Anyone else hate to cook?

[Lilsia]

Totally true! My Mom was more interested in her social life. I occasionally see my old neighbor (who is now in her late 70’s) and she still talks about how weird it was that I would get off the bus in the afternoon and discuss with her what I was making for dinner that night. When I left home at 18, being the oldest, my brother said they were all on their own and he hadn’t appreciated all that I had done. Not every family lived like the Brady Bunch. Needless to say, my mother has been dead for 20 years and there is no part of me that misses her.

I knew a family that was like this, with the mom making the daughter do all of the chores. The mom was so self righteous about it too acting as if she were doing her daughter a favor by forcing her to do all of this work.

As far as me cooking, I don't mind it, I am just sick of cooking. I cooked most meals when kids were growing up and so now I am burned out on it.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Congratulation ! You hardly ever hear that number

When kids were young, my youngest was a really tough toddler. We used to eat one handed because the other hand was holding his leg while he was sitting in highchair. Anyway, I made mac and cheese every week , maybe even twice a week, because toddler would eat it and I would have 5 mins of peace. After about a year, DH says to me....you know I really don't like mac and cheese......A YEAR, he waited a year to tell me.

All my life, I cooked about 20 meals. Over and over and over again. Some a few times a year, some weekly. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm depressed. How boring .

I did the same thing. Hamburgers, fries, and veggies; hot dogs, mac n cheese, veggies; spaghetti, garlic bread, salad; baked chicken w/rice and veggies; pork tenderloin, rice, veggies; meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and corn or peas. When it was cold, roast w/potatoes and veggies, or beef stew and bread. When it was hot, pasta salad in various combinations and bread.

No wonder DH wanted to go out to dinner all the time!

I started up with Hello Fresh, to get me out of that rut. I'll use it for a month or so, 3-4 times a week; then put a stop on it, and be out of my cooking rut for a few months, then need to start with the new recipes again.

If I make something DH doesn't like, he will say "let's not have that again". He rarely passes on what I make, but it happens. LOL

 

[mrodgers]

I always wonder what people who say they "don't cook" eat. Do they really go out for every meal? Do they eat lots of snacks that don't require cooking?

I wonder that myself. It also leads to the question of what do you mean by cooking. Because some folk think of cooking as tossing packaged breaded chicken tenders and frozen fries in the oven for 20 minutes while others think of that as just having an easy meal much the same as running to fast food while cooking is making chicken marsala with multiple steps to create a dish.

Still others think that not cooking means going out somewhere to eat. That is the old pastor at my mother's church. He and his wife, neither cook and they do not eat at home. They eat out at a real restaurant every night, although I do believe they eat at other people's houses often as they are invited often.

Last night it was late and I just tossed some frozen shrimp and frozen fries in the air fryer. I'm in the camp that I did not cook last night.

Now tonight it will be the air fryer again, but I'm making fresh wings (not bagged frozen), will be making a sauce, and cutting potatoes to make fresh cut fries. That is simple but it is cooking. Cooking to me is when you have to prepare something more than just tossing it on a cookie sheet or in a basket and tossing it in heat.

 

[mrodgers]

I don't mind cooking. What I don't like is having to clean up after the people who cooked before me, then cooking, then cleaning up after I cook.

Absolutely! Every time I go out to the kitchen and see I have to clean up from the last person I want to punch them right in the mouth. Unfortunately that would make my lip swell up and hurt so I don't, LOL.

I'm going to go clean up from my meal last night now so I can cook my wings tonight, LOL.

 

[mrodgers]

I think a lot of longevity is luck. My husband's grandma lived to 100 but two of her siblings died in their 40's one in their 50's and her brother died at 99.

His dad is 86 but his dadd lost his parents in their mid 70's.

My grandmother on Dad's side just passed in her mid 90's. She outlived her 3 sons. Dad was gone at 43. His brothers were 62 and 63 I think. I have a 2nd cousin who is in her 70's and I'm the oldest male at 50.

 

[Turn the Page]

Theoretically I enjoy cooking. What I don't like is cooking dinner for picky kids who refuse to put down their phones to help while I'm trying to cook, do dishes, perhaps get a load of laundry going, clean up, and keep arambunctious preschooler from giving himself a concussion.

I may or may not have gotten fed up last night and left dinner half cooked and went to take care of the 4 year old and told everyone else to fend for themselves.

 

[Lisa_lvspplmvr]

I do not enjoy cooking probably because my mother doesn’t enjoy it . I do love to bake though