Supposing we lone parents have a kind of mumsnet community thing where we create a weekly menu for dcs/ourselves that is good healthy and cheap etc and take it in turns to devise the menu and another one of us does it the next weeketc.
Only I find my bloody shoppping bill is ridiculous and I only have one dc and yet I cater for too many scenarios and its depressing, difficult, expensive and takes up brain time I could be using to open wine with.
So, for example, supposing it's my week this week: My ds is 20 months:
The dc/s this age among us have:
Monday: sausage cut thinly, with half can of baked beans, one slice of toast, half a banana, half an apple, few dried raisins, semi skimmed milk to drink and for afters: angel delight (half packet) with milk etc.
Tuesday: rest of small can of baked beans with grated cheese, small pitta, two slices of salami or ham, banana, rest of angel delight.
Wednesday: salami or ham in pitta bread cut up into thin slices, with grated cheese inside. Half small tin of peach halves with creme fraiche for pudding ( mashed). Apple bits , milk to drink, large wagon wheel [special treat. Mum eats half]
Thursday: mash up the rest of peach halves with the bits of left over cut up banana for a smoothie type drink, put rest of ham and some more grated cheese on bread then toast it under grill for mains. Put marmite in it too and hide it if dc doesn't like it.
....that kind of thing? And we follow the same recipe and sort of evolve it a bit sop that we have food ideas and shop more cheaply as a result?
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Might it work? If we had some regular contributors who are actually alright at coming up with food ideas??? I am food-blind.
Its amazing my ds is able to stand up in fact.