We have had a family plan for a while for kids helping with dinners. We kind of suck at the execution of the plans. We make weekly dinner plans (although not too recently this summer), and we usually change the plans around. Bottom line is that we need to improve with this!
After working out our August calendar, I told the hubster that we obviously need to do a lot of Instant Pot and Crock Pot meals that just stay warm for people to help themselves. We are going to be having a lot of evenings of people coming in and out, in between practices. Weekends will be it for family meal times for a couple of months. In between the family meals, I would like people to eat good food.
So I had an idea. I set my daughter (who is better with hot glue than myself) on a mission to make our new dinner organizer! With this style, if a dinner doesn’t work out, we can just clip it on a different day. Trading dinners around within the week is much more our style! AND each dinner has a child’s name on it who either will be cooking or assisting. I think this will work. It should work better . .
Tonight I am thankful for our new dinner organizer! We started with an impressive dinner of . . . . drumroll please . . . . sandwiches. Yep . . . because I looked up and realized that two kids had practices that started tonight and another kid had a lesson in Lansing. I did not leave myself much time to prepare in advance for sporadic dinners. We will improve! And at least the sandwiches were actually written down and clipped to their spot!
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