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interesting, our meal times are about sharing our day, and to some degree
the preparation process, since you are in charge it makes sense from both
the ease of preparation, and to some degree the denyal, if your dh likes
starches to not make seperate meals, Lee, glad to see you posting
"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Stormmee wrote:
>> i know this is going to sound odd, but while everyone here is in need of
>> lower carb meals. having that as a given, do you, if you are the main
>> cook, inforce this on the rest of the people you cook for?
>>
>> I ask this not as a way to start an arguement, but i am trying to
>> understand this dynamic, i started wondering this after getting negative
>> feedback about the pork and pineapple idea i posted,
>>
>> the reason i ask is that often DH makes noodles for himself, and either
>> brown rice for me or i just have it in a bowl, so this started me
>> wondering, how many of you cook to order, require those you cook for to
>> eat as you do, or what> the dh does most of our cooking and has no
>> problem making two completely seperate meals, mine is often vegetables
>> and some sort of protien, chicken or soy, we might share the vegetables
>> but he will have say beef and potatoes or noodles with his...
>>
>> sorry this is rambling and i hope i am getting acroos what i am asking,
>> Lee

>
> I completely understand. I am not diabetic and I love pasta and noodles. I
> am the chief cook, however, so I would be the one who would be making
> separate meals. It would also bother me to have two people eating
> different meals as that isn't what the dinner table is all about in our
> home.
>
> I eat low carb with him and when we go to a restaurant or when I go out
> for lunch with my gal pals, I indulge my desire for a bowl of pasta or
> noodles.
>
> Since your DH does all the cooking, you might want to have him find meals
> that would suit both of you. It is a challenge, but it can be done.
>
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> Janet Wilder
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