Anyone else HATE to cook?

[Jenn Lynn]

My problem is that I get bored with it. It seems like I cook the same things all the time. And it is hard to try new things when you have a picky eater.

I do the menu plan also and it does work when I stick to it.

 

[hydster]

I am doing this next month!!! I'll let you know how it goes.

I do it every month and I don't work outside the house. It's the best invention EVER for me and my family. I too hate to figure out what to cook and what ingredients I need and usually I only need say a 1/2 of a green pepper so the other 1/2 goes bad.

With My Girlfriends Kitchen meals I keep 2 in the fridge at all times. That way we have a choice of A or B and then cook it while we are at the gym. It is so much easier and I've found that I actually save money each month because I don't have any wasted ingredients.

We sit down as a family and look at the menu and find out what all of us will eat and what needs to be left out or needs more of so that my family will like it. I take the list of what needs to be left out and refer to it while making the meal. Then none of my family can complain that there are onions in it or whatever!

If I didn't have MGFK I think I'd be insane! Or maybe I'm already there...who knows.

 

[ButchJohnson]

I work full time outside the home. Fortunately, my commute is very easy (I walk to work!) so its not like I'm fighting traffic to get home every night. I had a job like that for years and really hated cooking then, a lot more than I do now. Now when I think that I have to go home after a long day of work and cook, I can put things in perspective by thinking about the fact I no longer have the long commute on top of it.

We both work too so we kind of switch off, but I like to cook, just all about attitude a little. But we do order out a lot too!

 

[Christine]

We both work too so we kind of switch off, but I like to cook, just all about attitude a little. But we do order out a lot too!

Us too! I think I own a "wing" of booths at Panera's!

 

[Missy1961]

Thanks I consider myself a lucky husband as well.



Kind of sounds like cooking for a 6 year old as well

It can be! I try to plan a week's worth of meals with him, but sometimes the only answer I get is "I haven't thought of it.". Once, he wasn't home, I decided on chili. He usually loves chili. He then says to me "I've lost my taste for it.". It is like feeding a teenager! But he's a snowbird, he's off to Florida next week for 3 months, so 3 months of me getting to try new things! Yay!

 

[AuntieM03]

I can't cook, nobody would want to eat what I could make. I am single/no kids so I am not scarring any children with my inabilty. Luckily I live with 3 others and one cooks.

 

[KirstenB]

When it was just DH and I, cooking was enjoyable, or at least okay. DD1 has been picky since the day she was born. She's 8, and I was just telling DH the other day that I've come to hate cooking. If all I cooked was mac n cheese and chicken nuggets and pizza, DD would be in heaven. I just hate trying to balance healthy cooking with her pickiness. Dd2 is only 16 mths, but so far, so good. She's much easier to feed, even at this age than DD1 was.

 

[PlutosFriend]

YES! ME! I am very over it. My dh would like to have the typical meat and potatoes type meal every night. My dd 6 will complain about 90% of the meals we make. Very annoying. I would rather eat a bowl of cereal or something.

 

[jiggerj]

Love to cook...but just not very good at it! One of these days I will get it right!

 

[JunieJay]

When it was just DH and I, cooking was enjoyable, or at least okay. DD1 has been picky since the day she was born. She's 8, and I was just telling DH the other day that I've come to hate cooking. If all I cooked was mac n cheese and chicken nuggets and pizza, DD would be in heaven. I just hate trying to balance healthy cooking with her pickiness. Dd2 is only 16 mths, but so far, so good. She's much easier to feed, even at this age than DD1 was.

This is my scenario too, except for my picky eater is almost 12. He makes me crazy. The rest of us, including his younger brother, are pretty flexible, but he really makes it difficult.

 

[Hidden_Mickey]

Count me in. DH and DS are picky while DD and I eat almost everything.

I hate planning, shopping, cooking, and cleaning up.

Sometimes DH will make a large batch of something and we have leftovers throughout the week, interspersed with nights of sandwiches or something else easy.

Lately I like a nice can of soup, lol.

 

[Missy1961]

Something else I just thought of. (well, I thought of it at 1:30 when I was eating lunch) I made a roast beef on Monday night. So simple--just seasoned it with salt & pepper, and garlic (made a cut in either end, inserted garlic in). Put it in a 350 degree oven for an hour or so (it was about 2 1/2 lbs.) Served it with mashed potatoes, peas & carrots & gravy. It was so good on Monday, delicious when we re-heated it in the gravy on Wednesday & very good again today when I ate it for lunch. I'm planning on taking the last little piece, make some garlic bread, warm the meat a little & then making a sandwich. I'll put the meat on the garlic bread, sprinkle some mozzarella cheese on top, broil it & yum!

 

[Missy1961]

I should add that I hate to clean. Hate it. In fact, right now, pots are "soaking" in the sink. Maybe I'm hoping Snow White will come along & wash my pots for me? (but she better not let some animals lick them clean! )

 

[poohluvrs]

I "treat" myself to a stop at Trader Joes, there are a TON of good frozen meals there, a snap to prepare w/ a tossed bagged salad - viola!

Otherwise, I prep as much as I can at once early on, then meal time when Im tired in the evening is a bit easier to serve up.

 

[cybrkitn]

I actually like cooking, when I have the time. Here's my typical weekday evening.

5:15 - 5:30 arrive home from work and/or picking up DS4 from after-care at school. Settle in at home.

6 pm start preparing dinner. Estimated time for cooking most meals: 45 minutes to 1 hour.

DH usually arrives home from work between 5:30 and 6:30.

7 - 7:30 pm Sit down to eat. After dinner it's clean up time and load up the dishwasher.

Between 8 and 8:30 DS4 goes to bed.

After working 9 hours, coming home to make dinner, eating it and then getting DS into bed for the night, I'm exhausted and ready for bed myself.

 

[Hidden_Mickey]

I actually like cooking, when I have the time. Here's my typical weekday evening.

5:15 - 5:30 arrive home from work and/or picking up DS4 from after-care at school. Settle in at home.

6 pm start preparing dinner. Estimated time for cooking most meals: 45 minutes to 1 hour.

DH usually arrives home from work between 5:30 and 6:30.

7 - 7:30 pm Sit down to eat. After dinner it's clean up time and load up the dishwasher.

Between 8 and 8:30 DS4 goes to bed.

After working 9 hours, coming home to make dinner, eating it and then getting DS into bed for the night, I'm exhausted and ready for bed myself.

OK, that works now but if you ad in homework and/or any errands or kids' activities, you are screwed. We are dealing with this now. If the kids go to bed too late they can't get up in the morning, so you have to choose between a "good" home cooked meal, homework, a shower for the kids and getting to bed at a reasonable hour. Lots of fun!

 

[powellrj]

I love to cook, I just hate what goes along with it. I hate the shopping and planning and cleaning-up part that goes along with it.

I started cooking for the week a couple of years ago and it seems to help. I pretty much spend one afternoon cooking for the week and then when I get home from work I only have to finish cooking the meal. It easier to come home to a couple of different meals that have already been prepped than having to start from scratch.


This week we had pulled pork, BBQ ribs, pork tenderloin, beef and noodles, beef stew and corned beef and cabbage. I usually buy whatever is on sale that week and this week pork was cheap so we were heavy on pork. According to the ads, chicken will be the meat of choice next week.

 

[bengalbelle]

I've just gotten to the point where I absolutely DREAD coming up with what to cook for dinner every night. Its bad enough trying to decide what I'm in the mood for, but then to consider the whole family, ugh. Fortunately, my husband has always done a lot of the cooking. Unfortunatelty, his hours are changing at work to where he will be home after the dinner hour so now it will be my FULL TIME job.

I just find cooking so drab and boring. Its not that I can't do it, I just don't want to do it. I hate anything that takes a long time, I guess because time is something I don't have a lot of. I'll cook a lot at the holidays as we do a lot of entertaining, and I just hate it. I do love the parties, so I do it, but not happily.

Anyone else? What kinds of meals do you make for your family to break up the variety and make life easier?

(btw oddly enough I love to bake!! I could bake for hours, and amazingly could find lots of time to bake!)

Ditto on all points. DH enjoys cooking, but he also works too late to do it much. I never have liked it, but I'm trying *sigh*.

I love to bake!!

OK, read more posts and it reminded me, I hate shopping, putting up meat, washing veggies, planning...all of it! But...I love collecting and reading cookbooks and recipes.

 

[cybrkitn]

OK, that works now but if you ad in homework and/or any errands or kids' activities, you are screwed. We are dealing with this now. If the kids go to bed too late they can't get up in the morning, so you have to choose between a "good" home cooked meal, homework, a shower for the kids and getting to bed at a reasonable hour. Lots of fun!

Oh boy! I guess I'm in for worse in about a year or two huh?

DS4 has the same problem getting up in the morning if he goes to bed too late. We get him up at 6 am to get him ready for school. His school has extended care so he is there by 8:30 when DH takes him in the morning (7:30 when it's my day). School gets out at 3 and he stays for after-care til about 5:15 when I pick him up (5 pm when it's DH's day to pick him up). DS is used to the long days. We've been doing it since he was 6 weeks old with daycare. Have no choice - DH and I both have full-time jobs.

It's a long day for all of us that by the time we get home, I just want something quick for dinner. Weekends are when I can <gasp!> actually plan a full dinner and have some leftovers.

 

[cybrkitn]

Ditto on all points. DH enjoys cooking, but he also works too late to do it much. I never have liked it, but I'm trying *sigh*.

I love to bake!!

OK, read more posts and it reminded me, I hate shopping, putting up meat, washing veggies, planning...all of it! But...I love collecting and reading cookbooks and recipes.

You mean I'm not the only person out there that collects cookbooks?