We’ve been trying out a new way to do school lunches. For years, Matt or I would decide what to pack for the boys. The boys would get the same lunches as each other. When I was in the thick haze of launching an organization, the boys and I used to make all of their meals on Sunday.

But our old system was making everyone feel pretty blah—myself included!

So we decided to test out a new way to do school lunches.

We started by making a list of several different options in several different categories:

• Protein
• Vegetable
• Fruit
• Carbohydrate
• Dairy
• Extra Snacks

Every Friday morning, I ask the … Read More

I was so sick and tired of my family complaining about our dinners. I had to come up with a new way to do dinner!

It’s so demoralizing to spend time meal planning and meal preparing only to have everyone hate what you’ve made. We are working on training the boys to simply say, “Thank you for cooking!” when they don’t like a meal rather than saying they don’t like a meal.

But still. It’s obvious they don’t like what I cook!

Luckily, we eat out twice a week (on Friday night and Saturday nights), so I only have to worry about five meals rather than seven.

I say “I” … Read More