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Jim Haselmaier
7/27/2017 09:37:52 am
There were two things I *tried* to do - and was only marginally successful at either. (Primarily because, by nature, I'm not a planner.)
Kim Darrow
7/27/2017 11:20:00 am
I recall before going back to work full-time in 1993, after giving birth to child #3, was to buy a 4 slice toaster. It really helped in the mornings and my adult children to this day love their buttered toast!
Kathleen
8/11/2017 06:19:08 am
When my husband and I married, we both worked full time. I told him that it was not fair that I had to do all the cooking. He said he didn't know how to. But I told him that if he was smart enough to get a masters degree, he was smart enough to follow a recipe. So we began cooking on opposite weeks. It has worked well and we have different styles of cooking do we never get bored. 8/11/2017 09:50:42 am
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My nest is now empty, but I am proud of the fact that I made it a priority to put a home cooked dinner on the table most nights on top of my 50+ hour a week engineering job. I was also a very involved parent volunteer. I will say that it got harder to do once the kids had all their extracurricular activities in high school. They had to eat on the run when they could squeeze it in between football practice and marching band (we had a great team of parents that brought food to the football field after practice so the football players that were also in the band could eat. We also had a great volunteer group that made tons of food for the high school drama club so no one went hungry. We all took turns making it happen. But when I cooked at home for the 4 of us, I always tried a big cooking project every Sunday (roast beef, ham, turkey) that I would serve as leftovers later in the week. Monday was always Scout meeting night (I was a Girl Scout Leader and a Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor) so that night was usually something I started in the morning in my crock pot. I can remember when the kids had catechism on Wednesday night, we always had pizza that I picked up on the way home from church. I had a neighbor that worked nights so she dropped the kids off after school and I picked them and the pizza up on the way home. Also, I really liked to use my pressure cooker. I kept a blog of my experiences here: http://motherskitchen.blogspot.com/ that I started writing in 2006 when my kids were 11 and 9. They are now 21 and 19. So my advice is make dinner at home whenever you can, and join up with other parents to make dinner happen when you can't.
Star Sharp
8/16/2017 05:33:47 pm
I am currently in the midst of working 40+hours and caring for a toddler. Frozen veggies are a miracle. Those along with a protein and either rice or noodles and everyone is good to go. Tuesdays are pizza night :) Leave a Reply. |
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