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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DH is disappointed that I don't cook dinner as part of the SAH gig. I hate meal planning and cooking. DS is 12 mos. He eats simple, decinstructed meals. I eat whatever is around. Cheese and crackers for lunch if I want. I have no expectation that DH produce dinner for me. I didn't have that expectation when we were both working, either.  I don't have a bunch of school-aged kids where we all need to sit around as a family. I really hate this expectation that I'm supposed to prepare food for a grown man[b] now that my job is raising our child[/b].  I was thinking of cooking tonight-we have this bag of potatos on the counter. If it were just me, I'd have a baked potato and a Diet Coke. But since I'm cooking for a "family" I have to produce something more ambitious - a baked potato "bar" or whatever. No thanks. I'm want to cook what I want to eat and not cater to what DH likes. Today he came home and asked what I made-I told him "nothing", and he went to the grocery store after working all day, and I don't really care. [/quote]

Feeding your kid nutritiously is part of that job. As someone else already said, toddler meals only last through toddlerhood. 
And toddlers can eat "real meals" too. There is great value in getting your young child used to sitting down and eating a balanced meal as soon as possible. 
Probably the one area of SAHM life that I fully embraced was dinner prep (vaccuming-not so much). My 3 kids really appreciate good food, have always sat down to dinner with veggies, salad, all varieties of food. Now that they are busy students and athletes, I see them preparing their own balanced nutritious lunches and asking for "lots of protein" at dinner or "an extra vegetable" for more vitamins, putting mangos and almond milk on the shopping list. It all sunk in.[/quote]

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