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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP.  I have a HS senior, two HS juniors (2 boys & 1 girl) and DH.  Here is my morning schedule looks like

Breakfast at 6;30am:  take an hour
- make fresh cashews milk for five people (15 mins),
- make egg white with spinach and whole wheat toast for four people (15 minutes),
- make smoothie from fresh avocado, strawberries, blueberries, mango, apple and banana for five people (15 minutes to prepare and blend)
- make fresh oats milk for five people (10 minutes)
- clean up (10 minutes)

Lunch:  Take about 65 minutes - DH WFH and kids are home school
- Homemade chicken soup - 30 minutes  
- Salad  - 5 minutes
- Freshly made Chicken Lasagna - 30 minutes
-   (make smoothie from fresh avocado, strawberries, blueberries, mango, apple and banana for five (15 minutes to prepare and blend),
- Freshly made Almond milk for three (10 minutes),

Snack: 15 minutes
-   (make smoothie from fresh avocado, strawberries, blueberries, mango, apple and banana for five (15 minutes to prepare and blend),

-Dinner: one hour
- steamed vegetable (10 minutes),
- Lobster or seafood on Pasta (40 minutes),
- fresh smoothie (15 minutes)

Rinse and repeat.

I've been doing this for the past three months and it is exhausting.  Fortunately, I am already retired but still feel overwhelmed at times.[/quote]

OP, it's great that you place such importance on cooking healthy meals for your family. There are lots of areas where you can cut out work/redundancies:

--3 smoothies per day seems pretty excessive. can you explain how a smoothie vs. fresh fruit adds such nutritional value that you are using and cleaning your blender 3x per day? You might find that prepping fruit salad to last 2-3 days will bring the variety and nutrition you're looking for.
--on the smoothie note, use easy-to-grab-and-eat fruits like apples and bananas for your snacks so everyone is getting those nutrients but they do not need to be prepped for smoothies, can be eaten with a serving of nuts for those who need the protein/fat
--can you make enough almond/oat milk to last a few days? why 2 varieties of nut milks for breakfast? can those who want it just eat almonds instead?

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The smoothie  poster side tracked the thread.  Don’t worry about all their unnecessary smoothies, they like fresh fruits okay.  All the sugar spikes at every meal from smoothies is no good for adults.  [/quote]

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