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[wildestranger]

I have recently heard disturbing rumours about other people's cooking habits and consequently, have decided to make a poll. How often do you cook? If you don't eat home-cooked food, what do you eat? Feel free to expand in the comments.

[Poll #1521895]

Comments

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I have to cook from scratch because half the family needs a gluten-free diet. I prefer to cook from scratch now--you know what you're getting. :-)

[tesseract-5.livejournal.com]

It does take time, but it's tastier usually. I go through trends where I make more involved things and bake and then get tired of eating my own food and go out and then swing back to making a big pot of soup to last a few days.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

I just eat out a lot. Which is sometimes a necessity and sometimes because I'm lazy and always kind of a dreadful idea. But I mean, it's not all burgers or anything. You can get good food premade as well. My biggest issue with it is that I shouldn't be spending so much money. Pah.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Microwave food, going out/takeout, and pasta. That's what I live on. \o/?

[starlite-gone.livejournal.com]

lol that's me without the pasta. I guess pasta would be replaced by chips and drinks like chai or Switch.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I usually eat in the work cafeteria (which is damn good), so cooking only comes up at weekends. Since it's among my most hated activities, I probably do it every second weekend...

[ficsoreal.livejournal.com]

I cook elaborate meals whenever I have a test to study for. :)

[florahart]

I think I fall somewhere between once a day and a few times a week, but I do fall back on things that come from boxes when I am rushed or feel crappy (so, like, this week has been a box bonanza). By "from scratch" I mean, like, I do use for instance canned tomatoes, but whether or not I use canned beans depends whether I remembered to start any soaking (so, like, chili might be only sort of from scratch), and most veggies come from fresh. I do eat canned chicken soup because I think that particular kind is a pain to make, but potato or bean or whatever, I'll make from vegetables and (canned) stock. And so on. So I mean, it varies per value of "from scratch," but by and large.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

SO and I cook every Sunday night and then eat the leftovers for about half the week. The rest of the week we get by on salads, tuna, canned soup, etc.

[sasha-davidovna.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on what you're defining as "from scratch" but in general, I would say we cook from scratch or partly from scratch (I do use shortcuts like store-bought stock) at least once a day, usually twice, and sometimes three times. Even if we're having frozen pizza or something, there's usually a hand prepared salad. The two most frequent not-from scratch foods we eat are cold cereal and pasta/pasta sauce. Oh, and bread. Everybody else in my family is a bread fiend and no way am I making enough bread to keep them satisfied. I'd be doing nothing but baking!

I love eating out, but have a hard time justifying the money when all the adults in the house (four atm) are good cooks. We eat out about once a week, twice if we're feeling decadent.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

I cook very little mainly because I'm so rarely home, and when I am home, there's only me to feed and I don't complain if it's hotpockets again. Or pasta with sour cream and marinara sauce.

As for what I eat, on weekdays I normally have Greek yogurt and tea for breakfast, lunch from the library cafe (sandwich, crisps, chocolate, cold tea, cheese) and dinner from the 7-11 (sandwich, more hot tea, crisps, chocolate and fruit). Weekends I may forget to have breakfast and end up with an abovementioned hot pocket for lunch and/or dinner as well, or I might go out and get a grilled cheese sandwich from the bodega, or, if I'm feeling like something special, sushi, Indian food, or pizza.

The grilled cheese I could technically make at home, but I only really want one, and a whole loaf of bread/pile of cheese will go off before I eat it all.

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

I plan menus at the weekend and we cook every (ETA: evening) meal from scratch. We use stock cubes but everything else is meat, veg, rice etc. I prefer to know what's in my food.

[airgiodslv.livejournal.com]

I'm a vegetarian, so it's often easier to cook from scratch, although since I'm on the road a lot, I also buy sauces pre-made when I'm making Indian or Thai dishes, because dragging a full spice cabinet around is kind of ridiculous. I'm a big fan of things like stir-fries and involved breakfasts, like challah french toast with strawberries and kiwi, or feta-mushroom omelets with steamed spinach, roasted tomatoes and freshly-sliced fried potatoes. Breakfast is a meal I really love cooking because I usually only have time to properly enjoy it once per week, so it's a special day-off thing.

[katie__pillar.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, but look what I found!

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Entry is £3 and a green monster now costs the princely sum of £4.20.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Not related to the poll, but tentacles! (http://www.etsy.com/shop/visioluxus) And shots of the photoshoot here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikamoen/3580284336/).