Posted on 04/08/2021 9:19:37 AM PDT by mylife
Especially the under 40 set. Now they grubhub.
Interesting, one retired couple on our cul de sac probably never cooks/prepares any meals. They will eat left overs from their delivered food.
Another couple with a lot of kids in college, somehow can afford grubhub and prepared meals delivered. Twin college age girls prepare any meals that are prepared at home.
Our friends, basically our age, like us have 2 hour Costco monthly delivery, weekly pickup at Walmart and Whole Food 1 hour delivery (we don’t do Whole Food). We shop at a small chain for good veggies when the produce stand is closed. The butcher will wave at me when he has good sea food on sale at the small chain store.
With exception of the small chain and the produce stand, my wife would be happy to never go food shopping again. She is the same way re her clothes and other shopping. She has several hundred $’s in gift cards which she hasn’t used.
Most of her female relatives and friends are the same way. They no longer want to go into a store to shop. She prepares to shop online. I was there about 5 years before the CV shutdowns.
I think this is more the case, such as my gf, who now that they watch cooking shows, think that they can cook....when they can’t. My gf wastes so much food it’s a shame. I try to talk her out of it but she won;t stop. Hiding the cookbooks didn’t work either.
As a seasoned citizen, I’ve been flying solo for a long time.
I rarely use my stove/oven but rather a Cuisinart indoor grill to cook thinly sliced frozen chicken breast or a ground sirloin hamburger.
A microwave to cook a single serving of mixed veggies.
So cooking too much is close to impossible for me.
I just found a silver eagle coin. Pure silver. One pound. That is, it looks like a silver eagle, except it is very thick and about 5” around and has 99.9% pure silver 16 oz stamped on it.
This is turning into a treasure hunt.
I found 30 honeycomb rounds. I’m having some on my salad right now. Best honey I ever tasted.
I just found a silver eagle coin. Pure silver. One pound. That is, it looks like a silver eagle, except it is very thick and about 5” around and has 99.9% pure silver 16 oz stamped on it.
This is turning into a treasure hunt.
I found 30 honeycomb rounds. I’m having some on my salad right now. Best honey I ever tasted.
I recently ate an 11-year-old can of corned beef with no problems.
The consensus is that if it looks good, smells good, and there was no damage to the can, you’re golden. I actually even ate some “moldy” beef jerky. There were just a couple of pieces with round white fuzzy spots. I threw those away but the rest were fine.
So far, so good.
I love living life on the edge. :)
So far, only corned beef hash. It tasted great but the texture was a tad mushy. However, I’ve never eaten canned corned beef hash before so maybe that’s just what you get.
It was over a decade old, I ate it two days ago, and I feel fine. So far, so good. :)
Actually, with the times that are coming, this may be quite useful information...
Neither of us want to come in from outside in the evening early enough to cook. So we grill some chicken or steaks or hamburgers or bake a pork roast once, maybe twice a week and that's it. And now we have a toddler living with us that requires a bath, reading to and getting to bed. Cooking takes too much time.
We just add some fresh vegetables or green salad and maybe a pasta to compliment the meat and usually go most of the week before we have to do it again. Takes very little time. Very few dishes to clean up.
We don't believe in wasting good food by throwing it out so leftovers are our staple though out the week. Heating things up in the microwave is a big improvement from when we were younger and had to reheat things on the stove. Anything that doesn't get eaten or spoils, goes to the chickens, who eat just about anything.
For the last two years, we have also been raising our granddaughter, who turns 4 years old next month, and she eats the same things as we do. She loves leftovers.
I eat leftovers all the time; it’s how I plan my meals. I’ll cook a large batch of something and eat it over the course of a few days. I’ve been doing that for decades. My wife is very happy about it.
For those who are no longer “in the mood to eat”; The key is to do the dishes as you cook. It’s not hard, fill the sink with soapy water, as you stand there and prepare wash what is no longer needed. As soon as the food is finished, dish up and immediately sit at the table with your already set place and enjoy. Make sure you do the dishes before watching TV or moving on to other projects, while doing so store leftovers.
My kids do this same thing, NOTHING TO EAT. BS, eat the leftovers. I pressure all, including the wife to do no more cooking until last nights supper is consumed. Why waste food? My parents would cuff me or box my ears if I complained about leftovers, and rightly so.
I spend a lot of time on my boat...alone. I shop for one and cook for 4, then eat it til it’s gone or share the meal with my bachelor neighbors. I’ll make a huge pan of enchiladas then give dinner to 2 bachelor neighbors. That still leaves me with a lot...so I have them for dinner then the next morning throw some in the microwave and fry an egg and put it on top. Yummy breakfast. Then enchiladas again for dinner and they’re usually gone. I have 0 freezer space on the boat.
The biggest problem with most Americans is that they have been able to have something different every meal of every day.
Many have actually developed a phobia like resistance to eating something a couple of days in a row.
I once was very tight on money. I had sent an invoice to a client for bookkeeping services. HE ALWAYS paid promptly.
No check
5 days later—no check
7-8, etc days later—no check.
10 days later he calls & is beyond apologetic. My envelope had gotten UNDER his seat of his work truck, and it was found by the kid detailing the truck.
I did his books for over 47 years total...He finally retired 2 summers ago.
I NEVER told him that I ate peanut butter on soda crackers for 10 straight days because it was all I had in the house.
So-—Quit being so fussy about ‘eating leftovers’.
My mom would make spaghetti, but never mix sauce with noodles. First night spaghetti noodles with ladled sauce, next night was with elbow macaroni and we called it Goulash, or best yet, she would boil rice, mix the spaghetti sauce with the rice, and make stuffed green peppers and spanish rice. We had 7 kids, 2 parents, 1 grandma and usually a cousin for dinner. Spaghetti lasted 2 nights minimum, with a small pan of it leftover for “first come first served” 3rd day meal.
Moms spanish rice/stuffed green peppers, wow. I hope someday to eat her cooking for eternity. Now if only she wants to cook for eternity?
I think some food tastes better after is sits a day or so. Like spaghetti sauce.
I eat my leftovers about 90% of the time. Biggest waste for me are the vegetables. Cans are too big for one person. I always save what’s left but usually end up throwing out.
yes, it does.
Some soups, too.
Amazing! The only treasures I ever found in my parents house was the junk I left there from high school. My brother and I agreed; we liked our old stuff best when it was at their house instead of ours.
Ask most women of this era what they make for dinner & they will say “RESERVATIONS”.
We found some junk silver in a couple of false bottoms to a built in desk, which makes us wonder what else there is around here.
I’ve lived alone for years, and l only make enough for one meal or two. When I go shopping, I separate anything for the freezer into single servings. I even take the cheese out of the packages and separate the slices with paper, and freeze it. I partially bake a pound of bacon on foil-lined cookie sheets in the oven, then stack the slices on doubled paper toweling, and store the bacon in a large plastic container in my fridge. The only things that get tossed here are jars in the fridge that have exceeded their expiration date.
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