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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typical day: breakfast burritos and fruit. Chicken nuggets, string cheese, apples and ketchup for lunch. Chili with ground beef and rice and a veggie for dinner. Snacks about 11 and 2 and 4. Snacks might include: pepperoni, fruit leather, yogurt, carrots, bell peppers, cheese and crackers, popcorn, plus a serving of whatever we baked that day. We go for hot chocolate at Starbucks once or twice a week. We do dessert of fruit and cool whip or a serving of ice cream.

The additional food is on top of all that. [/quote]
You are simply not feeding your kids proper meals and enough food. I read your menu like some kind of soup and fast food advert.
I recommend you try something like this:
Breakfast: eggs, bacon, pancakes, yogurt.
Lunch: Ribs with potatoes, soup, and salad.
Dinner: rice and meat and veggies, as in a ton of it. For example, teriyaki chicken with rice and veggies. Juice, milk, etc.. to each meal.

Stop with soup and stew-like meals. In my country, these are starters. My grandma would look at your chicken nuggets and ketchup and ask you where is the meal. You don't have a proper carb side dish for lunch. For dinner, you have a stew. Not a single kid grandma fed was overweight. ANd she gave us a snack of bread with home rendered lard and paprika on top![/quote]

Okay, I think OP needs to talk to a professional and needs to feed her kids more, but your suggestions are also lunacy. Who the hell serves pancakes AND bacon AND eggs AND yogurt for a regular weekday breakfast? Not only is that a ton of food, it's a ton of time!

Ribs for lunch? Absurd.

FWIW, in my country, lunch is always soup. There's a whole saying about it. [/quote]

Caucasian American, European roots are 150-250 years ago.

I manage to cook eggs (with sautéed minced veggies mixed in!), turkey bacon and high protein pancakes (from scratch, made with eggs, milk, bananas, and a combination of almond and regular flour) and and cut and wash fruit.  It takes 30 minutes from start to finish.  I’m homeschooling three kids, two of whom need high protein breakfasts, or they’re grumpy, hungry and can’t focus 30-45 minutes into school, and that’s with a planned snack time at the 2 hour mark.  The third child can eat a half bowl of Cheerios or rice crispies (with milk), leave some, and be fine until lunch; that child eats a few bites of everything I make because it’s tastier.

There’s no reason to think that you can’t take 30 minutes to cook a decent breakfast.  The kids get dressed, set the table, and then have a few minutes to play before breakfast.  Then they have 30 minutes to eat, rinse their dishes, and brush their teeth.  The same schedule works with DL, and you only need to move it forward by however long the drive to school is if you need to accommodate that.  Just get up 30 minutes before the kids start getting around, then you have time for yourself first.  It’s not hard.[/quote]

Who spends 30 minutes making breakfast?!?!?[/quote]

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