Man people are LAZY these days...

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I will be picking up dinner from McCormick's and dessert from the Cheesecake Factory. I don't cook. I'd rather just relax and hang out with my family than spend the day cooking and cleaning.

Lord love ya darlin'

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by tuigirl

If it's "fast food" meals (ie store to microwave in 10 secs) your'e worried about in general..tell me about it. I have been thrown on the tills at work and the amount of pre-packaged junk that goes through is awful. Especially, young families with kids (and single young guys...), it's the crisps, the sweets, the frozen burgers..even the "baby" food (some of which have 6 month "use by dates" on them!)..Lord knows what rubbish, wer'e feeding our kids from the word go. I honestly think also, alot of people don't know how to actually cook "real" meals anymore and convenience food (with it's added E numbers) is all they know what to do.It's a shame, yes actually cooking can be a pain at times, but at least you know whats in it!

and then even then - you have to buy the non steroid laden/infested meats if you can afford them, which many cannot.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

and then even then - you have to buy the non steroid laden/infested meats if you can afford them, which many cannot.

Fortunately as the demand for these products goes up the price will come down. I love Stop and Shop's Nature's Promise line of organic foods. Unfortunately I don't think they include any meat. When I do buy meat I buy the all natural stuff and the expense helps keep it to a minimum!

Anyone can cook with an oven, a recipe, and a timer. When I did Thanksgiving I did a few things the day before and had everything but the Turkey done before my guests arrived. That way I was able to focus on them.

But if you hate it, you hate it! I hear that. I hate ironing and I won't do it. My wrinkled clothes hang in the closet for months, its a shame. It isn't even hard but I just hate it.

[skcin]

Well, I prefer a nice big homemade dinner, but it's easy for me to say since I'm not the one cooking it.

My parents' house in the early pm will just be the 4 of us (used to be 6 until bro moved 3000 miles away.) Hubby's parents' house will be between 14 and 20 adults & 4 kids. Quite a difference.

God bless my mom & his stepdad for feeding all of us.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by Lux

Do you mean on a holiday or in general life? I hope you just mean on a holiday.

Of course. I was referring to a Thankgiving feast.

Cheap? It's cheaper to cook. I do not understand the big deal with cooking. It doesn't have to be a three course meal, it can be so simple and I'm by no means a good cook. In the time it takes to drive down and spend a comparitive fortune on take-away, you could have thrown on a stir fry that will last a week. It really is so much cheaper and does not have to be a fuss.

I totally agree with you. That little tirade was all about American Consumer Culture. People here don't care if it is cheaper to cook themselves. Everyone wants someone else to do things for them and they want all that stuff to be cheap - i.e. essentially most all want to live like kings when they aren't all wealthy. Thank goodness for cheap slave labor in developing nations. Where would we all be ?

[DavidMn]

I would like to cook more, but unfortunately I'm njot very good at it.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Janet

I agree. It's too hard sometimes you know? I never cooked a Thanksgiving meal and I never want to. Some years I don't even have turkey, some years I do. The day is about being thankful, not the meal you eat. I know from the weekend until Thanksgiving, I work about 65 hours. I am sure many others do as well. All I want to do is rest.

I am really looking forward to two full days off.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Lord love ya darlin'

Right back atcha babe. I went to The Cheesecake Factory tonight, found a parking spot right next to the take out door and went in and got some pumpkin, dulce de leche, pumpkin pecan and banana cream cheesecake. Yum!

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I am really looking forward to two full days off.

Me too!!! And I really want to eat some Banana Cream Pie.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Richard B

Me too!!! And I really want to eat some Banana Cream Pie.

I sampled some cheesecake earlier.

[GardenStateGirlie]

We have a sugar free Pumpkin Pie in the fridge. It tastes out of this world -- only problem -- no Whipped Cream in sight I'm longing for the pumpkin roll I know i'm going to get to eat on Thursday.

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by dissention

I can only imagine the stress that you guys will have saved. If I actually ate meat, I'd buy a precooked turkey anyway because every turkey I've ever eaten on Thanksgiving has been overcooked to point where it could double as turkey jerky. One year my grandmother made her first turkey and she got pissed because she couldn't get it to brown, so she melted butter, poured it over the turkey, and cranked it to broil. By the time she realized it was burning, it must have been burnt an inch thick.

That is RICH!

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by danax6

cooking is lots of fun when you do it with a few people (and a bottle of wine!).

My favorite pass-time .

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by Richard B

Funny how some of you hate meat or don't eat it...but yet crave it nonetheless and for some reason buy fake meat to quench that real meat need. Weird.

I've always found that to be odd myself

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by sparky

We want it now, we want it cheap, we don't want to struggle for it, and we want it ALL. God Bless America.

My next signature. Love it .