How to cook the evening meal

1. Engage brain & realise that the fussy 6 year old will not eat the planned meal of stir fried chicken, onions & mushrooms in cajun sauce and rice, as she won't eat anything at all in that list.
2. Plan 2 stage meal of fishfingers, home made Jamie Oliver recipe potato wedges & baked beans for the children & the original meal later on for the adults.
3. Children are hungry RIGHT NOW, so subsitute home-made wedges for oven chips (am running late as was having too much fun racing wind up snails from a Cbeebies comic)
4. Open freezer, realise that are no oven chips. Curse husband who must have used up the packet & not written them on the shopping list.
5. Explore freezer & find opened pack of alphabet shaped potato things that neither child actually likes.
6. Cook them & keep quiet about it.
7. Substitute dora shaped pasta for the 3 year old as she apparently no longer likes baked beans. This is my fault, for feeding her reduced sugar & salt beans last week, that were apparently yuck. She is the non-fussy child too.
8. 3 year old also apprently no longer likes fish fingers, give extra one to 6 year old.
9. Sit with children & mainline coffee.
10. Realise it's the PTFA meeting in an hour & that a shower would be useful & a change of clothes as being covered in dog fur & cake mix isn't a good look.
11. Decide (unwisely) to save time by leaving children unsupervised to finish their dinner.
12. Come downstairs to ketchup on the table & no beans or pasta shapes having been eaten as they are all apparently yuck
13. Feed left over fish fingers to the dog. Throw all but 2 un-eaten alphabet shaped potato things in the bin. Each child has possibly eaten one, but says they want them again as they spent a happy 20 minutes or so writing words on the table with them.
14. Cook second meal & realise that socks are sticking to the kitchen floor, so a sweep through is needed.
15. Add it to the Giant Doom List of Things To Do.
16. Eat.