When one parent feeds all

There is a job in many households that rarely appears on any to-do list, yet consumes hours of thinking every day: figuring out what everyone will eat.

- TDG NETWORK

Not just cooking — but planning, shopping, budgeting, timing, remembering preferences, anticipating tantrums, managing nutrition guilt, tracking tiffin snacks, and ensuring there is always something available when hunger strikes.In internet language, this person is now being called the “food parent.” The phrase has traction because it puts a name to what families have long experienced: feeding a household is not a single task, but a continuous chain of visible work and invisible thinking.