Cooked food family, what about yours?

[DawnW]

I have a family with 4 boys (DH and 3 sons.) DH says he is open to whole foods eating and even getting meat out of the house, but he is not willing to go Raw or even dairy free.

How do you do it in your house? Do you cook for the family and make another meal for yourself?

I am sure this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find anything in a search.

Dawn

[MelissaO]

I share the cooking between my Dad's house and mine. Both of which are SAD eaters. Dad is big time into meat, diary he can not do - lactose intolerant, my hubby likes cooked foods and meats as well, and then there are my two minor nieces (they live with my Dad) and they turn their nose up to veggies but are into fruits and of course cooked processed and garbage food.

What I do is I will cook for them and always add some kind of raw item to each meal. I may make a seperate main course for myself or I may opt for a salad. We normally always have a salad with dinner .

It would be great if everyone around me was raw, or even a vegan but that is not the case. Regardless I thrive just fine:D

[RawKnitster]

I still shop, fix lunches, and cook dinner for my husband and daughter. They fix their own breakfasts, cooked or not. If I don't want to fix their dinner, they are okay with that. They heat up leftovers, fix sandwiches or whatever. They will cook if it is something simple.

It is a challenge to get their meal and my meal on the table at the same time. We usually eat in the kitchen, so we are still together at dinner time, but I let them start eating while I finish fixing my raw meal. I do feel a little lonely if they are finished eating before I get my food on the table, so I try not to let that happen. On the other hand, sometimes I'm not hungry and don't eat with them at all, but I'm still with them in the kitchen.

My family does benefit from all the fresh fruits and veggies in the house. They eat much more whole foods than they did before I went raw.

Finally, they know how good raw is for me and are very supportive. I'm the one that feels cooking for them is still my responsibility. It's what I do.

Good luck finding what works for you and your family. Sounds like your husband and sons are willing to meet you halfway. That's great! :)

[SheLovesToEat]

I have a family with 4 boys (DH and 3 sons.) DH says he is open to whole foods eating and even getting meat out of the house, but he is not willing to go Raw or even dairy free.

How do you do it in your house? Do you cook for the family and make another meal for yourself?

I am sure this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find anything in a search.

Dawn


ok... sorry to seem like a putz but WHAT is a DH? i have seen this other places and have NO idea what some is trying to say. is this some common abrivation for something?
thanx

[jurence]

As a son, I eat fruit while they eat meat.

[rawstrength]

SheLovestoEat - DH usually means "Darling Husband"
DF = darling friend, DS = darling sister/son, DD = darling daughter DW = darling wife

Can also mean dreadful husband in certain circumstances.

[oceanluv]

DH= dear husband
DS,DD= dear son, dear daughter
lots of lingo here, just ask if ya don't know. :)

[Eva]

I have heard of others dealing with this and am thankful to not be doing it myself. My mom is raw, and I am SO THRILLED we get to play in the kitchen and uncook together when I will have an extended visit with her in January. We're plotting which recipes we'll do together. Fun, fun, fun!

I have heard of others doing something like a buffet with a mix of the cooked and raw food, and people in the family just take what they want. That sounds like it would work pretty well...

[RaisingAlex]

My family eats RAW! YAY

It was not always that way. When I first went Raw, (maybe 4 years, maybe longer) the Hippie wanted nothing to do with it, then gradually he began eating some Raw. One day I had the kitchen stove hauled off while he was at work. Pots and pans were sold and I had nothing to cook with or on. He has been eating Raw since then. He asks for things occasionally that are cooked, and I treat him with whatever he desires,(as long as I can make it in the crock pot) because when I make him something he hardly ever eat's it after the initial taste because it tastes bad. He tells me Raw has ruined his taste buds!
Trickery indeed!

AnyHoo I would always cook his meal then make mine.

[Bananna]

That is a fascinating story raisingalex :)

[Morn]

We all eat very differently in my family. And many times I just have to cook for the kids as my husband works long hours and will eat out quite a bit. So no real extravagent meals at my house on a daily basis. I usually do more real cooking on the weekends when HE is home. I usually make my families food and then my own. Many times the timing is off but many times they eat their SAD food while I eat my salad.:D With raw food you really can prepare it ahead of time cause no heating required! Then pull it out when your families meal is done. However, if you are dehydrating its all in the planning. When I get really stuck and have prepared food for them and have nothing for me I will sometimes turn to hummus with fresh veggies. Although not technically raw, it is one of the non-raw foods I still eat for convenience sake. You sometimes need to do the best you can with the situations you are in.

[SheLovesToEat]

SheLovestoEat - DH usually means "Darling Husband"
DF = darling friend, DS = darling sister/son, DD = darling daughter DW = darling wife

Can also mean dreadful husband in certain circumstances.


oh. LOL isnt that interesting. the raw food boards are the only places i have seen this. ok thanks for telling me that.

i can add to that.... DC= dear cat
or maybe DD for darling dog.

they are beloved family members too.

or how about DMIL = darling mother in law. HAHAHAHAHA!
or dreadful as some cases may be.

ok whatever.... thanks again for the info.

[klomasius]

Sigh... it's a bit of a battle really.

We have a vegetarian household, I live with my son, my partner and my son's dad (yes, bit of an avante gard sort of living situation). It all works out pretty well except for the kitchen.

If I had my way I'd have an all raw kitchen, but the three others eat cooked, including my 7 yo son. I do cook for him sometimes, but mostly I prepare him raw stuff like a salad plate, fruit smoothies, green smoothies, raw sweets etc.

His dad feeds him crap! Lots of bread, dairy (though not as much as before), pasta etc. He thinks I'm a bit loony with my 'raw food thing'.

My partner is very open to raw and loves my raw creations, in fact he's done 100% stints with me before, and if it were just us and my son the kitchen would mostly be raw.

The thing that really gets to me is the fact that my raw equipment gets sidelined. I have to have it all in the tiny walk in pantry we have.

It annoys me so much that it's just assumed the cooking equipment takes main stage, because that's what everyone else does. The toaster, the breadmaker, the coffee machine the oven (I'd put a chopping board over it if I had my way!), the jaffle maker etc. all crowd the bench in the kitchen.

My poor blender, food processor, dehydrator and sprouter are all relegated to the pantry where I have to squeeze in and prepare stuff.

One of my biggest dreams would be to have a raw kitchen with ACRES of stainless steel benches and all my raw stuff in pride of place. Once day this will be a reality but in the meantime I just soldier on.

But things are changing gradually, and the best thing about it is that my son is becoming so in tune with what is healthy and what is not, and becoming really interested in eating nutritions food. He watches what I eat, what I enjoy and how I don't get sick while his dad has headaches and gets sick regularly.

Plus the world is changing, so maybe that oven and all the other stuff will not have unquestioned pride of place much longer.

End of my terrible rant... :D

Chin up to everyone going through the same thing. I have seen AMAZING turnaround in opinions of the most staunch anti raw people by regular contact with a raw fooder who is happy, glowing, healthy and makes kick arse food!

[oai]

in my family, it's me, my mom & brother. my mom likes to eat lots of veggies. my brother... not so. at least, he'll eat raw pineapples.

me & my mom cook most of the time. i just whip something for myself. i don't really have any problems, since i've been raw for a while now.

i imagine not having the temptation while transitioning out of SAD would be easier to make RAW a habit.

[Raene]

My husband cooks his meal and the kids meals (they eat the same vegan cooked) and I make my own. Our kitchen is tiny and we're both in there fighting for space, lol. But I couldnt make 2 dinners...