Something similar worked for us, even when the kids were young. Both my wife and I enjoy cooking (side story, when we got kids, I realized that I'd be spending

Something similar worked for us, even when the kids were young. Both my wife and I enjoy cooking (side story, when we got kids, I realized that I'd be spending a lot of time cooking and so I decided to make it an interest of mine since I was going to spend a lot of time doing) and rather than planning what to make everyday we make sure to have interesting ingredients at home and then when it's mealtime we do what we have time for and what we like. When the kids were younger they were also part of the decision, it was a fun chat to have before dinner. This means that when shopping, we try to do a weekly shopping run, we pick up stuff that we think we can make something of and then some weeks we just decide to empty the fridge/freezer of whatever we haven't cooket yet.