[mountainmist]

Are you certain that your husband eats "TOO MUCH" - or are you basing this upon what you and your sisters and your girlfriends consume at mealtime?

Is your husband physically active? Does he have a desk job or is up and about, all day, burning off huge amounts of calories.

Is he overweight?

If he's not overweight, then how can you possibly accuse him of overeating?

Have you ever been in a restaurant and observed how much food that most men consume at one sitting?

I think you should concentrate on feeding your husband HEALTHY nutritious food, and as much of it as he wants -- he sounds like he's HUNGRY to me, and if you don't figure out something super healthy, your decision that he's "too expensive" to feed will probably drive him to purchasing candy and miscellaneous junk food whenever he's out and about, and not in your sight.

How would you, an ADULT, like it, were your husband to patronizingly decide that YOU were eating "improperly" -- I mean, seriously, I think that you are crossing some serious boundaries here, like in a Control.Freak manner, and that this shouldn't be encouraged, it's not healthy for your marriage, and that it might be alot more positive instead of concentrating on his diet habits, that you might seriously think about getting a part time job in order to afford to feed all the members of your family, instead of obsessing over how to save pennies because the main wage earner has a bigger appetite than you - something most men do have, that's just NORMAL male metabolism, that they generally have a much larger calorie consumption than their female mate.