I don't mind cooking, and I love to bake [as long as the finished product is going out of the house!]. Due to my diet restrictions, my husband and i pretty much have separate diets. When it is my turn to cook, it is a meal following my guidelines. He sometimes will grumble. When it is his turn to cook, he fixes what he can eat, and I may be able to have a little bit of it, or here comes the stand-by of an awesome salad to my place at the table. He always says, "Your numbers are good, you can have some." But my response is, "My numbers are good because I follow my guidelines!" My husband loves to fix breakfast, and I rarely refuse his waffles or pancakes! A baking mix like Bisquick is delightful to work with, like @rosemarya and @athenalee have said.

Eating out is a treat, and I do watch the menus closely. We have only one little restaurant in town [Mexican food], and they often will delete the beans and give me more rice. Their homemade salsa is so yummy!
Ginger