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We're both eating very healthy. We are both really into sports and aim to stay lean. It's hard work for us, because we're both enclined to gain weight easily, so the healthy eating is a must.
Although, lately the hubby has been eating a lot of junk food and dessert when I'm not there...
We are trying to eat healthy. Now that it is spring, I am trying to incorporate more fruits into our diets! Thankfully, my husband isn't crazy about the junk (I am more likely to want junk food than he is).
He eats "organic cheap" - lots of Whole Foods frozen dinners and prepared meals. I'm weaning him off of that, though, and towards more cooking from scratch. I do think we have relatively sophisticated palates, and are both pretty conscious of the health and ecological impact of what we eat. I do regret a little bit how I've made him aware of things he was blissfully unaware of before, like sodium and calories. He's fit, active, and lean, so these things weren't taking a toll on him yet, but I'm just much more conscious of the nutritional content of things and I think that's rubbed off on him.
I love eating healthy and i believe that I (we) do but i definately dont believe in the organic fad. I think amny organic foods are a ploy...organic crackers? umm? Its overly expensive and if you eat all organic you are more likely to get sick when you eat real, regular foods.... but as far as the amount of fats andw hat not that i take in, i limit myself and cook healthy.
We try, usually we fail to eat super healthy. The biggest thing we have done and seen results from: portion control. Usually meal sizes are huge when we eat out, so we try to section off some of the meal to take home and eat later as leftovers. We also have a couple of meat-free days a week, this was originally an environmental suggestion we read about, but it also works health-wise too.
I'll pull recipes off Smitten Kitchen, food cans, the grocery store displays, etc. Both of us being in a job transition right now also helps- we definitely are saving money and eating healthier by not eating out as often.
We also registered for a juicer and a rice cooker for the wedding- they have been great!
I'm nutso about what I eat. I'd say I'm more not healthy than healthy. Its something I definitely struggle with because every time I eat healthy I feel like I'm depriving myself. (i have issues!). FI is 100% adaptable/lazy. He happily eats anything I make, healthy or not. If left to his own devices he eats crap because he doesn't cook so he just gets fast food. But, he doesn't really request or require unhealthy food EXCEPT that he asks me to buy him 3 pounds (yes you read that right. THREE POUNDS) of gummy bears at the grocery for him every week :)
we try i guess.. i am definitely more conscious of what i eat ( try to eat all organic, eat 3 meals, snack, drink water etc.). FI likes healthy food (he loves water!!!) but can eat chicken wings, pizza any day and not even think twice about it. whereas i'll feel guilty or think how bad/unhealthy the food is.
We try to eat healthy but honestly we are no obsessed with it. Some times we eat everything healthy the next week we will crave fat and sugar and we would go to town with fatty foods.. But overall we try.
We're a pretty good mix. We're both fairly healthy (both vegetarians, very conscious of processed foods, etc) although we do have sweet tooths, we limit our sugar intake a lot. We homemake most of our meals, and try to stay away from frozen foods/other artificial things.
@lilyfaith, you sound like me! I always give in to chocolate, and cookies - but I like to home cook almost everything.. My fi and i aren't living together til we're married, but I'm at his apartment nearly every evening anyway, so I do cook or he does.
He doesn't like taking the time to cook and make things, so that's his issue.
We have the same issue--i eat healthy (usually, probably 90%) but DH was in the military--he eats wings, pizza, grilled cheese, etc, while I watch my carbs, work out 4 days a week, and count calories. DH does none of those things! And he LOVES chocolate and ice cream. He goes through a carton in one week. So i stopped buying it. But he used to run 5 days a week so I think he's slowly realizing he can't eat like that without some sort of reprocussions.
Honestly, i do the grocery shopping. We tend to buy the same things every week, too. If he goes, I ask him to specifically pick up stuff. BUT he was diagnosed with high cholesterol so I just remind him, "ya know, it's not good for your cholesterol. Let's eat healthy tonight" and recently he said something about starting to eat fish. FISH!!!! I'm winning, very, very, very slowly, LOL. I try to remind him (and myself) that junk food is "wasteful" in regards to cash. A bag of chips is $4!! But doesn't really fill ya up very much. Chips and salsa can easily be a $10 addition to yoru shopping cart!
I don't have a lot of advice but I can completely relate. I try to lead by example--I don't OFFER to make fattening dishes and when I make dinner, I make it as healthy as I can. And as soon as I'm done plating us (yep, no self serving of dinner), i put it in the fridge. It helps keep us from getting more and more.
Also, i pull the "you have to eat healthy with me" card....and tell him it's not fair for him to eat junk all the time while i eat healthy. I think he sees it like he's being supportive of me, not me forcing him to eat my way. At least, hopefully.
@Corgi, sadly, I could totally eat 3 lb of gummi bears a week...slowly, nomming away at my desk, one handful at a time.
We try to eat lots of green things, shop at the local farmer's market, and buy organic milk and free range eggs but sometimes the budget is tight...
@ejs, yeah my fi loves salt and eats way too much sodium - I keep telling him that if he eats like that he'll have high blood pressure or high cholesterol. I would hate having to deal with that, and basically being like, "I told you so!" haha.
I also agree that junk food is wastefulmoney wise.while somethings tend to seem cheaper, grilled cheese, pizza or ramen noodles (all of which I enjoy on occasion - not every day lol), they don't fill you up like healthier food does, like a full spinach salad with some cucumbers is so much more filling than all that. So you end up spending more money on junk food because you need more of it to satisfy yourself.
make sense? haha
@miss-spunkin - I agree with you wholeheartedly, and most people don't understand that! Plus, once you eat healthy for awhile the bad foods tend to taste bad and upset your body (for good reason!)
One of my very favorite things to eat is salad. I usually throw some tempe cooked in olive oil on top, some cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc to make it interesting and to add protein. It fills me up so quickly!
Yup I'd say FI and I are pretty healthy eaters. We definitely don't deprive ourselves though... it's all about moderation IMO. We are also both active and hit the gym several times a week. I'd say we're in good shape (and hopefully we stay that way)! 
@all- yes, 3 pounds/week. :) Its pretty ridiculous. It was a semi-compromise though because he wanted me to buy cookies and I refuse. I CANNOT be trusted with cookies. It's like a law of nature, if there are cookies, i will eat them all. So i refuse to buy them. I don't care much about gummy bears (they're good but I can pass them in the pantry every day and only steal maybe 1 handful/week), so thats where he gets his sweets fix.
This is an entry from my blog in January, a few weeks before we moved in together:
Tonight, B went to the grocery store to get a large bag of chicken wings (which he planned to eat all week). He didn’t get a cart, because he doesn’t like carts.
On the way to the chicken wings, he saw the candy aisle and gummy bears were on “super special.” So he got three pounds of them. Then he got two containers of ice cream, and two cans of pringles.
At this point, he couldn’t carry any more so he checked out and went home. With three pounds of gummy bears, two containers of ice cream, and two cans of pringles. And no chicken wings.
Thank God he’s moving in with me in two weeks or he might not make it to 40. True story.
yeah you're right lilyfaith, most people don't realize that, like my fi haha. But once we're married and I'm cooking for him more often I think he'll get a little better.
Yes I agree, I loove salads, and it's so easy to throw anything on there depending on your needs - eggs, cheese, vegetables, even fruit, nuts, grains, chicken, I love the versatality.
I work as a nanny and it helps soo much that the family I work for is very health conscious, so when I eat my lunches there, basically all the food I have to chose from is healthy.
@alishadhs4: "I love eating healthy and i believe that I (we) do but i definately dont believe in the organic fad. I think amny organic foods are a ploy...organic crackers? umm? Its overly expensive and if you eat all organic you are more likely to get sick when you eat real, regular foods.... but as far as the amount of fats andw hat not that i take in, i limit myself and cook healthy."
what??? I am wondering if you know what organic means?
Anyways, I am a really healthy eater, most of the time (I have a sore spot for dessert in all its forms and fried potatoes in all their forms, sigh). I don't eat highly processed grains or refined sugar or any artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, etc., and haven't since I was thirteen, which is when I became a vegan. I most enjoy big meals full of creatively prepared and spiced whole grains and local, organic vegetables and fruits, but sometimes getting that as a college student can be a challenge. I love eating healthy. It tastes awesome, makes me feel great, and keeps my skin, hair, and nails really healthy.
Meanwhile, FI eats terribly. He eats like a little kid. I have to struggle to get him to eat one serving of vegetables OR fruits each day, let alone the several servings of each his body needs. He pretty much never has whole grains and eats tons of junk food. Sigh. I also can't wait till I'm cooking for him, I think he'll be shocked at how much better he feels and how much his skin will improve on a healthy diet.
We generally eat healthy, but I only go so far, after my childhood... :/ If it's marketed as diet/healthy/only -900 calories!lulz, then I will not buy it. I've always loved organic/natural/vegetarian/crazy-tree-hugging-hippie type foods, so that sort of stuff is always in the house.
We tend toward cooking more than eating out/packaged foods, mostly because it's cheap-ish and makes for good lunch.
He watches things like sodium, as his blood pressure is borderline high. Mine is at the cusp of being worryingly low, so if I stand too quickly, I fall over, and therefore I don't care about sodium. I tend to make fun of him when he goes on about how something has 40% RDI of sodium in it, but chances are I wasn't going to eat it anyway.
I'm supposed to be watching my cholesterol, but considering that 3/4 of my grandparents are 85+ and in pretty good health, I don't think I have much to worry about.
We cook mostly, but don't always eat as healthy as I would before. We both always eat lots of fruits and veggies and lean meat, but I now eat things like bacon on a regular basis. But, compared to most Americans we eat well.
SO has very specific food dislikes (it's easier to ask him what he WILL eat rather than what he won't 'cause the list is shorter... lol) so when I cook I don't cook the way I would before, but I'm trying to get back to it at least for me and the kids.
we're pretty healthy eaters most days! we eat lots of veggies, fish, chicken and whole grains. except today ... which in another post i admitted to eating a block of cheddar on my couch. with no regrets.
@curlydreamer - FBIL is like that. he won't eat anything red in color but HATES that to be pointed out. (Unless it's artificially red.) - but if you offer him tomatoes, strawberries, beets, cherries, red wine, red peppers, marinara sauce, etc, he says he doesn't like them.
we are pretty healthy eaters. We eat whole grain/whole wheat, dont eat much cheese and dont eat out much. our weakness and the reason i stay "full figured" is sweets. its bad....:)
seriously though we are both told all the time how healthy we eat. but i could not imagine eating junk and fatty burgers all the time. i could not even tell you the last time i had red meat. We just hate the way food like that makes us feel. if i eat too much sodium i swell up really bad and i am miserable.
We dont drink sodas and stuff...we stick to good ol H20 but then on the flip side we love ice cream and cake and cookies and brownies. for example: i made brownies and cookies tonight....eeeekkkk
We eat pretty healthy at home. We buy all low-carb (and the carbs we get are multi-grain), lots of chicken and shrimp and lean pork (FI is allergic to fish, sadly), and fresh veggies. Our one major splurge at home is popcorn but we make it on the stove with coconut oil so it's not too awful.
Our downfall is when we're out and get into the, "You hungry?" "Yeah." "Me too. Let's stop somewhere." We're trying to be better about that; now it's maybe once a week that we eat out. I think I do better at a balanced diet than FI does; he'll eat a TON of multi-grain crackers with peanut butter. :)
This is an interesting thread in that being on a diet is completely different from eating healthy. I mean that lots of people eat diet food that isn't really healthy or it's fake food. (Like PAM cooking spray is almost a plastic - better to use EVOO). Also, eating healthy doesn't mean depriving yourself. Grass-fed meats, organic, local produce, etc... For people who are transitioning to a healthier lifestyle (foods that GIVE you something... Diet Coke won't make you gain weight, but it's not doing anything for you healthy-wise...), it's a process. Learning about healthy foods takes time for both your brain/cooking skills and for your taste palette to get on board. If you've been eating junk food for the past 15 years.... of course veggies won't taste good because you're addicted to the sodium, sugar, and fat. For me, Weight Watchers taught me a lot about cooking and a well-balanced meal plan. Now I am able to devise my own meals and know what's going to fuel my body well and I rarely eat processed foods anymore (they make my body go crazy!!) Anyway, I'd recommend transitioning to a primarily healthy diet to anyone. I feel MILES better eating primarily healthy foods than I ever did eating the way I used to.
We plan our meals and grocery shop every week (according to most of our friends, this is hard to do?). We eat mostly vegetarian because I can't stand red meat, so eat a lot of veggies with our meals. We also eat a lot of fruit; mainly apples and bananas. Our downfall is ice cream. We can't help but buy it every week. So we get the slow churned kind that is low fat or fro-yo. We also live across the street from a farmers market, which makes getting veggies in the summer super easy and super cheap.
I really do my best to eat vegetarian, local, and organic. However, we are students. It is challenging. When I met FI he lived on junk junk junk food. I'm talking Wendy's. !!!! It took a long time to convert him, but now he feels a lot better and looks a lot better eating healthy. Now, we try to eat as healthy as possible, but he still is a junk food person at heart. It is difficult to be around junk food and not dig in. He is also one of those lucky people that can eat as much as he can and not show it. It has gotten better, but that used to be hard to be around. Sitting next to him while he has a giant tub of Ben and Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup. Come on!
We try to avoid overly processed foods and be conscious of where the food comes from. We both like to cook and my husband really lovvvvvveeees to cook. So we make a lot of stuff from scratch. We've cut meat down to a small portion of our diet and try to buy when we can local fruits and veggies and meats.
We eat healthy but at the same time we make our own sweet potato fries that are absolutely fantastic so we're not like on a diet at all but try to eat nutrionally good for you foods.
I get hankering for sweets a lot more than he does but I give into them a bit. I just have to be careful of sugar because I get ADDICTED but I really hate the flavor of artificial sweetners so I use lots of honey, luckily there's a farm nearby who sells for a good price in bulk, yup instead of a new outfit I buy honey in bulk, and also eat "reasonble" quantities of sugar.
@alishadhs4: eatting orgnic is not a "fad" it is the way food is grown naturally... they way food it without adding pesticides to it which cause the food to absorb more water and appear larger without have nearly as many nutrients in them!
That said... eating organic food that has been processed in unnecessary, but certain food are important to eat organic.
We eat pretty healthy! we don't go out very often, and buy organic when we can, all whole grains and 99% of what we eat from scratch. ie bread, dough, soups. but mostly we eat simply. good ingredients don't need all that much help!
I am a healthy eater and my FI wasn't so much. I say wasn't because over this past year he started podiatry school and ate a ton of fast food. He has always been one of those people who can't eat whatever they want and not gain weight, until now. He is 31 thought so its about time he had to start watching his intake of food! He gained 20lbs since we met and was very unhappy with it. Over this past summer he finally started running again and watching what he ate. It sucks that the extra poundage is what made him choose a healthier lifestyle but im glad it did because i want him to be healthy and happy and grow old with me!
We both tend to eat pretty healthy, especially since I cook and do the shoping but if it was up to FI we would eat the same meals everyday until the end of time...
Breakfast- Cereal
Lunch- Lunch meat sandwich consisting of 2 slices ham, 2 slices turkey, 1 slice cheese, little mayo, and little mustard. A small bag of chips or cheez-its. A fruit cup.
Dinner- Chicken breast prepared a variety of ways. A serving of uncle ben's rice. A serving of frozen vegetables (cooked).
Every day.
This is why I cook 90% of our meals. I need variety in my life! Is any else's SO content with eating the same meals everyday for the rest of their life?
He will eat healthy when I cook (because I only cook low-sodium, high protein stuff). When we go out however, he makes me fall off the chair when he orders the biggest steak with loaded mashed potatoes and fried calamari as appetizer.....and me with my little salad sit there in sadness.
I'm a super healthy eater. I'm a vegetarian and love learning about nutrition and eating foods that fuel my body and make me the healthiest I can be. My Fiancee loves healthy food, but is also on a mission to gain weight for our wedding, so junk food has been playing a role in that. As healthy as I am, there's nothing easy about packing lunches for the next day and sorting out my raw almonds, berries, hard boiled egg, and veggies and then putting together his chips, granola bars, cookies, etc. I do allow myself one night/week where we go out and drink wine and have a great meal without counting calories or worrying about the nutritional value of what I'm eating.
We try to. It's a little difficult right now because I'm moving and had planned to be moved to my new place by now, so most all of my pots and pans and food, are at my new place. I do try to stop by the farmer's market and the whole foods store while I'm taking boxes though. Right now I have lots of fruits and veggies in my fridge and organic chicken and fish in my freezer. FH will usually eat anything that I cook though, with a few exceptions, so as long as I eat healthy, he will too. At least while I'm watching.
We both eat healthy. Unlike most of your relationships though, I'm usually the sloppy eater in ours. He has a consistent eating schedule and honestly eats like a birdie. Kind of disappointing since I love baking and eating fatty foods, but I also don't do it all the time since I know they're bad for me. Generally I eat healthy as well, but I'd say I definitely slip up more than he does :)
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I'm not vegan or all-organic, but I try to eat healthy. I watch my calories, sugar intake and sodium. I try to be cautious of what goes in my body, and stay on top of things. Weight gain is really common in my family, and I don't want that to happen to me. Plus I feel so much better mentally, physically and emotionally when I eat well. I have so much more energy, stamina and I'm overall happier.
Well my fiance doesn't care at all what he eats. He tries to eat "cheap", if I let him do all the grocery shopping it'd be frozen pizza, hot dogs, chips, ramen noodles and who knows what else. We've only gone shopping a couple times together (since he moved into our apartment) but every time we've gotten into fights about food. It's so awful but he doesn't listen to anything I say about what he's putting into his body and I hate that. He's five years older than me and I'd hate for him to die first haha.