It’s only Tuesday, and this week’s meal plan has already been rewritten three times. Between leftovers, robotics, housework, Labor Day guests and teenagers treating the kitchen like an all-you-can-eat buffet, we’re aiming for easy dinners and hoping for the best.

We started with a perfectly reasonable meal plan. Then the dogs ate the calzone, a giant quesadilla defeated a teenager, and the leftovers vanished.