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s/o dinners... if your dh works opposite you

kel716kel716 member
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The next few weeks are a bit crazier in my house and dh and I are pretty much working opposite of each other.  In other words, family dinners are going to be an impossibility unless I eat after my bedtime. 

Anyways, if you works days and your dh works in the evenings, what kinds of dinners do you make?  We're used to this 1-2 nights/week, but the next few weeks it's more like 3-4 nights/week.  Usually during weeks like this I just make a pasta bake that yields 4+ meals (2 nights for me and 2 nights for DH), or I bake some ready to go chicken and pair it with a baked potato and a few veggies.  This way I can eat at a semi-normal time and dh can eat when he gets home.  DS rarely eats what I make so I don't necessarily need toddler friendly ideas.    

So I'm in search of some other ideas that are things made easily (I really don't like to cook that much), fairly healthy, and yield foods that can be reheated easily without losing their taste. 

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  • kmn3kmn3 member
    My DH works until 9 most nights, so we don't eat together but 3 nights a week.  I make a lot of what you've mentioned:  chicken, pasta, etc.  I make a lot of frozen skillet meals too and tacos.
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  • sistrkatesistrkate

    I love this chicken enchilada recipe.  I am not much of a cook, but this is fairly easy to make, especially if you cook the chicken ahead of time.  I sub fat-free sour cream and fat-free cream of chicken soup when I make it, and sometimes I use the low-fat shredded cheese too.  It is yummy and reheats very nicely.  Lots of flavor.

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    oh, and I usually skip the tomato and green onion it calls for.  Tastes fine without it, we are just not fans.

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  • adamsbabbleadamsbabble member
    This was our situation when we were newlyweds.  On days that I worked in the evening, I would make dinner in the morning and then I would plate it for each of us (for me to take to work and for him to reheat in the evening).  Some of the things I remember taking to work for dinner were chicken chili, enchiladas, Thai peanut chicken over rice and slowercooker lasagna (only takes about 3-4 hours so I didn't have to leave it on).  I think "saucey" things reheat well.  If things would fall through, there is always frozen pizza, frozen burritos and stuff to make grilled cheese & soup.
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  • hav2runhav2run
    This happens to us quite a bit.  We love crock pot recipes.  DD and I can eat, but the same dinner can sit in the crock pot on warm until DH is home and can get his.  There are always leftovers to be frozen for another day.  We also like the pre-prepared meals from Sams Club or Costco (in their meat dept coolers).  I buy a few when I go there and freeze them until the day before.  We have never had one we don't like.  I am planning to buy a larger freezer so I can prepare large batches of freezer meals from the recipe book I have.  Much cheaper than buying them individually.
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  • buckeyethorbuckeyethor

    big pot of soup

    pasta bakes

    salads with chicken

    sandwiches or hoagies

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