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this used to describe me, but my brother-in-law turned me on to doing all of my cooking on one day of the week, and freezing everything. this has several advan

by joh6nn 16y ago

this used to describe me, but my brother-in-law turned me on to doing all of my cooking on one day of the week, and freezing everything. this has several advantages (and one major disadvantage): cons: * you lose pretty much an entire day cooking pros: * don't have to cook when i get home from work * everything i eat now is a real meal, (including bag lunches for work, i just grab something out of the freezer, and by the time lunch time roles around, it's thawed and ready to go) * i'm wasting a lot less food/money, because the ingredients get used almost as soon as i buy them, and the food goes straight into the freezer instead of lingering in the fridge * i'm (slowly) learning to really cook

InclinedPlane 16y ago
Freezing meals is a smart way to go if you live alone and can't cook meals that get mostly eaten in the same day. Most people don't know that the frozen meals they see in stores are typically low quality not because of the nature of frozen foods but because of the expectations of the market and the need to preserve frozen food for long periods of time. If you're cooking on your own then you can use higher quality ingredients and you can avoid the compromises needed for mass-produced, highly preserved foods (meals that will be preserved just fine for up to a month in your freezer are not necessarily suitable for being mass-produced or for being preserved for months to years).
- joh6nn 16y ago
  actually, i think it's the kind of system that just works well, period, as long as you can devote an entire day to cooking. i actually live with my fiancee, and the practice has become go shopping one day, do all our cooking the next. we just setup a laptop somewhere in the kitchen, and either stream music or stuff off the netflix instant queue. it's done good things for our diet, our budget, and our relationship

by joh6nn 16y ago

InclinedPlane 16y ago

Freezing meals is a smart way to go if you live alone and can't cook meals that get mostly eaten in the same day. Most people don't know that the frozen meals they see in stores are typically low quality not because of the nature of frozen foods but because of the expectations of the market and the need to preserve frozen food for long periods of time. If you're cooking on your own then you can use higher quality ingredients and you can avoid the compromises needed for mass-produced, highly preserved foods (meals that will be preserved just fine for up to a month in your freezer are not necessarily suitable for being mass-produced or for being preserved for months to years).

joh6nn 16y ago
actually, i think it's the kind of system that just works well, period, as long as you can devote an entire day to cooking. i actually live with my fiancee, and the practice has become go shopping one day, do all our cooking the next. we just setup a laptop somewhere in the kitchen, and either stream music or stuff off the netflix instant queue. it's done good things for our diet, our budget, and our relationship