1. Time. I arrive home at 6:15 p.m. and need dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes.
2. Variety. I feel like we have the same 10 dishes in our menu rotation.
3. Quantity/Budget. My family goes through food so quickly! This results in multiple trips to the grocery store per week and hundreds of dollars spent.

French bread, Cambozola cheese, Canadian Chinese food, poutine, Caribbean dishes

Justice Fergie, wife, lawyer, foodie, and supermom, is a lifestyle blogger passionate about food, work-life balance, pop culture, and social media. She is also a co-founder of Be Blogalicious, a movement devoted to celebrating diversity in social media. Justice Fergie is a 2011 Blog Ambassador for ConAgra Foods. Visit her blog: FOODe or follow @JusticeFergie on Twitter™.

1. Cooking for children. I need to cook something my children will eat.
2. Health. I'd like to learn how to include more vegetables in my meals.
3. Time. It's hard to find the time to plan my meals.

Almost anything Mexican, Thai curry, pasta

Born in Mexico, Silvia started cooking at 12. In 2009, she founded Mama Latina Tips, a bilingual blog with topics of interest to mommies, including, among others, children, food, health, and entertainment. She loves dancing, cooking, reading, watching movies, and spending time with her family and friends.

1. Being home to start dinner
2. Being prepared (as in taking food out of the freezer)
3. Cost

This is very hard for me. I love variety, but if I must choose, I'll say homemade pizza, fancy sandwiches like panini or wraps, salads, prime rib, anything with eggs, rice pudding, and ice cream.

I love sharing information with people, whether it's a makeup tip, a new product I just discovered, or how to cook a tasty meal. People are what food is about! Even if we cook just for ourselves, we deserve it prepared with love because that effort comes through to the plate. I want to show love through my food. Read more about me on my blog.

1. Time
2. Inspiration
3. Figuring out what my son will actually eat

Anything braised, Italian, sushi

PJ is a stay-at-home dad, amateur chef, prolific air drummer, and The Stig in a minivan. He blogs about his adventures in fatherhood from the captain's chair at Real Men Drive Minivans, writes a weekly cooking article for Digital Dads, and is a contributor at Man of the House.

1. Timing. Getting the main dish and sides ready at the same time.
2. Planning ahead. Figuring out what we are having for dinner before, say, 5 p.m. rolls around.
3. Picky children. Two kiddos who are very picky eaters! I'm always making a different meal for them, which is inconvenient.

Pasta, pork chops, potatoes, corn, cheese

Jenny is a stay-at-home mom of a first grader, a preschooler, and a newborn, and is currently holding on to her personal motto "Thirty is the New Awesome" with both hands. She began blogging at Mommin' It Up with her cousin Emily Berry in 2007. She loves her husband of almost 11 years, coupons, and making others laugh with her blog posts. She also has a wee vanity problem and is really into fashion, beauty, and laughing at her own jokes.

1. Timing. I have a husband who works till 8 p.m. and an early-riser child, who tends to be sound asleep when her father arrives home. I need to find recipes where the creating can be Mommy & Me (my daughter loves to "help"), eaten around 6 p.m. by the first sitting, and still remain palatable for the second sitting with the spouse.
2. Palates. Whether it's nature or nurture, my child takes after her mama in the penchant for the plainer foods in life. I'm working to keep introducing new tastes (mainly spicy), and to start getting them consumed, and not snubbed.
3. Health. I frequently revert back to dinners of steamed/grilled/poached protein, veggies, and fruit for dessert. I know this is healthy, and I also know this will set my daughter up for success the next day (energy and mood-wise), but I would like to expand my repertoire and cook more!

Mine: Salmon
The Child's: Mac and cheese
The Husband's (according to the child): Toast

Carla attempts to juggle motherhood, filming motivational/exercise videos, crafting copious amounts of Tweets, recording a podcast, and blogging all without breaking a sweat. When she does, as happens frequently, she simply calls it cardio. Her health mantra is... fitness isn't about fitting in. She believes we might all share the goal of a longer, healthier life, but it's OK (and even encouraged if you're in her family) to carve your unique path there.

1. Time. My boyfriend and I are super busy, between work and our various commitments. Sometimes grabbing something on the run seems easiest, but we both want that to change, because we know we can eat better at home, and save money in the process!
2. Stepping out of my comfort zone. As someone who never took naturally to cooking, I find it scary to try new things, or if a recipe calls for an ingredient I don't recognize, I've always just looked for a new recipe entirely. But this means that I only have a few solid, go-to recipes, and I would like some more variety!
3. Simplicity. Some recipes are too complicated—as I mentioned above, I'm not a "natural" in the kitchen, so I need recipes that give fantastic directions and are simple to understand. I want to do this for my boyfriend and me, but I also want to have a family someday (soon!), so simplicity will be key in making healthy dinners for us to enjoy on a regular basis.

Jane, who blogs at MomGenerations.com, is a freelance writer by day and a runner and triathlete in her free time. She has been dating her boyfriend for more than a year, and he has awakened the domestic goddess inside she never thought existed. Jane has always been a better baker than cook, but she hopes to start a family soon and realizes that a steady diet of brownies is probably not ideal.

1. Health. I want to make sure the recipe is healthy. I lost 40 pounds this year by changing the way our family eats.
2. Time. Making sure the meal is made quicklyótoddlers are not patient people!
3. Picky eaters. I want to create a meal my picky son will eat.

There's very little in the way of food that I don't love: Thai, Tex-Mex, Mexican, Italian, and French are my favorites. But, my hands-down favorite comfort food is oven-roasted rosemary sweet potatoes. Yum!

Rachel is the author of Following In My Shoes, where she uses her witty humor to blog about motherhood, healthy living, and life as a grown-up girl. A former English teacher turned stay-at-home-mom, Rachel relies on Following In My Shoes as a platform for writing, thinking, reading, laughing, and connecting with other grown-up girls and boys.

1. Time
2. Health
3. Taste

I'm always on the lookout for quick, healthy meals that also tantalize my family's taste buds.

Chicken stew, lasagna; tacos, chicken with arroz con gandules (rice and peas)

Migdalia, a single mother of two, gave up her career as a Senior Corporate Paralegal to become a work-at-home mom. She now juggles mealtimes, projects, and her sons with as much finesse as she possessed in the boardroom. Using her sons as willing guinea pigs, she's set out to find quick, healthy, flavorful meals. Read Migdalia on Latina on a Mission, and connect with her on Twitter: @MsLatina.