What keeps you from cooking?
What would have to change for you so you wouldn't have to do it?
Do you think you'd be healthier and/or wealthier if you could eat meals made from scratch at home?
Do you associate homemade food with good or poor quality? Interesting food or dull? I
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M$2) I am a single male, living alone.
When my girlfriend is over we cook, but the night I am alone it is hard to find the motivation to cook for one.
Personal experience
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Homemade food is the best, though.
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M$4. I live by myself, so any serious cooking usually requires leftovers;
3. I travel too much, so perishables tend to rot in my refrigerator;
2. I can really only assemble food, I do not have any real technique; and
1. I do not have enough self-discipline.
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Actually, tracebooks, I do try to have a serious cooking day once every couple of weeks and put 2-3 servings of 3-4 things in the freezer. I also cook and freeze certain items in bulk, such as chorizo and buttermilk biscuits. Fortunately I do not mind leftovers, although I don't like there to be more than 10 cooked things total in the freezer because otherwise I find myself wasting food due to being in there too long.
Those are good reasons. Are you home a couple of nights a week? You could make something those nights you could use in other forms the other nights. Tonight's chili-lime pork roast could turn into the basis for burritos later (freeze the leftovers). Or Asian grilled chicken tonight could become part of a stir-fry later. That would let you use recipes that normally serve 4 or 6. You could get the salad mixes or whatever just for the nights you'll be home.
Cooking is time-consuming, so it's understandable why some prefer not to do it. I think a little practical knowledge would come in very useful though. If everyone had to do some sort of cooking course, there would be much more home cooking.
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Would something that taught you to cook at the same time it provided you with what to cook for the week help? I subscribed to something like that for a couple of years and it really helped me.
Yep, it is almost as much work to cook for one as it is to cook for five.
And because so many things come in portions that are too much for one person, there's either lots of waste, or the boredom of eating the same thing over and over.
Plus single people don't have the same daily routine as families. They get home at irregular hours, are out often in the evenings. Many times don't even have a regular day of the week they go shopping.
I'm going to let this one go to vote. All these are excellent reasons for not cooking at home. I've noticed for many it's because you're single, and it really is tough to cook for one.
I do it only beacuse it´s cheaper
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So...right now, I don't cook because Mom is a) more interested in it than I am; b) a lot better at it than I am; and c) insanely possessive of her kitchen. If I go in there and attempt to cook, I might stagger out with a bloody nub where my arm used to be. :)
However: When I'm off on my own, I do cook way more often than I order pizza or takeout or whatever. I cook lots of fairly-simple meals, especially those that use some sort of pasta, because it's hard for me to mess those up.
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Yeah, Moms tend to want everything done just right in their own kitchens. And some moms teach by yelling--but there may be something to learn in there. I've been on both ends of the equation. I think I was just about where you are when I was in college.
One good and healthy thing to do is throw protein at salad: grilled sausage, shrimp, leftover roast chicken or beef etc., plus a sharp cheese and some nuts. It's really terrific and you can impress people with it. Salad mix plus some kind of meat/fish plus interesting cheese plus nuts plus maybe some fresh basil = great item for picnic or date at home.
That is a really terrific record! In one way, though, you've saved tons of money in the long haul, by improving your health.