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[quote=Anonymous]I think you should decide how important this is to you. For me, eating a healthy and tasty dinner together as a family is a top priority, probably #2 behind everyone sleeping properly. I know many good parents who do not make this a top priority. There are trade offs for everything.

Here are some things I do:
- Get up early and do all the prep. For example, chop the vegetables, or make the meatballs, or put all the things on a sheet pan. I try to make it so that when I come in the door, I am putting something in the oven or on the stove. 
- Keep a list of what you make for awhile and then refer back to it. You will get faster at making the recipes and figure out little efficiencies (like, don’t put cilantro because it’s the only thing that needs chopping and that’s a waste of time). I keep a Note on my phone with our weekly meal plan, including links. Now I’ve done this for a year and I can refer back to recipes that worked well.
- Decide who your audience is. I have three kids (1,3, and 6) and I don’t make the dinner with them in mind. I don’t mean to sound harsh. They eat with us! But I make a dinner that will be good for DH and I. I make kid friendly breakfast and lunch but I want real food for dinner. So, I accommodate recipes for them but I don’t follow their dumb little kid palates, especially because they will like something one week and then hate it the next. By accommodate, I mean, for example, my oldest doesn’t like soup right now, so I keep the stuff in the soup separate for him on a plate (Like raw carrots, celery, beans, etc.) or he eats bread dipped in the broth or picks out what he does like from the soup. We don’t make a big deal about it and all of my kids are like 99th percentile height/weight, so I don’t worry about it. They often eat huge servings of other stuff. A peanut butter sandwich is available if necessary but I think that has only been requested a couple times.[/quote]

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