To think people aren't too tired just lazy... dinner

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I get that once a week maybe or even twice, people have had long days, myself included, out since 8/9am this morning, and get home not bothered to cook a big meal.... though isn't it just like washing? We need to eat, we need to wash, myself included i fell into a rut of eating crap (oven baked) food like breaded chicken oven chips, beans etc cause i was ''too tired'' to cook dinner, when in a matter of fact i was just lazy....

Seen someone comment back to something similar earlier, saying 'bloody hell people nowadays are too tired to cook a meal for themselves' what is the world turning into?
Not going against anybody, i've been guilty of it too and i can admit it was pure laziness.. it takes only a few minutes to throw together a quick/fresh/homemade meal..

my sister is still like that, 5 nights out of 7 she's too 'tired' to cook, even if i offer shed rather buy a takeaway or eat a disgusting cheap oven pizza :S ( i know loads are nice)

Why do I read these goady food threads? Just why?! I have a bunch of veg to roast and have with pasta (am on maternity leave; when DH gets home I chuck the baby at him (proverbially) and hide in the kitchen for an hour. Now that's lazy!) After reading this I just want chips...

OneOfTheGrundys beige freezer dinners always go down well with my kids 😂

Chicken tit has killed me

livia Its not all from the freezer. I pick up a rotisserie chicken on Sunday and use that for the first 2 days. I then have lasagne, cottage and shepherds pie, quiche, tuna bake etc ready to go in the freezer. All ready to be defrosted and baked in the oven. It's not being reheated

You have a glass of wine. It's nice, so you have another. You get peckish, so grab a packet of crisps. And more wine. Even more peckish, so the quiche you were saving for tomorrow's lunch cops it. Washed down with more wine.

That's how it works in my house anyhow!

Cous cous is the devils arse crumbs.

(I once heard a woman in a shop call it 'cuss-cuss', I liked that)

Like some others on here, I am not particularly stressed, I just can't be arsed. I rarely eat cook from scratch, maybe only a quarter of the time, but I couldn't give a shit. I also couldn't give a shit what people think about it.

Like a a few have said on here, my grandmother couldn't cook, and my mother couldn't be bothered - it was chips with anything and everything with both of them, and lots of pastries and fried food.

The younger people in my family (millennials) are better cooks/more creative/more healthy. So it's bollocks that youngsters are lazy/can't cook.

Cous cous reminds me of Ainsley Harriott. And I don't like Ainsley Harriott.

What's so bad about food you put in the oven?
I'm not going to cook fresh food every evening.
I think that comment was a bit rude actually

ILikeBeans yes but only because I was too lazy to put the beans in the microwave grin]

I liked chicken tit too. Made me chuckle!

That should've been

It's the meal planning not the cooking that takes time and effort for me.

Can I add my own air of superiority to the now absent OP and say my 12 yo is not up at 10.30 at night waiting for me to cook him a meal 'chilling'. he is in bed , asleep and fully fed

Some of us have children who go to bed at a sensible time, too

I've always enjoyed cooking and find it quite relaxing.

But after many years of being in sole charge of the meal planning, shopping and cooking I began to feel decidedly less enamoured.

Then DH began to get involved. Then DS. They both love cooking now too. And I find with less turns to do, my own love has reappeared. I wish we'd been at this point sooner. When DH and DS say 'I wish I'd started cooking sooner' I think 'me too'.

I leave the house at 7.30am and get back just after four. I cook a 'scratch' meal every night because I love to cookand my family are happy eating whatever I decide to make. Not sure why that would be anyone else's business...

I think the OP must be hard at work in the kitchen to be abe to reply to any posts

Kudos to people who do cook from scratch all the time, I can't be arsed, and will hold my hands up and admit it. Plus I do work too! But I am sick of (some) people who DO cook from scratch, looking down their nose at people who don't.

Most people on this thread are not BTW, it's mostly the OP doing it.

Where IS she by the way?

She may well pop back later to wow us with her latest concoction and make us feel suitably ashamed (as our grandmothers must also be) for our lack of skill and effort in the kitchen.

My grandmother isn't ashamed, she is as lazy and useless in the kitchen as me.

I'm too tired to cook tonight
I'll be going to bed early with no dinner

10.30 is way too late to be eating

If you make risotto properly it certainly isn't quick

I don't have much of an appetite

All that ok with you?
Everyone is different you know?

Op is doing her famous four hour goat risotto, those goats take a lot of cooking you know.

I'm a hypothyroid mum, who works and cares for two young children largely single-handedly with zero family or personal support. One of my daughters has arthritis and other health conditions. Most days I am too tired to cook big meals, but I do my best, and that's what most of us are doing, and labels like 'lazy' just make us feel even more crap and failure-like.

Going out at 8/9 and coming back at 3 is a long day now is it?

Op is doing her famous four hour goat risotto, those goats take a lot of cooking you know