The 5 second dinner

One of the best things anyone ever told us when I were pregnant was to stock the freezer with as many meals as possible before you pop the kid out. This was so key to our survival in the first few weeks - it totally saved us! It is impossible to believe how a little being can monopolize your day in such that you basically feed them, clothe them and then burp them and by this time it is 4 pm...WTF? So when you make a meal while prego, make enough for 6 meals and freeze the rest...done like dinner.

The other thing is that really and honestly, those meals that are so nicely prepared are to be ingested in 5 seconds flat. Hmmm, strange fact but much to my dismay and surprise, Finn didn’t like to sit in his bouncer chair for more then 10 minutes...imagine that. This makes it pretty hard to have a nice meal with your hubby let alone time for you to actually eat lunch or breakfast during the day. I can’t even count how many times I shoved a muffin in my trap over the sink while balancing Finn in the other, crumbs flying and Finn winging himself in my face.


Around 2 or 3 months it got easier to co-ordinate a happy fed baby right before we ate...but many times we still sit there during dinner holding a soother in Finn’s mouth while we tried to feed ourselves. So now we have the pleasure of having a nice and relaxing 10 second meal - hoo ray!