The most painful part of almost every week --- every day --- is figuring out what to eat for both of us. Three meals a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Truth be told, breakfast is easy – doesn’t require too much variation. Cereal, waffles, pancakes, French toast, bacon and eggs, etc. It works.
Lunch isn’t too bad either, especially since he gets most lunches in school 
Dinner sucks. Plain and simple. It’s hit and miss on trying new things Christian will enjoy or its same-old, same-old. Of course, there is plenty of stuff going on during the week at night to make cooking dinner more of a chore, get it done last minute kind of deal. Not fun. I do need to start planning better and experimenting a bit to come up with different things --- but it all takes pre-planning which I am horrible at (when it comes to dinner at least).
But sometimes homeruns are hit. A couple of weeks ago I bought a box of Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff. I want to say we’ve tried it before and he didn’t like it very much. This time I added some taco seasoning and told him that I made it --- and he loved it. In fact, his words to describe it were “if I look sad tomorrow or any day after today it’s because we didn’t have this for dinner.” Wow, look at that, a grand slam!!
The other day he surprised me again. I wanted something different and decided that I wouldn’t care if he ate it or not. When we were at Apple Hill the other day we bought a Teriyaki Sauce that he was able to taste and really liked. He wanted to buy the sauce so we did. I cubed up some chicken, added the Teriyaki sauce to it and he liked it! Awesome! Not quite the same reaction as the Taco Beef Stroganoff, but he liked it and ate it. Mostly, I think, because he picked out the sauce!
So what will the next home run be?? I don’t know yet – but I decided to bring in some help so I’ve subscribed to a daily recipe email to see what it can deliver. I have some thoughts on things to make for dinner I just need to make them happen --- by planning!