[Beppie]

Our family eats dinner as a sit-down-around-the-table meal, all 7 days of the week. When I'm feeling normal (not nauseated!) I'm the cook for those meals (DH takes over some on the weekends). However, these days my menu is extremely limited due to the morning (evening) sickness.

I was just curious, for those other mamas who are the usual family cooks, what are you doing these days for family suppers? Is the rest of the family eating something that DH makes, or are you still managing to put food on the table? If you do put food on the table, what things are you managing to eat? I'm running out of ideas, just looking to hear what others are doing! thanks!

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[Shell_Ell]

We are seriously scrounging. We also eat dinner together 7 nights a week, and always home cooked as our oldest son has many food restrictions. At least a few nights a week DH has been giving the kids leftovers or throwing together random things while he and I eat separately. I cannot be in the kitchen at all... I cook the kids breakfast and lunch and it's enough.

 

[ShwarmaQueen]

I'm doing a lot of "meal in a bag" frozen dishes and beans, which go for 2 nights. Most of the time, I don't have an appetite so I don't eat at night, but DH and DD still gotta eat and DH can't do it right now (he's graduating in 4 wks- MAJOR STUDYING)...

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[stargazinmama2]

ohhh....I need ideas too. Nothing sounds good ever, but I am always starving! I am also having a very hard time with lunch. That is when I majorly scrounge (and eat crappy

). Here's what we have had lately:

chicken tacos (have cooked chicken already in freezer/shredded, so I just put it in a bowl and add salsa to my liking, throw on tortillas, with sour cream lettuce, cheese--YUM and easy) usually I make the chicken (with salsa on top) in the crockpot and then shred. Thank god I had meat cooked already so I don't have to smell it cooking!!

chicken and noodles
roast beef (crock pot)
beef and noodles
homemade pizza (crust is either bagels, english muffins, pitas, or french bread)
spaghetti
baked potato
mashed potato
cauliflower and cheese (this is my current and only half craving

)
and sorry, fruits and veggies (esp salad!) just aren't doing it for me right now--altho fruits are looking better (I have been eating bananas and clementines--oh oh oh, and sour green apples

)

really bland stuff only sounds good...I just told dh today that we need to make a list of 20 things that sound good, and then maybe I will be able to pick 1 for that day. I am really struggling with this!! And ms is getting better, but is still there, so smells gross me out (even when the food tastes good).

 

[crunchy_mama]

We have sit down home-cooked meals here as well. I had one really bad week, but other than that I am surviving. I have been tired and do have aversions- however I have been making meals pretty much every night. I just make whatever I am craving for that day= so it is real sporadic right now! Last week it was asian- rice noodles, rice- and chicken-various thai versions 4 nights in a row. Homemade pizza- having that tonight and made it Friday as well. Saturday I did mexi- rice w/ beef- pretty simple recipe from allrecipes. I haven't been eating a ton of veggies either- well just what sounds good at the moment I had a few days in which I ate like 4 heads of romaine. Oh- week before last I was on a chili kick so we had that a few days in a row. Today for lunch I made chicken and wild rice. Last night was scrounge from Easter leftovers. Now I have way behind on laundry though- poor dh had to wear a pair of dirty jeans to church Easter Sunday- but I did get that caught up yesterday! Food is my first priority- so the house may be a mess- but hopefully we are keeping food in the belly. Oh- I tried that week I felt like crap to do some convenience foods but w/ food intolerances it is way hard and after being so accustomed to real whole foods it made me feel so much worse!

 

[shakenbake]

ive been sooooo bad 5 days a week i cook dinner we all sit down but easter was the ONLY day i cooked for real other then that its p &j for the boys and my hubby finds something i have been craving arbys NONE STOP and i dont even like arbys! but ive had it 3 times this past week and now im eating this cracker recipe my grand mother used to make for me when i was younge its SOOOOOO yummy! its oyster crackers ranch dressing powder dill weed and a bit of oil to help it stick OMG its so yummy i might live on ti for 7months hehe

 

[dynogirl]

well, i'm just switching from working nights to days and i am so looking forward to sit down dinners with my sweet boys again. thing is, i don't really have morning sickness, i have major afternoon/evening sickness. and by the time the day is done i've been on my feet all day and i am exhausted. the things i'm really longing to make though are:

lasagna
baked ziti
chicken and rice
soup of any kind....mmmm....i love soup or stewp (stew/soup)
SUBWAY
SUBWAY
SUBWAY

umm...did i mention i'm craving subway?

 

[JohannaInDairyland]

It's just dh and I until the babe arrives - but we eat together every night, unless I have a work commitment, and we tend to split cooking 50/50 (ordering in or eating out once a week as a treat). He took over much more when my nausea peaked (it's gotten MUCH better recently), and since he's quite a good cook, I enjoyed myself.

He's also happily deferring to my current needs/tastes in meal planning.

I've noticed that when I cook, I'm much happier with milder foods, as well as vegetable proteins. A particular favorite has been spaghetti alla ceci from one of Rachel Ray's cook books. The sauce is tomato and chick pea based, and we serve it over whole wheat spaghetti.

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The only thing I can't stand to cook right now is meat, but I never cook it anyway - if dh wants it, he cooks it!

 

[notjustmamie]

We eat dinner together 3-4 nights a week because DH works evenings. For those meals he won't be home, I make a list of meals and he'll do the prep work--mostly chopping veggies, thawing/searing the meat, cooking brown rice, that sort of thing. Then all I have to do is a quick stir-fry or stick a casserole in the oven and dinner is done.

This last week we had chicken fajitas, spinach pizza, vegetarian chili, and a beef-rice casserole. On the menu for this week is more pizza (I love pizza so we have it at least once a week), broccoli-cheddar soup, mini hamburgers with oven fries, and an egg casserole.