to not like cooking?

[hipposaurus]

I don't like cooking and never have done. Don't get me wrong, dc is well fed and I'm interested in nutrition, however I don't feel you have to spend an hour preparing dinner every night to be healthy and well fed. Given the opportunity I would eat mainly m&s ready meals, salads, sandwiches and easy to rustle up pasta etc.

My dh and all his family (pil) think cooking is very important and love nothing more than spending hours making time consuming meals that tastes less good than my m&s ready meals

Dh keeps wanting me to cook 'properly' more. Aibu to feed the family healthy meals that involve minimal cooking?

Whilst I'm at it, please could all the celebrity chefs and cooking programmes be cut. You're not helping my cause ;)

Yanbu. As long as you can afford it and don't feed pure shite, if your dh would like more home cooking he knows where the kitchen is.

What do you cook?

I can make a basic roast, lasagne and macaroni cheese, other than that its jacket potatoes, pasta and veg, omelette etc. Am I a bit lacking?

YANBU i hate cooking I cook a lot of food food from scratch but i dont like it I taught myself to cook when i realised dd1 couldnt live on jars and packets as a baby, I wish i was passionate I really do but i just cook to feed people not to create iyswim, I love cooking programmes though but i cant get into it at all,

YANBU if it suits your family and is working for you then it's all gravy.

Oh and if your DH wants these fabulous home cooked meals he is asking for, I suggest he should put his apron on and get cracking in the kitchen.

You are not alone.
I regularly pour over cookery books and think " can't be arsed".
Ds is quite fussy...not keen on cheese, hates eggs and prefers plain pasta. He will eat vegetables, fruit and meat.
Dd 15 has announced she's a veggie
Dh is a meat man, will eat Granny Smiths and bananas.

I do lots of chicken thighs, lasagne and mice sausages.
Would live on salad if left to my own devices.

Nice sausages

YANBU to not like it. Lots of people like things that I don't like.

If DH thinks that cooking is fun why doesn't he do more cooking and you could swap it for some of the household chores that he currently does?

I love cooking but some days i just like to rustle up something or eat a nice readymeal like you do.
Yanbu, its a personal choice
If your dh wants a chef, show him where the books are and buy him a hat

mice sausage ok there is being frugal and make do and mend but buy a bloody real sausage

I'm with you. Once all the DC have left, I am aiming to never cook again.....

YANBU. So long as your family isn't foraging from bins or living off Greggs pasties 24/7, there's no law that says you have to be Delia Smith. If your DH wants more nutritious home-cooked-from-scratch meals, buy him a cookbook and an apron and tell him to go nuts.

YANBU and YEH!! you are another me..I'm with you and feel the pressure to cook, but my boys eat lovely meals that take the smallest amount of effort on my part.

I also don't bake, I can bake I just choose to buy cakes that taste and look nicer than my efforts, I'm never orgainsed enough to have all the bits and bobs to hand.

Are the mice sausages any good?? :o

I love cooking and love nothing more than a day pottering in the kitchen....but I will admit that the daily grind of getting supper on the table rapidly loses its appeal when you have been at work all day.

I do think that folks make a big mistake in equating good food with time spent in the kitchen though snobs

YANBU. If I was rich I'd have my own chef for me and DD and never cook again!

oh personal chef ( if only)

I'm with you Hippo, I don't like cooking, and make simple stuff. I do like making and icing cakes though, as that is much more fun!

DH tends to do a fair amount of our cooking, (and he's not particularly good at it!) but I don't care, as long as I don't have to cook!

"Am I a bit lacking?"

Sorry, but your repertoire sounds very dull indeed. It's no wonder your husband wants a bit more variety.

However, I do know what it's like to not feel like cooking. I do cook, but I have days when I can't be bothered. It sounds like you need a really good recipe book that has inspirational quick and easy to prepare meals without great long lists of ingredients. I can't think of one just now, but I'm sure other posters can.

I also agree that perhaps your husband could contribute more to cooking.

YANBU in not feeling like cooking but there are ways of coping with this that don't involve takeaways or baked potatoes.

I can easily get bored with cooking and for sure, couldn't possibly eat a roast dinner before teatime. But while cooking can be dull, eating a bland and unimaginative range of meals would be worse. So I tend to cook a range of quite easy but very tasty stuff. Risotto, toad in the hole, home-made quiche, pasta, home-made curry, for example. None of them require hours of preparation.

Try the internet for inspiration.

Oh, and encourage your husband to cook too.

Jamie's Ministry of Food is what you need.
Easy, quick family meals that appeal to the masses. Get your husband to do his share too.

YANBU to not enjoy cooking though, I'm the opposite, I live for cooking.

Thanks for all the comments, I like the idea of a personal chef ;) however, until then I will invest in a couple of easy cook books, the Jamie Oliver one sounds good. I use an Annabel Karmel one for dc.