Aussie really finding it hard...
#323287 - 01/27/08 05:39 AM
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Hi there.
I suffer from CFS/ME, Asthma, IBS-D/A and Fibromyalgia.
My Asthma is usually not too bad but due to the CFS/IBS I have to live with family. I try and contribute by cooking for us all, mainly low fat meals and pasta.
The thing is, the other 5 adults in the house keep bringing junk in. Chocolate, Pizza, Burgers, KFC and although one of them has Barret's Esophagus and needs to eat low fat, they won't.
When I make meat-free pasta they balk at it and they won't go without dairy and icecream.
While I don't expect them to follow my diet completely, knowing that chocolate and coffee are just a hand-span away is really hard.
The hardest thing though is that I only have the energy to cook one meal for 6 adults, and they are complaining about all the mega healthy stuff.
Everyone helps out in their own way and my thing is the cooking, but it's really difficult when they eat so much crap and so much coca cola etc...
They whinge about not eating healthy(they could all stand to lose a few pounds and one of them will get cancer if he doesn't cut the fat out) but they just won't eat healthy unless I make it and even then, they don't always want to eat it.
I am an Australian so I am not sure what the safest snack foods are either. It's hard if I am out somewhere and need to grab a quick snack. Any ideas?
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Snacks are a problem if you plan to find them "out". Baked Lays Potato Chips or Baked Corn Chips are OK. Water is fine (I know not a snack). Beyond that the only snacking I can do "out" is if I find a Whole Foods or organic grocery or health food store where I can buy safe cookies (no HFCS) or get good organic bakery bread. My husband refuses to eat chicken and fills the house with soft drinks, ice cream, pop corn, pizza, etc. I still cook for him but I fix him something different. Tonight he had homemade salisbury steak (ground sirloin pattie with gravy) and I had baked chicken. We both had cooked green beans (fresh) and no yolk egg noodles along with fresh french bread. He was happy and I won't get sick. I don't mind not being able to eat things he can eat. He understands that I can't and he is very very happy that I'm not sick anymore. We can actually go out for the evening and not have to rush around to find a bathroom or come home early. I can even sit through an entire church service without having to get up and go to the bathroom. Hang in there. You have to accept that you have to eat a certain way. If the rest of your household doesn't and you are the cook then you have to get creative. Grilling meat is easy too--I fix my hubby a steak and I have chicken or salmon and we eat the same side dishes (therefore they have to be low fat, lactose free, soy free, etc.) (I am soy sensitive too).
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Barbara50
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I don't know how to keep them from bringing junkfood into the house (I'm fortunate in that *I* - not my husband and teens - am the one in the house who used to bring in the junkfood and I'm now trying to change that. About your cooking, though...could you switch off the cooking duty with someone else for a few days per week? On those days, you could make only your own healthier meals (while doing some other chore to contribute to the running of the household) so your family can eat their junkfood and be happy. On the other days, they might then be more tolerant of the healthier food that you cook. When you say they don't like meatless pasta...can you have them fry up some ground beef on the side and then add it to just their portions of the lasagna or spaghetti or whatever?
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