If you're a full time mom who hates to cook, what do your kids eat?

Cooking healthy doesn't have to be tough. I follow a pretty strict rule - no more than 30 minutes, no more than 2 pots. I suck at "timing" mains and side dishes to be ready at the same time, so I don't do that. I generally make things to go over things (stir fry over brown rice, pasta sauce over whole wheat pasta, curry over brown rice). I also make a lot of quesadillas (it's basically a grilled sandwich - so easy). I make big batches of things and eat them for a couple of days. If you can chop and stir, you can cook.

What has absolutely saved me are the frozen organic brown rice packages from Trader Joe's. Perfect, delicious, brown rice, ready in 3 minutes without any messy rice pots to scrub.

Tonight, I made green curry with coconut sauce over brown rice, took about 20 minutes. I bought the canned green curry paste, lite coconut milk and stir fried it in a wok with 1 sliced red pepper, grated fresh ginger, jarred garlic, 1 small sliced red onion, handful of shitake mushrooms, one cut up broccoli crown, 1 can of baby corn, 1 can of water chestnuts and 1 package of morning star farms "steak" strips. Served over the previously mentioned Trader Joe's rice. Completely healthy meal in less than half an hour, 1 pot. Dinner for a single person for 4 nights. Success!

In my case, same as me...Ruby Tuesday's or Applebees quite often. LOL

In our household (family of 5) we do 4 planned meals and 3 "fend for yourself" nights. During fend for yourself, keep healthier options around. Who said you have to have 1 meat, 2 veggies, and a starch at every meal. Sometimes I have a can of beans. (I tend to eat 3 meals and 2 snacks). I love tuna and wheat crackers (10 limit). Salad makes a dinner. Those are for yourself. My oldest is eating carrots for a snack. He will probably have turkey sausage and cut up cubed cheese for dinner. Meals can be soups, stews, and chilli. It can be baked chicken and 2 veggies. It doesn't have to be complicated.

Yesterday was cinamon toast for breakfast for the baby and I had a breaded egg (which he won't eat). Today I did omlets (with cheese, he'll eat the egg). LOL

Yesterday's lunch was Ruby's turkey burger and fries with the salad bar. He ate off the bar and some of my fries and bits of turkey burger. Today was grilled ham and cheese with watermelon afterwards.

Yesterday's dinner was a can of ravioli with micro'd frozen peas for the baby, and I had a can of soup. Today I grilled fish, micro'd a Lipton whole wheat alfredo packet, grilled and zucchini. We both had that with watermelon afterward.

Plus I've laid out a pack of chicken to thaw and I'll grill it up tomorrow. That will be dinner tomorrow, then will be gone Friday, then finish it up for lunch and dinner Saturday. Have a doctor's appt. midday tomorrow, so will probably just grab something on the way.

We often do lunch out and on the run. I seldom plan. But when I do, I make it cover us a few days.