As a single-person household I usually don't cook dinners that much in a week. But I like cooked (rather than cereal-with-stuff-on) breakfasts, and never really settled on sandwiches for lunch and so tend to build lunches out of 'real' food.
In summer I tend to prepare meals that are mostly salad with some no-heat-required protein added; I am counting this as 'cooking' since it requires similar levels of preparation. But I don't really count making bread in the breadmaker as 'cooking' even though it produces a very good result.
I also give myself a bit of leeway because although some of my food is ready meals/eating out/takeaway, some of my food is "Go to the park, see what edible stuff is growing, pick it, wash it, eat it." I'm aiming for once or twice a week on this, though it varies a lot with season. The fruit and nuts that I preserve in the summer and autumn are also eaten during the rest of the year. I used to do some gardening as well, and while growing some of my own vegetables hardly counts as 'cooking' I feel it belongs in the food production category of my life. Right now I don't have space for growing any food other than sprouted seeds, and I'm seldom organised enough for that.
I enjoy cooking and would like to do more of it, but when I spend 10-12 hours/day at my place of study and an hour commuting each way, then go out and do things in the evening, I simply don't have the energy or the time. Cooking things to freeze is useful but my freezer space is very limited, and also I teach all day on Sunday and so cooking for the week and weekends doesn't always work very well.
When I have no classes I cook more (with the exception of these past few weeks when I've been using 'spare' time caused by not having classes to find, rent and move into a new flat). When I am visiting others I cook more.
When I grow up I shall have an enormous chest freezer and pre-make many things.
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Date: 2008-04-06 11:05 pm (UTC)In summer I tend to prepare meals that are mostly salad with some no-heat-required protein added; I am counting this as 'cooking' since it requires similar levels of preparation. But I don't really count making bread in the breadmaker as 'cooking' even though it produces a very good result.
I also give myself a bit of leeway because although some of my food is ready meals/eating out/takeaway, some of my food is "Go to the park, see what edible stuff is growing, pick it, wash it, eat it." I'm aiming for once or twice a week on this, though it varies a lot with season. The fruit and nuts that I preserve in the summer and autumn are also eaten during the rest of the year. I used to do some gardening as well, and while growing some of my own vegetables hardly counts as 'cooking' I feel it belongs in the food production category of my life. Right now I don't have space for growing any food other than sprouted seeds, and I'm seldom organised enough for that.
I enjoy cooking and would like to do more of it, but when I spend 10-12 hours/day at my place of study and an hour commuting each way, then go out and do things in the evening, I simply don't have the energy or the time. Cooking things to freeze is useful but my freezer space is very limited, and also I teach all day on Sunday and so cooking for the week and weekends doesn't always work very well.
When I have no classes I cook more (with the exception of these past few weeks when I've been using 'spare' time caused by not having classes to find, rent and move into a new flat). When I am visiting others I cook more.
When I grow up I shall have an enormous chest freezer and pre-make many things.