Cooking from scratch only

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So I'm a stay at home mom with three boys (4, 2, and 2 months.) I am just trying to grasp happy moments with the exhaustion I'm feeling right now this holiday season. I'm looking for some perspective if I'm being unreasonable or if this is more manageable then I'm guessing.

I make at least one meal from scratch a day. My family doesn't eat out. Also husband doesn't know how to cook basic things at all. He has been asking me to throw out any processed foods and make everything from scratch. He knows I can cook anything so it isn't a skill issue. I told him I can't do that. The kids will have cereal a couple times a week and I will not make everything from scratch. The time it takes to do that to shop cook and clean I just don't have. My kids are pretty good eaters but to say they have to give up apple sauce pouches, Cheerios, Graham crackers, and anything convinced food like Perdue chicken nuggets I just cannot get behind.

He is upset I'm not even going to try. I told him he works too much and I'm not spending every second of my day planning food. I exclusively breastfeeding so I'm still up all night and day with a newborn plus feeding three meals a day to our family and the endless snacks. I'm the one who does all the shopping cooking and cleaning I cannot agree to making everything from scratch. It is more then I can handle right now.

I don't disagree with there is probably bad things we consume everyday even things that I probably think are healthy for our kids. I just can't cook everything from scratch all day. For instance tonight I made pork and cabbage super healthy and all from scratch. Tomorrow I'm making a beef stew. I just feel with his crazy 60 hour week work schedule and me the primary parent who is doing it all with three kids I just can't do what he's asking. Also our kids eat healthy foods they are healthy brilliant children. Their pediatrician always thinks they are so advanced both in height and language wise. They are super intelligent so what we are doing isn't hindering them. I just for my sanity cannot be the only person making food for our family from scratch everyday.

Does anyone do this? Is it easier then I'm thinking? How do you have time to do anything else? Let me know as it's ten pm here and I need to go do dishes and take a shower before my baby wakes back up again. All while my husband is sleeping away already. It just doesn't seem possible right now without less sleep and my own sanity.

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