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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am an Indian married to an Indian DH.  Both of us grew up in India and came to this country as adults.  Our family, like most Indian families here, eat a variety of cuisines in this country.  That is the beauty of living in the US that amazing delicious foods from different countries and cultures are available here.   It is pretty one-dimensional if you live here and not experience different cuisine.

Most of us also celebrate many of the holidays of our adopted country.  Most of us are cooking up an all-American feast on Thanksgiving and we also become grill-masters during 4th of July. We buy meals at our workplace, restaurants, while travelling, school cafeterias  too, and that means we are not getting Indian home-cooked meals all the time.

If you are so concerned about your husband's eating habits then you can choose to cook delicious and healthy meals for him, from all the cuisines that he likes.  What does he like? Mexican, American, Italian, French, Greek, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Persian, German, Swedish?  For you to cook healthy meals for him that he will like to have, you need to go on a journey with him to try out food outside of what you were raised on.

How you were raised (eating just home-cooked Indian meals) is not a norm here and frankly, it is not even a norm in India anymore either.  People are trying new foods, they are adopting different cuisines and they are cooking it at home too.   No reason why you cannot become a good cook who can provide your whole family with delicious global foods from US and around the world.

To just be limited to eating Indian food seems very sad for your family and you.  In this country where ingredients for food is so readily available and so affordable, it will be a shame if you do not explore other foods.

My dear, you being uncharitable about how your husband was raised is showing only one person in an unflattering light, and that is not your husband. [/quote]

Same poster again.  I wanted to tell you that  30 years ago when I came to this country, I bought "The Joy of Cooking", mainly because we wanted to try different foods and did not have the money to afford eating out.  I know most people do not use recipe books nowadays but reading a recipe book makes it easy to get ideas. Internet and cooking classes are also great ways to learn to make foods that people want to eat and are healthy. Give it a try.[/quote]

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