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I find its easiest to partially prep my LO's meals in advance (we don't all eat dinner together because frankly, there isn't time to make us all dinner by around 6 and I don't want to eat that early anyhow!). LO needs to eat by around 6:30 at the latest or else she gets very hangry and we spend the evening in meltdown city.

As for what she eats, she eats everything!! I try to make sure her dinner has a protein, a veggie and a fruit. She also eats cheese and yogurt at almost every dinner. Dinner also usually has a carb, either in the form of a veggie carb like peas or corn or a carb like cornbread, pasta or brown rice.

I save our leftovers or hold out some of what I cook for our dinner for LO's dinner the next day. If I cook something like chicken, I'll save out some plain cooked chicken and 1 day give her leftovers of however we had the chicken for dinner and then the next day make her chicken salad with the plain cooked chicken I had set aside.

I keep easy-grab items on hand to add to her dinners like hummus, pickles, cheese sticks, yogurt, frozen broccoli/peas/green beans, frozen eggplant cutlets, etc.

I'm home on maternity leave right now and I still can't get dinner done before 7-7:30. My daughter (22 mo. ) is incredibly picky, she refuses to eat almost everything, so there are nights where she has yogurt and fruit for dinner. My schedule when working is pretty close to yours, except she goes to bed at 9 instead.
Off at 5, after picking up the kids from my Mom and the babysitter I get home at 6-6:15 (and I work 1.5 miles from home!)