Hi, all good suggestions above; my contribution would be that as soon as I walk in the door (half the time I don't even put down my briefcase/computer bag) I put the oven on (a nice mid-range temp...350 here in the States) and I put a big pot of water on to boil. By the time I've greeted the assorted kids/animals/husband/visiting family, the water's about to boil or the oven is ready to go, even if I don't know what it is that I'm making. It only saves about 15 minutes, but psychologically, it gets me into the kitchen and then whatever I decide to throw together, I've generally got things ready to take the chicken or pasta or whatever
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saving dinner is the best thing EVER. menu mailer is very affordable (9.95 for 3 months of menus, i think), and Leanne sends you the entire grocery list and recipes.
i did it for 9 months, weeded out the weeks we really didnt like anything in, and reuse, reuse, reuse. even a 3 month subscription would help, and then just recycle menus.
its so easy, because it tells you EVERYTHING to get, including side dishes and things, so you can go through the store VERY quickly, and you buy much less junk.
planning is key? yes. but do i ever want to sit down and do full menus and grocery lists? hell no! this saves me that time.
if you are interested, i can send you a couple of weeks worth of menus to try. its really fun, and im a picky eater, and my husband is a vegetarian, and we like it very much.
You've got some great suggestions already (some of which I might make use of myself), so I'll just add a few ideas I had while reading your situation
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> Second, get your husband in the kitchen with you...
The real problem is that the kitchen is /tiny/, and there's just not enough space for two people to do anything in there. Even one person cooking and one person doing dishes ends up with us getting in each others way all the time. It's really frustrating.
I wondered if that mightn't be part of the problem. Is it possible for one of you to be in there doing something and still carry on a conversation with the other person in the other room? That way, you could trade off kitchen tasks and still be kind of "cooking together."
If not, the radio/CD player might still be a possibility, provided there's counter space for one.
The kitchen has no windows, so extractor fans need to be running anytime there's cooking, which makes talking with other people basically impossible. There's so much noise, that every time I wander in to see if I can help, or whatever, I usually end up nearly giving her a heart attack.
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i did it for 9 months, weeded out the weeks we really didnt like anything in, and reuse, reuse, reuse. even a 3 month subscription would help, and then just recycle menus.
its so easy, because it tells you EVERYTHING to get, including side dishes and things, so you can go through the store VERY quickly, and you buy much less junk.
planning is key? yes. but do i ever want to sit down and do full menus and grocery lists? hell no! this saves me that time.
if you are interested, i can send you a couple of weeks worth of menus to try. its really fun, and im a picky eater, and my husband is a vegetarian, and we like it very much.
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> Second, get your husband in the kitchen with you...
The real problem is that the kitchen is /tiny/, and there's just not enough space for two people to do anything in there. Even one person cooking and one person doing dishes ends up with us getting in each others way all the time. It's really frustrating.
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If not, the radio/CD player might still be a possibility, provided there's counter space for one.
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