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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]

I clean while I cook. Meal prep starts with unloading the dishwasher and clearing anything in the sink into the empty dishwasher. Veggie scraps go down the disposal when they're created. Non-disposal food garbage goes into the trash immediately, as does packaging material for things. I try to use as few dishes as possible. Last night was beans and rice and veggies night. Rice in one pot, with lid. Veggies on a cookie sheet in the oven - cookie sheet lined with foil so could be reused. Beans in another pot on the stove, no lid, one spoon. Knife and cutting board. 2 empty cans and a bunch of food scraps. The kitchen was clean before I finished cooking.[/quote]

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