Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
We sit down on a weekend morning, agree on dinners for the week, and then shop. If we eat the same old stuff, it’s because we planned on it and leftovers get included in the plan or frozen. I do 75% of the cooking and 90% of the cleanup and I can improvise pretty well, but I like to know what I’m doing that night. Tonight is a sort of a Niçoise salad.
It generally falls to me to plan the dinners and to cook them - my wife isn't terribly good in either of those capacities. I get downright frustrated with her in the kitchen - she just doesn't know how to move around in one and she's always getting in the way when she tries to help. I don't think that having two kids at home full-time during the summer is helping much in terms of variety, either. I've been itching to try new stuff but it's hard to scrape together the time and energy to think of meals, research recipes/ingredients and then get them on the table.