"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>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.

I grew up in a house where for the most part, everyone got what they wanted
to eat, most of the time. Yes, there was the horrid year when both parents
went on Weight Watchers. Then, nobody got to eat what they wanted to eat,
ever! My friends wouldn't eat at our house without first seeing what was
being served.

Now that didn't mean that my mom (or I when I did the cooking) would cook
several different meals. One day I would pick the main dish. The next day
my brother would pick it. One day I would pick the vegetable and the next
day my brother would pick it. He always picked corn. Yes, I know corn is a
grain. But in our house we had canned peas, corn and green beans all the
time. There were beets and tomatoes but only my dad and I liked those. We
also had canned potatoes sometimes but only I liked them. Sometimes my mom
bought canned asparagus but only she liked it. We still had to eat whatever
it was whether we liked it or not, if it was served. And there was almost
always green salad. But that's when we ate at home. And mostly we didn't.
We dined out a lot because then everyone could get what they wanted.