"ImStillMags" > wrote in message
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I love seeing what everyone cooks and posts here, but most of you must be
retired with the meals I see posted on a daily basis. Working full time
puts a crimp in my creative cooking cause I'm usually too pooped to mess
with a lot of prep or complicated dishes when I get home.

I do most of my cooking on the weekends and then have that through the week.
One of these days......maybe I'll be able to retire, but not yet.

envious of you guys.

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I am disabled so don't work. Did retire from one company and had intended
to go back to work after that. Did work at a golf course but then after I
had a baby, things went downhill in the health department and now, this is
it.

When I did work, I would often stay up all night one day of the week and do
nothing but cooking and baking. I like to make time consuming things like
hominy croquettes so I would make a huge batch and portion them out for the
freezer.

But... I also dined out a lot when I was working because of course I had
more money than I do now. And I worked a schedule that usually differed
daily. I would often meet up with friends around 9:30 when I was working
nights and I'd have my dinner then.

Fridays were often my shopping days so I'd get salad bar to take home.
Unless it was during my clubbing years. Then I'd go to a club that night
and depending on where we went, I might eat my dinner there.

My meals sure have changed from when I was single. Although I loved to
cook, much of what I ate wasn't overly complicated. I was a vegetarian for
the most part then. I would eat meat occasionally but usually not. So...
Beans and rice, beans and pasta, popcorn, big salads, cottage cheese, boiled
eggs.

Now with three people to cook for, differing tastes and differing needs due
to food intolerances and other medical stuff, things can get complicated!
Now I find that most weeks I have to sit down and plan my meals so we always
have something to eat.