well i have succumbed to jamie olivewr...how caqn people not cook

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...i just dont get it tbh

its not hard

I CAN cook, I just don't as it's boring, revolting, dirty drudgery. I will never see why people find it fun or in any way interesting.

my dad did the food shoping and always did sunday and satorday lunch and sunday breakfast

my exh learned about food from me
and exp a chav with a crapy cooking mum completely changed his idea of food but not exactly hard

Yep, I agree with that Carmenere. My mum is an incredible role model, fantastic headteadher in an incredibly deprived area - she has improved the lives of thousands of hildren.

But I existed for 19 years on chesse on toast & fishfingers (though I appear to be in rude good health, I can't imagine it was a Balanced Diet).

I am still teaching myself and battling against my 'default' setting which is takeaways on busy days, a penchant for fishfinger sarnies etc etc.

how is it dirty

i took delias frugal food book to uni with me

i wonder how many of my mates i converted to heart kidneys in jackets etc

women have always worked outside the home, meat pies and pawn shops are right there in plenty of dickensiantype fiction. are you d willetts in disguise?

i am aged enough to have been taught to cook at school. i didn't learn much, far more from my family and own interest in books.

no, not hard if you have the foggiest idea what youre doing, what youre meant to be aiming for, wtf any of the lingo means (whats a pound of beef if youve no feckin idea what one looks like?)
its a seriously daunting thing to crack into if youve no experience of it.

it is easy once you crack on and just get in there... but i can totally see why people are put off from trying.

if i had sky would be watching man u tbh

trafficcone do you like food? are you greedy? or is it something you feel you have to go along with?

I learned the basics at school, but really learned to cook when I was a student and had to look after myself.

there is nothing like eating your dreadful mistakes to make you get better fast!

We're getting DD1 trained up, too, MB and, like her dad, she's got severe dyspraxia.

So far she does a lot of stirring and mixing, works the food processor and plates up.

She's working with her OT on knife skills but she makes toast and butters it and works on pouring liquids.

I encourage her to be in the kitchen when we're cooking, to smell ingredients, chose them, chose what we'll eat, etc.

u dont need to know you use scales

god i love cooking

my kids can cook more things than these people (they are 8 and 5)

ds hates food and is also dyslexic dyspraxic

sao lots of problems

and tbh he doesmt cook

ds has had 'ishoos' with tastes and textures, but is through the worst of it, thankfully

oh the DDs love their food, zippi.

and i'm glad for that because they're skinny as whippets and really need to eat lots.

DD1 does have issues with textures, MB.

She doesn't like squishy foods like banana.

I started cooking when I was about 8 as well and I remember having quite an extensive repertoire at a very early age. I think cooking teaches so many other skills - planning, understanding recipes, etc...

I am trying to ensure my ds - 3.4 - interested and we make cakes and biscuits together. I try and make sure he gets used the idea of making food from scratch and also ensuring that he learns where things come from - milk from cows, not from shops, etc...

It's a conspiracy in which women have been told that cooking and food preparation are tedious and demeaning and that the road to emancipation lies in cook chill slop and cook in jars of coloured starch.

Having said that, there is a difference between duty cooking and pure pleasure cooking but if I haven't had the time to cook I would rather toast than some barf inducing ready made stuff.

Tonight, dinner was a few huge slices of cold roast pork and three slices of pineapple.

and because I love food, there is the benefit at the other end - yuuummmmm!

I think it's proximity to cooking, plus a visible love of food

DD eats from the adult menu, even in france discussing with the waiter what the food is & how it's cooked, she trys anything and cooks a variety of meals (eg leeks wrapped in ham in a (hm)cheese sauce) - she is 10

But I never really served children's meals - she has always eaten what we eat & she cooks (so far only about 20 recipes or so) the food she loves

i mean for buying ingredients zippi. was in supermarket other day and had to use my hands to show the bloke behind the counter roughly how big a mound of beef i wanted. he was asking me a pound? then whatever that is in new money... and i just shrugged, i dunno! i want 'this' much. he laughed and gave it to me. which worked obv, but you have to have the confidence to try.

also i reckon trafficcone has hit on another big reason; if you grow up with cooking being described as a pita and hassly, then its not v attractive is it? my mum used to swear and scowl and bash the iron about 'i f'kin HATE ironing' she'd say... on the few occasions she had to... needless to say i grew up thinking ironing was the absolute WORST job in the universe...

"It's a conspiracy in which women have been told that cooking and food preparation are tedious and demeaning and that the road to emancipation lies in cook chill slop and cook in jars of coloured starch." agree 100 per cent. It goes back to my supermarket rant, they want us to not want to cook because they make more profit out of the ready meals than the fresh produce.

dd1 won't eat bananas or avocado any more

but she loves cooking esp baking (which I'm crap at)

my "thing" is pasta

or just making a meal out of storecupboard stuff

i'm not great at using recipes

food a major issue wit ds

i used to larf over the he will copy [well lying empoticon]

but regardless

he can fry eggs how he likes them

e knows what healthy food is

but i spent a long time finding what food is healthy and a fuood phobic child wil eat without just doing chips

it is hard

but cooking is not that hard

and it isnt dirty