Surprise! Some People Living Alone Actually Cook!
"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:04:46 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 3/21/2019 12:39 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 11:06:47 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>> A co-worker was surprised when I mentioned I like to cook. "Just for
>>>>> yourself?" Yes. "You live alone, right?" Yes. "And you cook. Just
>>>>> for yourself." I laughed. Of course I do! You don't think I go out
>>>>> to
>>>>> eat every day, do you?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe the millenials go out to eat all the time but I'm not a
>>>>> millenial.
>>>>> The idea that people living by themselves don't cook seems to be a
>>>>> common misconception.
>>>>>
>>>>> I explained to her I have a small stand-alone freezer. Cooking for
>>>>> one
>>>>> isn't difficult. But with a freezer it's easy to cook some things in
>>>>> slightly larger quantities and have leftovers for homemade freezer
>>>>> meals
>>>>> for when I don't feel like cooking.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't understand why the concept was such a surprise. Your
>>>>> thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> My thoughts? A lot of people don't have a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Is your co-worker single? If so, what does he/she do for meals?
>>>> Lean Cuisine?
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>> She is seemingly divorced (I don't ask) but has a grown daughter who
>>> lives
>>> in Delaware. She either has a much younger son or a grandchild she's
>>> caring for here in SC.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what she does for meals. I mentioned fresh vegetables
>>> and
>>> she said they tend to go bad before she can use them. I told her about
>>> parboiling then shocking in cold water and freezing them to use later. I
>>> don't know what she has at her house.
>>
>> A lot of people do not cook. My elderly friend generally does not. Never
>> did. Rarely dines out. Raised 4 kids. The only raw veggies she buys are
>> baby
>> carrots, bagged salad, an occasional tomato, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
>> asparagus in season and perhaps some fruit. She does use the microwave to
>> do
>> veggies. She does not call that cooking.
>>
>> She will do a pot roast or chicken breasts in the oven. She only uses
>> seasoning packets if anything. Does not use salt or pepper. She has a
>> rice
>> cooker and makes rice pretty much every days. Buys frozen veggies for the
>> microwave. She can do a grilled cheese and knows how to make some
>> Japanese
>> dishes but rarely does.
>>
>> Her adult son who lives with her does know how to cook and sometimes does
>> but he will go through great periods of time when he does not cook.
>>
>> My friend is now on a very low fiber diet so that limits what she can eat
>> but prior to that, her dietary staples were yogurt, pudding cups, cereal,
>> nuts, breakfast type bars, tons of milk, hot dogs, tubs of some kind of
>> meat
>> in BBQ sauce, frozen entrees and pizza, hamburger helper, crackers with
>> peanut butter or cheese and canned soup.
>
> She sounds magnitudes more normal than you.
>
> I'd like to see what she'd would write about you here (thinking you
> don't read the group).
>
> I snipped everything else you wrote unread. I keep forgetting to
> look at the count of number of liens before I open a post of yours.
> It's not fair to others.
I have no liens.
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