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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two full-time working parents with long commutes here- no housecleaner or lawn service.  What I'd pay for would be a meal planner/grocery shopper!  I know they have online meal plans, but we have dietary restrictions, including food allergies, so those plans never seem like a good fit for us.[/quote]

OP here. I used to be in your shoes re the food allergies (so severe that I had to be "on call" for school every day--hence, my only going back to the office recently, after things calmed down). I would keep it ridiculously simple. Assuming you eat meat, make a list of the acceptable meats, veggies and starches and just stick to that. If everything can be thrown in the crockpot, so much the better. I had a rough list of about two dozen meals I could do easily, and I put the rotation on the calendar. On weekends, DH would take the non-FA kids out for pizza, PB&J, or whatever as a treat.

Sorry you're dealing with this. I was a SAHM at the time, and I felt like cooking and shopping for DC was a job in itself.

Apologies for hijacking my own thread![/quote]

PP here.  Did your kids outgrow their allergies, or are they better able to manage themselves now that they're older?

Actually, you hit the nail on the head- we are vegetarians, and most vegetarian online plans seem to rely on, or at least heavily incorporate, nuts/peanuts, which are exactly the allergies we're dealing with.  It's a topic for another thread for sure, but one child likes being a vegetarian and chooses it on her own accord; I'm a vegetarian as well.  The FA kid is also a vegetarian but is such a picky eater, he doesn't eat meat and has no interest in it.  Ack![/quote]

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