With all this discussion about meal planning and preparing foods, I want to ask, is cooking a joy or a chore to you?

 

 Me first, no, no me, me!!!  lol  I love it, absolutely love it.  Cooking is my passion, my hobby, my greatest pastime, cant think of one thing in my house I would rather do and that includes the clean up!

 I enjoyed meal planning and cooking once. It's hard to get into it with the kitchen I have. But instead of sitting here any longer and waiting till things improve, I am taking matters in my own hands and well..dealing with what I have. This is only my life after all and each day I loose waiting is one I'll never live again.

 

I truly enjoy the entire process; browsing through cookbooks, planning meals, grocery shopping, and cooking. I prepare just about everything from scratch - this includes grinding the wheat to make our bread - and love looking for new ways to save money and make our food more nutritious.

 

I also really love to cook and try to cook from scratch when I have the time.  Now that I am a full time student, I am having a hard time finding time for things other than studying, but I try to do extra cooking on the weekends to eat during the week.  I do not like the clean up part, but I rennovated the kitchen last year and now that we have a dishwasher, it makes life easier.  My favorite game to play is to look in the fridge or pantry and try to figure out how to use up what we already have to make a tasty, nutritious meal.  I really hate to run to the store for one thing (we all know you come back with more than one thing - not frugal), so I will be creative and figure out another way if at all possible. 

Me too, me too!!! I LOVE cooking, everything about it and I don't even mind the clean up! LOL.  Baking is my big weekness and I love to fix lots of different things. 

I like to cook and grocery shop and I don't even mind cleaning up! (my messes that is :))Even without a dishwasher. To me, it takes just as long to wash dishes as it does to load, unload etc. I can cook :)  My *** is......My problems is picky eaters. Between young kids that don't eat a lot (amount wise) and a picky husband with allergies (nuts, eggs, and grains and can't cook) and every teenage homestay we have doesn't like salads or veggies. I don't feel like cooking when no one appreciates it. My husband knows that he has to eat what is in front of him to set an example for the kids. It's easy to cook for someone with nut allergies but he just likes the same thing over and over. He eats way more variety then he used too. For example,  I can make roast beef dinner etc with the trimmings but no one will eat much of it (hubby doesn't like roast beef). The kids are good eaters but they just eat a very small plateful. If I feel like cooking a fancier dinner I invite his parents etc over so I have someone to  I like a wide variety of food and veggies! and I am not a big meat eater.  He knows that he has to change because I told him when the kids are older, its all going to be different lol!  It is expensive and not healthy.  The last time he praised a week of cooking, it was a week of lazy cooking! kraft dinner, hamburgers, hotdogs and frozen pizza! Of course he doesn't gain weight eating like this :) just me!    Thanks for letting me vent!  He will eat but you know if someone doesn't really like something it is not the same. I got tired of the faces he pulled so I told him that with his pickiness, allergies and not being able to cook, he doesn't have the right to moan about the food because there is nothing wrong with what he is getting!  I don't like processed foods much. Wasn't raised that way.  I am creative etc, I have a easy carrot soup that everyone will eat for example.(great for colds etc too)  Cheap and very healthy so I am getting there.  So for the mean time, it is meatloaf, burgers, sausages, ham, ravoli etc

 

 I have to be the odd man out and say I don't enjoy cooking at all, unless it's for a special occasion like a holiday. My daughter wants to become a chef though. Go figure.

I have a fairly picky husband who has to watch his sugar and carb intake. My taste buds get bored with what he likes.

 

He doesn't have to watch sugar or carbs yet! He is the one I buy the junk food for..stuff even the kids won't eat like wagon wheels! It goes in his lunches. I have him in the habit of eating a yogurt and a banana each day with lunch so he is getting some fruit! Still working on the cookies for snack before dinner :)