Oh, ha ha, just do what I say not what iI DO! Today was a complete disaster.
I started out well with my cooked oat bran cereal with prunes. Good.
Dinner, my goodness. DH had brought in a big package of chicken drumsticks. I groaned inside when I saw it. I knew what he wanted. So finally today I made them. He would have been so disappointed if I had taken all the skin off them and cooked them some way...so I breaded and fried all but 4 of them. After I had them browned I put them on a grill pan in the oven to bake. The other 4 I took most of the skin off and put them in to bake that way.
Then I got out the leftover mashed potatoes and fixed them with flour and spices and parm. cheese into patties and fried them in the chicken oil (I used olive oil). Then I put them in the oven to cook with the chicken.
And I ate 2 of the potato cakes and 1 baked and 1 fried chicken leg. The only bright spot in the meal was fresh green beans from the garden which were delicious, and I put "fake" butter on mine.
Told DH if I cooked like this all the time we'd probably have died of heart attacks years ago. I hardly ever do this. But he walked in the door with this tray of chicken legs... what do we do with family who sabotages our efforts? No I didn't have to eat what I did, he wouldn't have cared.
LadyM, it IS definitely harder when one is cooking all the time. I do a lot of big meals and leftovers so I'm not focusing on food all the time. Heating up the plate doesn't keep one's mind on food all the time. I think that's easier. I just couldn't cook all this good stuff and eat none of it.