Why bother trying to prepare a meal when we're out. I needed to pick up groceries, so I dropped by a Chinese Restaurant and placed my order for four dishes. Chicken, fish, vegetables and fried beef rice noodle. I then drove about five minutes away to pick up some milk and bread for the school lunches tomorrow.

By the time I came back to the restaurant, the food was ready to be picked up. Seven minutes later, we were home and having our lunch. The good thing about these take-out is that there is still leftovers to eat for dinner as well. It was efficient use of my time.