Reply To: Solutions to a Dinner Problem

Jax- not really an option. We are the stereotypical starving college students and poor newlyweds all rolled into one (b’h we’re not ACTUALLY starving, but you get the idea…)

Mod-80– it’s a bit more complicated than just giving him more to eat and taking less for myself. I’m not going to get into the details here, but we really have two very different diets.

One thing I’ve tried the last 2 days, inspired somewhat by oomis, was making one basic dish, splitting into 2, and then adding extra chopped veggies to mine and cheese or cream to his (we don’t eat fleishigs during the week).

So far, I’ve had one success and one failure.

It worked with the fettucine alfredo- I made low-fat sauce, ladled it onto my plate of 1/3 pasta, 2/3 spinach, mushrooms and garlic, and then added cream, butter and an extra egg to what was left in the pot, served that on top of his 1/2 pasta 1/2 veggie and that worked great; but tonight I tried something similar with my tacos and suffice it to say, I didn’t live up to my culinary reputation 🙂

If anyone has any other suggestions, lemme know.