09.16.2022 - By Kate Wang, Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park
Did you know that you have to feed kids (and adults) every day? Multiple times a day, it turns out. And each meal made at home involves some sort of plan, grocery shopping, prep (washing, chopping, measuring, mixing), cooking and clean up. Though it might have been a hobby or an afterthought in pre-kid life, the logistics around feeding the family becomes a whole system of tasks in and of itself post-kids. 75% of American women report being their household's primary food preparer and they spend an average of 1 hour per day just making and cleaning up the food, which doesn't include grocery shopping, meal planning and cleaning out the fridge. If you have a full-time job, that's 12% of your outside-of-home work, non-sleeping hours. So realistically, how does this work? The three of us lay out the current realities of managing the feeding of our families, day in and day out.