MamaK

-BLTs (add avocado) we add salmon lots of times too
-pot sticker bowls (ground pork sautéed with stir fry veggies and soy sauce with garlic over rice)
-bacon broccoli pasta (spaghetti noodles with bacon, broccoli and olive oil, top with Parmesan and red pepper flakes)
-cheeseburgers with a yummy bun (brioche or pretzel) and air fryer French fries

Unpopular (in today’s gentle parenting world) opinion: time outs work wonders. We started doing time outs around 2ish, where I just take my son from whatever bad behavior he’s doing and move him a couple of feet and sit him down and stand near him. They last all of one minute. Gives him and I a break from the behavior. He can cry on the timeout or be mad or whatever but he stays there for the minute until I say okay time to get up and then we just move on. No lecturing through feelings or reflecting on what happened.
A lot of things we do time outs for we never actually get to the time out because I will do the “gentle parenting” technique of naming the feeling, setting the boundary and then saying if you hit mommy again it’s a time out.
Ex: son hits me. I stop him and say it looks like you’re mad that we’re putting these toys back. It’s okay to be mad but it is not okay to hit me. If you hit me again we’re going to have to take a time out”