I’ve really gotten out of the habit of cooking in the past, oh, six months or so. I’ve never been a particularly avid cook — I’ll bake, gladly, any and every day of the week, but cooking actual food? Meh. — but the kids’ crappy eating habits have totally done me in on meal preparation. No matter what I serve, I’m met with at least one flat refusal to eat, and often at least another one or two of them takes just a couple of forkfuls under extreme duress. I finally realized that the whole thing was much less stressful for me if their protests and insults were made to a meal that I’d taken from the freezer and spent ten minutes warming up instead of something I’d invested any real time and energy in cooking.<\/p>\n
Alas, ready-made meals don’t come cheap, and they’re generally not jam-packed with nutrition, either, so I bit the bullet last night and made up a menu with a week’s worth of “good” food and a corresponding grocery list. This morning, as soon as the older kids were away at school (and the chimney sweep had come and gone, but that’s hardly germane), Olof, Brynja, and I made our way to the supermarket in town and came home two hours later with bags and bags and bags full of fixings for quality meals. <\/p>\n
Ask me next week if I still think this was a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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