OK,how do we do this?

It is easier to say we will cook a good meal every night than it is to do it.  The number one task of good cooking ,on a tight schedule, is to decide what to make.Some moms plan a whole week of menus and then shop a week ahead of time for the ingredients they  will need. I was more of a real time cook.I would keep a variety of things on hand and decide the night before what to make for dinner.My motto was always KISM ! Keep it simple Mom.Meat/poultry, starch,vegetable, and fruit .All in under an hour.The main task was to have something defrosted when I got home.Without that dinner was doomed.I would have to run to the store and that blew my schedule away. It was always possible to defrost in the microwave,but believe me,I wasn't going to get a good cooker award if I did that. There are very few things that get cooked in a microwave that taste good.They are usually rubbery in texture and robbed of all flavor.  Tomorrow we will start to exchange some other tips for "good cookers"