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[quote=Anonymous]I dont think it's crazy to have different food preferences, but things like meal prep on the weekend can be very helpful.  I have one vegetarian kid so I cook a pot of black beans on the weekend and stir fry some tofu, or pick up seasoned baked tofu.  I also keep veggie meatballs and some other easy veggie proteins in the freezer.  Then the veggie kid basically eats what we eat but with a vegetarian protein subbed in.  For example, we have tacos, and ours have meat but hers have black beans.  Or we have spaghetti and meat sauce, and she'll have spaghetti and veggie sausage.  I also cook big pots of rice/quinoa/millet/etc on weekend and freeze into individual bags to have a grain ready to go at dinner time.  We always get takeout on Thursdays.  Just having fewer dishes to clean up during the week is a huge timesaver during stressful evenings.

It also helps that only one of our kids does a sport, and it's only one day a week.  Next year she will start school sports, so she will not need driving (we already have to pick her up daily from school).  For music lessons, we have someone come to our home.  This way, aside from driving to 2 different schools to pick up, my evenings are mostly free from obligations.  It's ok to say no to some of your kids activities if you don't want to drive them.  My kid wanted to do gymnastics at a place 30 minutes away, and a theater class that ended at 8:30 pm, and I said no to both.[/quote]

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