Do You Cook?
If you don't, who does?
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My wife is a great cook, as my ever-increasing waistline will attest. Even with four children and a full-time employee for a husband, she can still put out four or five dinners a week and send me to work the next day with leftovers. And it's good, tasty, variety-filled food, too.
Her mother was an okay cook; she served up a new meal every night with leftovers once or twice a week.
Our family typically eats out more than once a week, as well. Usually fast food, mostly because of busy schedules and no time to make or sit down and eat a dinner-time meal. Sometimes just for fun -- don't get me wrong. We eat out recreationally, especially when we're out and about at dinner time.
I try to help out around the ktichen, but it's mostly helping my wife cut up veggies or clearing the dishes. I'm simply not that good around the kitchen, but I'm sure practice would make perfect.
My wife had a conversation with another friend of ours. She and her husband have one child at home; she is two and quite a handful. She said to my wife, "You make a different meal every night?! I can't find the time!" Her rationale was that she is so busy taking care of her child that she has no time to plan, shop for, organize, prepare, and cook the meals in their house. She and her husband sit down to a lot of pasta and pre-made dinners at suppertime.
Then I happened upon this article, from Reuters...
Almost a third of young Britons have passed off a ready-made meal as their own creation in order to impress someone, according to a survey by the Department of Health.
Women were the worst offenders, with 40 percent saying they had claimed food bought in a shop as their own, compared to 22 percent of men.
And seven percent of the 1,000 16-24-year-olds questioned said they regularly claimed credit for food they had bought.
The research, conducted as part of the department's 5 A DAY campaign to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables, also found that one in 10 had never cooked a proper meal for themselves because they "don't know how."
It also discovered that women were more impressed by a man's cooking ability than whether they owned a flashy car.
...and I realized that this is not an isolated issue, it's a universal problem.
Does someone in your family cook? Who is it? How often do you eat out? If you're not the one who cooks, why not?
Her mother was an okay cook; she served up a new meal every night with leftovers once or twice a week.
Our family typically eats out more than once a week, as well. Usually fast food, mostly because of busy schedules and no time to make or sit down and eat a dinner-time meal. Sometimes just for fun -- don't get me wrong. We eat out recreationally, especially when we're out and about at dinner time.
I try to help out around the ktichen, but it's mostly helping my wife cut up veggies or clearing the dishes. I'm simply not that good around the kitchen, but I'm sure practice would make perfect.
My wife had a conversation with another friend of ours. She and her husband have one child at home; she is two and quite a handful. She said to my wife, "You make a different meal every night?! I can't find the time!" Her rationale was that she is so busy taking care of her child that she has no time to plan, shop for, organize, prepare, and cook the meals in their house. She and her husband sit down to a lot of pasta and pre-made dinners at suppertime.
Then I happened upon this article, from Reuters...
Almost a third of young Britons have passed off a ready-made meal as their own creation in order to impress someone, according to a survey by the Department of Health.
Women were the worst offenders, with 40 percent saying they had claimed food bought in a shop as their own, compared to 22 percent of men.
And seven percent of the 1,000 16-24-year-olds questioned said they regularly claimed credit for food they had bought.
The research, conducted as part of the department's 5 A DAY campaign to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables, also found that one in 10 had never cooked a proper meal for themselves because they "don't know how."
It also discovered that women were more impressed by a man's cooking ability than whether they owned a flashy car.
...and I realized that this is not an isolated issue, it's a universal problem.
Does someone in your family cook? Who is it? How often do you eat out? If you're not the one who cooks, why not?
She's also a decent cook.
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