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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: MimicMLP on July 11, 2012, 04:44:59 PM
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Hi
okay so I thought I would ask what y'all make for dinner on a regular basis because I am having and issue.
I never learned how to cook when I was younger and my mom always made the same things...Hamburger helper, frozen pizza or hotdogs...easy things.
Now that I'm married (going on 3 years now) my husband doesn't understand why i have trouble knowing what to make for supper. I HATE cooking, bakeing, frying, and pretty much doing anything in the kitchen (except eating of course lol). My husband says we are the only family that doesnt eat a home made full course meal every night.
And I simply don't believe this is true...But I want stats to back me up. lol
So, that being said....What do YOU make for supper?
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Either I just grab something random, we go out, or hubby cooks. He likes cooking and me not so much. I prefer baking. So, he typically cooks and I make cake. :happy:
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It's just hubby and me here and he's *extremely* picky! So a lot of times we either get take out, I make him grilled cheese and hotdogs.... or rice and chilli... or something easy because that's all he'll eat. *grumbles*
If I have my choice I will cook meals that are a little more complete... hamburgers with a salad, or vegetable beef soup, or fried chicken with potatoes and a vegetable.
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You are DEFINITELY not the only family that doesn't eat a full course meal at home every night!
I cook at home, but it tends to be simple things like taco salad, turkey burgers, soups, pasta, etc. Sometimes I go all out and make tamales but that's only because they are fantastic and it makes so many it is worth the effort.
Do you have a slow cooker? That makes things pretty easy just dump stuff in and come home to dinner making the kitchen smell good. If you don't have one yet, they are pretty cheap.
What type of foods do you and hubby like to eat? Maybe we could get you some good simple recipes sent over. My hubby and I like to cook together, it can be fun :)
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I only eat a full course meal in the event that I go to a restaurant or someone comes over.
A lot of times I'll just have whatever I find around the kitchen. My default foods are tuna salad with all kinds of veggies in it or a tex mexish type thing which is basically beans, corn, salsa, and cheese nuked in the microwave and eaten with an avocado and/or sliced up tomato. I really hate touching raw meat and in general eating a lot of meat, but occassionally I'll buy some ground turkey and make dirty rice with extra onions, garlic, mushrooms, and some bell peppers at the last minute for crispness. I'm pretty much perfectly content with the one course/food item deal which isn't so bad considering how much vegetable I'll put into stuff just because I can. It's that or eat cheese and crackers which can also make for a fine meal. Mmmm. I'm more of a sides person anyway.
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After having eliminated wheat and grains from my diet, I pretty much have to make my own food from scratch. Nearly everything processed has wheat, starch or grains in it. Or even just sugar or bad oils.
So I tend to just make myself meat and veggies, or salads, or omelets. My food is very repetitious right now because our income is nearly nonexistent, or else I'd make myself more extravagant recipes. :D
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I just cook for myself (husb works nights), and I'm learning to eat right, so my meals are becoming more like elvenwine's. I just make sure it's balanced. I mainly focus on veggies, it has to have protein, then the carbs & fat just work their way in. I gained sooo much weight after I moved in with my SO because he's a picky eater, and I found it easier to just take on his diet (frozen pizza, hotdogs, mac n cheese, burgers, & ramen) instead of figuring out meals every night. Now I read healthy cooking food blogs/recipes to get ideas... I like to try new things! But what I don't understand is why your husband doesn't pitch in & lead by example.
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I'm a strict vegetarian, so I mostly make food at home. I used to cook from scratch about 90% of the time, but with a toddler and a full-time job you just don't have that much time anymore, so I tend to stick to quicker recipes these days. I'll make a batch of TVP (textured soy-based protein with a ground meat like consistency), seitan (wheat-meat) or a lentil loaf and refrigerate it for use during the week, with a simple vegetable side, and some fruit or occasionally other things for dessert. I find myself ordering out more these days as well - there's a great cheap Japanese place down the street where I can get grilled tofu, veggies, and rice if I just don't have the time or energy.
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Well, It depends. For supper, usually I'm too lazy to cook and will munch on ready-to-eat cookies or dunk them in a cup of coffee. Sometimes I'll make butter sandwich. But usually nothing too heavy because I'd already have dinner.
I can cook tho- somewhat. I'm planning to attempt to make lasagna this weekend just to see if I can do it.
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I'm not the best cook as my mother was also not a good cook and I am a vegetarian while my husband is not. I don't have the skills or patience for much cooking and we prefer crummy boxed stuff anyway, so that's us. We've been happily married for 4 years. At first he was adamant about me cooking more, but now we are set in our ways. I do cook very rarely, but we prefer the "every man for himself" method and occasionally grabbing food elsewhere (Panera Bread ... healthy-ish and delicious!).
You're definitely not the only ones out there!
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My guy drives a truck so it is only me during the week so on the weekends when he is home I try to do something nice. During the week when it is just myself I'll usually either eat leftovers from the weekend or make something easy like ramen or microwave burritos.
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Mom uually cooks, but I cook on occasion. I am decent with baking and breakfasts. And simple stuff.
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I went with the "something easy from a box", but that's usually combined with something in the microwave. It all depends on the day and what's going on and how we feel. Occasionally we do a "proper" meal, often we do something boxes/microwave, and often fast food (either something like McDonald's, or picking up those pre-cooked chickens from the store).
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Thanks for the replys everyone! This helps me alot! lol
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Usually something from scratch, never anything really complicated though or something you can shove in the oven. My brother started a diet last week so we've been doing more from scratch cooking at home.
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Im a special case..where ill actually have to help out or make something for the family..but I cant eat any of it since im limited to maybe 5% of foods out there at the moment.
Im usually reduced to things like chicken or sourdough bread. Things left in their original state or made from scratch (since im super sensitive to almost everything)
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I use bought sauces, but I bulk them with veg I bought and add starches like rice and stuff.
I try to shop at the local grocer and butchers, and when the grocers gets more established I'm going to get local eggs too. It's hard, but it makes me feel like I'm keeping Sweet Apple Acres in business when I support local stores.
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i usually have things made form scratch one day we have things on toast e.g spaghetti/beans/egg ,then one day i make thingsfrom the frezzer e.g chips and chicken scallops then i will make a cassarole either beef lamb or chicken and then one bday we have take out pizza /chinese and on sunday i do a roast chicken /lamb with carrots roasty taters parsnips gravy and mint sauce yum yum yum !!!! xaflamex
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I usually make a boxed dinner, since it is quick and easy, but I will also make things from scratch too. :)
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I voted "someone else makes it for me." I'm still in college so there's a cafeteria.
When I make food for myself it's usually something boxed. Though I am known on campus for making good meat dishes out of unusual meat (so far the favorite has been ostrich followed up by kangaroo.) I also like making Japanese food like rice balls, noodles, and curry rice.
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It when we get home/what we feel like, although I usually try to make something easy from scratch (like pasta, gratins, chilli, salad, something random with chicken), but we tend to revert to eating frozen pizza, baked beans on toast or one of those miracoli tomato sauce things about 2 or 3 times a week... Although I have no idea why I find it hard to get motivated to cook, since I usually get back home from uni at about 4:30, I'm just lazy I guess x) My boyfriend sometimes tries to help out, although he usually only makes hamburgers!
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I cook but not everything is homemade I like o take some shortcuts to make yummy dinners. W try not to ea out a lot...but I don't always like to cook and my hubby can't cook a lot of things, so we stil eat out now and then.
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I'm one of those annoying homey-fianceés XP I do make a homemade-full-dinner every night. And if I don't feel too cook I just do pankakes ^__^ or soup.
My fianceé have to bring lunch with him every day for work, so I usually cook big meals on sundays to cover his whole week :)
But I know I'm a bit on the extreme side, And not all people have the time or energy too cook this much. It's only because It's an interrest of mine that I do :)
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I'm one of those annoying homey-fianceés XP I do make a homemade-full-dinner every night. And if I don't feel too cook I just do pankakes ^__^ or soup.
My fianceé have to bring lunch with him every day for work, so I usually cook big meals on sundays to cover his whole week :)
But I know I'm a bit on the extreme side, And not all people have the time or energy too cook this much. It's only because It's an interrest of mine that I do :)
You're an inspiration, I would keep at it. :)
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When I have the time and the budget for cooking at home, I do. But I tend to make simple meals. I am fond of One dish meals.. Like Stew, or Chili, or Chicken casserole or Lasagna. Sometimes I do pork loin or meatloaf or grilled chicken, and may do one side with it.
A lot of the time, we eat out. Surprisingly, I was spending almost as much money buying food to cook at home, as I was eating out. We eat pretty cheap stuff when we eat out.. But I got curious and kept a list of what I spent on each meal and I was shocked. I dont buy expensive groceries.. yet each meal cost about $20 in ingredients most times. Maybe $15. And thats about what we spend when we get fast food or delivery.
When I do cook, I like to use Allrecipes.com to find a recipe to try. I have an app for it on my phone that is sort of neat. It has a dinner spinner and you can get a random meal suggestion based on meat, veggies, and stuff. You can tell it what ingredients you have that you want to use up, and it will suggest a recipe that uses those things. It is a great place to find recipes to use as a learning base also. You can learn how to make something, then change it bit by bit to fit your tastes.
I even uploaded my favorite potato soup recipe there. But I am the only one to have rated it lol. http://allrecipes.com/personalrecipe/62975773/rich-and-cheesy-potato-soup/detail.aspx
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I try to cook dinner most nights, but since I work, it's usually something very easy. Most nights we have baked fish or chicken (season with a rub or sauce, then stick in the oven), plus a vegetable (stir fried or raw). If you have the Food Network, I recommend the "30 minute meals" show because everything made on there is simple and can be made within 30 minutes.
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Dry cereal bc I'm ridiculous and it's the only thing I'll tolerate. :silly:
Cereals I'll have.. Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Grahams (they're called Curiously Cinnamon over here!! I actually hate cinnamon :blink:), Cookie Crisp, Apple Jacks (on the rare occasions I can get them), Shreddies and Frosted Shreddies. :D
I used to like Frosties, Cornflakes, Golden Nuggets and Crunchy Nut.. but now I don't. :lol: I don't like Coco Pops, Rice Krispies, Honey Cheerios (normal ones are bearable), Sugar Puffs (vile!), and I think Special K is only worth eating in a cereal bar as it tastes disgusting by itself. :drunk: Who honestly thought of that omg.
Funnily enough, I can say I'm a fantastic cook. I can prepare elaborate meals for others.. Italian food and vegetarian dishes especially, and I know seasoning, herbs and spices well. I've been cooking since I was 13. I'm constantly baking too, it's a stress reliever. I just won't eat what I cook. :lmao:
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I plan our meals weekly and my partner makes them. I am very good at coming up with our creations.
Tomorrow night we're making a new concoction that I came up with. A flatbread made with chicken marinated in a sweet chili sauce, drizzled with honey and finished with asiago cheese. We'll have that with a cucumber soup.
Last night I had us whip up pork chops with a balsamic vinegarette and cranberry sauce.
I have a lot of recipes saved on my pinterest and we've made about 94% of them. Check them out!
https://pinterest.com/brimeetsbooks/recipes/
I get most of my recipes from a low cal website called skinnytaste.com
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I rarely ever have an actual "meal". I generally graze on snack foods.
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Probably 6 out of 7 dinners, I make at home. We go out once, maybe twice a week, unless we're both really busy or I don't have anything planned/forgot to defrost stuff. I make most stuff from scratch, but it's fairly simple during the week, mainly pastas, stir-fries, pan-seared fish, etc. On the weekends, or when we have guests, I make more complicated stuff.
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I had to answer "other" because we don't have a set eating plan at ALL. Part of this has to do with the fact that I can bake up a storm but am just now (after 5 years of being married, and almost 10 being a "grown up") starting to figure out how to cook. The other parts of it are that I'm a vegetarian that doesn't really like vegetables that much and my husband isn't, and that he works a rotating shift schedule, so sometimes my dinner time is his breakfast time and that kind of thing.
I'm trying to change this for the healthier and better, but as it is right now, we probably eat out (lumping together fast food with actual sit-down restaurants here, because our dining locations change pretty frequently) 50% of the time. What we don't eat out is probably 20% prepare-it-from-a-box (granted, I usually add a lot of stuff that isn't called for to whatever I'm making, so it's about half "home made" by the time I'm done), 15% frozen-type things, 5% completely home made food, and the other 10% of the time, we're absolutely terrible and just snack for our "meals."
Like I said, I know that this is a horrible way for us to be living, and I'm actually working on my cooking skills pretty hard trying to get things in a healthier balance. I never thought I'd say this, but it kind of helps in the learning to cook department that I'm unemployed right now, because there is none of the getting home at 5 already tired from work and needing to face a kitchen to feed a hungry family. When I start feeling my tummy rumble, I ask my husband (if he's home) if he's getting hungry, we gauge the "severity" of our hunger and I decide what to make (or try to make) from there.
*Edit to add* I should probably add that I'm a terribly picky eater, too. On top of being a "super taster" (I've got about 3x more taste buds than the average person and can literally pick apart flavors in everything that I eat - it can get annoying), I'm also very particular about the consistency of the foods I eat. Take for example, I love oats. I love them dry, I love them in cookies, but I can't force myself to swallow the consistency of oatmeal. Things like that. My consistency-aversion limits a lot of what I eat.
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We're vegetarian and our food budget is kind of small for our family size so I plan out everything and make probably 95% of our meals from scratch. I'll usually make more for dinner and then we'll have leftovers for lunch the next day. That and I like to avoid processed foods, additives, etc. and it's easier to control what goes into your food if you make it all yourself. When we do get take out, it's usually pizza or some type of ethnic cuisine (Indian, Thai, Ethiopian, Japanese). For quick stuff, usually some kind of simple pasta dish or bean tacos.
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My husband and I usually eat out 2-3 times a week, This includes Dunkin donuts on the weekends. We eat a lot of fresh fish, especially salmon. We have been buying organic meats lately. We have found it tastes so much better. Its more expensive but I try to buy it from our local grocery store when its close to expire. They put in on drastic sale, so I usually stock up. This is why we a huge freezer. We eat a lot of fresh veggies. I have 12-13 tomatoe plants, a bunch of lettuce, 10 or so various pepper plants, basil, parsley.
We have been trying to eat better, we make our owm pizza and wings now too. We have been eating Dreamfeilds pastas, and the Rotini Garden pastas. I love, love, love chicken burgers on wheat buns with swiss chesse!! It is so good!!!!
But the sweets kill me!!! I love oreos, muffins fresh from the grocery store. But I guess it all evens out in the end. We got these hotdogs that are all antural and uncured. They are Applegate brand. The turkey ones are gross though, which really surprised us and disappointed us.
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We make our food everynight. Most of the time it's meat-free since I'm a vegetarian and my mother wants my dad to eat healthier. We make really interesting dishes so my dad doesn't notice that it's meatless. ;3
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A little bit OT, but RainbowRevolver - have you ever used Morning Star's "ground meatless" crumbles? I use it in a lot of things, and my mom even made chili with it when I was still living at home. Apparently, it's pretty accurate in taste and texture (I wouldn't know, I haven't eaten meat in 13 years, and forgot what it's like, lol) that it fooled my pretty hard-core meat-eating dad into thinking I was eating meat the first time he ate it.
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A little bit OT, but RainbowRevolver - have you ever used Morning Star's "ground meatless" crumbles? I use it in a lot of things, and my mom even made chili with it when I was still living at home. Apparently, it's pretty accurate in taste and texture (I wouldn't know, I haven't eaten meat in 13 years, and forgot what it's like, lol) that it fooled my pretty hard-core meat-eating dad into thinking I was eating meat the first time he ate it.
(whoops I need to be better at replying to things)
I use them a lot and had my hardcore, meat loving dad tell me the food was the best he's had (doesn't know it isn't meat, hehe). My mom made some stuffed bell peppers a few weeks ago with the crumbles, rice, onion, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce. Yum!
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i pretty much live on sirfrys they are super easy to make (rice cookers are awesome) takes around 15 and there are so many different sauces and they are pretty healthy!
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Latley most of what we've been eating is salad. I think partly due to the weather and partly as my dad is redoing the kitchen so he's also sorting out dinner so its whatever he cobbles together.
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Nothing is better than a home cooked meal made with love!
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I get a lot of satisfaction from making something myself, even if it's just something basic like soup or stew. So I make nearly every meal from scratch, though sometimes we have a 'naughty day' and will order a pizza D:
We don't eat out very often, as my OH resents paying a high price for something I could have made myself, haha. And most of the time, he's right! XD Though I am not skilled at sushi... Need to learn how to do that!
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i cook alot of thai foods and other very spicy stuff. anything hot really ^^ , in other words alot of fresh vegetables ( broccoli,onion,paprica,chilifruits, and that white type of broccoli wich i never remember the name of in english -.-), with seafood or chicken / beef. i also love cooking fresh fish , like salmon in the owen with just some olive oil sprinkled over it with lemon slices, salt and some pepper, super delicious and quite simple ^^.
I love cooking and prefer that to "premade food" or half-fabrics and such =), but then i also have a passion in cooking, so getting motivated is easy. ofcourse some days its just easier to order something froma resturant, usually salads then
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I usually make home-cooked meals. But we do have four kids, and on the evenings that we are pinched for time (such as if the girls have dance class, or I or my husband have meetings) then I have my go-to recipes that take 30 minutes or less to make.
We'll go out to eat about twice a month (so every other Saturday). Sundays we usually eat with my parents, or invite friends over for dinner. Where we live it's pretty mild weather, so we use our grill year-round (which I LOVE!!).
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The majority of what I cook is mainly from scratch. But I do buy some already prepared or mostly prepared foods and doctor those up.
My husband can't cook beyond following simple instructions on a box (or hamburgers..lol) so I'm left to do the cooking.
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Vegan who's worked food service jobs enough to have little trust of stuff I haven't made myself, so most my meals are homemade. Each lots of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese-style cooking(started cooking from scratch more than ever while in China, so most my staples come from that). Tonight was comfort foods, cong you bing and 'whatever's in the fridge' stir fry(turned out to be bok choy, bella and enoki mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, tofu, garlic, red onion, and scallions) w/ rice.
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We always eat home-cooked meals, both due to the price of fast-food, and our gluten-free diet. We usually eat salads, accompanied with the occasional gluten-free pizza or porkchop.