after surgery cooking for others.

I was just wondering how do you handle cooking meals for others, my daughter is only 5 so making her own meals is out of the question. 

I'm not quite 2 weeks out from my surgery date. I just started cooking for my dad again this past week. I've had to adapt how much I make, as only one person is eating it instead of two. Much of what I fix I can't eat yet (I'm on a pureed diet) but some of the lean meats I can puree and eat.
Mostly I've just made less of everything. I want to taste everything I'm cooking, so it's been hard to restrain from that.
The other thing that helps me is to eat before I start cooking. I find I don't want to nibble if I've just eaten.
Hope this helps!
~Helen

What's wrong with your family eating meat and veggies with dinner?  I ate everything my family ate, sans pasta and rice.  For the first few years, I cut them out altogether and added another veggie side. They got their pasta and rice when we went out to eat or they made their own.   They didn't mind much at all. When my son started wrestling, the coach told them all to cut out the bad carbs, and he told me thank goodness I could cook some good veggies, for he was the only one not agonizing over it all.   Nowadays, I tolerate a little more and will enjoy a couple of bites of something, but I still don't make them a lot

Valerie-- I should have specified the time after surgery when all we can have is either liquids of puree. My husband works crazy hours as a teacher and one night he won't be home till 11pm so him cooking for my daughter is out of the question. After I get past the weeks where I can't eat solid food I am not too worried it is just the first few weeks I am concerned about. 

Michele it is only a couple weeks or so.  Just make your daughter's meals like you would normally do.  Maybe some frozen TV dinners for kids would be useful?  Buy or make a relish try with lots of raw fresh veggies and dip and serve those with a sandwich or bowl of Campbells soup.

That is what I was thinking micowave meals and stuff like that. The nights my hubby is home he can make "normal" lol meals. 

Seriously, lower carbs and higher protein(lean) is good for almost everyone.  Carbs are for the most part, a filler, a waste of calories.

 

Here's a lunch for a 5 yo you could share.  Cream cheese/deli meat rollups, baby carrots, and some applesauce for the kidlet.  You just eat more meat!

COOKING IS NEVER A ISSUE, ITS EATING AND POST DS THAT REALLY NOT MUCH OF A ISSUE EITHER.  WE CAN EAT EVERYTHING,  AND I DO,  JUST DO THE PROTEINS FIRST, AND MINIMIZE THE CARBS TO ENHANCE THE WEIGHT LOSS .

I have no issues cooking for my husband.  He's never gained weight eating my cooking, and even now that he is on a diet to lose 20 pounds that he gained being sick and in the hospital a year ago for a week he's lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks.  I cook and eat a low carb, high protein diet for both of us.  The only difference is I tend to add "fat" to my food (butter to my veggies, sour cream, etc) but I add that once it's on my plate.