Anonymous
Post 05/18/2015 11:23     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Lmaoo
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2015 10:19     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:What stuck out to me is that your 15 year old is not helping clean up after dinner. A 15 year old is perfect you capable of cleaning up.



Imagine what it's like to be married to the person who posted this comment. Everything is a reason to criticize.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2015 09:54     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:What stuck out to me is that your 15 year old is not helping clean up after dinner. A 15 year old is perfect you capable of cleaning up.


You all will find ANY REASON to criticize op! Wtf is up with that? How do you know her kids don't help clean up after dinner? How do you know they don't take turns or something, and it was ops night to clean? How do you know that they don't have jobs assigned and ops kids already did their jobs? Who really cares anyways, about whether her kids clean up after dinner? Some people would prefer to do it on their own.

It's rare that anyone cleans up alter dinner besides me at my house, but that's okay. Ds knows how, but id rather give him the time between dinner and bed to do whatever he wants to do. Especially this time of the year when it's spring and he can go outside and play.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2015 01:20     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
What stuck out to me is that your 15 year old is not helping clean up after dinner. A 15 year old is perfect you capable of cleaning up.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 23:06     Subject: Re:I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Fruit is an excellent breakfast. Op probably gives them stuff to eat with the fruit. However, the school lunches may not be cutting it depending on where they go to school. My ds buys on occasion and only eats a small part of what is being served because some of the parts of the lunch are nasty.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 22:43     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Op, fruits may not be enough for breakfast. Give boiled eggs, Greek yogurt, oatmeal etc.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 22:33     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:Usually we do fruits for breakfast and occasionally pancakes on weekends. Lunch is at school but I suppose summer will have me making more meals.



Give your children breakfast. Fruit is not breakfast. No wonder they are starving by dinner time.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 22:23     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm the one who suggested stew, and I also saw your post about soup. So, with this stew, you are going to add potatoes. Lots of them. You can either use up the ones you roasted with the chicken, or add more. Also carrots, lots of those, too. Or sweet potato. If you make dumplings the stew will thicken by pulling flour out of the dumplings, but if you make biscuits instead thicken the stew with 1/4 cup of flour mashed into 3 tbs butter, then dropped into the broth. You can also add pasta and beans to the stew for extra oomph. That thickening with potatoes, flour, and beans is what turns a stew into a filling meal rather than the kind of food you and I (middle aged women, no?) prefer to eat.



NP here- I have a question for above poster- where did you learn how to cook? Seriously curious, not trying to be snarky. Are these methods you learned from your family growing up or learned from cookbooks or shows? I cook a lot for my family of 4, but I would be overwhelmed doing 3 chickens and peeling the vast quantities of veg prep like carrot and peeling 5 pounds of potatoes?? How did you know how to do the 1/4 cup flour and 3 tbs butter? It takes me a long time, like 2 hours, to get from start to finish for dinner for husband and 2 elementary kids. There's no one to help me or watch kids, and I'm trying to make recipes up as I go along as fast as I can. When do people like above prep for so much quantity for larger families?? Where is the time?????? Who's watching the kids????


I learned on my own. There is so much on the internet, plus the Joy of Cooking had taught me to make everything from broth from scratch to souffle. It is simple to follow a recipe and then over time you branch out.

My kids are in elementary school too. Do you hover over them? I don't. They are outside all the time or inside helping me if I ask. What kind of supervision are you talking about?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 22:09     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Usually we do fruits for breakfast and occasionally pancakes on weekends. Lunch is at school but I suppose summer will have me making more meals.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 21:47     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Nice progress OP! What do kids eat for breakfast and lunch?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2015 20:27     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
I made two salmons from Costco tonight. Broccoli and baked potatoes as sides. There were a few pieces of broccoli left so I guess that's progress.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2015 22:01     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm the one who suggested stew, and I also saw your post about soup. So, with this stew, you are going to add potatoes. Lots of them. You can either use up the ones you roasted with the chicken, or add more. Also carrots, lots of those, too. Or sweet potato. If you make dumplings the stew will thicken by pulling flour out of the dumplings, but if you make biscuits instead thicken the stew with 1/4 cup of flour mashed into 3 tbs butter, then dropped into the broth. You can also add pasta and beans to the stew for extra oomph. That thickening with potatoes, flour, and beans is what turns a stew into a filling meal rather than the kind of food you and I (middle aged women, no?) prefer to eat.



NP here- I have a question for above poster- where did you learn how to cook? Seriously curious, not trying to be snarky. Are these methods you learned from your family growing up or learned from cookbooks or shows? I cook a lot for my family of 4, but I would be overwhelmed doing 3 chickens and peeling the vast quantities of veg prep like carrot and peeling 5 pounds of potatoes?? How did you know how to do the 1/4 cup flour and 3 tbs butter? It takes me a long time, like 2 hours, to get from start to finish for dinner for husband and 2 elementary kids. There's no one to help me or watch kids, and I'm trying to make recipes up as I go along as fast as I can. When do people like above prep for so much quantity for larger families?? Where is the time?????? Who's watching the kids????


By kindergarten my kids did not need watching. Hell, they were in and out of the kitchen helping as I had jobs for them to do related to the meal.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2015 21:55     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
I think it's stranger that anyone thinks OP is for real.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2015 20:43     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"An entire bag of spinach" is enough for 2 people. Look at the back of the bag if you don't believe me. Those bags say 2.5 servings.



It depends on the size of the bag but really, 2lbs of pasta, 3lbs of sausage, and a bag of spinach should be enough for 6 people since 2 of them are little kids! OP was not feeding her kids enough before but she is doing fine now. Leave her alone.


She still doesn't have left overs. She's still here posting that they are hoovering through what she cooks. She is still not making enough!



I think she is making enough and her kids are eating beyond what they need because the food is delicious. It sounds like she is making about a lb of food per person and one of those people is a toddler. Geez. Leave her alone about the leftovers. They are not ordering pizza after dinner and I believe that was the goal.


I know, what's with the pp's on here that keep trying to insult op? Acting like they know everything and she knows nothing. So strange.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2015 19:20     Subject: I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"An entire bag of spinach" is enough for 2 people. Look at the back of the bag if you don't believe me. Those bags say 2.5 servings.



It depends on the size of the bag but really, 2lbs of pasta, 3lbs of sausage, and a bag of spinach should be enough for 6 people since 2 of them are little kids! OP was not feeding her kids enough before but she is doing fine now. Leave her alone.


She still doesn't have left overs. She's still here posting that they are hoovering through what she cooks. She is still not making enough!



I think she is making enough and her kids are eating beyond what they need because the food is delicious. It sounds like she is making about a lb of food per person and one of those people is a toddler. Geez. Leave her alone about the leftovers. They are not ordering pizza after dinner and I believe that was the goal.