If your goal is to help your family eat healthier meals, you need to get your husband on board and setting a good example for your children. Ease into the transition by serving your husband's favorites in healthier ways so he doesn't even realize he is eating healthier food.
Mini Pizzas
Pizza is usually a fan-favorite when it comes to husbands. But store-bought or delivery pizza can be greasy and laden with toppings that are high in fat and low in nutrients. Offer pizzas at home so you can control the ingredients, suggests HealthyDinner.org. Spread English muffin halves with tomato sauce and offer ham, pineapple, green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and natural cheese. Have your husband make his own, and toast under the broiler until the cheese has melted for a healthful pizza alternative.
Pasta Dishes
Saucy pasta dishes are ideal for hiding healthy ingredients so that your picky husband doesn't know what he's eating. Start with a store-bought sauce, pour into a blender, and mix with green peppers, tomatoes, onions and any other vegetables that your husband refuses. Blend until smooth, and pour over pasta. New whole-wheat pasta is white and has the same taste and texture of white pasta, yet gives your husband extra fiber and whole grains painlessly.
Breakast for Dinner
Having breakfast items for dinner is an ideal way to get your husband to get extra protein into his diet. Whip up an omelet bar by chopping various vegetables to add to eggs, or try breakfast burritos on whole wheat tortillas. Instead of high-fat bacon, opt for turkey bacon instead, which is lower in fat and calories, and higher in protein than regular bacon. If your husband is a pancake lover, switch to buckwheat pancakes with fruit syrup, rather than regular pancakes with sugary maple syrup.
Salad Entree
Salads can introduce healthy leafy greens, full of calcium, vitamins and nutrients into your husband's diet. Disguise the salad by adding toppings such as thinly cut steak, a corn and tomato salsa, sour cream and cheese. It's an ideal way to turn a regular salad on a bed of greens into a hearty entree for the pickiest of eaters.
Burgers
Your husband might love nothing more than the sizzle of a burger hitting the hot grill on a summer afternoon, but some beef burgers are less than ideal when it comes to being healthful. Mix up his burger by adding half ground black beans instead of all beef, or swapping out ground beef for ground turkey, suggests NutritionFitnessLife.com. If your husband is open to the idea, try texture vegetable protein in place of meat, and marinade in steak sauce for an authentic barbecue taste, without all of the barbecue fat.
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