food wars...

"We need to get back on the band wagon with eating healthier meals at home." I always say this to Erik. But especially in the past few weeks since we've gotten back from our North Shore trip, we haven't done any major grocery shopping.

I eat pretty healthy throughout the work day, and I pack a variety of things to bring with me from home, so I eat very little at night. 

Then it gets tricky because I get home from work about 2 hours before he gets home, so I either feed myself a little something, or if I wait for him, we end up eating dinner pretty late.

Erik doesn't eat much at all (if anything) during his work day, because he states that "time is money", so then he'll end up gorging himself at night. 

There's a lot of arguments over WHAT to eat and WHEN to eat it. It is quite ridiculous. Now that I'm thinking about it....it's nearly every day. That's kinda sad, we really should try harder. 

Even on the weekends: I like to eat breakfast, but he's never hungry until almost 2-3:00 in the afternoon.

Erik doesn't drink anything but his one beer of choice, pop, Redbull, or gatorade. He doesn't like fruits, many vegetables, or anything even remotely healthy, like sushi or yogurt. He's just a straight up steak and potatoes guy. He also lives for pizza, chinese food, and pastas.

It's a recipe for obesity LOL, and I just can't allow myself to eat like that.

It does get kind of frustrating. But at the same time I'm not going to tell him what to eat and when to eat it. I do know people that dictate that type of thing with their husbands, but I'm just not like that. I'm not going to treat him like a child and order him around. He gets what he wants at a restaurant or at the grocery store, but I don't allow bags of Reese's to just come home all the time, if you know what I mean.

We have compromised on a few things though, like turkey cheddar brats, rather then regular brats. I have also switched us to whole wheat pasta brands. We try to do the vegetable steam bags as sides, and he will eat a salad if I make it-but he won't eat a lot of cold vegetable mix-ins.

I would welcome any comments to this post, but for now our only solution is to buy separate things at the grocery store, and eat meals...for the most part, pretty separately. When we grill, that's the only time he can make what he wants, and make me what I want, at the same time. :)

One winter day I made Spinach & Steak Pinwheels with Rosemary Red Potatoes