Cooking one dinner a week
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Anonymous
| If AP is eating meals with you she needs a role: prepping, cooking, clearing, washing dishes, whatever. That's part of the family. Otherwise I would just give her money for groceries and keep food separate. After working 50+ hours per week myself, I refuse to wait on our AP! |
Anonymous
Exactly! Find a system. AP cooks 2X per week (easy meals), I cook 3-4 (more complex meals) and we order/go out 1-2X. The meals she preps are mainly for kids the two nights we work late. We more than likely eat on our own but if AP is heating a rotisserie chicken or something we may end up having some when we come home and/or leftovers the next day. I am sure someone will post that I am breaking the "AP can't cook for parents" rule but I'm going to use some common sense here and ask AP to put the whole chicken in th oven vs cutting it in half 
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Anonymous
Instead of cutting it in half.... Bwahahahaha. I'm dying! |
Anonymous
| Well, if you read through this thread and others, some HPs would accuse me of "having AP cook for HP" because I ask her to put the whole chicken (its just a rotisserie chicken from store...nothing to do to it) into the oven and there is a possibility that we may eat some of it. I find that some common sense is lost in this program. |
Anonymous
| Not all families have "kid meals". Our kids eat whT we eat. So all meal prep is for the whole fam. |
Anonymous
| Same here. There are no "kid dinners". So yes, the 2-3 evenings a week that AP heats dinner for kids and herself, there may be enough for my DH and I for later (it's not often...he travels and I end up eating a yogurt or something anyway). Believe me, the stuff she is prepping is so minimal and requires little effort. If she can't throw something on the grill, we have issues |