My fiance’s mom just had surgery on her ankle and is going to be off her feet for three months. It’s very important at this time to control her diabetes (she’s evidently in serious danger of losing the foot otherwise.) She and her husband have both had bypass surgery a few years ago and are supposed to be eating right both for their hearts and for her diabetes, but they TOTALLY don’t. Seriously, she’s all “I don’t eat sugar!” but pays absolutely no attention to glycemic index or anything else. He eats what she cooks; she cooks down home country food.
So, I was going to do a bunch of cooking and freeze stuff for them. Her husband will be “doing the cooking” (which he’s never done before) so I was going to make dinners that can be easily defrosted with very simple instructions written on my packaging.
The thing is, I have to make stuff that she’s supposed to be eating… that they’ll actually like and eat.
Now, I could make some awesome baked ziti that they’d love… that she isn’t supposed to have. Or I could make some great healthy food… that requires more cooking and assembly. That they’d probably hate.
I can’t think of any good examples of things that I could make that would be all three things - easy for future father in law to prepare, tasty to them, AND what they’re both supposed to be eating. Please to give suggestions?