Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 23:38     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Anonymous wrote:Every meal is home cooked. We only eat out 2-3 times per month. I make my breakfast, pack my lunch, and make dinner. I also make snacks.


Same here- if we went out my eldest would be still eating chicken nuggets and pasta since that's the usual kids menu stuff (kids can read so it's hard when the restaurant offers a favored option to a used to be extremely picky eater). I also think we can make much better food than available. There are some foods that I have not been able to do as well such as sushi, chinese noodles, some other non USA meals.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 23:21     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Every meal is home cooked. We only eat out 2-3 times per month. I make my breakfast, pack my lunch, and make dinner. I also make snacks.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 22:43     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
I never eat out, husband eats lunch out 5 days a week. Cook breakfast, lunch for myself, cook dinner for us every night of the week.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 22:34     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Crock pots in the freezer mean we can do crock pot or leftovers 4-5 weeknights. Totally worth it. Once a month have a night where we make a bunch of crock pot meals, toss in extra freezer, drop in crockpot morning of. Amazing for us.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 22:09     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:all meals-I SAH but all three kids and husband take lunch 5 times a week. We go out once a week for late lunch/early dinner but only for things like sushi, Indian, Korean etc-food I cannot replicate well. I find most restaurant food to be really bad. I am often shocked how mediocre so much of the food at restaurants/grocery stores is. I don't know whether there is something off with my taste buds or people are just accustomed to bad tasting food, lazy, pressed for time so not overly picky?


i have amazing meals out regularly. you have to be willing to spend, unless you're doing ethnic food.


I disagree. I'm a hobby fine arts cook and it is rare that I find food that tastes better than mine. My ingredients are always better. For instance I only use dry aged beef that I purchase from a real butcher. I grow much of my own food when in season. I buy spices whole, toast and grind them. I make my own chicekn stock from old egg laying hens...have you had chicken broth from an old hen? The meat is pratocally inedible, but the broth so rich. I make my own beef stock again from butcher bones that are full of meat and marrow.I make whipped cream from real top line cream.

There are very few restaurants that could scale to the kind of ingredients I use. Little Inn is one of a very few. They arr also close to their food source so it makes a big difference in what they have access to. However, who can eat at the little inn on a regular basis?


Good ingredients are the first step, but it doesn't have to start with dry aged beef or top of the line cream either. I don't have the inclination to splurge on such things (I rarely ever use "gourmet" products), buy I always buy fresh, mostly plant based whole ingredients. Whenever we go out to eat I have these fantasies that it's going to be fantastic, but am rarely impressed.

I usually end up feeling that I've compromised somehow. That said, there's more to a meal out than just the food. Good company and conversation, the gift of time to enjoy them, to not have to clean pots and pans afterwards and a night off are worth the compromise.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 21:50     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:all meals-I SAH but all three kids and husband take lunch 5 times a week. We go out once a week for late lunch/early dinner but only for things like sushi, Indian, Korean etc-food I cannot replicate well. I find most restaurant food to be really bad. I am often shocked how mediocre so much of the food at restaurants/grocery stores is. I don't know whether there is something off with my taste buds or people are just accustomed to bad tasting food, lazy, pressed for time so not overly picky?


i have amazing meals out regularly. you have to be willing to spend, unless you're doing ethnic food.


I disagree. I'm a hobby fine arts cook and it is rare that I find food that tastes better than mine. My ingredients are always better. For instance I only use dry aged beef that I purchase from a real butcher. I grow much of my own food when in season. I buy spices whole, toast and grind them. I make my own chicekn stock from old egg laying hens...have you had chicken broth from an old hen? The meat is pratocally inedible, but the broth so rich. I make my own beef stock again from butcher bones that are full of meat and marrow.I make whipped cream from real top line cream.

There are very few restaurants that could scale to the kind of ingredients I use. Little Inn is one of a very few. They arr also close to their food source so it makes a big difference in what they have access to. However, who can eat at the little inn on a regular basis?
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 20:00     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Anonymous wrote:all meals-I SAH but all three kids and husband take lunch 5 times a week. We go out once a week for late lunch/early dinner but only for things like sushi, Indian, Korean etc-food I cannot replicate well. I find most restaurant food to be really bad. I am often shocked how mediocre so much of the food at restaurants/grocery stores is. I don't know whether there is something off with my taste buds or people are just accustomed to bad tasting food, lazy, pressed for time so not overly picky?


i have amazing meals out regularly. you have to be willing to spend, unless you're doing ethnic food.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 19:58     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Dinner 5 nights a week. Every day breakfast is at home, though I don't think cereal or toast count as homecooked. Lunch on weekends is homecooked, and sometimes during week when I work from home.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 18:19     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
all meals-I SAH but all three kids and husband take lunch 5 times a week. We go out once a week for late lunch/early dinner but only for things like sushi, Indian, Korean etc-food I cannot replicate well. I find most restaurant food to be really bad. I am often shocked how mediocre so much of the food at restaurants/grocery stores is. I don't know whether there is something off with my taste buds or people are just accustomed to bad tasting food, lazy, pressed for time so not overly picky?
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 17:56     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Every single meal, except for 1-2 meals a week.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 17:05     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
We rarely eat out for dinner. Maybe every 6 weeks or so... Same for breakfast. DD and I will have lunch out once a week. DH takes leftovers from dinner for lunch and eats lunch out once, maybe twice a week.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 14:56     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
We go out to eat as a family on Friday nights. I cook breakfast, pack lunches, and make a home cooked dinner 6 nights a week.

I work FT, but I love cooking. I do most of my meal prep on Sundays. It makes dinner time in the evenings very easy.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 14:12     Subject: Re:How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
We cook/eat at home for all but maybe 2-3 meals per month. Breakfast and dinner are almost always homemade. Lunch is usually leftovers from dinner the night before. We go out for a meal once or twice each month, and occasionally pickup takeout or order pizza every other month or so.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 13:41     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
6 days a week for dinner and leftovers for lunch. DH buys lunch daily though. Both of us eat breakfast at home, although I went through a phase where I was getting blast near work for a few months.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2014 13:40     Subject: How Often Do You Eat Homecooked Meals?
Anonymous wrote:dinner -- about 5x, but most of it is easy... I cant cook so its bag salad and then something like pasta and sauce or chicken nuggets.


None of what you describe is home-cooked.