What Erin and Matt said! Cook.
I was lucky growing up, although my father was weird and restrictive about food, my mother made amazing stuff when he wasn't around and I got to try everything from German to Thai to Cajun. I'm very grateful she taught me to keep an open mind to food; it's made my transition to vegetarianism so much easier.
So although dinner with my father might have always been wheat bread with white gravy and hamburger or chicken tenders fried in fat free saltines, I still got quite the experience.
