Anonymous
06/18/2013 14:05
Subject: How many hours do you spend in the kitchen?
I cook all our food from scratch (aside from the meal or two we eat out each week): breakfasts, lunches and dinners. I also work out of the home, except for one day a week when I work from home. I probably spend 3-4 hours in the kitchen per week, total. On my work from home day, however, I spend about an hour in the morning doing prep and then I rotate roasting, steaming and boiling veggies all day long, and I cook a big vat of rice or quinoa and sometimes stock and something like a crockpot of applesauce. I would say I spend a total of 2-2.5 hours in the kitchen on that day, and then the rest of the week is mostly assembly and a little chopping of fresh fruit, making double batches of smoothies, grilling some chicken... Every couple weeks, I will spend an hour and make something more complex, like a meatballs and sauce or lamb burgers or something, but then I make a triple or quadruple batch and freeze so there is something there when I need it. Also I keep some frozen vegetables (peas, corn, okra for the occasional emergency wednesday when we run out of fresh veggies; all our veggies come in a box to our door on Thursdays, zero grocery shopping other than about five minutes clicking on a computer to make changes each week).
Anonymous
06/18/2013 13:21
Subject: How many hours do you spend in the kitchen?
1.5hrs maybe?
I make the kids breakfast and prep and pack lunches in the morning, plus empty the diswasher, etc - that's usually at least half an hour, but some of that time is talking to the kids and eating a bit myself.
I give them a snack in the afternoon and often start some dinner prep then and additional cleaning up from the day - maybe 15 minutes?
Cooking dinner is usually a 45 minute process, but again, that's a combination of cooking, cleaning, and supervising preschoolers. Most often, my husband does the dinner dishes (or he cooks and I clean).
A couple times a week I'll make a more elaborate meal or do some baking, which adds a bit of time. I work 30hr/wk and enjoy cooking. For the most part, we clean right after eating, although when my husband is home he does more than his share of the cleaning.
I make the kids breakfast and prep and pack lunches in the morning, plus empty the diswasher, etc - that's usually at least half an hour, but some of that time is talking to the kids and eating a bit myself.
I give them a snack in the afternoon and often start some dinner prep then and additional cleaning up from the day - maybe 15 minutes?
Cooking dinner is usually a 45 minute process, but again, that's a combination of cooking, cleaning, and supervising preschoolers. Most often, my husband does the dinner dishes (or he cooks and I clean).
A couple times a week I'll make a more elaborate meal or do some baking, which adds a bit of time. I work 30hr/wk and enjoy cooking. For the most part, we clean right after eating, although when my husband is home he does more than his share of the cleaning.