Cooking for others

[Anonymous]

How often do you cook for yourself if you live alone or live with a roomate? Or for family living in the same home as you? How many meals a week do you cook for you and them? How about extended family, friends and others? How often do you have them over and you cook instead of meeting them at a restaurant? Did you always enjoy cooking?

[Anonymous]

Cooking for self takes a lot of motivation

[Anonymous]

I cook 5 meals a week (M-F), spouse cooks weekends. Kids are old enough to make their own school lunches, and spouse and I usually pack leftovers for lunch. Everyone makes their own breakfasts.

We go out for dinner maybe 5 times in 2 months.

[Anonymous]

I hate cooking, but I make dinner on the five weeknights while my husband makes Sunday dinner. Breakfast is do-it-yourself, as is lunch.

[Anonymous]

Generally, I cook 5 nights a week. One night we do take away and one night DH and I go out. Breakfasts are on your own. Lunches are sandwiches or leftovers.

I am 60 and basically over it, and I do sheet pan dinners or other simple dinners now.

[Anonymous]

Do you enjoy it or are doing it because people need to be fed ?

[Anonymous]

I enjoy cooking, but I still only Cook, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Thursday is left overnight.
Friday we order in Saturday we usually do something with friends or something.

Sunday, my husband cooks

[Anonymous]

I do not cook. We have 2 personal chefs that cook most of our meals 7 days a week.

[Anonymous]

DH cooks breakfast daily for himself and kids (I'm not hungry that early in the morning). Lunch is never a cooked meal - sandwiches or warm up leftovers on your own. DH and I each cook dinner 2-3 nights a week with the remaining night(s) being leftovers, takeout, or go out.

I hate cooking in the day-to-day but I love cooking and hosting big holiday meals like Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

I cook dinner 5-7 nights a week (we occasionally eat out or heat up leftovers, but other than that, I cook). I batch-cook my lunches for the week, some sort of grain bowl that I can reheat at the office every day, and make lunches for the kids every weekday (DH is on his own for lunch). Breakfast is a mixed bag, I like cooking a big breakfast on weekends if we're all home. The kids have to get up at different times on weekdays, so breakfast is something simple like toast or yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How often do you cook for yourself if you live alone or live with a roomate? Or for family living in the same home as you? How many meals a week do you cook for you and them? How about extended family, friends and others? How often do you have them over and you cook instead of meeting them at a restaurant? Did you always enjoy cooking?

I have always hated cooking and I never have anyone over, in the 17 years I've lived in my apartment. I cook for myself, but it's like scrambled eggs, or frozen ravioli, or baking fish, or other super simple things. I tend to do things like yogurt and crackers or bagged salads quite often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not cook. We have 2 personal chefs that cook most of our meals 7 days a week.

I notice people post on this forum about personal chefs a lot. Out of genuine curiosity, why are you on here if you "do not cook." And you think your response is helpful to OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not cook. We have 2 personal chefs that cook most of our meals 7 days a week.

I notice people post on this forum about personal chefs a lot. Out of genuine curiosity, why are you on here if you "do not cook." And you think your response is helpful to OP?

There's a troll who adds nothing to the threads. It's probably a fat lady with 4 cats. Just ignore. I don't even bother to report OT because they are just a waste of air.

[Anonymous]

The older generation who mentored me - mom, MIL, aunts, grandmas - are/were excellent cooks. I have learned a lot of life and kitchen hacks from my MIL. The one thing that I have learned from my MIL is to make lunch and dinner in early morning. Before you do anything else.

First thing in the morning, I make my tea, and then I have four burners blazing. I will make lunch and dinner for the day and then I will make breakfast. Everything gets put in glass pyrex containers on the table. I put table mats and a stack of plates, cutlery, napkins and glasses on the table. After that, it is self-serve in my family. When food cools down - it goes in the fridge.

Basically a cafeteria kind of concept, served in thalis (platter). 1/2 the food on the thali does not need to be cooked - yogurt, salad, fruit, soaked nuts and seeds, pickles. 1/2 the food is cooked every day - spiced soup, veg entree, non-veg entree, lentils/beans, starch. I work off of a menu. My prep happens at night.