So here's the deal. In this household we LOVE to eat out. And I mean loooooooooove.
I have a daughter who for many years had an extreme anxiety towards food (as in she honestly thought most food would hurt her). We've worked very hard on this and we are truly starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, her diet is still pretty limited.
Limited diet = exhausted mommy.
I have a husband who is "picky". He's not your average picky eater. He'll eat ALMOST anything (as long as it's not too vegetably), he just won't eat much of it if it's not really good OR if we just had it (or something similar). I openly blame his mother for this (to which she agrees). The guy hardly ever had to eat leftovers growing up. What's up with that? I remember my mom making a big pot of pinto bean soup with corn bread and we ate on that for days. And it was GOOD.
Cook once to last for several meals = happy mommy, happy budget
My other daughter loves ethnic foods. Shane and I do too. But sometimes mommy's not so good at cooking ethnic foods.
Hearing daughter beg for Indian food = mommy tempted to order delicious Indian food
I like foods with little to no meat. I love the vegetables. Cooked spinach is my favorite. Asparagus is definitely a runner-up. It's not fun cooking vegetables that only one person will eat and watching the rest of it go bad.
no veggies = essential nutrient starved mommy
So basically this all comes back to me. Doesn't it always? I used to love cooking, but not so much anymore. I'm so tired. We eat out way too much and our budget can't take much more of it. I'm thinking of challenging our family not to eat out for an entire month. But before I go and do something like that, I was wondering if any of you guys have any tips on making it easier to not eat out (for when you have one of those days that you want to just scream). I don't care how silly it sounds, if it works for you, I want to hear it!
