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Do you make a full meal or

Zhills — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:10:55 GMT

do you eat "ala carte?"

I don't fix a meat, starch, raw veggie & cooked veggie any longer. Did for years!

Now, I seem to eat items separately!

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Carmie — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:44:44 GMT

I cook a full meal for my husband every night. I usually just eat the protein, a veggie and a green salad.

I make a gigantic bowl of green salad about twice a week with three or four kinds of greens, cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, celery and radishes.

I just make myself some chicken, fish or streak, etc. and a veggie and my husband eats the same except I make him a starch...rice, pasta or potatoes.

I also make homemade bread two or three times a week or some cornbread for him to have with his meal.

He eats dessert almost every night, so I bake once or twice a week....cake or pie usually, but sometimes cookies or brownies. He sometimes eats ice cream instead.

I do a lot of cooking and baking. We don't eat out except for a few times a year, usually while on vacation or with friends.

When hubby goes away for a week or two in December, I mostly just eat a salad with a protein served on top. This past year I made beef stew while he was away and ate it for six days in a row.

I don't make a full meal if it is just me eating.

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AuntMame — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:45:55 GMT

My cooking habits are the same as @Carmie 's. Make a full meal every night for the husband, and bake bread and desserts for him several times a week, but I'm mostly a nibbler. Bit of soup and vegetables now and then.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:32:13 GMT

For us, a meal is a serving of protein and a green vegetable, sometimes half an avocado on the side. We never eat starchy vegetables, rice, or pasta. Sometimes we'll have a large salad with protein added. Sometimes it's bacon & eggs with a green vegetable and maybe some berries. We have our main meal at noon. I usually eat once a day and may have a little something afterwards, like a few nuts or a zero sugar yogurt.

I do most of our cooking but we do eat out at times. When we do, we can maintain our way of eating.

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We rescue cats — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:33:21 GMT

Our meals are much like Carmie's, protein and veggies but with a starch for DH.

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Meowingkitty — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:10:08 GMT

I rarely make a traditional meal of meat, potatoes and veggie. Most of our meals are pizza, tacos, steak and baked, burgers, spaghetti etc. The only time I make a traditional meal is Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Re: Do you make a full meal or

Desertdi — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:38:06 GMT

I graze. I can't manage to consume a whole "Sunday dinner".

However, my relatives have banquet-type dinners every day of the week.

It must have something to do with your DNA or genes, or appetite.

Never figured out how people can eat "three-squares" a day...

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Rockycoast — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:44:23 GMT

My husband is the cook in the family. I’m the baker. For 4 nights a week he cooks a meat, vegetables and starch for dinner. Mondays are meatless. A big vegetable, fruit and nuts salad. We go out to eat one night and on Ffidays it is either fish, seafood or pizza. We like cooking and baking from scratch. We eat as little processed food as possible and grow a lot of our own vegetables and herbs.

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Jk9 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:13:26 GMT

We have one full meal each day after we feed the dogs at 4 pm. Breakfast is a brief skinny bagel, oatmeal or breakfast roll. I cook a protein and one vegetable or a salad. We also can have a dinner salad a couple times a week too. We have a sandwich meal no more than once a week. Dessert is three small cookies or macarons each evening. I also like a weekend piece of pizza with a salad too. I really try to have some variety and try different things so that we enjoy our food. We sit down and enjoy each others' company and take our time.

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Roscoe the Rascal — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:18:42 GMT

Now that it is just me I make simple meals and but every so often I will do a full meal just for me and make a tv dinner from the rest and freeze for another time or sometimes have them the next day. Depends. Sometimes I will cook for my daughter and her family and do the works.

Just nice to cook it up at times and then other times not so much and I like the simplicity of it.

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Bri369 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:08:00 GMT

Dinner is usually a protein and vegetables and a salad. I rarely make pasta, maybe once or twice a month. I try to incorporate some veggies on the side or in the sauce, along with a salad, with that meal. We gave up bread at dinner a long time ago. I still miss it.

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AngelPuppy1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:19:56 GMT

It varies with us, depending upon mostly how DH's health is. For a long while, he was not feeling up to eating much, so we just ate small things. Now, he is feeling some better and he is wanting to eat larger meals - more balanced. As for me, I'm not for the most part really into the larger meals any more, except for mayabe Sunday or a special occasion.

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lynnie61 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:21:05 GMT

I cook dinner 4-5 days a week. Protein, starch and veggie or salad. Other days leftovers, or sometimes we graze. I don't always eat the starch, but SO, he eats several times a day. I ususally eat one meal, and maybe a cup of soup, or yogurt, or a piece of fruit another time of day. We eat out 2-3 times a month, maybe sometimes 4. When I make steak, we usually share one. He will grill, but I do most of the cooking.

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AuntG — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:50:56 GMT

Yes, I make complete meals at dinner time. Breakfast is usually cereal and fruit for DH. I like plain yogurt and fruit. Lunch is generally leftovers from the night before. Today, it will be my version of a bacon and egg McMuffin, and an apple. Tonight, we'll have a green salad, cheesy potatoes (I'll have cheesy cauliflower) and cube steaks. My DH likes dessert, so that will be a dish of ice cream.

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catter70 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:37:05 GMT

I quit cooking many years ago. I basically eat sandwiches or microwave dinners. About every 3 months or so, I'll make a hamburger.

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wagirl — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:42:38 GMT

I usually cook a full meal-----and then DD and I also eat ala cart too.

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Bonkers1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:38:31 GMT

Not at all. I live alone and prefer eating whatever my tummy wants that night.

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ID2 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:59:16 GMT

We eat no carb and dinners consist of a salad (always) protein and vege. I'm very strict with what we consume. I read all ingredients in things I buy. If anything says "bioengineered" I put it back. It's paying off, our latest blood tests are all in the normal range. yay!

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Nathan Grandma — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:14:37 GMT

Our biggest meal is lunch, I cook what would be considered dinner food like what other posters have. We are very early risers (between 4:00 and 5:00) and have breakfast daily - usually bagel, toast, cereal or yogurt fruit smoothie. Because of the big lunch we don't eat dinner and as of late we enjoy a glass of wine around 5:00, watch something on Netflix and are in bed by 8:00

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shoptilyadropagain — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:51:33 GMT

My meals are easy and simple. For the most part, I have a sandwich or a casserole with a salad or some other vegetable. If I have a chicken breast or some other protein, I'll have a baked potato and the salad/vegetable.