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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On a related topics, for folks with both parents WOHP and cooking semi-home cooked meals for every meal (no take-out, no packaged/frozen meals -- cutting your own veggies, some meats, tofu, or the like), do you end up with the kitchen a disaster E.V.E.R.Y night?  And how do you manage to clean it up and get kids to bed and do all the other chores around the house.

By the time we have kids in bed, cleaning the kitchen disaster is all I have energy for, and thus cleaning the rest of the house and laundry gets lumped into the weekend, which I had hoped would be family quality time not WEEKEND OF CHORES.

Yes, we've looked at a cleaning service, but not in our budget or logistics right now. And we deal with the "clean before the cleaners" problem so common, where they can't really get started until we address the chaos.

We are trying to enlist the kids, but I feel between the homework, language study, practicing piano, and computer homework we are always directing them to work, and never give *them* anytime to be kids...[/quote]

Go really simple on weeknights- baked chicken thighs, baked fish. Simple sides like green beans, and packaged baguette that can be baked. Prepare few sides or a dish on Sunday that provides leftovers for Monday. This way you use fewer dishes and can get some clean up done while the food is baking. A lot of skillet food, dredging, slicing, etc. makes more mess and dishes. I keep warm, soapy water in the sink and wash/rinse dishes and pots and pans as I go.

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