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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely not 3-4x a week! Once a month probably. (Not counting my group activity 2x a month where we all chip in for pizza since that's not our household's decision.) When we don't have time to cook we pull a frozen meal out, or make frozen ravioli, pasta, or eggs and toast with fruit and salad.

Kids buying lunch at school is different. My kids prefer packed and my husband packs them at night, but I'd be fine with them each buying lunch for $3/day if they wanted to. [/quote]

Yeah, we definitely pull out frozen meals a lot, or do some sort of pasta/noodles or grilled cheese or something like that. We try to always keep fruit around, so that's easy. My kids don't get home from school/activities until 5 sometimes.[/quote]

Yes and I find it faster and lower stress than takeout since you have to drove to pick up stuff (delivery is just a luxury we don't want to pay for, generally). [/quote]

Same, kids are older now but I’ve always been the cook and have always packed lunches. DH buys lunch at work when he’s at the office. It as varied but typical week might be eating out once, takeout once, but that might be weekend lunch.

I learned that perfect could be the enemy of the good with meal planning and to keep easy stuff in the freezer for those nights when I just could not really cook…that’s when it’s scrambled eggs and frozen French fries, frozen pizza, ravioli and broccoli, meatballs from TJs and garlic bread

I mostly cook from scratch but you need slack for when you are exhausted, sick, etc

I find these options easier than takeout and certainly cheaper and often at least somewhat healthier.[/quote]

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