family dinner
In our house, eating dinner together is a priority. Although my job prevents me from being home 2-3 times a week, I know at 6:00 my husband is rounding up the kids to eat.
It’s not always full of wonderful discussions- often you will find Nathan or I prodding Simon or Penny to eat more or to use their napkins and there is sometimes tears. Is it important? You bet! Where else can you teach your children about the world, good nutrition, friendships, disappoints, but at the table? Eating dinner together is up there in my opinion of quality time (reading aloud is there too!). Since my 2 older kids are in grade school, this is a time reserved for US. Not homework, not computer time.
So here I am glowing about dinner time, but I loathe figuring out what to feed my kids and husband. I have some parameters with our diet since Nathan is a Type 1 diabetic and throw in some pickiness and I literally want to cry. Anyway, each week I create a meal plan which saves me time and money in the long run, but I needed a system.
Since we are committed to healthy, simple eating I decided to list some of our favorite meals and create meal cards. I have decided creating 15 meals that we will eat for the next weeks, rotating each week will help alleviate my stress each week.
Above is the front of my dinner card, listing the main course and sides. And on the flip side (below) is a list of ingredients that I need to make sure we need on hand. Do you think this will work?
I would love to hear from some of you and any dinner recommendations you may have…I need 6 more ideas!
I thought I would start a pictoral account of our meals starting next week sometime. I’m all about sharing ideas to make all our lives easier, but also to feed our kids well and with as little processed ingredients as possible. Anyone else on board?
