Your everyday food

Yours is quite an interesting point and every night a tussle goes on in our home for deciding the next day's Menu. My better half first asks me about my choice and the options available with us, then she takes the options from children one by one and will come back to me with their feed back. When she have choices from all of us, she tells me - 'Look, you people donot have any concensus', my problem is at is. Then she manipulates and convince two out the three persons that look let the choice of my son by preferred and implemented. My choice comes in the last. I do not mind consuming any dish, to avoid the conflict, I always say - "Please take the opinion of children, I'll have everything". It is really a difficult taks to decide the every day Menu, specially when kids do not prefer to eat every vegetable or pluse/cereals. Good Post!

Hi dear, It is really a headache to decide the menu everyday. If I asked to my son what he wanted, he will tell the things, that won’t be possible for me (lol). Regarding the tastes, my son and hubby are just opposite on their interests. Younger one is really funny when he looks on food if he didn’t like (colour or something) then he won’t even ready to taste the same and will reject it by acting closing his mouth. While traveling back to home from office I am thinking about the next day menu, what will prepare for breakfast, lunch etc. For me it is very difficult to decide the variety and at the same time it should be healthy food too.

I think it’s the same with most of us. We are three here and it’s a real dilemma when I visit the markets on a weekly basis. If you want to eat fresh daily, there only a little of food that you need to cook, yet that’s a drain on both our monthly budget and on my time. our staple is usually rice, a dal, a veg curry and fish. Rice and dal are OK, its with the fish and curry that the dilemma starts…go to the market and it’s the same old variety of fish and same old vegetables staring back at me. And then since food in India is extremely regionalized, no matter how much I want, I cant really cook food from another state on a regular basis. It has to be the same Bengali taste for home-cooked food. So none of us can actually agree on what to eat but one thing both my son and I agree on is that home-cooked food can be real boring and bland…but good restaurants are so expensive.

Hi Mayka Well as we live in joint family system so there ate LOT of people in our home and the menu is decided by the ladies of the house and they know who like what so there is always a supplent dish to accomodate those who dis like and Pickle, Some Chattnis , Curd are also there Take care

well since i live alone i don't have the problem of trying to please anyone else besides myself. i can relate to what u are saying. when my sons were home i cooked more for them than i did myself.

We at home cook the simple Indian food like morning chapati and subji every day except on holiday and for dinner it is dal rice and subji thats all.On week day we cook some non-veg which my kids love to have. They dont like fish they like fried chicken or omlet and egg curry. sometimes I prepare rice and sambhar with papad.Happy mylotting and have a good diet that makes you slim.

I have to wrack my head every single day planning what to cook for breakfast and lunch (lunch and dinner is usually the same dishes). Tastes are different...and my little one who should be eating regular food now is pretty fussy. Husband goes on about protein for growing children..so there HAS to be one dal dish everyday. And the dishes shouldn't be repeated regularly. I cook healthy...not too much oil or fat and mostly a vegetarian diet. So, that is okay. Besides the children who are growing...no one has any special dietaty needs (yet). So, I cook usual stuff...and on some days, I make pizza, noodles/pasta, burgers, etc. Husband considers these as snacks while the kids and I can take these as a meal.

i also face the same problem.me and my kids like foods whieh are not very spicy while my hubby is just the opposite.i buy hot and sour sauces or the garlic chutney,which me and my kids donot consume.(its only for hubby)

Ha Haa! My every day food is like this; morning- tiffin (snacks) & tea at between 8 to 9 o'clock, day- lunch (rice, dal, sabji, salad etc.) by 2 o'clock, tea at 5 o'clock and dinner (roti, sabji) at about 10 o'clock. Thanks for this nice topic!

There are three of us in my household. There is my husband, myself and our little boy that's almost three. I have been trying to make a weekly menu and stick to it. I have things on the menu that everybody likes but also things that are good for us. I don't really have to worry about my family not eating the good for you items because everyone likes them. I grew up eating good for me so I just do it and don't really think about it. My family never complains about what I fix so that's a good thing.

Hello,Mayka! We don't have any problem.Our diet is very simple.Our daily menu is boiled rice,some vegetable curry,yogurt and salads.In the night we eat whole wheat bread and vegetable fries and salads and cheese or milk.thanx.

For me it is easier since it is just me to cook for. I dont really plan what i am going to cook in advance, i stand in front of the fridge and decide. Sometimes i just cook what i feel for.

We usually decide every morning what's for dinner. I'm on a diet to and my honey is trying to be. So now we trying to have a lot of chicken and fish instead of hamburgers and pork chops. We also eat more veggies and salads. Lots of time we just have a simple sandwich and some soup for dinner. It's not to heavy and there is all kinds of good sandwiches.

Mayka, as you are the parent it is your decision what the meal will be. Your daughter can eat and be grateful to have a meal and a roof over her head or she can go hungry. Children often want things other than what is available and they have to learn that what they want is not always what is best and it is up to the adults in their lives to teach them healthy habits. How to specifically approach this situation depends on the age of your daughter but why not make a list of healthy foods that you both enjoy and plan your meals around them?

i am lucky that the members of our family are not picky eaters. We cook whatever is the fridge. if there is fish, we just fry ir or make sweet and sour fish. for meat, we have a variety of menu, usually we put vegetables on it to avoid consuming much red meat.

I am lucky to have housemates who eats and likes the same food as I do. But they eat more since I am on a diet also. My children are not choosy when it comes to food. They eat whatever is on the table and just make special request once in awhile.

I am only feed two at this time so I try to cater to one and just add something extra for the other one. This works most of the time.

Hi! we are pure vegetarians and cooking is done by my mom at home. everyone accepts and eats whatever she does. we do have tastes and she knows perfectly how to prepare such dishes which everyone likes. Though my dad is a diabetic, the way my mom prepares is appreciated by everyone. we have never had any problem so far. she knows what to cook and when to cook very well. she has her own menu which everyone likes a lot, the item that my mom prepares are just awesome and very very tasty and mouthwatering.

Hi there mayka123! =) Good day, Actually my dad is the one in charge to the cooking and kitchen stuff and he always asks us if what food do we want for breakfast,lunch, and dinner. My dad and mom are in their 50's going on 60's and what they eat is what we eat. I find nothing wrong with that. But, my dad has a diabetes so when it comes to snack time, he is not allowed to eat chocolate! My poor dad, he loves chocolate but we need to stop him from eating that. You know, its for his own good. =)

there are 4 people in my house and we have different taste and different need too. one of us is so thin that he wanna eat enough meat and oil, 3 girls wanna loss weight and keep fit. so we just cook our lunch together. most of time, the menu are two dishes of meat, one with egg, one with vegetable. the boy always had his dinner by himself, took noodle with eggs, or bread with ham. :D girls just took salad !