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Posted by Liz on April 28, 2009, 8:41 pm
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> In the bookstores, there are at least two books on "how to cook for a
> day and eat for a month". =A0I bought two of them to send to ds when he
> and his wife were both working - before kids, that is.
> The basic idea is that you spend a Saturday cooking all day; chicken,
> beef etc. etc. in various ways then freeze it all in specific size
> portions in freezer bags to save room. =A0Then, on weeknights, you stop
> off for fresh veggies a couple of times a week, and assemble healthy,
> tasty meals from your own pre-prepared meats plus nice fresh fruits and v=
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> Myself, I am more likely to spend a day cooking just two or three meals
> - at least four servings of each, and putting goodly amounts in my chest
> freezer.
> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! That sounds like pure torture to me! :-) I can't
imagine much worse than spending an entire day cooking and bagging and
then spending the whole night doing dishes! I never imagined I'd be
18 years without a dishwasher but, here we are having moved here 18
years ago and still haven't re-done the kitchen.
That said, DH was pleasantly amazed shortly after meeting me, that I
could cook "Hamburger Helper" from scratch! Mom always said that we
could feed people if we had pasta, meat and a can of "cream of
anything" soup in the cupboard. We've changed the way we eat in the
past 6 years anyway. With DH working swing shift, I got into the
habit of eating soup or a sandwich for dinner and only cooking on
weekends. Now that both of us have been laid off and DH is going to
take early retirement in July, we are both eating soup or a sandwich
for dinner and only eat "real food" on weekends. It makes shopping
and meal planning (what little planning I do) much more simple. It
also has the added benefit of keeping us from getting too fat to fit
through the doors. :-)
When we do eat, I tend to use meat from the freezer and frozen
veggies, supplemented by canned soup and bagged pasta. During the
summer I may add zucchini from the garden and we have broccoli and
cauliflower growing in the garden right now. One of the reasons I
married DH was because he loves veggies like I do! When it gets hot,
we might only have salad for dinner. Even there, I have to admit that
I buy the bag (Very Veggie) of salad and augment it with tomatoes and
cucumbers. If the broccoli and cauliflower do well, we'll probably
throw some of that into the salad too.
When I do brownies for my hikes, though, I do it from scratch, from
the recipe on the dirty page in my Joy of Cooking. :-) Some things
I'm willing to spend time on, some things I'm not. I HATE chopping
veggies!!!!! Who knows why we hate some chores and don't even think
about others. I don't have separate cutting boards but I do wash them
after using them for meat as soon as I'm done using it. It's no where
near sterilized, but clean enough that I feel comfortable cutting
bread or "eaten raw" veggies on it.
Liz from Humbug
P.S. DH loves instant mashed potatoes and tells me not to wast
"real" potatoes by mashing them. :-))) He's a keeper! He'll even make
them himself!
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Posted by lucille on April 27, 2009, 3:09 pm
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> Trish Brown wrote:
>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>> When we see young (and not-so-young) mothers with a couple of children
>>> in tow who fill their supermarket trolley with ready-prepared food
>>> (burgers etc) and tinned produce Maureen often comments that with what
>>> they spent they could buy a couple of joints of meat and some fresh
>>> vegetables and, for the cost of an hour or two in preparation, give
>>> their family several decent, much healthier and tastier meals.
>> YES! My two favourite soapboxes are macaroni cheese and pikelets
>> ('pikelets' is Oz for small, single-bite pancakes).
>> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese and/or
>> preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the time to
>> cook like you do, Aunt!'
>> Pppppbbbblllffftttt!
>> It takes twenty five minutes to heat the frozen gloop they call macca and
>> cheese, while I can whip up a scrumptious batch from scratch in exactly
>> ten! (NB. I cook my pasta in the microwave while the cheese sauce bubbles
>> on the stovetop) Bit o' flour, butter, milk, cheese and bob'syeruncle!
>> Rather than pay three or four dollars for packaged pikelet gloop, it's
>> just as simple to chuck a cup of flour, an egg, some sugar and some milk
>> in a jug and mix! What's so hard about that???
> Well I'm firmly on the side of cooking and baking from scratch - but I
> really enjoy it and consider myself a "foodie". Yes there are times I
> don't and I have a few staples such as canned soups or corn or jars of
> pasta sauce in the cupboard. I work full-time (and more with my job
> lately) and it takes some time but it's worth it to me. I try to make
> double quantities of things when I can and freeze one batch for later -
> very helpful on a busy night. Let's not even discuss baking - my fave -
> homemade cookies, breads, biscuits, scones - always available in my house
> :)
> I can buy pasta, some veggies and a bit of sausage and have enough for
> several meals instead of paying double for something that's full of salt
> and other things and don't taste as good. Not to sound like a snob but I
> don't really like the taste of a lot of "pre-made" stuff - it seems very
> artificial to my tastebuds. I do have some snack stuff like crackers for
> my kids after school but we are not a big soda, chips, frozen pizza kind
> of house. I'm lucky to have the room for a nice sized veggie garden too
> so come summer I use even better ingredients!
> Not everyone likes or has time to cook and that's fine - but there are
> simple quick healthy meals that take the same or less time to prepare as
> all the pre-packaged expensive glop. My sister takes some time every
> weekend to prep ingredients - like chopping up carrots, onions, etc. and
> stores them in the fridge so they're ready to go when she's trying to get
> dinner going on a weeknight after work and that system is great for her.
> Anyway - rant done - Bon Appetit!!
> MelissaD
I used to cook a lot for my family, but not very much for myself. For one
person, making things from scratch might taste better and I'll even give you
the fact that it takes about the same amount of time, but tell me? Do you
happen to have a self cleaning kitchen.
Do all those mixing utensils, pots and pans and chopping boards clean
themselves? If they do, please let me in on your secret.
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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on April 28, 2009, 6:39 am
On 4/27/09 3:09 PM, in article gt4vvk$2u3$1@news.eternal-september.org,
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>> Trish Brown wrote:
>>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>>
>>>> When we see young (and not-so-young) mothers with a couple of children
>>>> in tow who fill their supermarket trolley with ready-prepared food
>>>> (burgers etc) and tinned produce Maureen often comments that with what
>>>> they spent they could buy a couple of joints of meat and some fresh
>>>> vegetables and, for the cost of an hour or two in preparation, give
>>>> their family several decent, much healthier and tastier meals.
>>>
>>> YES! My two favourite soapboxes are macaroni cheese and pikelets
>>> ('pikelets' is Oz for small, single-bite pancakes).
>>>
>>> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese and/or
>>> preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the time to
>>> cook like you do, Aunt!'
>>>
>>> Pppppbbbblllffftttt!
>>>
>>> It takes twenty five minutes to heat the frozen gloop they call macca and
>>> cheese, while I can whip up a scrumptious batch from scratch in exactly
>>> ten! (NB. I cook my pasta in the microwave while the cheese sauce bubbles
>>> on the stovetop) Bit o' flour, butter, milk, cheese and bob'syeruncle!
>>>
>>> Rather than pay three or four dollars for packaged pikelet gloop, it's
>>> just as simple to chuck a cup of flour, an egg, some sugar and some milk
>>> in a jug and mix! What's so hard about that???
>>>
>> Well I'm firmly on the side of cooking and baking from scratch - but I
>> really enjoy it and consider myself a "foodie". Yes there are times I
>> don't and I have a few staples such as canned soups or corn or jars of
>> pasta sauce in the cupboard. I work full-time (and more with my job
>> lately) and it takes some time but it's worth it to me. I try to make
>> double quantities of things when I can and freeze one batch for later -
>> very helpful on a busy night. Let's not even discuss baking - my fave -
>> homemade cookies, breads, biscuits, scones - always available in my house
>> :)
>>
>> I can buy pasta, some veggies and a bit of sausage and have enough for
>> several meals instead of paying double for something that's full of salt
>> and other things and don't taste as good. Not to sound like a snob but I
>> don't really like the taste of a lot of "pre-made" stuff - it seems very
>> artificial to my tastebuds. I do have some snack stuff like crackers for
>> my kids after school but we are not a big soda, chips, frozen pizza kind
>> of house. I'm lucky to have the room for a nice sized veggie garden too
>> so come summer I use even better ingredients!
>>
>> Not everyone likes or has time to cook and that's fine - but there are
>> simple quick healthy meals that take the same or less time to prepare as
>> all the pre-packaged expensive glop. My sister takes some time every
>> weekend to prep ingredients - like chopping up carrots, onions, etc. and
>> stores them in the fridge so they're ready to go when she's trying to get
>> dinner going on a weeknight after work and that system is great for her.
>>
>> Anyway - rant done - Bon Appetit!!
>>
>> MelissaD
>
>
>
> I used to cook a lot for my family, but not very much for myself. For one
> person, making things from scratch might taste better and I'll even give you
> the fact that it takes about the same amount of time, but tell me? Do you
> happen to have a self cleaning kitchen.
>
> Do all those mixing utensils, pots and pans and chopping boards clean
> themselves? If they do, please let me in on your secret.
>
OMG - I am so there. Yesterday, between leftover dishes from Sunday, April
break (kids are home), fridge clean out and dinner last night (all from
scratch), I ran the dish washer three times. And that doesn't include the
pots and pans and knives and the fridge bits
C
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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on April 28, 2009, 6:44 am
On 4/28/09 3:32 AM, in article 75npopF19bdr7U1@mid.individual.net, "Karen C
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> lucille wrote:
>>
>> I used to cook a lot for my family, but not very much for myself. For
>> one person, making things from scratch might taste better and I'll even
>> give you the fact that it takes about the same amount of time, but tell
>> me? Do you happen to have a self cleaning kitchen.
>>
>> Do all those mixing utensils, pots and pans and chopping boards clean
>> themselves? If they do, please let me in on your secret.
>
>
> I'll agree that I rely more on packaged things now that there's only one
> of me to feed. Not worth making mashed potatoes for one, so I use instant.
Oh come on, at least buy the frozen. The instant taste horrid.
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> As for the prep equipment, I simply bought a few extras so I could
> collect several days worth in the dishwasher.
>
Thinking about that - I'd buy an extra cutting board - the plastic, dish
washer safe kind so instead of one side for meat, the other for veggies, I
could just use both and not worry about chicken slime. (even when I prep the
other first)
C
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Posted by on April 28, 2009, 7:26 am
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:44:47 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
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>Thinking about that - I'd buy an extra cutting board - the plastic, dish
>washer safe kind so instead of one side for meat, the other for veggies, I
>could just use both and not worry about chicken slime. (even when I prep the
>other first)
>C
There's another myth ! (Not picking on you, just in general) I never
care about what I cut on what and all my family are very much alive
and well.
Come on people, we all have to eat a little dirt or some germs, all
this hyper sanitation such as bacteria bashing kitchen wipes etc are
brought to you by Madison Ave and have little to do with being
healthy.
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> In the bookstores, there are at least two books on "how to cook for a
> day and eat for a month". =A0I bought two of them to send to ds when he
> and his wife were both working - before kids, that is.
> The basic idea is that you spend a Saturday cooking all day; chicken,
> beef etc. etc. in various ways then freeze it all in specific size
> portions in freezer bags to save room. =A0Then, on weeknights, you stop
> off for fresh veggies a couple of times a week, and assemble healthy,
> tasty meals from your own pre-prepared meats plus nice fresh fruits and v=