slo’s THURSDAY 11/9 poll - Cooking 🧑‍🍳

[Micca]

I cook pretty much every day. I won't make the distinction of whether or not heating something in the microwave qualifies as "cooking." You can't eat it frozen

 

[LoveDaisy]

I do most of the cooking and I cook 6-7 days a week. My husband wfh and eats leftovers for lunch so we rarely have those for dinner. If someone told me being an adult was just figuring out what’s for dinner every night I would have passed.

 

[jimmymc]

I average 4 to 5 times a week, including both lunch when I'm working from home and dinners. The other meals are leftovers, snacks, and eating out.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

"Cooking," for me is making a simple batch of pancakes or kid-style cheese sandwich. A foodie, I am not! Dad enjoys all foods and doing some (limited) preparation. My beloved late grandma absolutely enjoyed and was talented in the kitchen.

 

[Tink-osophy]

I cook at home, to some degree, most days. Trying to do more batch cooking/ freezing, though, to free up more time.

 

[jo-jo]

How much cooking is cooking? Is making toast, coffee and frying
an egg cooking? Is putting fish in the oven along with potatoes cooking? Or is it only cooking when it involves 27 steps, 4 pots, three knives and a cutting board?

We do a lot of the first two and not as much of the third for us.

We get takeout on Sunday most of the time. i don’t trust leaving oven on when not at home and boys are too hungry to wait an hour for a meal to be cooked.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

We meal plan and try to commit to actually cooking 5 days a week. DH pitches in with the cooking and has his specific dishes he makes but I probably do 60-70% of it. He gets take out probably once a week. I usually don't get anything unless it's Chinese food (maybe once every couple of weeks). I'll just eat leftovers or snack or do something easy like scrambled eggs and toast. I don't really enjoy take out that much whereas he does enjoy it so that works for us. We eat out maybe once a week. It's not perfect but it works out most of the time.

 

[tvguy]

Currently my wife cooks dinner 5 nights a week, we have dinner out/take out Friday and Saturday night. I fix my own breakfast and lunch 7 days a week. About once a month my wife wants Macaroni and Cheese.....so I prepare about one dinner a month. And that is Macaroni and Cheese from scratch, not opening a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
We've been married 41 years and for the first 17 years of our oldest child's life, I cooked dinner during the week. My wife worked day shift, 9 am to 6 pm. If she did the cooking, she wouldn't even be home to start preparing it until 630 pm and dinner would have been at like 730 or 8 pm. I worked 11 pm to 7 am, so it only made sense that I fix dinner.
In 2005 our oldest hit College, I switched to 3 am to 1130 am work schedule, and my wife to a 430 am to 1 pm and she took back the cooking duties. I guess after 17 years she was tired of my cooking. I was big on BBQing, Beef, Pork or Chicken, it didn't matter. I think she was surprised I never found a way to BBQ fish (well, I did BBQ salmon once in a while) or pasta!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

How much cooking is cooking? Is making toast, coffee and frying
an egg cooking? Is putting fish in the oven along with potatoes cooking? Or is it only cooking when it involves 27 steps, 4 pots, three knives and a cutting board?

We do a lot of the first two and not as much of the third for us.

We get takeout on Sunday most of the time. i don’t trust leaving oven on when not at home and boys are too hungry to wait an hour for a meal to be cooked.

Unfortunately most of the cooking I do is major cooking. Picture meals from the 1950’s like chicken, roast, pork chops, meatloaf, etc. That’s what my husband wants to eat. I don’t think in the 42 years we have been married he’s ever planned a meal, cooked it, and washed the dishes afterwards. He’s clueless like his father was. Although he will occasionally grill and wash the dishes. Not very often though. His poor mother cooked like that for over 70 years until she lost her mind, literally. There’s no such thing as making a sandwich and calling it dinner. Although I could easily just eat a bowl of cereal and I’d be fine.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I voted that I cook 4 days a week, which are dinners. We usually have one meal out one day a week and the rest of the time we eat leftovers. I might add a vegetable or potato to the leftover meal if needed. It’s just two of us in the house now, so there’s usually plenty of leftovers.

 

[HeatherC]

Wow, yeah - so bored with routine meal planning. 3:30 in the afternoon is the worst part of my day, trying to decide what to make and where to stop and shop on my way home from work. I’ve never developed the habit of planning or shopping for days/weeks at a time. We have tried meal services and done not too badly, so I know that’s always an option.

I do all the cooking and always have. Supper only, unless it’s a special occasion. I cook at least 4 nights a week, try to limit take out to 1 night a week (but I’m so bored with all that too) and one or two nights we “scrounge”. I usually have cereal and DH & DS have whatever they wrangle up for themselves. We eat out a few times a month but not on any kind of regular schedule.

What I do find helps me is that when I am making things like lasagna, a casserole, soup, meatloaf, etc., I often times make two or three and freeze the extras for grab and go meals later in the month. Also seems to save me money because a lot of recipes don’t necessarily need double the ingredients.

For tonight I just made a chicken pot pie and threw ingredients in the bread machine for a loaf of fresh bread to go with it.

 

[Moliphino]

Unfortunately most of the cooking I do is major cooking. Picture meals from the 1950’s like chicken, roast, pork chops, meatloaf, etc. That’s what my husband wants to eat. I don’t think in the 42 years we have been married he’s ever planned a meal, cooked it, and washed the dishes afterwards. He’s clueless like his father was. Although he will occasionally grill and wash the dishes. Not very often though. His poor mother cooked like that for over 70 years until she lost her mind, literally. There’s no such thing as making a sandwich and calling it dinner. Although I could easily just eat a bowl of cereal and I’d be fine.

You could just not, on occasion. He's a big boy, I'm sure he can figure something out.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'll say it more like we eat at home on a general level every night for dinner.

Some weeks we'll have an evening or two out or food delivered, sometimes that depends on if we're doing something with other people or if we just honestly don't want to cook. Some weeks we're only cooking a few days rather than most because of other obligations but it averages out to be the goal to have home cooked food virtually every night.

With just us 2 we have left overs depending on the meals. This week Monday was leftovers from Sunday, Wednesday was leftover from Tuesday's meal. Tonight is a meal we made last month but the immediately froze it and all it takes is about 12-14 mins in a skillet.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

You could just not, on occasion. He's a big boy, I'm sure he can figure something out.

Unfortunately that poster has been very prolific about their struggles in their marriage and all of the advice throughout the multiple threads they've created and comments they've made seemingly fall on deaf ears. We've all told that poster virtually the same advice about her husband.

 

[Disneylover99]

How much cooking is cooking? Is making toast, coffee and frying
an egg cooking? Is putting fish in the oven along with potatoes cooking? Or is it only cooking when it involves 27 steps, 4 pots, three knives and a cutting board?

We do a lot of the first two and not as much of the third for us.

Sounds like you do a lot of cooking to me.

 

[Lumpy1106]

TO clarify, I cook, not DW. She tries once in a while but has no patience for it. That includes Thanksgiving - Just me and DFiL. DW makes the cranberries and that's about it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I love cooking and probably cook 5-6 days a week. Both my son who is still home and husband eat leftovers for lunches so I still have to make decent size meals every night. A lot of days I will make something early in the morning or at least prep it and have it ready to go at dinner time. I am a huge crockpot fan during fall and winter as well as casseroles because they are easy and feed a lot.

My problem lately is I am bored of everything. I am lacking inspiration on what to make for dinner tonight which means it will probably be a quick pizza/flatbread or pasta.

I'm always on the hunt for new recipes to try and with my husband and I if it's a simple enough one without 20 different ingredients chances are we're okay to make it.

Check out Pillsbury's website along with Pinterest if you feel like it. I haven't used Food Network's website in years because it stopped working well but I have old recipes from them.

We've gotten some freezer-friendly meals from Pillsbury and Pinterest some that you dump the raw ingredients in and freeze it some you prepare part of it.

Tonight's recipe is a chicken primavera made last month (recipe from Food Network). I popped it in the fridge on Tuesday and it's thawed ready to go now (chicken is raw when you're putting it in the freezer bag)
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes...vera-3885959?desktop-device=true&soc=sharepin


Just a few days ago we made this new to us recipe from Pillsbury and it was super easy too
https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/easy-tamale-pie/61e2257b-2a34-417d-9ca1-a3f09b5882ec

Since you have more to feed than we do I would take up the suggestion Pillsbury has on adding a salad (or something like it) to give more to eat.

 

[Moliphino]

Unfortunately that poster has been very prolific about their struggles in their marriage and all of the advice throughout the multiple threads they've created and comments they've made seemingly fall on deaf ears. We've all told that poster virtually the same advice about her husband.

And it frustrates me every time.

 

[ncc1701]

Usually cook dinner at home 4-5 nights a week.. Lunch is usually at home 4-5 days a week. But home lunch is usually a sandwich with deli meat, soup & toast, reheated leftover pizza or hoagie from a local sandwich shop.. Twice a month or so we will have eggs or French toast for lunch.
We wake up at different times . Only cooking is if DH makes himself a waffle or pancakes. Otherwise he eats cereal.
I usually have yogurt with berries & granola, cereal or a frozen waffle.

 

[jo-jo]

Sounds like you do a lot of cooking to me.

When the kids were young, we did more day by day big meal cooking. Now those days are gone. I only do big meals when the flock of grandkids come by.

It’s funny, I’ll say I don’t feel like cooking and have a can of soup and a sandwich. My sister will say didn’t feel like cook so she ”only” made breaded chicken, and home made Mac and cheese .


And DH does all the dishes. Since his health has changed, he does dishes since his can sit while doing them. I do more like getting the mail, taking out the trash, carrying all the groceries, etc.