What is a typical meal at your home?
#31
breakfast- cereal or a banana or toast.
lunch- tomatoe sandwich or lunch meat, pb&j
dinner- meat (standing at the meat counter the other day I turned aroound and walked away the prices are terrible. or chicken, potatoes or rice, or pasta, veggie or salad. I think really its going to be alot more of beans and rice and veggies. Desserts once in awhile.
lunch- tomatoe sandwich or lunch meat, pb&j
dinner- meat (standing at the meat counter the other day I turned aroound and walked away the prices are terrible. or chicken, potatoes or rice, or pasta, veggie or salad. I think really its going to be alot more of beans and rice and veggies. Desserts once in awhile.
#32
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Marengo, Iowa
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Originally Posted by Judie
I hate to cook anymore.. I used to love to cook.. but I have cooked and cooked and cooked.. Now that it's only my hubby and me.. and he won't eat much of anything 'different', like almost all veggies, or casseroles.. there isn't much we haven't had a thousand times in 41 years.. I hate to shop, I hate to cook, and I hate to clean it all up while watching him eat a bowl of cereal because he didn't want to eat his supper.. then worst of all, I hate to throw anything away, so I end up eating it as leftovers for lunch... geeze, who signed me up for that?
Boy, does that sound familiar. When the kids were all home, I loved to cook. When they were all gone, I learned to hate it because it seemed no matter what I fixed, he didn't or wouldn't eat it. That's the way he was raised & seemed to think I'd fix him a separate meal. SUPRISE!!!!!. That's what his mom did & I was expected to do the same. Another suprise. One would think that after 60 yrs. he would have learned. Now I'm alone and fix me some of the things that I loved as a child. But things are not as good when you have to make such small amounts. Don't mind leftovers a time or two, but after that, ugh.
#33
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Marengo, Iowa
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Originally Posted by Judie
I hate to cook anymore.. I used to love to cook.. but I have cooked and cooked and cooked.. Now that it's only my hubby and me.. and he won't eat much of anything 'different', like almost all veggies, or casseroles.. there isn't much we haven't had a thousand times in 41 years.. I hate to shop, I hate to cook, and I hate to clean it all up while watching him eat a bowl of cereal because he didn't want to eat his supper.. then worst of all, I hate to throw anything away, so I end up eating it as leftovers for lunch... geeze, who signed me up for that?
Boy, does that sound familiar. When the kids were all home, I loved to cook. When they were all gone, I learned to hate it because it seemed no matter what I fixed, he didn't or wouldn't eat it. That's the way he was raised & seemed to think I'd fix him a separate meal. SUPRISE!!!!!. That's what his mom did & I was expected to do the same. Another surprise. One would think that after 60 yrs. he would have learned. Now I'm alone and fix me some of the things that I loved as a child. But things are not as good when you have to make such small amounts. Don't mind leftovers a time or two, but after that, ugh.
#34
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: here and there
Posts: 423
Originally Posted by Marge L.
Originally Posted by Judie
I hate to cook anymore.. I used to love to cook.. but I have cooked and cooked and cooked.. Now that it's only my hubby and me.. and he won't eat much of anything 'different', like almost all veggies, or casseroles.. there isn't much we haven't had a thousand times in 41 years.. I hate to shop, I hate to cook, and I hate to clean it all up while watching him eat a bowl of cereal because he didn't want to eat his supper.. then worst of all, I hate to throw anything away, so I end up eating it as leftovers for lunch... geeze, who signed me up for that?
#35
All this talk about food is making me hungry! We eat wild meat, Buffalo, Elk mostly..shredded Moose stew (my favorite)Any leftovers any way the next day. Wild meat is leaner than any lean beef you can buy. Best tip my DM passed on: If your wild meat has a strong wild smell - which is normal and usually caused by the sage they eat, soak in milk in the fridge the night before. It reomoves the sage flavor and tenderizes.ummm!
#37
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Southern , Virginia
Posts: 1,518
We only eat 2 meals a day. Usually brunch or lunch and dinner. We were both raised on a farm so normaly it's meat, a vegtable and potatoes. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have meat , it's not a meal.
#39
If it was up to me I wouldn't cook at all. When my kids were growing up I had to cook every night. And then I had to clean the kitchen EVERY NIGHT. And then when they became teenagers, I would still cook for the most part probably 3 or 4 nights a week and then I would get mad because I would spend all that time cooking dinner for my kids and husband WITH LOVE and it wouldn't get ate. So then one day I decided..the heck with all of them, they can fend for themselves. And they did pretty much. But I always made sure there was healthy foods in the house.
I did alot of home canning. I canned everything under the sun pretty much. Except for milk that I was never able to do. One day I am going to get a pressure cooker and start canning stuff again. But my kids used to be able to go into the pantry and pull out pretty much what they wanted. I always had veggies and many many many pints of different meats, sauces stuff that they could make on their own.
I did alot of home canning. I canned everything under the sun pretty much. Except for milk that I was never able to do. One day I am going to get a pressure cooker and start canning stuff again. But my kids used to be able to go into the pantry and pull out pretty much what they wanted. I always had veggies and many many many pints of different meats, sauces stuff that they could make on their own.
#40
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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If you work around allergies you open a whole new can of stuff. Dh and Ds are milk intolerent. Sil was never been exposed to different types of foods and a 54 is only now trying some or starve says Dd. Me, well I swore I would never cook another potato when I left home. Acourse I have but only once a month or so. I love brown rice Kee wah bulgar, and rice pilaf. My folks were from the mid west and te potatoes 3 time a day. Everything came with potatoes and gravy and home made bread. Frenchfrys even turn me off.
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