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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.[/quote]

I keep it really, really simple and pre-prep as much as possible beforehand.  Ie, if I'm throwing some chicken breasts in the oven, I will bake/roast the veg also - no separate pan.  Veg and other sides often serve double duty... If I'm steaming broccoli tonight, I'll steam extra and save it for tomorrow or the next day.  Also, we do not hold to the meat + veg + starch combo.  Often it's meat + veg only.  Or meat + fruit.  And I'm a big fan of cooking extra to create leftovers in general, so with a constant leftover-rotation going on, only half of the big bowls/pots/pans/etc are actually getting used up and washed any given night.

DD is 3YO and reasonably good at entertaining herself while I clean a few things quickly, and can put her plate and utensils in the sink, but that's the extent of my help since DH is often working a late shift and not home at dinner.

Anything that I think is going to be messier or clutter-y-er (not a word) than I can handle by myself on a Wed night... gets served on Sunday :-)

A small thing - If I'm going to be cutting meat AND veg, I cut the veg first, then the meat, so I can use the same cutting board.

The kitchen is generally NOT a disaster, but I do tend to leave pots soaking until after DD's bedtime.[/quote]

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