Maggie you are so right! I do that sometimes, when It's something I like. But frankly, I usually don't care that much for what we eat for dinner. Dh doesn't like fun stuff. I love things like mushroom and spinach stuffed chicken breasts, pesto chicken or balsamic honey chicken. My beef hcoices ar elimited to what happens to be in the freezer so I often avoid it sinc eI can't choose low fat cuts. Our hamburger though is far less greasy than even the 97% lean I sometimes buy for the kids I watch. It's so lean you have to add water to the pan to keep it form sticking! There is never any fat to drain. Dairy cows are usually what are in our freezer.
I like fun sauces, rice, herbs, veggies. DH eats hamburger helper. I know I say that alot but we freaking eat it at least once a week. There are days when I just want to gag thinking about eating it.
He won't eat anything with onions, tomatoes or really any veggies. His veggies are limited to corn and green beans and those I actually have to put on his plate or he'd leave them. He won't eat rice, cous cous, very little pasta.
Our typical dinners consist of spaghetti and meatballs, tacos a couple times a month, tuna casserole (once a week or every two weeks), chicken and rice, roast with veggies that becomes beef stew (once a week in the winter), chili (GAG), chicken noodle soup and PBJ or grilled cheese, and junk like chicken patties, kraft mac and cheese, ordering pizza, fish sticks, fried fish, home made fries. I detest pork chops and we eat those quite a bit.
So sometimes I eat Lean Cusine or the Michelina ones when I can get them for $1 each. I like Lean cuisine and healthy choice the best. Or I more often just eat the crap DH likes. Sometimes I cook myself an entirley different meal, but I barley ahve time to make one meal let alone two, you know? I mean I don't mind most of it but it's not usually something that freezes well anyway.
Also I like the frozen meals for lunches. They are quick and not too bad, and then I can stay out of the kids stuff. I hate all the sodium. There has to be a better way. I do on occasion make soups and freeze those. It's just been a while. Maybe I need to get out some recipes and whip up some stuff and stiock it away.
Does anybody else have a white bread hamburger helper kind of family? I hate to think that I am setting my kids up for a lifetime of poor eating. DH only eats real butter, and he will now try wheat bread. He only drinks whole milk (usually straight out of the milk tank so it still has all the cream in it). But my kids when presented with mac and cheese or roasted root vegetables, guess which one a two year old will pick. I make myself whole wheat pasta nad teh kids and DH eat regular. I feel like I should push the issue and make the kids eat the whole wheat. With something like they wouldn't notice. But in catering to DH I feel I am limiting what my kids are exposed to. I love stuff like sweet potatoes and squash, parsnips but I'd never serve them for dinner. Maybe I should. Budget plays a big role too, white bread is cheaper, regular pasta is cheaper. It costs less to stretch a pound of hamburger with Hamburger Helper than it would cost to just eat meatloaf. Eating healthy gets expensive. But, at what cost? Obese kids addicted to junky carbs rather than healthy fuel for thier bodies?
Ok I'm done ranting LOL. Now I am in the mood to cook something good. LOL! Have a great day everyone!
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It's ok for now. I just broke the screen part, so DH put the glass in, which he had to do for winter anyway.
