Carolyn. I think that you have the perfect healthy diet.

If your husband is getting to 50 or maybe older, you must advice him on the dangers of high cholesterol & heart disease at our age. Here some of the ladies had helped their husbands on making a transition from unhealthy eating to healthy eating, for their own good.

If he insists, I strongly suggest that you continue eating as you are doing now, because it might be probable that you will have to help him later to deal with the results of a lifetime of eating whatever he likes.

Anyway, Arab cooking is delicious & quite healthy. I specially like the recipes by Julie Sahini. There are several books by her at Amazon at wonderful prices. The only problem is that you will have to adjust the quantities.

I will think further about your question & perhaps I will be able to give you several recipes with adjusted quantities.