What's your strategy when it comes to dinner?

Question

What's your strategy when it comes to dinner?

Answer 1

COOK SOMETHING SIMPLE EASY AND FAST AND UR FAMILY WILL ENJOY!.

Answer 2

I pick the side dish first - rice, pasta or spuds.  Next, the main course - meat, chicken, fish or meatless.  Lastly, I choose the veggies.  If that fails, grab a take-out menu.

Answer 3

My grocery list starts with a list of dinners for the week.  Then it becomes a list of ingredients for those dinners.  (Minus anything I already have on hand.)

I have a general idea of the order I'll do the meals in, and each evening I'll do any early prep for the next day while working on tonight's meal.  I start the cooking for each night anywhere between four and five pm.  Usually my kids clear and set the table.  Then we all (five or seven, depending on whether the stepkids are here) eat together.

Answer 4

to eat and be full.

Answer 5

The best strategy...is not to have a strategy!  Don't plan, just go with the flow, cook, wash up, end of.  Then sit down!

Answer 6

Plan a menu,  make a shopping list, go to the store, cook dinner, eat and make the boyfriend do the dishes and the cleaning up. Eat leftovers the next day. Rinse and repeat.

Answer 7

quickest but reasonably heathly!no fast food!

Answer 8

1) cook an appetizer

2)Cook main course

3)make delicous desert to wrap it up

unno what im sayin??

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Answer 9

Make something you can use for more than one meal.  An example is chicken:  bake a whole chicken for supper one night, then with the leftovers you can either make chicken salad, or a stir fry, or brown the leftover meat in a pan with an onion and some chili powder and cumin and make burritos.  This way you only have one or two nights a week where you have to spend much time cooking, but you get to eat healthy (and cheaply) all week.

Answer 10

something home cooked and warm cuz if u have something like fast food then nobody will be in on the conversation

Answer 11

potatoes veg and meat

Answer 12

Planning a week ahead and precooking some of the items when time allows.

Answer 13

I generally try to eat it and continue doing so until the plate is clear.

It has worked pretty well so far.

Answer 14

nice restraunt expensive and your boy

Answer 15

Hello:

Well,my daughter is in elementary school and you wouldn't believe the amount of homework that they are expected to do in the second grade,I am not kidding! Anyhoo,at night this is what needs to get done at our house:

Daughter needs to do all of her homework and we have to check it over and sign that we did indeed go over it with her and make sure it was done correctly.

Dinner HAS TO BE quick and easy because I don't have but less than thirty minutes if that to get a complete meal on the table. On some nights we have to do fast food because we just don't have the time to eat at home,especially if we have to go grocery shopping.

Showers for the whole family have to get done before bedtime

Bills need to be read and paid

We need to lay out our clothes for the next day of school and work.

There is laundry to be done,dishes,picking up the house,etc

Our daughter's backpack has to have everything packed into it for the next day of school including her snack and juice for the next day.

We have to pack lunches for work

The list just goes on and on

Answer 16

i plan out meals usually out of a good cookbook, and then the usually favorites, lots of salads etc,,,,you must go with a list i found out if i don't i spend 200 on absolutely nothing,,,,i like to try out different things, let the kids pick and help especially when there healthy meals they'll be so proud they'll eat um,,,that's when I'm lucky enough to see my angels

Answer 17

Eat a little of everything.  Not one part completely then another.  Never drink until you swallow.  Use a napkin...elbows are ok with me!

Answer 18

USUALLY we sit at table and wait to be served and then eat?

why?

Answer 19

with 4 kids and my husband.... good lord just make it fast i have laundry and dishes to get to!

Answer 20

make my husband cook?

Or I will whip something up. I try to shop every two weeks with several meals in mind so I know I will always have all the ingredients needed to whip something up.

Answer 21

First I put it on a plate. Then pick up a fork and jab that into the food. Then use the knife to cut a bit off. Then I put it in my mouth and chew.

It's a good strategy!

Answer 22

cook it and eat it

Answer 23

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Answer 24

Depends on whether it's dinner for one, two or for an entire family. When I was singl, my philosophy was - never cook anything that takes longer to prepare than to eat. So, I'd make a large lasagna, or pot of chili, etc. that I could eat for several days. Cooking for two is different, especially if it's your sweetie and they want to help. Then it becomes an adventure. Cooking for a family - well, that can be a real chore.

Answer 25

to eat it,can't go wrong