![]() ![]() We've got two working adults and three kids - we're very familiar with the scheduling challenges this causes. How can we best arrange it, in the short time we have together in the evenings, that we can eat tasty food together as a family each night? But for now I plan to continue working full time. When I was a kid, my mom worked part time and cooked in the late afternoon ~5pm, to have dinner on the table at 6. I should mention that we both like to cook and try new recipes, we usually cook once and have the meal two nights in a row, which could help. This system seems to be working ok, but undoubtedly her bedtime will get pushed back as she gets older, and more importantly, we think it's important to have dinner all together as a family. Hubby and I eat together at around 8 pm.When our daughter finishes eating, we move to the livingroom and play So we all hang out in the kitchen together while our daughter eats The routine we have now is that I hand her some milk and prepare her dinner -something quick consisting of a veg, protein, and carb either frozen and microwaved or prepared simply (steamed veggies or fried egg), or leftovers from our dinner the night beforeĪt the same time, my husband preps food & cooks for himself and me. ![]() By then, she is quite hungry, since they eat at 2 pm at daycare. Each day during the week, I pick up my 1.5-year-old daughter at daycare on my way home from work, and we are home between around 5:30 or 5:45. ![]()
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