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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you not communicate with her at all?  You say she conveniently forgets what you’ve made to eat. If so, call her or email or text and mention that dinner is made and you’ll be home by x-time. (This is different than her knowing you’re coming home and have dinner already made and just going out. You said she forgets conveniently. She can’t if you’re texting a few times ahead of time about it.)

Meal plan with her. See what she likes.

- get a crock pot and make it ahead of time
- have easy, ready food for “appetizers” to snack on while waiting for you: carrots and humus, cut up veggies, nuts, cheese, etc. 
- grocery shop together
- buy ready made foods that are simple to create into a meal (on days we are rushing from sports, I’ll have frozen chicken breasts from a bag thawed and baked. When I get home, I’ll quickly make a rice packet dish, add the chicken, ginger, peanuts/peanut butter and we have a Thai-like dish in 8 minutes. I also will have that night’s veggie in a small pot ready to add water to and cook the second I get home. Maybe broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, etc. you could also do those salads in a bag. Point is that you can have the cooking done yourself in 10 min or less from when you enter the door.
- hire someone to make food in the afternoons or weekends
- make food yourself on afternoons and weekends
- get the kids invested in making food - picking recipes, shopping, cooking - and then make a huge deal how we are having Larla’s lasagne that evening. Call larla at 5:30 and remind her to put it in the oven!
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All good suggestions but this is a person who prefers not to cook. So having ready made stuff isn’t helpful. She needs to learn or get a divorce. [/quote]

Yeah and I don’t think hiring someone will work unless the op and his wife can afford that long-term (hiring someone once does nothing). [/quote]

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