Lately, I feel like all of my time outside of work is spent preparing food for meals that are going to be eaten later. Above is a list that Rose put together, I thought perhaps it would help me feel less overwhelmed by food prep during the week. Time will tell. But first some back story.

Do you remember, years ago, when Rose first started gymnastics and we were all worked up about how we’d get dinner on the table, get her fed, and in bed by 8:30 when practice ended at 7:00? If you don’t remember, you can read about it here and here.

Well ha! Fast forward 5 years and that sure sounds like a walk in the park. She now needs to eat dinner at the gym, since her practice goes till 8:15 and she doesn’t get home till 8:45.

Us driving back and forth to the gym all the time like crazy animals aside, it means that I now have to prepare breakfast and lunch for me, lunch for Sid, and lunch and dinner for Rose the night before, because I’m not a morning person (and I already have kids breakfast to deal with at that time).

So yeah, that’s 5 totally different meals that need to be prepped and packaged 3 nights per week. Yay! It doesn’t help that nobody around here is cool with just eating the same thing day after day.

Because it’s the weekend I thought I’d give myself a head start, which also meant I basically spent the entire weekend thinking about, buying and preparing food.

Here are the three bring-to-work breakfasts, two adult lunches, two kid lunches and 1 kid dinner I made this morning.
And then, because Shane is so busy with work that I basically haven’t seen him for two weeks I figured I might as well keep up the momentum and prep dinner. That there’s my favorite mac and cheese all ready to bung in the oven at a moments notice. 

I feel pretty accomplished, but also humbled by the food prep that lies ahead this week, and seemingly for the rest of my life…. If things get any easier I’ll be sure to let you know.

Happy school year everyone! (insert sarcasm emoji here)