I am DONE cooking for my family

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What is Op cooking that is taking her a long time and nobody eats? Was it bc nobody likes it or bc the husband spoiled their appetite with heavy snacks after practice?

Can't you keep it simple Op? Marinate chick so it's flavorful, grill, veggie, carb, done. Easy peasy.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Op cooking that is taking her a long time and nobody eats? Was it bc nobody likes it or bc the husband spoiled their appetite with heavy snacks after practice?

Can't you keep it simple Op? Marinate chick so it's flavorful, grill, veggie, carb, done. Easy peasy.

Chicken AGAIN?
I don't LIKE [broccoli]!
[Mashed potatoes], ew.

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I eat canned soup probably once a month. A typical day consists of fruit, bran flakes, salad and cheese. That is a "mostly processed" diet to you?

Bran flakes and almond milk are definitely processed foods. Salad -- well, what goes in it, and what goes on it? Cheese is also a processed food, especially if it's the Velveeta kind.

Your list also included yogurt with all-bran and pita with turkey or hummus. Unless you are making these things from scratch, they are also all processed foods, albeit healthier than some other things you could be eating.

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

1. Why is it wasteful if you don't throw out any leftovers? I hate wasting food. We eat leftovers if there are any.
2. Elaborate doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy. A Nutritionist I met told me that things like butter don't make you fat. It's the processed crap that is making us fat.
2. Inefficiency is a matter of perspective. Cooking together with friends and family can be a social and bonding experience. It may be "time" inefficient, but it has other purposes

Food is fuel. You could heat your home by burning oriental rugs and midcentury danish furniture, too. If you look at either scenario in terms of $/joule you will see it is both inefficient and wasteful to eat elaborate food.

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

1. Why is it wasteful if you don't throw out any leftovers? I hate wasting food. We eat leftovers if there are any.
2. Elaborate doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy. A Nutritionist I met told me that things like butter don't make you fat. It's the processed crap that is making us fat.
2. Inefficiency is a matter of perspective. Cooking together with friends and family can be a social and bonding experience. It may be "time" inefficient, but it has other purposes

Food is fuel. You could heat your home by burning oriental rugs and midcentury danish furniture, too. If you look at either scenario in terms of $/joule you will see it is both inefficient and wasteful to eat elaborate food.

Food is fuel to you. To others, it is a source of enjoyment, both in terms of taste and in the actual cooking experience.

If food is fuel to you, awesome. Be careful when choosing convenience over time/effort, as processed foods can be particularly unhealthy.

If food is a source of enjoyment for you, awesome. Be careful when focusing on taste, as too much fats/sugars/etc. can be particularly unhealthy.

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Food is fuel. You could heat your home by burning oriental rugs and midcentury danish furniture, too. If you look at either scenario in terms of $/joule you will see it is both inefficient and wasteful to eat elaborate food.

So instead I should make beef wellington and not eat it? That's the logical conclusion of your argument.

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I don't like cooking either but it is the right thing to do to provide a decent meal for your family. My kids complain too but if they had their way they would eat cake and burgers at every meal. Cooking a healthy meal sets up good habits for healthy eating. Your DH needs to support this.

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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Either way it's one dish and one spoon. Food is just calories to me.

If I weren't heating up the soup, I wouldn't bother with the bowl. Eat the cold soup straight out of the can. Then you only have to wash the spoon.

When I eat it cold it's because I've poured into into a bowl intending to heat it up, but then can't be bothered to take the extra step of heating it up. I am exceptionally lazy when it comes to food. I have a hard time reconciling the notion of doing more work for something that is ultimately just going to make you fat.

You have a bad relationship to food. Holidays must stink for you.

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

What do you do with all the free time you save by not cooking? Am I right to guess "exercise compulsively"?

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Food is fuel. You could heat your home by burning oriental rugs and midcentury danish furniture, too. If you look at either scenario in terms of $/joule you will see it is both inefficient and wasteful to eat elaborate food.

You are a sad, strange little man PP.

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

What do you do with all the free time you save by not cooking? Am I right to guess "exercise compulsively"?

I don't really have the energy for that. Increasing my intake so I could spend time on a treadmill is even more of a wasteful wash.

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

What do you do with all the free time you save by not cooking? Am I right to guess "exercise compulsively"?

I don't really have the energy for that. Increasing my intake so I could spend time on a treadmill is even more of a wasteful wash.

So describe your life. What do you consider a meaningful use of your time?

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I don't really have the energy for that. Increasing my intake so I could spend time on a treadmill is even more of a wasteful wash.

You don't have the energy for it because you live on bran flakes and almond milk.

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I don't really have the energy for that. Increasing my intake so I could spend time on a treadmill is even more of a wasteful wash.

You don't have the energy for it because you live on bran flakes and almond milk.

+1 I'm kinda surprised they have the energy to keep responding to be honest

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I'm shallow and vain. I'd rather exist on half a dozen boring snacks/meals that require little effort than be the type of person who slaves over a lasagna pan and has a tire around their waist. To each her own.

Those are the two options? Eat cold canned soup and be thin, or cook good-tasting food and be fat?

To each their own, yes, but if you think of food as something you have to consume as little as possible of, with as little enjoyment as possible, lest you get fat, that's a sign of an eating disorder.

I am a very black and white thinker. It works for me. I'd live on soylent if it didn't cost more than what I already spend on food. Cooking elaborate meals is wasteful, inefficient and fattening. I just can't make sense of it.

It's not wasteful, inefficient and fattening. It's just not something you want to do. Your black and white thinking, paired with insults, can't be winning you a lot of friends.

Well stated, PP. Many of us love both cooking and eating, and I doubt as a group we are heavier than those who are happy to eat processed food because it's easier. I'm slim and relatively fit, and will always will prepare an elaborate meal if time allows. It's not wasteful time-wise if you enjoy the process, and is certainly healthier than the alternative.

I eat canned soup probably once a month. A typical day consists of fruit, bran flakes, salad and cheese. That is a "mostly processed" diet to you?

NP... maybe not processed but certainly very boring and bland. Tasty food can be healthy, too. Doesn't this diet get boring to you?