to
> make for him. He'd happily eat a hamburger six times a week but that's
> not healthy! (not to mention extremely boring...) The restrictions
> a
> - no seafood whatsoever except plain fish (he's deathly allergic)
> - no alcohol (he SAYS it would be okay but why risk it after 20 years
> of not drinking?)
> - no curry or curry-like spices (he hates it )
> - no capsicum/bell peppers (he's developed an intolerance...)
> - not too many vegetables (he hates peas, zucchini/squash, and too
> much of ANY vegetable. Vegetarian food is out of the question.)
> - no lamb (I cooked the mildest most tender delicious roast lamb and
> he hated the 'gamey flavour'!)
> - light on the legumes
>
> I was fine cooking for him until he developed the pepper intolerance.
> I dropped fresh bell peppers from our diet. But now he's reacting to
> dried peppers as well - I had a jar of cajun spice mix and it turns
> out to have dried red pepper in it and it made him ill. Alas the
> combination of his allergies and dislikes means no South East Asian
> food (fish sauce/seafood), no Indian food (too much curry), and now
> apparantly no Mexican food either (too many peppers!) I'm going to die
> of boredom here unless I can find some more recipes!
>
> So what does he LIKE? Hamburgers, bacon, pizza, fried eggs, carrots,
> green beans, broccoli, potatoes in any form, salad, fried chicken,
> pork (especially bbq), chilli, spaghetti etc. Heavy on the protein and
> starch and light on the vegetables... I usually cook a meal and then
> I'll microwave myself a bowl of frozen vegetables to go with it.

When I first read this, I thought puree the veggies he doesn't like into a
sauce or to thicken a soup. You mention fried eggs, does he eat eggs in
other forms like quiche? A broccoli quiche with a salad makes a nice mean.
You also mention hamburgers, does that mean he eats only hamburgers or does
he like anything with ground beef? There is meatloaf, shepherd's pie,
tomato macaroni bake, meatballs, cabbage rolls, stuffed tomatoes. There is
a lot of ways to dress up ground beef with different flavours so it isn't
always hamburgers for dinner. You do the same with chicken, by mentioning
fried chicken. Is it just fried chicken he will eat or any chicken? If any
chicken there are millions of things you can do with and with pork. I find
them both almost clean slates to do with as I please. Serve him the veggies
he likes, and if you want something different make yourself something
different. We often have a couple of different veggies with our meal, so
make one he likes, and one you want. You can have some of both, he can take
the one he likes. If indeed he will only eat hamburgers, fried eggs, fried
chicken, bbq pork, chili and spaghetti in those forms then the last 2 I
would make in bulk and freeze into individual servings for him. Then on
those nights I could cook something I wanted for myself and reheat his.

Debbie