Anonymous wrote:OP here - our HHI is high but we're near retirement and want to save as much as we can. However, it's always been like this for us. I do like cooking - and am a better baker than cook but I never realized how many don't know HOW to cook. I grew up poor (so did husband and on a farm with no restaurants in town) so this is normal for us I suppose. I didn't eat at a restaurant until I was 10.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don't really like to order salads at restaurants. Sometimes, it's pointless. Greens and your choice of dressing. You can easily create this yourself and also add more interesting stuff to the salads.

I like to order what I can't make at home and something that has alot of flavor. And I tend to order something that require alot of preparation: cutting, chopping, cleaning the counter, boiling water, putting things back into the refrigerator, and cooking-adding spices, making the sauce, adding more spices, turning the oven and stove top on/off, timing things. No time to cut this and that, wash, prepare, then wash the plates, and pans, pots afterward. It sounds exhausting just typing that whole process.
Yes there is the dishwasher but do you run it daily? what a waste of water.

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Every Wednesday because we can't make dinner that night and it's our groceries day: rotisserie chicken or quiche from Whole Foods. Also premade pizza crust for a pizza.

Once a month: Japanese or Chinese take-out.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - our HHI is high but we're near retirement and want to save as much as we can. However, it's always been like this for us. I do like cooking - and am a better baker than cook but I never realized how many don't know HOW to cook. I grew up poor (so did husband and on a farm with no restaurants in town) so this is normal for us I suppose. I didn't eat at a restaurant until I was 10.

You sound incredibly old fashioned OP--and I don't mean that in a good way, but rather, out of touch. I assume you're a "stay at home mom?" I cooked 6 nights a week for my family of four, but after almost 20 years of it, I am sick to death of it. And I used to make some really great dinners. This claim that people don't know how to cook is so stupid. It's not hard, it's just boring, unsatisfying, and takes time that a home with two working parents don't have much of. Get off your high horse. Sounds like your cooking isn't really that good. Did you have kids, actually? And were the first to love the college cooking because it wasn't the same boring stuff you make at home?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - our HHI is high but we're near retirement and want to save as much as we can. However, it's always been like this for us. I do like cooking - and am a better baker than cook but I never realized how many don't know HOW to cook. I grew up poor (so did husband and on a farm with no restaurants in town) so this is normal for us I suppose. I didn't eat at a restaurant until I was 10.

You sound incredibly old fashioned OP--and I don't mean that in a good way, but rather, out of touch. I assume you're a "stay at home mom?" I cooked 6 nights a week for my family of four, but after almost 20 years of it, I am sick to death of it. And I used to make some really great dinners. This claim that people don't know how to cook is so stupid. It's not hard, it's just boring, unsatisfying, and takes time that a home with two working parents don't have much of. Get off your high horse. Sounds like your cooking isn't really that good. Did you have kids, actually? And were the first to love the college cooking because it wasn't the same boring stuff you make at home?

Anonymous wrote:How often do you order food in or eat out?
I assumed most people cook their own food and I think I'm wrong. Brother in law visited us this weekend (with grown sons) and I asked them their favorite meal their mom made and they said she only makes tacos and sloppy joes. She doesn't know how to make anything else. BIL said they eat out several times a week.
I think others do this too from what I hear but we eat out about once a month. We never order in. I think we pick up a pizza about once every 10 years.
Do most ppl know how to cook? Not have enough time? Just dont' want to cook?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - our HHI is high but we're near retirement and want to save as much as we can. However, it's always been like this for us. I do like cooking - and am a better baker than cook but I never realized how many don't know HOW to cook. I grew up poor (so did husband and on a farm with no restaurants in town) so this is normal for us I suppose. I didn't eat at a restaurant until I was 10.

You sound incredibly old fashioned OP--and I don't mean that in a good way, but rather, out of touch. I assume you're a "stay at home mom?" I cooked 6 nights a week for my family of four, but after almost 20 years of it, I am sick to death of it. And I used to make some really great dinners. This claim that people don't know how to cook is so stupid. It's not hard, it's just boring, unsatisfying, and takes time that a home with two working parents don't have much of. Get off your high horse. Sounds like your cooking isn't really that good. Did you have kids, actually? And were the first to love the college cooking because it wasn't the same boring stuff you make at home?

Anonymous wrote:When my son was young and I worked part time we ate out or did take out once a month. Now that I am full time and we have plenty of money we do take out every Friday and Saturday night. I despise cooking. So sunday through Thursday is enough torture for me.

Anonymous wrote:OP here - our HHI is high but we're near retirement and want to save as much as we can. However, it's always been like this for us. I do like cooking - and am a better baker than cook but I never realized how many don't know HOW to cook. I grew up poor (so did husband and on a farm with no restaurants in town) so this is normal for us I suppose. I didn't eat at a restaurant until I was 10.