You forgot the 40+ hours of work a week just to afford the ingridients.
You forgot breathing in and out 24/7 to stay alive to get to your soul-sucking job.
Life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to constantly breathe.
That’s what I thought until I discovered osmosis! Buy my new book!
Working many of the hours to afford a car. So that you can get to/from work.
Yep, you don’t cook.
Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.
Edit: “fictional” to “fictionalized”
I try.
Done
So, I was right.
My solution is just to act like I’m cooking for 12 people, and have leftovers for the rest of the week.
Yep I batch cook too, I make 4 portions then eat 2 and freeze 2. Eating over 2 days obvs
Yup, I’m doing the same. Cooking 4 portions, then eating them all while crying
I cook four portions, my husband has a portion, I have one too, my son then eats two portions and says he’s still hungry.
You can’t meal prep with pre-teens/teens in the house. This kid will eat leftover roast chicken for breakfast, like the whole damn thing.
I cry while grocery shopping and pray to saint peanut butter for help
Lucky you! I’ve got a simple solution, only use single use plastic, then all you have to do is just put a big plastic bag over your table and when you’re done eating you just pick up the bag, close it all up and throw it away and that way you just leave the problem to your grandchildren and they’ll die from climate change.
climate change AND microplastics in their food
You do the cooking with single use plastic too?
TV dinner.
I prefer computer monitor dinner.
Tin foil, tin pans, microwave. Be more creative!
For a more balanced diet you could also use yang pans.
Now your comment makes no sense, bazinga!
As often is the case
I also add shredded PFAS to my tomatoes 🤌
- Pretty
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- Awesome
- Shit that is poison
Genius!!!
2 hours of cooking for a 10 minute meal sounds like a skill issue.
My last dinner was 12hrs of cooking for a 10min meal. I love slow cooker beef and veggies stew
Yeah that’s like first time making a recipe. Third time around, the kitchen should be doing most of the work for you. You can just casually prep and blend while listening to a podcast.
leftovers are the goal
The term is meal prep
just cook bigger portions, i usually make enough food to last half a week
I’ve been eating the same two-pound portion of taco meat for the past four days. Usually in soft-shell tacos, but sometimes in frittatas. The trick is to be dead inside.
This is ideal because the tortilla IS the plate.
You’re not dead inside until you move to hard tacos.
I love tacos. I could eat tacos every day and never get tired of them. All varieties are good with me. Corn tortillas, flour tortillas, crispy fried tacos, taquito, even crunchy taco shells. There used to be a dive bar near where I lived in 2015 that would do $5 for 5 beef or bean crunchy tacos with cheese, lettuce, dice tom, and sour cream and I’d easily polish off 10-20 of those with a beer or two (I don’t live near there anymore and the bar closed down right before COVID due to the building be demo’d)
My wife isn’t big on eating the same thing for more than 2 days in a row and I miss the days of eating tacos 4-5 times a week by choice.
You’re not dead inside. You’re living a dream of mine right now.
do you people just cook for a single meal wtf
If you’re Single yea why not
so you don’t end up like the meme? idk what being single has to do with anything. if you’re spending two hours to cook it better not be for one meal; that’s a huge waste of time.
The one who cooks shouldn’t be the one to clean unless, of course, you live alone.
I live alone and I think this is a great idea
Hmm… Maybe after dinner, take a walk and ask random strangers to do your dishes. 😆
Hire prostitutes and make them do your dishes. Tell them it’s your kink.
And here I get the side eye and a sigh when I want to talk about my feelings together. 😢
At that point, we’re just doing the dishes and talking about our feelings.
The authorities were very clear that I need to stop doing that.
My demented father cannot even use the bathroom correctly. He will not help me.
What happened to all that Spaghetti-Ohs money?
Slow cooker is fren
Turns beef into beef flavored chicken, I love it.
I’ve seen people complain that loading and emptying the dishwasher takes an hour.
Total time for loading is broken up over quite a few meals for me (usually). It also can take a little time extra if you have to do some extra drying on unloading. That said, it’s probably 20 minutes total AND uses less water AND means that I don’t have to do the majority of the work. I love my dishwasher.
HOW
I get that it can feel that way, but if you actually time it, it’s like 15 minutes.
Make less elaborate meals or learn to chop faster.
I wash as I cook. Usually you have moments when you’re waiting anyway. Means I have serving dishes only afterwards.
Had to make it a habit though in order to force myself to do it. Took years to train the habit.
I’m trying to not do that, because I always forget that I’ll need the things I’ve just washed again.
I wash as I go too, but there are still the after dinner dishes, and like the main pot/pan left over, the forks, the endless cups the just accumulate everywhere with having a whole family with adhd…
I tend to make everything by scratch, so I’ve only myself to blame (it’s cheaper tho). Washing as you go helps, but it’s not a full cure.
I posted cookies I made last night, and the only reason I didnt melt the butter with the lemon zest was to save pulling out and dirting my sauce pan I just cleaned from dinner.
I do that, but the more complicated the meal, the less down time there is, and the more stuff there is you can’t clean up until the end.
Also, if you use serving dishes, rather than just serve out of the pot / pan, that’s another thing to clean. It’s true that cleaning a pot or pan is normally a bit harder than a serving dish. But, IMO the extra bit to clean means it’s not worth it.
It is a bit of a triumph when the only thing to clean after dinner is a single pot or pan though. And, pro-tip, you can make the pans easier to clean after dinner if you dump a bit of water in them as you’re sitting down to eat. Even 30 minutes is enough to turn the remains of a delicious sauce into sludge at the bottom of the pan. But, soaking while you eat makes it super quick to scrape it out afterwards.
This is what I do, so nice to have just a few dishes at the end
Listen to podcasts, or watch something during cooking dude.
that’s how my podcast list came to be
We recently got an airfryer. it helps cut down prep time and ease of cleaning to the point I don’t get upset about it anymore. Would highly recommend if you haven’t got one already
Make it so it last 3 days. Not really a big deal.
I feel like the post is more about the moment of, not the days after. Making several days worth of food doesn’t delay the need to do dishes once you’re done eating tonight’s dinner.
No but having one plate, one reusable box, one fork, one knife and one wine glass to wash is a lot less than all the things I use for cooking.
Knives, spoons, blender, pans, pots, containers, and most annoyingly, the cutting board. Because you want to take care of that nice wooden cuttingboard and make sure it’s clean and dry.
Like they’re going to eat left-overs…
I might get away with white rice that I can make fried rice out of the next day
I think you over estimate people’s ability to cook these days.
