meals
Wildflower Car
I am curious how some of you handle food. :)
Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
trip.
Nobody will starve, I have a kitchen full of goodies. My girls and husband
cook.
I guess I'm just looking for some other ideas.
Much Love,
Wildflower
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Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
trip.
Nobody will starve, I have a kitchen full of goodies. My girls and husband
cook.
I guess I'm just looking for some other ideas.
Much Love,
Wildflower
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Kelly Weyd
We don't have any set meal times......especially since my I never know when my husband is going to come home in the evening. One of my daughters does not eat breakfast, but eats a piece of fruit late in the morning. My other daughter loves a huge breakfast. Their lunch times and dinner times vary. I always leave fruit and cut up vegy's in the bottom drawer of the fridge that they can get themselves whenever they want. A lot of times they will make their own sandwiches for lunch, and if not they will ask me to make something. Dinner is usually something in the crockpot that we can get whenever we are hungry and will keep warm till Dad gets home.
Kelly
Wildflower Car <unschoolfool@...> wrote:
I am curious how some of you handle food. :)
Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
trip.
Nobody will starve, I have a kitchen full of goodies. My girls and husband
cook.
I guess I'm just looking for some other ideas.
Much Love,
Wildflower
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Kelly
Wildflower Car <unschoolfool@...> wrote:
I am curious how some of you handle food. :)
Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
trip.
Nobody will starve, I have a kitchen full of goodies. My girls and husband
cook.
I guess I'm just looking for some other ideas.
Much Love,
Wildflower
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chandelle'
we only eat when we're hungry. i am fascinated by my son's ability to
follow his hunger cues and i don't want to kill it by pushing him to eat
when he's not hungry or pushing him to eat more ("clear his plate") when
he's full. i am also deathly against using food as a reward or punishment
(like, be good or you won't get dinner, or, finish that or you won't get
dessert, etc.). i do have general feeding times...like i make him breakfast
when he first wakes up, and i make lunch after his morning nap, but those
are his hungriest times and i take advantage of them. i think it's far
healthier to space out "meals" than to eat big meals at specific times. we
eat dinner anywhere from 530 to 1030 at night, and sometimes we don't eat it
at all but just heat up leftovers or pick throughout the night. basically,
we just try to eat when we're hungry. my son will eat a little something
(*really* little - like a kiwi or a piece of toast with peanut butter) every
couple of hours throughout the day. i'm trying to do that too.
chandelle'
follow his hunger cues and i don't want to kill it by pushing him to eat
when he's not hungry or pushing him to eat more ("clear his plate") when
he's full. i am also deathly against using food as a reward or punishment
(like, be good or you won't get dinner, or, finish that or you won't get
dessert, etc.). i do have general feeding times...like i make him breakfast
when he first wakes up, and i make lunch after his morning nap, but those
are his hungriest times and i take advantage of them. i think it's far
healthier to space out "meals" than to eat big meals at specific times. we
eat dinner anywhere from 530 to 1030 at night, and sometimes we don't eat it
at all but just heat up leftovers or pick throughout the night. basically,
we just try to eat when we're hungry. my son will eat a little something
(*really* little - like a kiwi or a piece of toast with peanut butter) every
couple of hours throughout the day. i'm trying to do that too.
chandelle'
On 4/1/07, Kelly Weyd <kellmar98@...> wrote:
>
> We don't have any set meal times......especially since my I never know
> when my husband is going to come home in the evening. One of my daughters
> does not eat breakfast, but eats a piece of fruit late in the morning. My
> other daughter loves a huge breakfast. Their lunch times and dinner times
> vary. I always leave fruit and cut up vegy's in the bottom drawer of the
> fridge that they can get themselves whenever they want. A lot of times
> they will make their own sandwiches for lunch, and if not they will ask me
> to make something. Dinner is usually something in the crockpot that we can
> get whenever we are hungry and will keep warm till Dad gets home.
> Kelly
>
> Wildflower Car <unschoolfool@...> wrote:
>
> I am curious how some of you handle food. :)
>
> Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
> bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
> trip.
>
> Nobody will starve, I have a kitchen full of goodies. My girls and husband
> cook.
>
> I guess I'm just looking for some other ideas.
>
> Much Love,
> Wildflower
>
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Melissa
We do have set mealtimes in our house, not to the minute, but approximate times in which
a meal preparation SHOULD be done. Part of that is convenience for my husband, who HAS
to be out of the house by a certain time to walk to work, and is usually starving by the
time he gets home. Part of that is convenience for me, because if I tried to set up meal
times for every single person in the house, we'd have nine different mealtimes. Part of it is
convenience for the children, because they can anticipate a large meal being ready.
Having said that, even with set mealtimes, we don't FORCE the children to sit with us, and
we don't force them to eat what is prepared by me (although anymore, Josh cooks on
Wednesdays, and half the time the girls help, so it's not really 'me' anymore). I do ask the
children to sit with us, as I announce that dinner is ready, because it's a good time to all
sit together and discuss the day (especially in light of dh missing most of it) They are
usually amenable, they know that the meal is at the same time every day and have learned
to time themselves to end games to join us. They also trust us that if they aren't ready to
join us, that they can finish what they are doing and join us. They can eat all or part of the
meal that is in front of them, they can choose to reheat a more preferred left-over or
preprepared snacks. All-in-all, they love sitting with us, and usually I don't prepare foods
that are far outside of their acceptance level. :-) Every once in a while we'll make
something with tunafish, and several kids find it revolting and move on quickly.
Lunch is usually the same, dh walks home from work to eat, and we try to get it on the
table at a certain time so that he doesn't miss more work than he needs. it is much more
laid back than dinner however, and breakfast is even more relaxed, because Josh and
Emily usually sleep much later than the rest of us, usually only dh, Bre, Dan and Sam eat a
big breakfast, the rest of us nonmorning people will reheat an hour or more later, or just
have cereal.
Because there are so many of us, and grocery costs could skyrocket very easily, we do
have a calendar that only has meals on it. We have a party the last day of the month, kind
of like a monthly mardi gras, where we dig out all the leftovers, all the snacks, fruits and
juices. We take stock of what we have, eat what we want, and decide what was good
enough to repeat, what new recipes we want to try, and assign a big meal to each day of
the month. Then we make a grocery list and try to buy all of our food for the month. The
calendar isn't set in stone, but it does make things more convenient and takes a lot of
decision making out of the way, and I always know that I have what I need to make the
meal. We do look at activities for the month, like our weekly potluck I know to make
something that easily stretches portions more, and on our big playdate days, we always
plan either a crockpot dinner or something like nachos. This saves on time, and on energy
because we're always tired after a day like that and wanting fast food.
Anyway, I don't know if I covered it all or left a big gaping hole that has you scratching
your head. :-) We do have snacks out all the time, cut fruit, deli meats and cheese,
crackers and candy, so they have access to eat anytime they like. Most of the older ones
have chosen to limit their snacking after i've started cooking dinner, because they like
what we're making, and want to eat more of it. Most of the younger ones can snack right
up til dinner and still eat a good portion of food.
a meal preparation SHOULD be done. Part of that is convenience for my husband, who HAS
to be out of the house by a certain time to walk to work, and is usually starving by the
time he gets home. Part of that is convenience for me, because if I tried to set up meal
times for every single person in the house, we'd have nine different mealtimes. Part of it is
convenience for the children, because they can anticipate a large meal being ready.
Having said that, even with set mealtimes, we don't FORCE the children to sit with us, and
we don't force them to eat what is prepared by me (although anymore, Josh cooks on
Wednesdays, and half the time the girls help, so it's not really 'me' anymore). I do ask the
children to sit with us, as I announce that dinner is ready, because it's a good time to all
sit together and discuss the day (especially in light of dh missing most of it) They are
usually amenable, they know that the meal is at the same time every day and have learned
to time themselves to end games to join us. They also trust us that if they aren't ready to
join us, that they can finish what they are doing and join us. They can eat all or part of the
meal that is in front of them, they can choose to reheat a more preferred left-over or
preprepared snacks. All-in-all, they love sitting with us, and usually I don't prepare foods
that are far outside of their acceptance level. :-) Every once in a while we'll make
something with tunafish, and several kids find it revolting and move on quickly.
Lunch is usually the same, dh walks home from work to eat, and we try to get it on the
table at a certain time so that he doesn't miss more work than he needs. it is much more
laid back than dinner however, and breakfast is even more relaxed, because Josh and
Emily usually sleep much later than the rest of us, usually only dh, Bre, Dan and Sam eat a
big breakfast, the rest of us nonmorning people will reheat an hour or more later, or just
have cereal.
Because there are so many of us, and grocery costs could skyrocket very easily, we do
have a calendar that only has meals on it. We have a party the last day of the month, kind
of like a monthly mardi gras, where we dig out all the leftovers, all the snacks, fruits and
juices. We take stock of what we have, eat what we want, and decide what was good
enough to repeat, what new recipes we want to try, and assign a big meal to each day of
the month. Then we make a grocery list and try to buy all of our food for the month. The
calendar isn't set in stone, but it does make things more convenient and takes a lot of
decision making out of the way, and I always know that I have what I need to make the
meal. We do look at activities for the month, like our weekly potluck I know to make
something that easily stretches portions more, and on our big playdate days, we always
plan either a crockpot dinner or something like nachos. This saves on time, and on energy
because we're always tired after a day like that and wanting fast food.
Anyway, I don't know if I covered it all or left a big gaping hole that has you scratching
your head. :-) We do have snacks out all the time, cut fruit, deli meats and cheese,
crackers and candy, so they have access to eat anytime they like. Most of the older ones
have chosen to limit their snacking after i've started cooking dinner, because they like
what we're making, and want to eat more of it. Most of the younger ones can snack right
up til dinner and still eat a good portion of food.
--- In [email protected], "Wildflower Car" <unschoolfool@...> wrote:
>
>
> I am curious how some of you handle food. :)
>
> Do you set meal times? It's been crazy lately around here and my grocery
> bill has doubled. I'm about to have surgery and am going on a big shopping
> trip.
Wildflower Car
This sounds a lot like us. We have set meal times for dinner only. I try to
have a home cooked meal out once a day. But sometimes DH and I are the only
ones that eat. DH works FT from home and so do I.
Our kids come to the table pretty naturally, I guess at some point we might
have set them at the table when they were little. My kids are older and
enjoy the family time as well. I announce dinner, and sometimes everyone
comes, sometimes nobody comes.
Tonight I'm making sloppy joes, everyone LOVES them, except me! So they eat
and I fix something else. But I try to sit with them either way. They have
all exprssed disapointment when I don't eat at the table with them. I'm glad
that 16 years into parenting my kids still like me around.
Wildflower
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have a home cooked meal out once a day. But sometimes DH and I are the only
ones that eat. DH works FT from home and so do I.
Our kids come to the table pretty naturally, I guess at some point we might
have set them at the table when they were little. My kids are older and
enjoy the family time as well. I announce dinner, and sometimes everyone
comes, sometimes nobody comes.
Tonight I'm making sloppy joes, everyone LOVES them, except me! So they eat
and I fix something else. But I try to sit with them either way. They have
all exprssed disapointment when I don't eat at the table with them. I'm glad
that 16 years into parenting my kids still like me around.
Wildflower
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caradove
I think I will try this and my 11yo son is now chanting "monthly
party, monthly party!"There are seven of us and sometimes I get all
out of ideas for food so the calender of ideas sounds good!!!!
Cara
party, monthly party!"There are seven of us and sometimes I get all
out of ideas for food so the calender of ideas sounds good!!!!
Cara
> Because there are so many of us, and grocery costs could skyrocketvery easily, we do
> have a calendar that only has meals on it. We have a party the lastday of the month, kind
> of like a monthly mardi gras, where we dig out all the leftovers,all the snacks, fruits and
> juices. We take stock of what we have, eat what we want, and decidewhat was good
> enough to repeat, what new recipes we want to try, and assign a bigmeal to each day of
> the month. Then we make a grocery list and try to buy all of ourfood for the month.