Working parent(s) of school age children, how often do you have weekday home prepared meals?

Working parent(s) of school age children, how often do you have weekday home prepared meals?
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answer:We have home cooked meals most days. Occasionally we will decide to go out for dinner, but that’s only on nights I’m off of work. Right now, I work and my husband stays home (he’s working on his Master’s Degree), but even when we were both working we always had home cooked meals, unless we were going out for dinner as a special treat. On the nights I work, my husband and son eat before I get home and I get a plate they saved for me when I get home from work. My son eats breakfast at home every morning before going to school and has dinner at home every night. The only meal he doesn’t eat with us is lunch and that’s because he’s at school. Sometimes he’ll eat dinner at a friends house instead of with us and sometimes he has friends that eat with us.
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