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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you could buy them a six-month subscription to Blue Apron or similar?[/quote]

This is a good idea. Make it about the DH trying to get healthy. Make the subscription something as easy as possible to eat so SIL will start eating it. DH should refuse to get her junk food on the way home.[/quote]

OP, I certainly do not think you are being meddlesome.  I concur with the approach above. I think supporting the husband in his efforts including ordering prepared healthy foods is the way to go at first. The husband should include his daughter in this and hope that the wife will try new foods. Sometimes people will hear from others what they will not hear from their own spouse. That could be why husband is coming to you. I definitely would not stage an intervention yet but if she has siblings she is close to suggest that husband reach out to them for help.[/quote]

Forgot to add that with her health issues, her doctors have no doubt told her to lose weight multiple times. So the issue isn’t that she is unaware, probably depression or laziness and lack of motivation at play, but I also think something else is going on.The fact that she doesn’t like restaurant food and only eats hot dogs etc is telling. That was my preferred diet at 10 years old. Something else is probably going on here.  This is not about cooking. If it was, she would eat restaurant baked chicken and broccoli. There is some other reason that her palate is limited to baseball game fare.[/quote]

I saw a story like this on the internet - a woman who only ate potato chips, maybe hot dogs, from childhood into adulthood.  It's like a mental disorder.  [/quote]

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