Feeding the masses

All this planning and cooking is stressing me out.  I remember a time when I actually enjoyed both of these activities so I'm not sure why it seems to be such a chore this days.  Oh, yes I do, because no matter how well planned or prepared the meal is, there will undoubtedly be someone...or several someones, who would rather have pizza or chicken nuggets.  So then I end up waffling back and forth between the whether it is better to just feed the people what they will eat or try to spend the extra time and energy trying to prepare a healthy meal and then guilt convince them to eat it.  And THIS is what is so frustrating about our food situation.  Certainly there are worse problems to have...at least we have the option of serving our family healthy foods.  I fully acknowledge that there are many people out there who do not.

I guess the questions remains...how can I simplify this process in my home.  One idea is to scale back the preparation and serve foods in their freshest forms (less time cooking and planning).  Make every meal a potluck of mostly fresh foods, including selections of foods that I know my family will eat.   I'm going to think on this and try it for a day or two and see if I can flesh out this idea a bit.