Since lockdown do you cook more?

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For me I cook less as I now have a weekly Deliveroo to relieve the boredom!
How about you, do you cook more? Or less?

More, had no more than 5 takeaways and a handful of meals under eat out to help out. Loads of baking

At the start yes. March to June last year I was really into cooking and used my new free time to make lovely dinners completely from scratch. Safe to say my enthusiasm has disappeared by this point and we are back to beans on toast and takeaways when I can’t be bothered!

Yes, but not as much now as at the beginning. We’ve also discovered hello fresh for every few weeks or so. That feels like cooking...

I put more meals together, as I used to eat out A LOT. But I lost my cooking mojo and so my meals are more assembly and packaging removal than proper cooking. I have been trying to get back into it with varying motivation.

Yes, and it's starting to do my head in. We've had adult dd living here, and whereas before DH and I would have batch cooked stuff from the freezer or simple stuff some days like a jacket potato etc, I've been acting like bloody Gordon Ramsey (I don't know why!) and cooking all sorts.

I work p/t so have the most spare time so mon-fri I'm head chef. She cooks at the weekends but tbh I'm looking forward to going back to simple meals (DH doesn't get involved beyond peeling veg and clearing up)

Less. We virtually never eat out or get takeaway, regardless of Covid, but since lockdown DH has taken on more of the cooking.

I was always an avid cook, and because we've been at home I've taken to meal planning some alternative lunches too.

What I have done is meal planned. I never did that before.

I don't think I'm cooking more, I've cooked most nights got years but I think we are having more different things and looking forward to our meals more.

Way more! It's like I've rediscovered my love of cooking. I'm planning a pie later to use up Saturday's roast lamb.

Having said that, I do get fed up with it sometimes and we're almost on first name terms with the Deliveroo driver 😉

I used to love cooking, a kind of therapy to unwind from the day. Now it is purely providing food as a function. The constant, unrelenting cooking, cleaning , washing-up, meal planning, providing of random snack requests and obsessing about getting groceries delivered 24/7 is exhausting. So over it I actually lose appetite some days as I am just so sick of the business of food.

I am just so sick of the business of food.

I realise how much the consumption of food rules our lives and our economy. There are so many boarded-up shops where I'm at. Some have been refurbished and resuscitated as a drumroll please Lidl/Tesco Express/Sainsbury's/Fast food/takeaway. Our whole high road is either food-related or dead shops. Wall-E rings more true than ever.

To answer the OP, I have always cooked. I do love cooking but the non-stop 'covid cafe' (name stolen from a good ol' thread for us moaners a few weeks ago) has taken the shine off of my Master Chef ambitions. DH said to me last night, "I can't wait to go out and eat at a restaurant with you again." Really? I just want to go out and do something totally non-food related! I want to hear Snoop Dogg sing, Did Somebody Say Just Don't Eat, Do Something Totally Unrelated.

We cook pretty much exactly the same as before tbh. We cook dinner every evening except the once a month or so that we have a takeaway.

Yes I have so much more time now that I am working from home.
I tend to cook during zoom meetings 😁

Less in the first lockdown as I was catching up on work in the evenings, after home schooling during the day, so DP completely took over the cooking.

A bit more now as I am home earlier (well I'm home all day, but there is no commuting time after work) so I can get the DC to cook / help with cooking one day each and cook myself another day. DP still does the other four days.

Lack of kids activities at the weekend also means we are more likely to make a cake on Saturday afternoon.