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Food is the cheapest commodity in America.

You really have a hardship of planning and organization, not of finances.

You can make easy crockpot recipes like chili,   pulled barbeque pork,  bean soup etc. - and easily plan meals around those. Unless you are hurting for money, feeding family should not be something that gives you a pause.  Throw in some dinner rolls, a green salad, some baked beans from the can, mac and cheese - and you are done.

The good part is that since you have a crowd to feed, you can do with these hearty meals instead of filet mignon. [/quote]

This is ridiculous.  OP's BIL calls her up at 11am on a weekday (when she's working from home) and says he's dropping by at 1pm.  OP is supposed to drop everything and whip up a crockpot of chili to feed him?  Especially when OP won't be eating the chili herself.  I don't think OP would have a problem providing meals for planned visits that were scheduled for mealtimes...it's the last minute visits that are the issue.  And while food might be a cheap commodity in the US, time is not.  So understandably she ends up ordering food at these times instead of spending time cooking it...at which point the food itself also stops being cheap.[/quote]

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