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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Career nanny here.  This is what I have done for all my nanny families (and a few friends who are busy moms):

1) Come up with a list of 18 meals your family at least sort of likes.  This is 6 meals a week plus one day of leftovers or takeout.

I like to break it down by day so like every Sunday is something I have to bake in the oven, every Monday is a crock pot meal, Tuesday soup/salad, Wednesday sheet pan dinner, Thursday pasta, Friday stir fry, something like that.

You now have a Week 1 menu, Week 2 menu and Week 3 menu.

2) Write out a shopping list for ingredients for each week.  Depending on how often you like to shop, break it into two lists (Sun-Tuesday and Wed-Friday for example).

Going forward shop according to the list and make whatever is on the list for that night.  Your family in never eating any particular meal more than on e every 21 days so you can do this for years and nobody will because absolutely bored of a specific food.[/quote]

That is not the magical formula for freedom from the kitchen you think it is. Almost every meal in that rotation is an hour or more of work, if you add up planning, shopping, chopping, cleanup. It's just a variation on "get up earlier in the morning." 
OP wasn't just asking for menu inspiration. She's too busy not to burn the broccoli. A 21 meal rotation doesn't solve that.

Here's what would actually help:
A list of supermarket/delivered microwavable meals that are edible, healthy enough and don't require loading the dishwasher at the end of the night.
A list of homemade freezer meals that you can make months in advance (Meal prep every Sunday? No thanks).
Helping the mom find ways to delegate to everyone around her that is over 10 years old!!! She shouldn't bear that burden alone.

Monday: teenager's famous pasta
Tuesday: tween's scrumptious salad kit
Wednesday: hubby's whatever
Thursday: TJ frozen something
Friday: chili you batch made 4 months ago and put in the deep freezer, with a quart bag of rice you also batch cooked and put in the deep freezer.
Saturday: hubby's other whatever. 
Sunday: take out.

That can be the baseline. Actual mom cooking is only offered when there is a lull in her other responsibilities. [/quote]

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