Share your tips for ways to stress less with HelloFresh - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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Modern family life can be very busy - and this might mean that otherwise simple tasks like thinking about what to have for dinner or getting out of the door in the morning can become overwhelming or stressful. HelloFresh would like to hear about the tips you have for stressing less, whether this is in the kitchen or elsewhere in your family life.

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Do you have tips that mean sitting down to a family dinner in the evening is an enjoyable rather than hectic experience? Perhaps you’re a pro at making tiny changes to meals so that fussy eaters are catered for? Do you and your family cook together to reduce the stress of preparing an evening meal? Maybe you ensure you’re making time for ‘me-time’ every day so that you can wind down?

Share the ways you #StressLess with HelloFresh below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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We try to cook an extra nights food when cooking. And either have that meal again the next night or freeze for another night. It means in theory we only spend half the amount of time cooking that we need to

Like everyone else, I meal plan and I have no stress. Meal choices depend on what else is going on, so for example on a day where we have more time, the meal might be something that takes a bit longer to cook. On busy nights, its quick meals or meals which i can make while working from home and re-heat in the evening.

We meal plan so do one big shop at the weekend plus maybe one top up shop in the week. We also have our milk delivered every other day which is a god send and one less thing to worry about!

We have set meals for each day of the week, with a good variety of food and based on our weekly schedule. It makes planning and shopping a lot cheaper and easier

Preparing and cooking the meal altogether helps to stress less as everyone seems to enjoy the meal better

I make sure I keep a big 'to do' list handy, so I can add things they come into my head. I also make sure I regularly read through it to tick off what I've done and remind myself of any priorities. I second meal planning too. It definitely saves money and takes the stress out of deciding what to eat each day.

We meal plan in advance and I have favourites stored in my online shop. Makes it less stressful for me!

I meal plan. I do one weekly online food order and then do smaller top up shops in the week as I prefer to choose meat and fruit in person rather than online.

Depending on the meal plan I try to do as much preparation in advance as I can so that the actual cooking is quick. So I might chop up enough onions, peppers, garlic, mushrooms etc to last for 2 or 3 days meals. Or I might grate enough cheese to last a week. I also try to cook one new recipe a week (usually at the weekend) to increase what the kids will eat and if successful I'm more likely to do it during the week.

I love batch cooking so I can freeze some nutritious meals and whip them out in the midle of the week. Which means I only cook from scratch a few times a week days #StressLess

Most weekday meals are batch-cooked stuff from the freezer so there isn't a huge amount of effort involved apart from doing rice, potatoes or veg. I usually make sure that DS is in the kitchen drawing or playing with a toy while I'm preparing dinner and clearing up the kitchen so it means we have lots of time to chat and be together rather than me rushing around while he's on his own before and after dinner.

Weekends we always eat breakfast at the table and have something nice like pancakes or fry up, because it feels like a little celebration that we are all together for the next two days.

I've definitely started to treat mealtimes as more of an occasion rather than something to be resented and got out of the way as quickly as possible. It sounds strange but the more time I spend cooking the less stressed I am; if I've had a crap day I'll happily spend 30 minutes cooking a nice meal whereas previously I'd have settled for beans on toast.

We do the usual batch cooking, but we also switch things up. So one day in the week, we'll have a cook off and the kids pick their teams and put their chefs hats on. It's really funny and the food ends up being delicious.

Single mum of two here.

A couple of times a week, I will have my dinner before the children. Alone in the dining room, reading my book, whilst they watch a film.
Then o serve up their donner, but still sit with them so we talk.

It feels like a bit of a treat tbh, me time.

We always sit down at a table and absolutely no electronics whatsoever. Simple but effective for encouraging talk.