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budgiebreeder:
About the same here, it depends on the season.when vege ,fruit etc ready in the garden they certainly dont get wasted other wise i always make a meal.Dont do ready meals never have even when i cooked for 5 and worked full time there was always home cooked food for the family .Home cooked tastes entirely different to bought and doesnt take much longer to prepare.Could go on forever about this it is one of my pet subjects

Applejack:
What a great topic Tim, everybody loves food.
My husband & I (sounds posh doesn't it) work from home, so I have plenty of time to prepare meals. Today I made an onion & mushroom soup. I always make sure the kids have something wholesome after school, their mates think it all looks too healthy, but it is only because at school the general diet consists of pizzas, chips & fizzy drinks, then because parents are busy its more chips etc. for tea. I think everybody could do with more time for cooking & planning. Great subject.

allotment_chick:
I've never really thought about it before, but I do a bit of all the things you mentioned!

I'm still turfing round in the freezer counting the number of bags of last summers tomatoes that are left...(not enough, sadly!) and then I usually come across something that needs using and that comes to the top....I've been to the shops this afternoon and bought the basics of enough meals to last through to the weekend but they may yet end up in the freezer if a dose of the 'must haves...' descends upon us.  

I'm very bad with the storecupboard .. I have yummy things in it that I use often but I also keep finding things that are VERY out of date  :-[

Like aquilegia, I love to make things make in bulk and freeze them ('teriyaki' sauce, cheese sauce, soup base, cake base) - and love the challenge of making something appetising out of very little indeed.

I turn to the good folks on this website for recipes (like your goodself Tim - many thanks!) and I love Nigella Lawson's approach to cooking - she provides me with a lot of inspiration which I can then  customise to suit my 'picky' family.  

Now, whats for tea today..?  :D

Tenuse:
As my partner and I both work, I try to do "batch cooking" and then freeze the extra as future meals. So every other weekend (about) I will make 6 or 7 dinners on a Sunday afternoon and freeze them, then I don't have to bother during the week.

This Sunday I made:
- Wild mushroom soup (2 meals worth)
- Cottage pie (4 meals worth plus some mince to go into a lasagne or another cottage pie)
- Pecan pie (mm! yummy! won't last much longer!)

These have all gone into the freezer (apart from one cottage pie which we ate!) and will reappear over the next fortnight.

Can't WAIT until it's tomato time. I am collecting recipes for different kinds of pasta sauce.  :P My aim is to never buy a pasta sauce again.

Ten x

mysticmog:
I live on me own and can't be ars*d to cook v often - I live on cheese sarnies and micro meals for 1, but every now and again I go mad and create masterpieces of culinary delight for either myself or friends.  

The need to cook is far outweighed by my need to eat, right then, right there...

As you may or may not have guessed, am a very impatient person..

The best thing every invented was pasta cos it takes approx 7 mins to cook (including making the sauce...) - that and stir fry.

Planning wise, I eat stuff till I run out, then I go buy some more of it  :D

Would love to be organised, but all organisation effort gets used up at work...none left for real life.

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