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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question- do those of you who feed their children dinner at 5 work outside the home or does a nanny feed them and you eat separately?

I have children the same age and we can’t make it home before 6:30 and then we still have to eat. Though I have thought about packing a bento box and having the kids eat on the way home from daycare and put on pjs there then come home brush teeth and in bed by 7. [/quote]

WFH this past year+ has made early dinners infinitely easier.  But in normal commuting situations we stagger our commutes so that one parent picks up the kids by 5 and we're home by 5:15.  We usually have food more or less prepared already -- pasta or rice cooked the day before, something that had been slow cooking during the work day (chicken thighs, often), or a freezer meal ranging from home cooked and frozen to junk food like chicken nuggets or whatever.  We always have frozen vegetables on hand and steam those up quickly in the microwave.  In this scenario the parent is usually rushing to put food on the table but can usually manage to start eating by 5:30.  The other parent is usually getting home around then and will sit down and eat all together, ideally, but often the two parents eat together later on.  My kids are now 5 and 2 but DH and I are still WFH mostly so the commute rush scenario was from more than a year ago.[/quote]

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