As a busy working mum, providing home cooked food for my family was truly a BIG challenge. Being not able to cook for my kids all the time, I started looking out for alternatives such as getting "Surrogate Mums". ;-)
"Surrogate Mum" alternatives that I've used are:-
a) Getting my neighbor to cook for my family - didn't last long as neighbor ran out of idea on what to cook for me and decided to stop the "service" after 1 year
b) Getting my neighbor to cook for my schooling kid - she helped me fetch my kid back from school and provided dinner to him too. Her family were vegetarian (thank goodness my kid was not fussy) and this arrangement lasted for 2 years!
c) Getting the day care nursery to also provide dinner for my kid - some day cares provide this service. Put this as one of the criteria to look out for.
d) Look for school kids day care - my kid currently goes for tuition at a teacher's house in the morning. She provides him with home cooked food after tuition and then fetches him to school.
One last best option would be to cook simple dinner dishes after work for the whole family - this is what I currenlty do. I've successfully cooked 2 dishes a day (1 meat, 1 green vegetables) simple meal for 3 months consecutively now...Some suggestions are:- steam fish, steam chicken, steam minced pork, soya chicken, potatoes with carrot and minced meat, spaghetti PLUS selection of various green vegetables (fried with little oil/poached). Remember to use only fresh ingredients, where possible. Use less canned/preserved/dried ingredients.
Happy to share that my kids has no problem eating green leavy vegetables. I remember hating these when I was young!
