Thursday, May 07, 2009

this may sound stupid, but...

...I have no idea what I have cooked for dinner for, like, the last 20 years.

What's up with that? It's like every time I sit down to make a menu, I'm reinventing the wheel. If you calculate it (here, let me) that's something in the neighborhood of 6000 times I've made dinner...subtracting around 1300 for the times I just threw my hands up and ordered something. Or let the kids just have cereal. Or tried to trick them that their after school snack was actually dinner. Or the times after I had a baby and someone else brought us dinner. Or the times when someone was actually insane, I mean, nice enough to invite our family over for dinner.

Umm, yeah...you see what I'm getting at. That's a lot of foodage.


And yet, as I sit down here (AGAIN) to make this month's menu...stumped. I have a vague recollection of some sort of pasta thing...and maybe hamburgers. But beyond that, I've got nothing.

6 comments:

Awesome Mom said...

Let me know when you figure that out. I am mystified too.

Catherine said...

I totally agree! Sometimes I am so proud that for a month straight, I've hardly repeated a meal. Then I look back and can't think of more than one that I made.

Living My Dream said...

That would seem to be a very typical problem at my house too... how can it be that we have had spaghetti 4 times this week? Who's lying? And really, what's wrong with spaghetti 4 times in a week... sometimes I add mushrooms nad sometimes I don't... that should count for something!

Mean Mommy said...

Seriously.

Kara said...

I'm with you..... I have started requiring each family member to contribute three meal ideas. IT does make for some repetition but at least I don't have to come up with everything!

Beth said...

I thought I was the only mom to say didn't we eat dinner already? (referring to the after school snack.) Mike made the mistake to tell me it did not matter what we ate, so of course when I fix Dinty Moore stew on rice I throw that comment right back into his face.