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[quote=Anonymous]I feel your pain.  I am always watching what I eat (lean chubby but can also be heavy), husband is tall and thin and eats what he wants, and two older kids, one red meat loving boy and one vegetarian girl.

Things that worked for us included build your own taco or burrito, so dd could put beans, cheese avacado, sour cream, dh could do the same but add meat, ds would load up on the meat and skip the beans, and I would turn mine into a salad with a little meat,  a little beans, and none of sour cream, cheese, etc.

I also leaned towards a protein, vegetable and starch (mostly pasta which both kids ate and I did not - so I would serve my bolognese over lettuce or zoodles and they would put it over pasta), same with Sloppy Joe's, they'd have buns I'd have a lettuce wrap.

Anything they could put on pasta I would eat without pasta, and dd would have pasta with cheese, and we'd all have the vegetable.

I also have a ham and bean soup served with crusty bread, where the ham goes in last.  I pull some out for dd who has bean soup with crusty bread, while I have ham and bean soup with no bread, and spouse and son eat ham and bean soup with crusty bread.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel:  our vegetarian dd left for college last Fall, and there are far fewer nights both kids are home and I am going crazy, just Thanksgiving, Christmas and some of the summer. Their spring breaks are not the same, so for one week I'll be making lots of meat items, and for one week I'll be making all vegetarian items.  And when they are both home, even with all the crazy cooking, I am just happy to see them, and for our family to be together![/quote]

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