If we stay home all weekend, then we can run 3 loads a day! The first one runs overnight, and then we do a load for breakfast/lunch and then one for dinner.

That seems like a lot to me... but the number of dishes (and pans) we use went up by a lot after we stopped using so many processed foods and Mrs. Bee started cooking. I see now why so many people made the switch from cooking natural foods to eating processed food! Sometimes I shake my head in wonder at the amount of work involved in eating natural foods!

Anyway, I'd love some sense of how many dishes other people do. How many times do you run the dishwasher on the weekends?