Cooking elaborate meals just isn’t happening for me. The best I can do some days is scroll through recipes and hope something magically sounds appealing. Most of the time, it doesn’t 😩. I keep looking, though, because optimism dies hard.
Because of that, my life in the kitchen revolves around ease, convenience, and being as healthy as reasonably possible. I know I’m not alone in this.
I wake up with the best intentions: plan dinner, remain motivated. I’m convinced tonight will be the night I cook something impressive. Then I get home after a mentally exhausting day at school, and suddenly the idea of making dinner feels impossible 🥱. For the kids, I’ll always make something happen, but the classic meat, potatoes, and vegetables dinners I grew up with? Those are rare visitors now.
What does amaze me is how many meal conveniences we have today compared to when I was a kid. And honestly, I’m grateful for every single one. My favorite is eMeals. (Read my post about this awesome app.)
Am I peeling ten potatoes, boiling them, and mashing them from scratch? 🥔
Absolutely not.
I’m buying Bob Evans refrigerated mashed potatoes and moving on with my life. My time has value too.
That’s why you’ll notice most of my posts focus on convenience cooking and realistic meal shortcuts. Why bake a homemade coffee cake when Krusteaz makes one that’s easier and tastes better? Maybe someday, when I’m retired and the kids are grown, I’ll feel inspired to spend hours in the kitchen 🌟.
But today?
Today, I’m choosing solutions that make dinner doable.
And I’m done feeling guilty about that 👉 maybe forever.
