@gidgetgh wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@151949 wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
I cook just so I can eat. It's not exactly a passion.
If I could eat out every day I WOULD.
I have many neighbors who don't cook anymore since they retired - they eat out 2 or 3 times a day - and it is showing on them - they are all gaining a lot of weight. Restaurant food tends to be very rich and high in things like butter, cream, sugar & salt.
If you order things high in butter, cream, sugar and salt. That's a choice. There are other things on the menu. And if that's all that's in the menu, there are choices of restaurants as well.
I agree. As I mentioned in my earlier post, my husband and I eat lunch out just about every day. I've lost 107 pounds (only 1 pound to go!) and eat in restaurants all the time. But.....I'm very strict with what I eat. If it's a restaurant we go to regularly, I know exactly what to order. If it's a restaurant we haven't been to before, I look at the menu online before we go to see what the choices are so I know going in what I'll order.
Wow @gidgetgh, that is really great. Congratulations! What an accomplishment. You must be so proud of yourself!!
As to the OP, I wouldn't worry about it. Just from some of the comments on these boards it does seem that some have the misconception if you don't cook it means you can't. I have even seen a poster say that people that don't cook are lazy (ridiculous). I don't agree with that statement either. It is like everything else in life. Some people just don't like to like to cook like they don't like to clean, do yard work, etc.. so they let someone else do it. That is completely ok. I don't know why anyone would think differently. Women can be so hard on other women for choices they make.
When I was younger and in my 20s, I didn't really like to cook as much as I do now. Over the years I have really grown to love it. I did have a daughter and as a single mom, I had to even if I didn't want to. I did all my cooking for the week on Sunday and made lots of meals for the week and froze them because I really didn't have the time to at night during the week. That worked well for us and I started liking to cook more and more and I still do especially during the holidays but I am not the only one cooking. My daughter, sister, mom and even the guys in my family all make something. My husband likes to cook as well and does it year round, not just the holidays. I do cook for my husband but not every night and I would not like it if it was expected. I do it because I like to. He is a grown man and I work and always have, if I had a husband that expected or demanded me to cook, he would be disappointed.
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