We get food from the fish and chip shop on Monday or Tuesday, whichever my partner has chosen for our library night that week. Whenever we visit the grandmothers we usually end up with some sort of purchased meal from a drive through fast food place, since the grandmothers are really too old to be easily catering to family gatherings and it doesn't seem right to skimp on the length of the visits. If I'm having trouble with fatigue and inability to stay awake, we buy a stirfry from the asian food hall or heat up a frozen lasagna. Sometimes the frozen lasagna is a homemade one put together when I made a bulk pasta sauce a few weeks before, sometimes it isn't.
Lunches are especially full of leftovers. We often eat leftover roast turned into yiros type rolls, leftover pasta or mashed potato turned into baked casseroles with some sausage cooked next to them in the oven and a few frozen peas heated up as a side. I deliberately produce leftovers in order to save myself trouble later. Sometimes, if the leftovers are great but there simply isn't enough of them I feed the kids leftovers, cook up some rice, and send my partner out to get a very hot curry the kids wouldn't like anyway.
I estimate that I average three evening meals a week that are what one would think of as fully homecooked meals from scratch, no leftovers, no fully prepared heat-and-eat convenience foods.
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Date: 2008-04-06 11:10 pm (UTC)Lunches are especially full of leftovers. We often eat leftover roast turned into yiros type rolls, leftover pasta or mashed potato turned into baked casseroles with some sausage cooked next to them in the oven and a few frozen peas heated up as a side. I deliberately produce leftovers in order to save myself trouble later. Sometimes, if the leftovers are great but there simply isn't enough of them I feed the kids leftovers, cook up some rice, and send my partner out to get a very hot curry the kids wouldn't like anyway.
I estimate that I average three evening meals a week that are what one would think of as fully homecooked meals from scratch, no leftovers, no fully prepared heat-and-eat convenience foods.