Would you cook seperate meals?

you should tell him that he has the choice of cooking his own meals or eating the meals that you and your kids eat.

My husband is a lot pickier than I am. He also like red meat, and I prefer chicken (or pork or fish or about anything). He gets tired of white chicken meat, and won't eat dark. He's allergic to all fish and seafood. He will eat cooked vegetables, but doesn't like much other than green beans, spinach, and occasionally zucchini or cabbage. He'll eat salads as long as there are no cucumbers (he doesn't like them) or tomatos (he's allergic to them). We compromise on the meat, but I'll often fix two vegetables or find some other way to satisfy us both. It can be a real challenge, but I haven't succumbed to fixing two meals (yet, anyway).

That's sad. He is not setting a good example for the kids by eating all this unhelathy stuff. I would try to appeal to his better nature. Maybe also what you could do is like mix the beef and chicken and gradually phase out the beef. He probably wont notice if it's done over time. My dad wouldnt eat many things when my parents were first married. My mother gradually changed his habits over time and now he is almost normal in what he eats. Also, you could try getting a cookbook like decipetively delicious and sneek veggies into things.

It would drive me nuts to have to do that. I'd have a hard time cooking a meal for only him when I'm already making something else.

I know my aunt does this for my cousin sometimes but most of the time she tells him now he can make his own meals because he wont eat what we do.

I can't say that I've ever cooked a separate meal altogether, but I usually do a few different vegetables or sides. My husband isn't extremely picky, but there are times that I feel like eating something lighter than potatoes or pasta. I'm a big fan of vegetables, other than potatoes, and if I feel like eating them, I'll fix them. I figure if I'm the one spending the time in the kitchen cooking, and the cleaning up, then I should be able to fix anything that sounds good to me:)

Your husband sounds a lot like my BF, except perhaps even more picky. My BF doesn't like cooked vegitables either except for potatoes and corn. I have coaxed him into liking rice and eating a salad once in awhile. Thankfully, he will eat raw carrots and broccoli, he just hates "mushy" veggies.
As for the meals, he will eat chicken, pork and some fish, so I don't usually have to cook a whole differnt meal, but I will make different sides for us or I will add an extra vegitable to mine and he'll have a larger portion of potatos. But if I wanted to make stew or lasanga or something (he also hates all tomato-based products) the I will usually fix him his own meal. I don't mind doing it, because he isn't the type who would complain if he had to make his own meal. I just know that "his own meal" could well be just a piece of meat with no sides at all, so I want to at least get some vegetable matter into him, so I fix it if I can.

I agree that your husband should make his own dinner if he isn't going to eat what you make for yourself and the kids. I'm like your husband though, I'm a meat and potatoes person, although I prefer chicken to steak. However, I'll eat chicken any way that it is prepared and eat veggies or potatoes or whatever else with it. Why don't you try and compromise somehow? Maybe red meat on the weekends or something and something else during the week. Make enough meat on the weekends that he can have leftovers for a day or two if he needs it.

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As for the meals, I can relate to that!
A couple years ago, my spouse had gotten into really
bad eating habits.

Then he got really sick and his blood pressure went up
and he had to go onto salt restricted diet.

Now he won't let himself have red meat.

I wish that I could give you good advice on the veggies aspect.

If he won't eat them, then he won't eat them.

I have cooked meats on the Foreman grill with veggies
and they all end up tasting like meat.

Maybe he would like that.

Men don't often like soup, some beef and lots of veggies.

But you might try some kind of stew with carrots and potatoes.

Puree some veggies and add to the broth. He won't know that he
is eating veggies.

My spouse is not that picky when it comes to eating chicken
or fish cause those are healthy and he wants to live longer!

But my daughter, who is four, doesn't like veggies, so sometimes
I have to be sneaky and puree them into fruit juice.

That way she gets an entire serving of veggies and she doesn't know it.

Have you tried some kind of fruit/veggie pie?

Or homemade pot pie?

He wouldn't really be able to pick around all the veggies cause
those are mostly veggie based with some meat.

That might be a great way to get him to eat veggies.

You might also try making pasta, which relies more on noodles
and less on ground beef. He would still get his beef like he wants
but have to eat the pasta to get full.

I used to have to do that with my spouse.

Best of luck.
I'm sure things will work out for you!

fix what he likes one night and what you like the next. Can you alter what each of you eat alittle so meets you both in the middle? Fix a salad one night and cook him some red meet. Add and suptract so you get what you each want. You can eat a baked potatoe. Fix him a steak and potatoes and you eat just the potatoe. See what I mean? You can compromise for a healthier diet and not have to cook two meals.

I'm in the habit of cooking separate meals because my husband has always been a meat and potatoes man - he has a bad reaction to onions, and even onion powder in foods can make him ill. He won't eat rice, pasta, mushrooms, onions, capsicum, tomato, curries, stirfries, you name it. Therefore, I usually cooked something different for the children and I, and now that I only have one son at home, he and I have stirfries or pasta meals whilst my husband still has the good ol' meat and potatoes. I'm so used to it now I wouldn't know what it was like to cook one meal only!