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

[slo]

Cooking for many of us is a way of life - we have to do it or we like to do or both.
Some of us may not cook because we live with someone that does all the cooking. we don’t enjoy cooking or we may not be very good at cooking.

So, the question for today……

Do you cook meals at home?
If yes….how many days a week do you cook a meal? (on average)
(multiple choice)

*I apologize for the red s in my signature - I’m going to try and fix that.


For Me…..I enjoy meal planning and I enjoy cooking. On average I cook 4 days a week. Sundays we always have pizza and the other 2 days we eat leftovers from the other 4 days. We don’t eat in restaurants very often, so my typical cooking week is the 4 days (I don’t consider heating up leftovers as cooking).

 

[Meriweather]

I cook at home. Usually 7 days a week.
Exception, vacations and holidays at someone else's house, and birthdays. We go out for those.

 

[Disneylover99]

I cook daily. Leftovers usually become lunch the following day. I like to cook.

 

[kanerf]

Well cooking is a bit of a stretch as it is mostly putting a frozen meal in the microwave.

 

[design_mom]

I am a decent cook, but I don't love to do it. The actual isn't so bad, but I am not good at meal planning. And I LOVE to eat out, so that's my "splurge" on myself. I generally try to cook at least 5 times per week, but some weeks it's 4. (I had a rough day yesterday and forgot to thaw any meat for dinner. My husband said "how about if we get Chipotle." and I jumped at that.)

 

[Kitty 34]

I like to cook and cook almost daily unless I've made enough food for leftovers the next day. When on vacation, tho....it's restaurants all the way!

 

[bobbiwoz]

I’m saying 5 days since heating leftovers doesn’t count. Some of the days would be breakfast.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I enjoy cooking. I cook 5-6 days a week. The other 2 days we go out or bring something in.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I am a decent cook, but I don't love to do it. The actual isn't so bad, but I am not good at meal planning. And I LOVE to eat out, so that's my "splurge" on myself. I generally try to cook at least 5 times per week, but some weeks it's 4. (I had a rough day yesterday and forgot to thaw any meat for dinner. My husband said "how about if we get Chipotle." and I jumped at that.)

We had Chipotle yesterday for dinner!

 

[disneychrista]

Nearly everyday. Multiple meals somedays. Oatmeal nearly everyday for breakfast. Dinner 6-7 nights per week. Lunch is the one meal that is not cooked everyday.

 

[BrianL]

I do cook meals at home, but as a single guy, "cooking" may be a bit of a stretch. It's more like toss a bunch of stuff in a crockpot or simmer a Hamburger Helper type thing. I often eat salads too, so I don't really cook anything for those.

 

[HeatherC]

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.

 

[DVC-Don]

I cook at home for the 5 weekdays. My wife does the weekends.

 

[GAN]

I live alone, and have a somewhat hectic schedule, so cooking is fairly basic unless someone is coming over. I might cook 2-3 times a week, go out 1-2 times, then spend one night with my parents, and another with my adult children. I'm really not home enough to get into any kind of schedule unfortunately(or fortunately )

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I love to cook, and I cook at home (I was the main cook after my uncle's death)-but not lately. In my household now we all have such varying schedules of when people are home and who is eating what that it no longer makes sense for my family to cook a meal and sit down together. Sad, but that's how it goes. Now I buy a lot of prepared food like TV dinners, frozen pizzas, etc.

 

[mamamary]

I said I cook 6 days a week. I would be happy if I never cooked again. I don’t like it. Now one family member has a really odd work schedule so I am trying to accommodate them.

Some weeks I may cook less. I just got over a bad cold so dinner wasn’t so great that week.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I'm retired now and have made cooking one of my everyday duties. I make breakfast and dinner every day. Covid restrictions showed us that food cooked at home can be much tastier than restaurant food. And it's cheaper, too.

We will eat out occasionally, though.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Are usually cook once a week and just eat it all week some weeks I don’t cook at all and eat something frozen or a grilled cheese or an egg sandwich or have a granola bar it depends on my mood
I’ve been cooking since I was a little kid so I’m really good at it but since it’s just me there’s no sense in me making a big meal I can’t eat all of it

 

[SandyinMonterey]

I cook almost everyday. We don't go out to dinner often and it we do, it's usually for chinese food or pizza. Always have leftovers which make a good lunch the following day.

 

[lovin'fl]

I cook 3 meals a week, use hungry root delivery, and then do leftover or easy/frozen stuff another night or two. We eat out or get door dash about 2-3 times a week.