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After the faff of cooking, i just want tea and toast??

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ssd · 17/09/2023 19:16

All last week we had rubbish diners so i bought a shed load of food and have spent a lot of the weekend cooking. The meals have been lovely and made from scratch bla bla bla.
But after the faff of buying the food, bringing it home, putting it away, cooking it and getting the timings right etc etc...serving it up...well i cant be faffed, im sick of looking at it by this stage. Dh is the only one who eats whatever is in front of him and hes had a bloody great weekend.
But all i want now is tea and biscuits or toast. All that faff, am not bloody doing it again.

OP posts:
Clefable · 18/09/2023 12:42

I cook most of our meals - I wouldn't say I enjoy it but DH takes the kids away and does tidying or take them out after work and I put a podcast on or something on the TV and do it. The trick for me is to not do anything that requires lots of pans and lots of steps. I do a lot one one-pan stuff - I do a one-pan lasagne that is about the third of the hassle of the real thing. I use frozen chopped veg, as I hate chopping stuff. I use the slow cooker quite a lot, especially as I work three nights a week, so on those days it's easier to bung stuff in in the morning and just leave it to it.

I did try the whole Hello Fresh thing but some of the stuff was just way too fiddly and I ended up with so much stuff to go in dishwasher. I'd say most meals I cook take maybe 10 mins max to prep and I think we eat a pretty good and varied diet!

Clefable · 18/09/2023 12:44

Oh and my best friend the Recipe Keeper app does the meal plan and shopping list for me, which makes life easier too.

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