A meal service like blue apron, sun basket, green chef, etc. can help a lot by cutting out the need for a lot of shopping. If you have the budget for it, you can probably also find a local personal chef. We had one for a while that came to our house on a set schedule (once a month in our case) and made/froze a TON of meals for us. She did the cooking in our personal kitchen, so she didn’t need a commercial kitchen and everything that goes along with that. We would agree on a menu, she’d shop for everything and cook and portion it all out. It wasn’t nearly as expensive as I thought it would be.

I mean, kind of the entire reason I have a business is so I have flexibility. I’ve hired people in order to get that. Do you have help? What kind of business?

I hired an office administrator, and she keeps the place running along with my two managers. She helps plan the production schedule and pickups/deliveries, can order most of our critical supplies, etc. I still get texts when I’m not physically at the business, but it’s usually so I can order some obscure thing and it takes 5 minutes. When my admin isn’t here I work the normal business hours, but when she is here (not sick or on vacation) I only work like 16ish hours a week.

Edited to add that I have a second grader, so I know what you’re dealing with…

Is getting a raise of 10% a year standard? I worked in finance for 12 years before owning a business and never saw a raise larger than 5% unless it was with a promotion that included more responsibility.