First, I gotta feed my kids and several nights a week, I'm not getting home from work until well after 10 PM. If I don't plan something for the kids to eat, they're eating junk food. I need ideas that I can either prepare for them the night before for them to heat up, or budget easy meals that are healthy and tasty to suggest for them to fix themselves...etc.

Wednesdays are "Wacky Wednesday" at Hungry Howie's Pizza (Large Pizza picked up is $5) and so we usually eat that together LATE. Dinner seems to be getting LATER & LATER at our house and ain't no homemade meals. Geeze, I really need to guide the kids to eat something themselves if I'm not around or their father isn't around for meal time.

Second, A typical day for me is teaching at 8 in the morning until after noon, then I work at the City from 1 to 5 PM and have to quick drive back to the campus to teach a night class going from 6-10 PM. I've been eating whatever I remember to stick in my purse to bring--bananas, yogurt, power bars and such. There's no time to SIT and EAT someplace. I've picked up $1 cheeseburgers at McDonalds to grab on the run. Usually, I end up getting something unhealthy from the snack machine at school -- caffeine and maybe a bag of mixed nuts or pretzels. It is difficult, at best, to get something in me to keep me going. I am getting dragged down, collapsing in bed at night and need to probably find a food routine which will energize and consistently keep my system in balance.