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Originally Posted by 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.
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I am a little offended by your comment. Yes, I do feel that my husband is eating too much; and no I am not basing it off of what my sisters and girlfriends (????) eat. I am not basing it of of what I or my kids eat , either. That wouldn't be accurate.
My husband works a desk job and then he comes home and sits at his home computer. He is rarely active. He doesn't play sports or run or lift weights. He tinkers with computers and gaming equipment. That is his job, AND that is his hobby. So, he's not doing anything to burn those extra calories.
He is not overweight, well maybe a little. He has gained about 30 lbs. in the last year. He is by no means obese, though. He is about 6'1" and weighs approx. 220 lbs.
Let me give you and example of his eating. Last night I made a mexican style shepards pie. It had the following ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs. hamburger meat
2 cans of kidney beans
1 onion
1 can of corn
1 can diced tomatos
1 pkg. taco seasoning
water salt and pepper
minced garlic
2 boxes of corn bread
It made a full 13 by 9 pan of food. That's what HE ate for supper last night. The whole thing. Me and my two children had sloppy joes with mixed veggies and mixed fruit for dessert.
He had a light breakfast, a few slices of cranberry bread and some OJ as he dashed out the door for work and I packed him a large container of the leftover pot roast and rolls that I had made over the weekend for his lunch.
Now, I have seen plenty of men eat that much, but all were very phisically active. I do try to feed my whole family healthy foods, and as much as they need of it to be full.
My original post was asking for low cost recipes that would feed a lot of people, because I have to cook that way in order to feed him. I don't talk down on him about how much he eats at all. I don't even think he knows that I am concerned about how much he eats (but he does know that I am concerned about
what he eats after he told me about his colesterol levels), so I don't think that I am being a control freak at all. Your last paragraph suggests that I am not fulfilling my duties to my family because I don't work. I feel very offended by that. I try my best to do my part for my family, even though I do not have a "job".