4 people’s worth of breakfast, 2 kids lunchboxes plus extra pieces and usually 2 packed adult lunches plus dinner dishes during the week. I’m a little militant and won’t buy stuff that can’t go in the dishwasher. Weekends have meal prep and usually bigger meals as well.

Keeping up with thanksgiving today we are on our third load, and will probably fire off the 4th before bed. When the 20 year old dishwasher bit the dust a few years ago we were sure to get one with a third deck for little stuff. If you don’t have kids it’s hard to fathom how many things they can use in a day.