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[quote=Anonymous]What we do probably doesn't work for all, but it works for us and we are kind of rigid about food waste. We meal plan and post the weekly menu every Sunday. If we are making a recipe that will use, for example, half a bunch of cilantro, we will plan on another meal that will use the second half. By Sunday morning, the fridge is usually pretty empty outside of eggs and condiments.

We sit down together to dinner every night around 5:30. We never did an after-school snack tradition (they can eat fruit/crudite or sometimes pick at the dinner prep ingredients), and we never offered an alternative meal. Sometimes when they were little they would skip the meal and then just load up at breakfast the next morning. (My middle still doesn't love dinner). We do not serve anything anyone hates, but that is usually like 1-2 things per person, and some things, like heat, can be adjusted after dishing out the mild portions, or served on the side for people to add in.

The kids are 6-13 and I / they pretty much know how much to put on their plates at this point but we've had the same dinner routine for about 12 years now. They can also go back for seconds. If it is a dessert night they do have to finish their main course to get dessert. But we are all relatively flexible eaters- this is a not a traumatic thing for them. I don't cook a lot of fish - not my forte, so we mostly enjoy it at restaurants - and most other meals are fine as leftovers.

For Christmas I had my older kids create two weeks of meal plans each for me. It took them forever - they said it was the hardest thing they had done lol. But that gave them a lot of perspective about what goes into family dinner! Some weeks we will also order Home Chef - in those cases I will let them help pick out recipes to order. [/quote]

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