How have my food habits changed since COVID?
We have more food then we ever have and it is making our choices very overwhelming! Our fridge is usually pretty bare and our freezer has uncrustables and ice cream. Our pantry usually has a few staple items but not much.
Neither Alfred or I find cooking to be something that brings us great joy. Most nights we get home after 6 and it is a sprint to get food on the table. Which is why most weeks we use my friends meal prep service to provide our dinners. She is a dietician so she makes nutritious vegetarian meals that are super quick to make. Our lunches and breakfasts are basics that we pick up from going to the grocery every Sunday after church. We eat at the same Mexican restaurant every Wednesday and order pizza every Friday. We are pretty basic.
As a family we eat dinner when a lot of other kids are going to bed. Most nights around 7PM but we always eat as a family. Not around a dinner table but with Alfred and I sitting in the living room eating on tray tables, Kingston sitting at the bar and Beckett at the kitchen table. We always pick a family show to watch and we watch that while we eat.
So how has that changed since COVID. When Alfred heard there was going to be a mandated Stay At Home Order in our County he went to the grocery and stocked up on meat and a ton of non perishables. Because of this and the fact that Alfred works for a food broker allowing us access to a ton of meat we haven't really felt the meat shortage others have felt. One of us still goes to the store once a week to get fresh produce and fill in gaps but at this point the boys just stare at all the food in awe. Kingston said he has a hard time choosing what to eat because he's never all of these choices in his life!
Because I have extra time I don't mind cooking as much as once did and since both of the boys had birthdays in quarantine I have even baked 2 cakes! I'm still working from home so we don't do formal breakfasts and lunch and a lot of times the boys don't eat breakfast until lunch time and then lunch is a mid afternoon snack. Our dinner has gotten even later since we stay up until midnight most nights. We still eat together most nights although lately we've had so many leftovers one of two nights a week we have fend for yourself dinner which is an opportunity to eat left overs or something from the freezer. Meals and snacks are very relaxed with no real schedule since our days have no real schedule.
The weirdest thing to me has been what's not available at the store. Toaster Strudels, waffles, lunch meat, ice cream, frozen potatoes of any kind.
I'm posting a few pics of our current food sitch so when we go back to normal I can remind the boys of that one time we had too many choices.
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