You cooks! Any suggestions?

[Steve85]

And along the pasta line..We have been making our own meatballs from a WW recipe that uses half 96/4 ground beef and half turkey sausage. They are baked and then added right to the sauce. And since the turkey sausage has three flavors available, spicy, sweet and a little sweeter breakfast style links, you can play with the mix to suit your palate.

Using the lean beef and even leaner turkey sausage, they are relatively healthy and very tasty. It's also good mix for making a meat flavored sauce.

[WRXtranceformed]

While I'm all about DIY, there is definitely a time and a place for those frozen meals. They're good, quick to make and definitely a lot cheaper than buying all of the ingredients to put together a similar meal. It's not up for debate that you can make a larger quantity when DIY, but as a single guy I dont exactly need 20 servings of shitty shrimp pasta sitting around my fridge / freezer for the next month.

[Apoc]

While I'm all about DIY, there is definitely a time and a place for those frozen meals. They're good, quick to make and definitely a lot cheaper than buying all of the ingredients to put together a similar meal. It's not up for debate that you can make a larger quantity when DIY, but as a single guy I dont exactly need 20 servings of shitty shrimp pasta sitting around my fridge / freezer for the next month.

Translation: I'm lazy

[ScottyB]

Marie Calendar frozen dinners are boss

[WRXtranceformed]

While I'm all about DIY, there is definitely a time and a place for those frozen meals. They're good, quick to make and definitely a lot cheaper than buying all of the ingredients to put together a similar meal. It's not up for debate that you can make a larger quantity when DIY, but as a single guy I dont exactly need 20 servings of shitty shrimp pasta sitting around my fridge / freezer for the next month.

Translation: I'm lazy

Absolutely. On most nights I'm usually too busy and / or have better things to do than spend the time to make a big meal when half of it is going to get thrown away.

[Evan]

While I'm all about DIY, there is definitely a time and a place for those frozen meals. They're good, quick to make and definitely a lot cheaper than buying all of the ingredients to put together a similar meal. It's not up for debate that you can make a larger quantity when DIY, but as a single guy I dont exactly need 20 servings of shitty shrimp pasta sitting around my fridge / freezer for the next month.

Translation: I'm lazy

says the guy who wont venture 5 miles from his house and drives around the paddock in an atv.

not everyone wants to spend an hour at the grocery store and an hour cooking every night

[Apoc]

says the guy who wont venture 5 miles from his house and drives around the paddock in an atv.

not everyone wants to spend an hour at the grocery store and an hour cooking every night

I did 200 miles on the bike in the Shenandoahs on Saturday and all day in DC on Sunday... they must have changed the standard of what makes up a mile. I have no problems with being lazy, just call it what it is.

If you're spending an hour cooking, you suck at it. My only point it that they're excuses to be lazy, not actual reasons why they're better than cooking it yourself. Most justifications are grossly exaggerated. IOW, stay out of the cooking thread with that bullshit.

[.RJ]

I spend ~30 min at the store once a week and it never takes more more than 30 to cook a meal - usually 15-20 if its something simple (i.e. roasted veggies, rice and something grilled).

[Evan]

well, to each his own.
I enjoy cooking a few nights a week too, but Im not telling other people what they should or should'nt be eating.

[.RJ]

It was a suggestion. Who pissed in your cornflakes?

[Andy]

Have any of you guys read Omnivore's Dilemna or Slow Food Nation? Frozen meals aren't that great for you and if you really want to nerd it up, you'll end up paying for any perceived current time and money savings with increased risk for health problems later in life which in turn will cost you more money and take away time from your life.

You can cook in small portions for a single person and the more you cook, the better you get at it.

[Evan]

It was a suggestion. Who pissed in your cornflakes?

I dont eat cornflakes. Growing corn in my backyard, hand cracking it into cornmeal and baking it into small bit size peices is faster and cheaper than pouring a bowl of processed cornflakes. :wink:

(Im not the one telling people what to eat )

[Andy]

It was a suggestion. Who pissed in your cornflakes?

I dont eat cornflakes. Growing corn in my backyard, hand cracking it into cornmeal and baking it into small bit size peices is faster and cheaper than pouring a bowl of processed cornflakes. :wink:

(Im not the one telling people what to eat )

Wait, do you actually grow corn in your backyard?

[HAULN-SS]

The biggest problem is whether you cook for 1/2 a person, or 10 people, you have about the same amount of cooking dishes to clean =\

[Andy]

The biggest problem is whether you cook for 1/2 a person, or 10 people, you have about the same amount of cooking dishes to clean =\

You've never had people over for dinner, have you?

[WRXtranceformed]

I grill out and do rice and veggies a good bit, but if I'm actually cooking a higher quality meal it's going to take a while. My vegetarian chili usually takes about an hour+ for me to do if you include the prep time.

[Mike]

I grill out and do rice and veggies a good bit, but if I'm actually cooking a higher quality meal it's going to take a while. My vegetarian chili usually takes about an hour+ for me to do if you include the prep time.

but most of that time is letting it simmer in a crock pot, no?

[WRXtranceformed]

Just peeling the tomatoes takes me forever. If I dont do that it cuts the time in half.

[Mike]

buy them in a can.

[Apoc]

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