January 9, 2025

You’ll Never Get Off the Dinner Treadmill

I feel this.

As the person in our household most often tasked with meal planning and prep, this article could not be more true. I have tried meal planning and some of the other tricks, but it just keeps coming. We have not tried meal prep services, as the portions seem too small and too expensive in my opinion. And I actually LIKE to cook!

Figuring out what to eat is a pleasure until it becomes a constant low-grade grind. It’s not just the cooking that wears me down, but the meal planning and the grocery shopping and the soon-to-be-rotting produce sitting in my fridge. It is the time it sucks up during the week. It is the endless mental energy.