My least favorite chore is figuring out what to make for dinners. I don't mind making the grocery list, doing the grocery shopping, putting the food away, and I mostly don't even mind doing the cooking five days a week. But I absolutely HATE deciding what we'll eat. I get into ruts with the same 6-8 recipes, adding a new one or deleting one I'm tired of, over the weeks and months. It's also hard to make everyone happy, when Amy is a vegetarian and Reed doesn't like beans.
Another parent mentioned to me that their three kids each had to cook dinner one night a week and I was blown away. Why hadn't I thought of this?! For a stretch of time, Reed often made dinner (mainly because that meant he wouldn't have to do dishes, if he cooked on his dishes day). But mostly it's me doing all the meals.
That stopped two weeks ago. So far, Reed did a bratwurst and cole slaw night and a pork stir fry night. Amy made fettuccine Alfredo and black bean burgers (you can guess how Reed felt about those). This coming week we're having fajitas in the air fryer (Reed) and vegetarian chili mac (Amy). They have to do everything involved with the meal – finding the recipe, seeing which ingredients we need to buy and which we have on hand, and then cook the meal. I have no idea why I never thought to do this earlier!
The kids are learning a lot about cooking, and I think it's awesome that they're both looking up and trying new recipes. I'm sure they're going to get pretty bored of it, but right now it's going great. Maybe they'll each develop a "specialty" recipe that can be their go-to.
Life skills! I love to see it!
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