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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I resolve this issue by doing a weekend grocery trip in which I buy the same things every week (or almost the same, some things get subbed out based on season or occasionally food preferences shifting). I get stuff for breakfasts, lunches, fruit and other healthy snacks, plus a couple very easy dinners (stuff I can throw together in 20 minutes, like quesadillas or an easy pasta dish). Anyone can add things to this list, including my DH if he wants to actually plan the dinners he's going to make in advance.

But after that, he has to figure it out. If he wants to decide last minute to make some complicated dish, he has to get that stuff and figure out the timing of it. If his plans go awry and dinner is going to be late, he gets to field the complaints from kids about being hungry. I will make my two easy dinners on the two nights it makes most sense to do so (usually his two in office days). These often produce some leftovers so that's also an option that is always available to him. But otherwise, he can figure it out. He wants to cook instead of doing other things that I do (like cleaning, keeping kids in clothes and school supplies, organizing childcare and activities, our taxes, etc.). So he can do it his way. I will grab an apple from the pantry and go read a book or work on a project while he flounders through trying to get food on the table with kids complaining at 7pm.

He is welcome at any point to join me on that weekend grocery run with a bit more of a plan, but he's also welcome to just keep doing it this way.[/quote]

OP here - I think this is what I will end up doing [/quote]

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