I am of the opinion that everyone has different tastes and likes and just
because I am the cook doesn't mean their wishes have to be over ridden. I
would cook 10 different meals if necessary. We have 7 people in this house,
an adult daughter and her two babies and she has been used to cooking for
her family for more than 10 years. If she doesn't want what I am cooking she
will say so and usually cook separately for her and the babies. I have an
adult son living here too who manages to miss one meal a day because of his
work/sleep/gym hours. He eats a massive meal for dinner which he eats at 3
am when he gets home. The other two are 15 and 14 and have bottomless pits
when it comes to food. The 3 youngest aren't that into vegetables so it
wouldn't matter if I cooked a plateful of lower carb veggies they are going
to feel deprived. My ex comes over about 2-3 times a week for dinner and his
diabetes isn't easy to control (long history of falling off the wagon) so he
has mostly low carb veggies and meat by choice. Having said that, he still
has the right to choose gravy, potato or rice or pasta if he desires, 9
times out of 10 he won't but occasionally will have a small helping of one
of the carbier foods and take extra insulin. He bought a large cake over for
our son's 19th birthday but ate none of it yet had ice cream at a restaurant
recently when we all went out for dinner.





"Stormmee" > wrote in message
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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
> ...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Janet Wilder
>> Way-the-heck-south Texas
>> Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
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