Extra curriculars....

Extra curricular activities mean NO EXTRA TIME! With soccer and dance in full swing now we have no free time. I shouldn't say NO free time b/c there is a little bit of downtime but I dont have time to cook a real meal on these days and I dont know why but I have mommy/wife guilt over this. Mondays are our free night so I make a meal and we eat at the table together on Mondays. I really believe in eating together as a family at the table as much as possible. Tuesdays we have soccer and dance and the timing just doesn't work for me to make a meal. It's grab and go and we aren't eating together because one kid has to eat before soccer while the other is still at dance and then she eats when we pick her up and while he's at soccer. If I feed them both before they would be eating dinner at 4:30pm or if we eat after we would be eating at 8:30pm and then still be trying to have time for showers and be in bed at a "normal" time! Wednesdays are our church night so we usually can eat something I make if it's fast but even then if I cook the hubs isn't usually home early enough to eat with us. We have been starting to meet him to eat somewhere before church so that's a good compromise. Thursdays we are back to the soccer/dance issue. Fridays are free days!!! We usually go out to eat on Fridays but when it gets into winter more we stay in a little more frequently during the weekends! So, now that you know our entire dinner hour schedule that you could careless about- what do you do for the time you have to make a quick meal? I am in a recipe rut and would LOVE more fast easy ideas. We dont eat fancy around here b/c even if I wanted to spend hours making dinner my kids wouldn't eat anything fancier than say, lasagna ? haha!