Okay, so now I am trying to be as creative as I can with discovering, finding, and making new recipes, after many, many years of just simply cooking or preparing simple meats with some thought of cooking for a diabetic, and without thought of cooking for a healthy heart. My husband had open heart surgery - which was a great shock to both of us. Following the surgery came a stern directive of what to and not to eat.
We now have to rethink and relive the rest of our lives.....without fat, sugar and salt. What else is there?
Shopping is a new experience and it takes two and a half hours to just pick up a few things after checking labels, comparing contents and looking at expiration dates. I am exhausted when I get home. I had little appeal for cooking to begin with and this has destroyed any that I did have. I am not a good cook. I have not, in my own opinion, ever been a good cook. Oh, let's face it - I am simply not even a cook.
My challenge is HUGE at this point in my life. My husband has been spoiled with getting basically exactly what he wanted for meals and I learned very early in our marriage that I could not "plan meals" per say. He would often call midday and ask what I had planned for supper and then tell me that he wanted something else, which I would prepare for him (our family.). So, today, at this stage in our lives, not only am I frustrated with the shopping and meal planning at this point, for a husband I dearly love, who is a diabetic and is currently recuperating from open heart surgery, but I am frustrated with him as well. He is not eating...some of which can be blamed on the surgery, but most is, I fear, the lack of spices. He has said, "it's bland--it tastes like cardboard". Although I can never remember fixing or serving cardboard for a meal.
I put salt substitute on his platter along with "Mrs. Dash," but he won't use it. We have talked some. And I have told him that things cannot be as there were, and he cannot have just what he likes. There is some hope for me - for us. I found a great recipe on line for "Crockpot Meatloaf" which fits into all his categories. Not only am I proud that I actually found it, and fixed it, but HE LIKED IT. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions with recipe ideas - easy to prepare, nothing fancy, and normal-type food. Any ideas?
