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Originally Posted by Hellion
Well one idea is maybe not cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner....in my opinion you don't exactly need three full on meals a day. When I was still a kid I think even as young as 9 or 10 I was making my own breakfast usually just cinnamon toast, a bagel, or cereal and on rare occasions my mom may have made muffins....my dad always had to go to work early.
Of course lunch was at school, got hot lunches but had to make my own cold lunch if that is what I wanted....so maybe your kids could start sharing some of the responsibility depending on how old they are. Aside from that is eating out more often, or buying quick/easy to prepare meals an option?
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I want to do not have to cook anything (keyword: have) because its not my responsibility honestly. With the kids, I've said i'm not going to do the whole meal thing but their mom sends them with a half a sandwich each and maybe a pack of crackers
for twelve hours. And these kids
love to eat. Right now they are six and three, so we do lunchables but that's still $5 a 'meal' plus drinks and it doesn't fill them up for the whole day. Occasionally i'll make a pot of velveeta with chopped meat and corn or stringbeans - that can hold them over for much of the day but my mom wouldn't want that for dinner so I still have to go on and do that. Quick/east to prepare meals sounds like what i'm going to have to do if my family (composed of 5-9 mouths at any given time) is going to start demanding meals.
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Originally Posted by healingme4me
I love to cook, too. Yet, to do so in a monotonous manner, forget it. I'm tired of the cost of food. I have a family. Luck has it, very different palates, I decided years ago, there's battles worth having, others, forcing them, was not. Convenience foods, to me, mean cold cereals, deli meat, and the frozen processed nuggets and patties that one likes in microwave then bread, the other the oven then splashed and covered in a bowl of buffalo sauce. The typical foods are typical for their tastes. Then, cooking meals becomes enjoyable. If i choose pb&j for my solo dinner, so be it.You just aren't alone here. :Hug:
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I'm tired of the cost of food too. It sucks and is just a waste of time, money, gas, energy - ugh. Convenience food sounds really good right now.
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Originally Posted by Hellion
I am thinking pretty soon convenience food to me will be something good i make a large quantity of so I can stick it in the fridge/freezer and eat it as needed/wanted....my digestive system clearly does not like processed food too much.
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I like this idea a lot, as I am dairy free.
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Originally Posted by -jimi-
I can't imagine more than one cooked meal a day... if that! I grew up with bread for two meals, bread for snack and one cooked meal. We made the snacks ourselves from the age of 8.
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Yeah, I came home from school and threw a pack of noodles on the stove or in the microwave daily. My biggest problem is my
mother demanding more from me food wise than the kids!!
