![]() “Meals” in general are one of my primary responsibilities in our family, and every Friday, as I planned for the week ahead, I felt like my process was random, clunky, and time-consuming. But I found that I was still struggling a bit with organization and the general overwhelm that comes from the task of getting dinner on the table. The SOS style recipes were so great, and I continue to love them. I made that series because I NEEDED THAT SERIES. That series saved my life in a very real way after the birth of my second daughter as I started to go back to work. I started to explore this idea a bit with the SOS series earlier this year. My life experiences, ranging from the heaviness of grief and loss, to the circus that is having a toddler and a baby (and a dog that acts like a baby?), have made me so curious and passionate about the overlap of what’s enjoyable with cooking and what’s realistic with cooking. It feels like a lot because it is a lot.įor me, these last few years of my life have dramatically changed the way I look at food. ![]() Working, caregiving, relationships, laundry, dishes, cleaning, general adulting, mental health, physical health, maintaining any sense of a social life, seasons of grief and struggle and exhaustion… there are 101 reasons why sometimes it’s just hard to make dinner. These are my set of circumstances, and yes, they currently center around the two tiny humans in our house, but obviously the struggle to get dinner on the table isn’t specific to parenting. I now understand that making a nice dinner, in a clean kitchen, with music of my choice, alone, to eat at a calm and quiet pace between 6-8pm is a very different weeknight dinner experience from coming home from work to a baby crying, a dog howling, a toddler needing a snack on the yellow plate but not that yellow plate, and facing a house-wide meltdown if I don’t get some dinner food into these wild munchkins by 5:15pm sharp. I didn’t really experience this until becoming a parent. Weeknight dinners are… how do I say this? They are just hard. So on the topic of January, can we touch on weeknight dinners for a moment? Our holiday series was a blast.īut HALLO here it comes! The new year, the daily grind, back in full force, in just about two seconds! Hello, January. Looking for more meal plans? Check out our Meal Plans page to get on our waiting list!
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