One of the toughest things I did not get prepared for when signing up as a Mother, was to feed 5 members of a household a complete, balanced meal within their dietary requirements and tailor-made to their needs on a daily basis.
I am feeling overwhelmed by this job that was suppose to be one of my “happy, homelife” roles I took on many moons ago.
If I could invest in “something” or a “somebody” – that would be to find a person that would look at each family member’s body type, level of activity, age, needs, deficiencies and design a meal plan for him/ her.
Then to go buy the groceries, read the food labels, source good, quality products/ produce at reasonable prices without generating loads of waste for not using items within their fresh period.
Furthermore, to cook and prepare those meals EVERY meal, including the snacks and lunchpacks that need to go to school. To serve the recommend serving sizes and types of food that each person need to consider eating.
That, to me would be one of the biggest stressors in my life taken care of.
This blanket style cooking and coming up with dishes EVERY SINGLE mealtime, is KILLING me ! And hence, inconsistency and laziness and uninformed decisionmaking is definitely resulting in compromises of family members eating what others need, not eating things put in front of them, complaining about meals that were cooked out of neccessity or not prepared in the healthiest way.
It’s just exhausting to have this burden, guilt and heavy load on my shoulders. I am not doing a good job of it either. Everybody’s health is probably suffering as a result and it is just one of those tedious, extremely detailled exercises in life that you need to either try to pursue even though you will probably always feel that you are coming short.
Just sayin’.
