Eating the American Way
Not much time to cook or eat when you're sitting at the fields.
I’ve more or less solved this week’s cooking dilemma. With a combination of advance prep and eating on the fly, we certainly won’t be starving this week. Last night Joe, Annie and I ate an early pasta dinner before I took Louisa to soccer tryouts. Since Louisa doesn’t eat before playing a game, practices, or tryouts, I saved her a plate for when we finally returned home at 8:15. However, she was too wound up from the running to eat her dinner, so we cobbled together a healthy trail mix for her instead.
Tonight I’ll simply grill chops with a side salad for dinner and Annie and I will eat before I leave again with Louisa. Joe and Louisa will eat, whenever. Tomorrow night I’ll prepare a salad and its components, and refrigerate it for us to eat when we return from the softball game at 8:15. And so the week will continue in this planned, haphazard way.
I really hate living like this, and I’m just glad that our schedules aren’t always so overcommitted. It doesn’t make for a good dinner experience for anyone, and it’s terrible for family togetherness. I hope that next week things will return to our version of normal.
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