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It’s Friday afternoon and you just heard that out-of-town friends are popping in for a visit at the dinner hour. You can certainly take them out for a meal but that can get expensive. Maybe you have a new kitchen gadget you really want to try out or you want to introduce your guests to Continue Reading

As a busy parent, there is little time in your life to make a lavish dinner for the whole family. Still, everyone has to eat eventually. If you’ve had a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is to run around a hot kitchen putting together a three course meal.

It’s Friday afternoon and you just heard that out-of-town friends are popping in for a visit at the dinner hour. You can certainly take them out for a meal but that can get expensive. Maybe you have a new kitchen gadget you really want to try out or you want to introduce your guests to local foods. If you’re not the sort of cook who has a spare casserole in the freezer just waiting to be baked, try some of these ideas next time you entertain on the fly.

We have a few rules in our house as it relates to dinner.  The first is that you give everything a try because chances are, you’ll like it.  The second is the 5 bite rule – when you say you are full, if there is still food on your plate you have to take 5 more bites of whatever contains the most protein and/or vitamins.  We’ve become a little more lenient these days with rule #2. 

I have a complaint as it relates to cooking and that is that I HATE it!  I believe it’s because of this aversion that I’ve always found it difficult and even stressful some weeks to plan my family’s dinner menu. 

Not only is it a challenge to make sure I’m focusing on something that will be healthy enough for my ADHD/Autistic son, but working around our schedules now that one if not both boys have something related to baseball every evening makes the situation that much more difficult – not to mention agreeing on something that is acceptable to all four of us. 

But thanks to a few friends who have been at the SAHM thing longer than I have, I have recently found a few ideas that so far are helping me get more organized as well as saving me time and frustration. 

If you have never been to a Low Country Boil party, then you are definitely missing out. The meal really is simple to make, and it can be done indoors on the stove, but it is traditionally an outdoor meal.