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I probably shouldn't spend the money, but I finally signed up for the Menu Mailer at SavingDinner.com, which I've been meaning to do for quite a while. Every time I've mentioned it before, runsamuck poo-poos it because he doesn't use recipes, and apparently he can just memorize a shopping list for the week and get everything needed (except he doesn't). He pulls one of his textbooks out of the cookbook cupboard, and tells me it has all the shopping list I need for whatever reason, never mind that it's geared for cooking for 40-400 people - oh you can adjust that all in your head down to five, can't you?
You know, there's a reason I need a calculator to play 301 in darts, dearest.
Unlike him, I'm not a trained chef, and somehow it seems like I wind up doing a lot of the cooking. Which means we have spaghetti or Hamburger Helper a lot. I'm just not organized and anything that will take the thinking out of making meals for everyone sounds good. If I don't have to spend the time making up a menu and figuring out what I need to buy for it (which I frankly find overwhelming to just think about right now), and having everything on hand so I don't have to get home from work, open the fridge door and go, "Now what the hell have we got, and what the frack can I make with it...", that's all to the good, especially since he's going to be asleep until 9pm four days a week, when I have to wake him up to go to work. Since he started, half the time we've had either frozen pot pies or cereal for dinner.
I used to like cooking. I used to have friends over and make something fancy, like Indian food. But now I have picky eaters who won't eat half of what I make and my brain is fried by the time I get home from work. I know John sees it as a creative outlet, but it's not my medium. Not something I want to be experimental in. I'm not saying I won't try something new, but you gotta tell me how to do it - I'm not going to make it up on my own, unless it's something I've done a million times like stir-fry or soup.
It has menus for six days of the week, leftovers can be lunches, and you can select from various types (Body Clutter, Heart Healthy, Regular, with vegetarian and Kosher options listed for each). If you want to swap out recipes, you can do that and it changes the shopping list for you.
Dad did most of the grocery shopping; we let him because he liked to and it was really his only getting out of the house. But he really didn't buy the most healthy diet in the world, and he got a lot of junk. Since he passed away, we've been just grabbing what we need right before we make it, and I'm sure we wind up spending way at the store than we should be. So I'll try this for a month and see how it goes...
Oh, and I guess I need to get a crockpot. I've been meaning to do that anyway. And clear some space on the counter for it. Gah!
You know, there's a reason I need a calculator to play 301 in darts, dearest.
Unlike him, I'm not a trained chef, and somehow it seems like I wind up doing a lot of the cooking. Which means we have spaghetti or Hamburger Helper a lot. I'm just not organized and anything that will take the thinking out of making meals for everyone sounds good. If I don't have to spend the time making up a menu and figuring out what I need to buy for it (which I frankly find overwhelming to just think about right now), and having everything on hand so I don't have to get home from work, open the fridge door and go, "Now what the hell have we got, and what the frack can I make with it...", that's all to the good, especially since he's going to be asleep until 9pm four days a week, when I have to wake him up to go to work. Since he started, half the time we've had either frozen pot pies or cereal for dinner.
I used to like cooking. I used to have friends over and make something fancy, like Indian food. But now I have picky eaters who won't eat half of what I make and my brain is fried by the time I get home from work. I know John sees it as a creative outlet, but it's not my medium. Not something I want to be experimental in. I'm not saying I won't try something new, but you gotta tell me how to do it - I'm not going to make it up on my own, unless it's something I've done a million times like stir-fry or soup.
It has menus for six days of the week, leftovers can be lunches, and you can select from various types (Body Clutter, Heart Healthy, Regular, with vegetarian and Kosher options listed for each). If you want to swap out recipes, you can do that and it changes the shopping list for you.
Dad did most of the grocery shopping; we let him because he liked to and it was really his only getting out of the house. But he really didn't buy the most healthy diet in the world, and he got a lot of junk. Since he passed away, we've been just grabbing what we need right before we make it, and I'm sure we wind up spending way at the store than we should be. So I'll try this for a month and see how it goes...
Oh, and I guess I need to get a crockpot. I've been meaning to do that anyway. And clear some space on the counter for it. Gah!