This. A majority of the people at work get lunch from the adjacent restaurant EVERY day. I don’t understand how they afford it.
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For me, it would be more difficult to eat food not on the plan than to just eat whatever I’ve prepared, because if I haven’t planned for it, I haven’t bought it. So not only would I have to prepare it, I’d have to go buy it too. That seems like a lot of hassle, so I typically won’t bother. I flat out don’t get the way most people seem to shop.
I mean, yeah, I do that too, but I also prepare all my evening meals in advance as well.
Bad financial priorities. I know people who drive around brand new top of the range cars while still renting the property they live in. People can be really dumb.
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I hate shopping, I buy everything in bulk, freeze whatever I can! I just cook every time I eat ahahah
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I’m sorta the opposite. I mostly hate cooking (and cleaning up after it) but don’t mind shopping a few times per week. Though I buy in “bulk” (probably doesn’t compare to how a family would) when I go to Costco, I’m partially limited by how much I can buy at once, and I also don’t buy everything at one place. So I cook a ton of meat and fish on one day every couple of weeks and refrigerate or freeze it.
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@aldebaran I’m lazy. We do an online order once a week that I go and pick up. Takes me about quarter of an hour, tops to plan and buy. Cook maybe once, twice a week. Three times if I’m feeling kinky. My family don’t typically eat the same food as me, even though we eat at the same time, so it’s easier for mine to be a simple reheat or assemble job.
@Bagsy I do not have the time or patience to shop around like that or storage space to keep much bulk buying stuff.
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If you don’t, you’re just eating leftovers all time.
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That doesn’t seem to be a big drama to me.
Today I had cottage pie (minced beef, covered in mashed potatoes basically), like I have for the last 3 days. Already cooked, just sprinkle with cheese and oven bake, microwave a bag of veg to go on the side and I challenge you to be able to tell the difference between the one I had today and the one on Thursday that was “fresh”.
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Honestly I think I’ll try to do it your way at some point, it sure saves time, especially in terms of dirty pans and dishes… But I don’t have the motivation to stay there and cook for 2 hours lol
Right? Everything tastes better when it comes fresh out of the oven/pan!
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I don’t mind one rerun then I am over it. I don’t care for making a big something like stew or casserole and keep eating it till it’s gone. Just not my thing. I will put the rest in the freezer and eat in a couple weeks or so but not just over and over.
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Read my edit above, most of my meals do.
You don’t have to if you choose the right things. You just have to have a high tolerance for eating the same thing for a few days in a row.
I’d do that if I had freezer space. Fuck it, if I had freezer space, I’d probably buy and cook once a month.
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Yes it does sound delicious…
I have no problem eating the same shit everyday. But then I’d have to invest in ridiculously large pans or something. My traditional post workout wok fills out my whole wok (100 gr uncooked rice, 250 gr meat, 400 gr veggies). Maybe I could cook two in it? Maaaaaybe
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I’d probably cook the rice fresh everytime, save storage space and pan space.
Chest freezers aren’t super expensive but can be very useful. I can store beef in a chest freezer and frozen vegetables in my regular freezer.
I don’t mind swinging by a grocery store twice a week or so after working. Helps me get some more steps in, and they’re not that far from me. I’m pretty busy too but don’t view this as a time waster. Of course, I’m not driving 40 minutes one way to a specialty grocer or something. I have an Aldi a mile from me and a Whole Foods right off the transit stops I frequent. Costco is the only “event” for me, which is a 30 minute bus ride. But that only happens 1-2 times per month.
Of course, different people have different circumstances.
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Genuinely prefer things like cottage pie and lasagna the next day, flavours develop more fully.
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I literally work in food shops, so it’s not a drama for me to pick up extras, I just prefer to have this stuff done and out of my brain pan.
But a chest freezer is definitely high on me and my better halfs list once we have space. This was a deciding factor in us realising we were old, we no longer talked about holidays to the Maldives but about buying a chest freezer so we could store more food.
Haven’t had a lasagna in a while, that’s a good call. Once I trick this stupid app to let me have grown up portions, that might make the menu.
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I love lasagna, haven’t had it in a while either, mainly because there is a few extra steps than Bolognese so I make that more. Might do it - my weekly shop almost always remains the same (2kg of mince, 1kg of chicken, some sausages, bacon and ham covers the meat, frozen veg because I’m 100% about convenience, then frozen carbs or rice/pasta) then cycle through various options from there for cooking no prep for me.
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You cook for your whole family though, I believe. I’m only cooking for me.
What are frozen carbs? Is that ice cream?
I made lasagna two days ago. Ate it it twice and the rest is in the freezer for another day.
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