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What's for dinner?

 UGH...the daily question, What's for dinner?

I can't speak for everyone, but that is serious question. When I was a kid, we had real dinners. Dinners back then (80s & 90s) had a dining table, the main course, which consisted of some type of meat; soup, spaghetti, beans, casseroles, roast, ham, chicken, porkchops, meatloaf, steak or fish. Mom always made 3-4 side dishes: vegetables, mashed potatoes, greens or green beans, salad, macaroni or potato salad, fruit and some sort of dessert, cake, pudding or pie. we didn't have bags of chips, quick fix single serve meals, snack cakes or cases of pop... we didn't complain because we were being fed healthy meals. My mom fixed breakfast and dinner the same way, a variety of food. lunch was mostly a sandwich or something small, not a big meal. The thing that gets me thinking, she was a stay home mother yes, but she also took care of the gardens, canned our vegetables and tomatoes, milked the cow, made butter, took care of the office work for my dad's water well drilling business, not to mention us 3 kids and my dad, the household chores, groceries, and bills...she even volunteered for all my grade school parties. I look at my mom in a different way now that I'm an adult. She was super woman. She was and still is amazing, she never stops and she's 76. She still loves to cook...well, she works in a restaurant if that tells you anything... lol.  

I complain about not knowing what to make for dinner i think its because I let everyone decide for me what to fix. I used to make dinners just like my mother in my 30s. I always had a houseful to feed. Now it's just my husband, me and our daughter. they are somewhat picky eaters, not too picky but no one seems to like the same foods. I have gotten into this habit after I started working and was no longer a stay home mom, asking everyone what they wanted to eat, and Id fix it. I didn't really feel like fixing a whole meal because I was pretty wore down too from working throughout the day. Instead of a meal like; Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade mac and cheese... it was more like tacos. or spaghetti, (one pot meals). It seems like I don't even know how to grocery shop anymore..lol

One pound of hamburger used to be enough for a whole family when there were different sides to go with it but if you're making just one thing with that hamburger, you need at least 2 lbs or more to feed a family. Guess what is going to happen a couple hours later... "mom, Im hungry." That one thing filled them up temporarily, but it didn't satisfy them very long and they are going to look for chips, snack cakes, ramen noodles, or a sandwich. I need to get back to the basics... home cooked meals and homemade desserts. If I stop buying chips and quick grab foods and start cooking dinners like I used to, everyone will eat and not complain. I really think we'd be more satisfied and not so munchy all the time and I almost guarantee we'd feel a lot better without all that garbage they put in these easy grab filler foods.  

I am realizing that everyone is in a rush these days...for what though? We rush to work, rush to get home, rush meal time, rush the kids to bed, rush our kids to grow up, we rush our lives and slather wrinkle cream on our face like its gonna slow us down on aging. There is a reason why the women of the old days were so beautiful... the only thing they rushed was trying to get everything done before nightfall. 

Slow down, look around...ask yourself... what is so important in our lives that we have to put our nutrition, our body's life support, in a pill form. We all have the same amount of hours in a day. Who and what are you jeopardizing your health for?

Yes...I went off topic again and I still don't know what's for dinner. lol


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