There Are 365 Days in a Year
And I cook dinner from scratch 360 days a year. Yes, I’ll occasionally have frozen Chicken Nuggets for our dinner, but everything else that’s served with them is homemade, like oven fries and we always will have either a salad or raw carrot, celery and green pepper sticks with the dinner.
I make ALL of our salad dressings, bread, rolls, hamburger and hot dog buns, cakes, pies, cookies, EVERYTHING from scratch. Like I said earlier we do like Hormel Chili, but thats only occasionally when we have Hot Dogs for dinner because it’s an easy and tasty side with the dogs. But again we will have raw vegetables with that dinner to balance things out nutritionally.
Cooking isn’t difficult if you work smarter, not harder! Clean up as you go and use a minimal number of pots pans and bowls. Just because you may own every tool, pan and device known to man doesn’t mean you need to use them all to cook a meal. It’s the skill, thought and good ingredients that you put into a meal that makes it good, not the fancy tools and trappings. Learn to follow directions from a simple, basic cookbook.
We NEVER waste food! I carefully plan our meals by the week and shop accordingly to get the best deals on what’s in season and only buy what we can use before it spoils. Plus, we aren’t adverse to leftovers. If it’s good on the first night it will be good on the second, third and fourth nights too if it’s reheated properly and accompanied by a nice fresh salad on the side.
I can understand that some people don’t like to cook, or are intimidated by it. I would suggest that those people try to learn how to cook a few things that they really like and once they learn that its not that difficult and that their home cooked meals often taste better than frozen and cost less too they may become cooking aficionados. Start small and work your way up.
Eddie [this post was last edited: 8/4/2024-15:25]
And I cook dinner from scratch 360 days a year. Yes, I’ll occasionally have frozen Chicken Nuggets for our dinner, but everything else that’s served with them is homemade, like oven fries and we always will have either a salad or raw carrot, celery and green pepper sticks with the dinner.
I make ALL of our salad dressings, bread, rolls, hamburger and hot dog buns, cakes, pies, cookies, EVERYTHING from scratch. Like I said earlier we do like Hormel Chili, but thats only occasionally when we have Hot Dogs for dinner because it’s an easy and tasty side with the dogs. But again we will have raw vegetables with that dinner to balance things out nutritionally.
Cooking isn’t difficult if you work smarter, not harder! Clean up as you go and use a minimal number of pots pans and bowls. Just because you may own every tool, pan and device known to man doesn’t mean you need to use them all to cook a meal. It’s the skill, thought and good ingredients that you put into a meal that makes it good, not the fancy tools and trappings. Learn to follow directions from a simple, basic cookbook.
We NEVER waste food! I carefully plan our meals by the week and shop accordingly to get the best deals on what’s in season and only buy what we can use before it spoils. Plus, we aren’t adverse to leftovers. If it’s good on the first night it will be good on the second, third and fourth nights too if it’s reheated properly and accompanied by a nice fresh salad on the side.
I can understand that some people don’t like to cook, or are intimidated by it. I would suggest that those people try to learn how to cook a few things that they really like and once they learn that its not that difficult and that their home cooked meals often taste better than frozen and cost less too they may become cooking aficionados. Start small and work your way up.
Eddie [this post was last edited: 8/4/2024-15:25]
