Hi Kim,

I’m a stay at home mom of 3 kids (6, 9, & 11) and it seems like I’m always driving someone somewhere after school. As a result, I don’t always have the time or energy to put a nice dinner together. Do you have any recipes or meal planners that you would recommend for a busy family?

Sincerely,

Felicia Hates Fast Food

Dear Felicia,

Hahahahahah…um…what?!  Did you really just ask my advice about cooking your family a healthy meal on an almost daily basis?  Bless your heart, that’s sooo precious!

First, I’d like  to say “Welcome!”, as you’re obviously a new reader. And secondly, I hope you’ll stop back again (though it’s highly unlikely, based on the advice I’m about to give you).

Felicia, take a look at my recipe box:

Want to know what all those papers are?  Take-Out menus.  That’s right, almost every recipe in my recipe box has a take-out menu attached to the back.  This comes in handy when you don’t have time to cook, don’t wanna cook, or burn everything you cook. Simply pull out a delicious recipe with your right hand, and dial up dinner with your left. It’s as easy as that!

Once your meal arrives, don’t forget to dirty the appropriate pots and pans because no one needs to know about your “cooking” methods except you and your delivery driver. *tip handsomely, it keeps them loyal.

You have two choices when creating your “recipe box”:

1. Create a bullshit recipe based on the menu item of your choice.  *This usually requires extensive taste testing unless your palate is oddly sensitive. So factor in weight gain.

OR

2. Cut out a recipe then search nearby restaurants for a similar entree.

I usually dip into my recipe box about three times a week, making the other 4 days “Fend for Yourself” nights. After all, I can’t be awesome every night.

However, Felicia, if this type of dishonesty is an affront to your moral & ethical code then 1) I doubt we could be friends and 2) check out my friend Shay at Trashy Blog, she has a fast & cheap recipe section that’s likely to make you laugh until you cry!  I cry a lot.

Good luck!

Kim

P.S. Oh, and you might want to direct all future food and cleaning questions to someone else. I wish I could say who, but “birds of a feather” and all that…