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[quote=Anonymous]On weeknights, can you compromise by prepping something simple the night before and have him finish it off? Our schedule is crazy right now, and my 3 young teens do this for me all the time. My DH works very late. If my 13yo DS can manage it, a full grown man should be able to.

For example, I’ll make a 9x13 of baked penne the night before (fairly mindless), cover and put in fridge. I’ll leave baking instructions for the kids (time temp and what time to put in) and then just serve with bagged salad. Or even prep/season chicken the night before and same thing- leave baking instructions, trying to time it to be done 15min after I get home (leaving me time to make quick sides). This would work with a lot of oven meals. Or I might prep/chop season a meat/veg stir fry the night before, and have one of the kids put rice in the rice cooker at x time. Teen DD can easily cook the stir fry in the wok (doesn’t take long) or Ill do it when I get home. Sheet pan meals (fajitas etc) can be prepped the night before and put it in freezer sized ziplocks- dump on a sheet pan and put in oven, pull out tortillas and condiments from fridge and voila. If I have nothing prepped, I’ll call one of the kids and have them dump a bag of frozen meatballs and a jar of sauce in the slow cooker to warm, and then just make the pasta when I get home. Things like that. I’m sure if you brainstorm you could come up with some ideas that would work. Surely your DH can spare 5-10min from his desk to go throw something in the oven. You could also straight up just prep dinner (all the way through) the night before and have him just reheat while you are on your way home. Not a fan of most slow cooker meals but a few are ok- that could work also.

And obviously DH should be doing 50% of the cooking on weekends. Ridiculous that he does not. Mine did, even when the kids were small and I was a SAHM. It is a joint responsibility on weekends at minimum. [/quote]

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