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Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time? > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
mcVeggie burgers, big macs, quarter pounders, fish and chips, wendy’s big bacon classic
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coo…@pdq.net (RK) wrote in news:795e622e.0308211016.7f570ba8@posting.google.com: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message > <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… >> Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and >> cook your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off >> friends/family? Eat out all the time? > I’m living at home right now, so when I’m at home, I eat whatever my > family is eating. At work, I’ll grab lunch from the cafeteria or go > get some fast food. Sometimes we will get together as a group and > order stuff from a restaurant and one person will go pick it up. We > used to actually go out in groups, too, but that doesn’t happen so > much anymore. >> In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at >> it? > I very rarely do anything that could really be called "cooking". I can > boil spaghetti and rice, make sandwiches, bake a potato… The only
Oh, well, in that case, I don’t do anything that could really be called "cooking" either. :/ > thing I’m really good at making is guacamole. 
Assuming it’s not Trade Secret <tm>, what’s your recipe? I usually just mash a couple of avacados, mix in some sour cream, and maybe add some salsa and ground pepper corns. For some reason, I don’t seem to be able to find the guacamole mix at Walmart anymore. :/ – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> — RK
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Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? Eat out all the time? In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
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"Insert Pseudonym Here" <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6… > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time? > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
Family buys stuff. I microwave it. There’s nothing I eat that requires more complex preparation than a microwave.
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"Insert Pseudonym Here" <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6… > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time? > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
I cook stuff, but I tend to try and "cheat" if I can. For example, If I do a curry I will buy a ready-made sauce so all I have to do is fry up some diced chicken breast, add the sauce then simmer it while the rice is cooking. If I do a pizza I will buy a pizza base mix rather than mix up flour, yeast, oilve oil etc, so it only requires a few minutues kneading, add the toppings and slam it in the oven. I do other "easy" dishes like roast beef or roast chicken where you just slam it in the oven for 90 minutes or so, and I cheat by using ready basted roast potatoes (no peeling!) and frozen runner beans and gravy mix. Purists might not like "shortcuts", but it sure beats that microwave mush that the supermarkets sell at premium prices.
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Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message <news:Xns93DEAD1A6D43Eiphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> coo…@pdq.net (RK) wrote in > news:795e622e.0308211016.7f570ba8@posting.google.com: > > Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message > > <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… > >> Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and > >> cook your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off > >> friends/family? Eat out all the time? > > I’m living at home right now, so when I’m at home, I eat whatever my > > family is eating. At work, I’ll grab lunch from the cafeteria or go > > get some fast food. Sometimes we will get together as a group and > > order stuff from a restaurant and one person will go pick it up. We > > used to actually go out in groups, too, but that doesn’t happen so > > much anymore. > >> In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at > >> it? > > I very rarely do anything that could really be called "cooking". I can > > boil spaghetti and rice, make sandwiches, bake a potato… The only > Oh, well, in that case, I don’t do anything that could really be called > "cooking" either. :/ > > thing I’m really good at making is guacamole. > Assuming it’s not Trade Secret <tm>, what’s your recipe? I usually just > mash a couple of avacados, mix in some sour cream, and maybe add some > salsa and ground pepper corns. For some reason, I don’t seem to be able > to find the guacamole mix at Walmart anymore. :/
I mash a couple of avocados (but leave it chunky), add chopped tomatoes and lettuce (and onions, too, if I’m the only one eating it), a little lemon juice, garlic, and one of those seasoning mixes with paprika, etc. (like Season-All). The key is underseasoning (assuming you’re starting with good fruit). I’ve noticed a lot of people overseason. When you start with good fruit and underseason, it’s the best! — RK
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In article <795e622e.0308260850.35c9a…@posting.google.com>, RK says… >Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message <news:Xns93DEAD1A6D43Eiphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… >> coo…@pdq.net (RK) wrote in >> news:795e622e.0308211016.7f570ba8@posting.google.com: >> > Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message >> > <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… >> >> Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and >> >> cook your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off >> >> friends/family? Eat out all the time?
Lots of top raman noodles. Bags of already cut salad. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yogurt. Canned soup. When I eat out it is almost always sushi. {zoe} – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> > I’m living at home right now, so when I’m at home, I eat whatever my >> > family is eating. At work, I’ll grab lunch from the cafeteria or go >> > get some fast food. Sometimes we will get together as a group and >> > order stuff from a restaurant and one person will go pick it up. We >> > used to actually go out in groups, too, but that doesn’t happen so >> > much anymore. >> >> In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at >> >> it? >> > I very rarely do anything that could really be called "cooking". I can >> > boil spaghetti and rice, make sandwiches, bake a potato… The only >> Oh, well, in that case, I don’t do anything that could really be called >> "cooking" either. :/ >> > thing I’m really good at making is guacamole. >> Assuming it’s not Trade Secret <tm>, what’s your recipe? I usually just >> mash a couple of avacados, mix in some sour cream, and maybe add some >> salsa and ground pepper corns. For some reason, I don’t seem to be able >> to find the guacamole mix at Walmart anymore. :/ >I mash a couple of avocados (but leave it chunky), add chopped >tomatoes and lettuce (and onions, too, if I’m the only one eating it), >a little lemon juice, garlic, and one of those seasoning mixes with >paprika, etc. (like Season-All). >The key is underseasoning (assuming you’re starting with good fruit). >I’ve noticed a lot of people overseason. When you start with good >fruit and underseason, it’s the best! >– RK
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Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time?
I’m living at home right now, so when I’m at home, I eat whatever my family is eating. At work, I’ll grab lunch from the cafeteria or go get some fast food. Sometimes we will get together as a group and order stuff from a restaurant and one person will go pick it up. We used to actually go out in groups, too, but that doesn’t happen so much anymore. > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
I very rarely do anything that could really be called "cooking". I can boil spaghetti and rice, make sandwiches, bake a potato… The only thing I’m really good at making is guacamole. — RK
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Insert Pseudonym Here wrote: > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time?
I usually eat whatever the family is eating. If it’s something totally disgusting to me, I’ll usually get myself something frozen and throw it in the oven/microwave. I can cook pretty well and at times I do (I prefer the all new family kitchen to my old dirty one for obvious reason, the only thing in my own kitchen I really use is the fridge for cooling drinks, lol). I actually like cooking but I hate to clean up the mess I create at the end. Lazy as I am, I’ll usually take some shortcuts and use pre washed and cut salad or something.
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:31:02 GMT, Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote: >Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook >your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? >Eat out all the time? >In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
since I am on a strict eating plan, my meals don’t require much prep. But, I am an excellent cook. I just don’t cook very much anymore. If I got some more equipment, I could go for a fabulous home made gourmet meal once or twice a week. hubby cooks and son cooks too.
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I cook on a Sunday and incorporate the left-overs into my meals during the week. I think that I’m an OK cook.
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Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote in message <news:Xns93DD9DE161F44iphiphfakeaddrcom@68.12.19.6>… > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare > and cook your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch > off friends/family? Eat out all the time? > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you > good at it?
Well, I’m not a bachelor, but even when I was (and now, for that matter), I didn’t understand this emphasis on being able to make a meal (which often comes up in here, by the way). I hardly ever use a stove and maybe I’ll use a microwave once a day. For example, here’s a typical microwaved dinner for me: Put a can of Chunky Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup into a large glass bowl, mix in a can of chicken (for the additional protein), microwave the mixture until it’s nice and hot, sprinkle in a bunch of pepper (keeps me from wolfing down the stuff as fast, which helps with trying not to eat too much), and finally I’ll take a roll of Ritz crackers and crunch them up and stir them in (the crackers add 550 calories, if you’re interested). Here are some posts where my "meal preparation" methods show up. I have a feeling that ‘None’ will be able to relate to some of this. If not literally, then in a "chocolate = drugs" and "food = material things" sort of way! ——————————————————————— ——————————————————————— http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dd95baf2.0208261343.133a…@posting.google.com From: Virgo Cluster (gamma_n…@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: OT – ehhh.. what am i supposed to do with this stuff? Newsgroups: alt.support.shyness Date: 2002-08-26 14:43:23 PST "Lisa" <Lisaster…@blerg.com> wrote in message
<news:akbd2k$p64$05$1@news.t-online.com>… > I have a question… Can you remember when you were little and > eating this stuff didn’t make you sick? I do. I could have > this stuff everyday and it didn’t faze me. > Now when I eat premade pizza or ice cream I get sicker than a > dog for about three hours. > I thought it might just be me, but it does the same thing for > my kids. Makes me scared what they might be putting in this junk.
I don’t know if it’s because I run it off or what, but I eat *A LOT* of chocolate and chewy-gooey things. But I don’t pig-out like I used to when I was in my early to mid 20’s. Back then I would think nothing of eating a half gallon box of ice cream in an afternoon. There were times that I did this AND ate a whole bowel of unbaked chocolate chip cookie dough (the kind that you mix with two eggs and the "special butter packet" and which makes approx. 36 cookies) AND then later in the evening order a large Domino’s pizza with extra thick crust and extra cheese. This was back when I used to put in a lot of miles running. I’d typically do this after 3 or 4 days of 15+ miles per day, and it’d take a couple of days before the stuff was completely worked out of my system before I could run again. (The cookie dough, however, was usually "processed" and the waste by products expelled in less than 2 hours.) I suspect this was a semi-subconscious way of getting me to take a couple of days off from running. ——————————————————————— ——————————————————————— http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dd95baf2.0207290321.55dc2…@posting.google.com From: Virgo Cluster (gamma_n…@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: Interesting night Newsgroups: alt.support.shyness Date: 2002-07-29 04:21:15 PST After jogging early yesterday evening, I went home, showered, microwaved some Campbell’s chicken and noodle soup (with lots of extra boiled noodles added in), read some in bed, then went to sleep around 9:30 P.M. I got up at 4:00 A.M. this morning … ——————————————————————— ——————————————————————— http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dd95baf2.0207301206.35817…@posting.google.com From: Virgo Cluster (gamma_n…@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: Converting acquaintances into friends Newsgroups: alt.support.shyness Date: 2002-07-30 13:06:26 PST I had trouble sleeping last night so I got up around 3:30 A.M. and drove to my office. <snip> I’ve made two or three a.s.s. posts recently, but now I’m starting to get very sleepy. I don’t know if I should try and take a nap by laying my head on my desk, then go jogging, or just go out jogging now. Regardless, I think I’ll go to bed really early tonight. I’ll probably eat some cereal tonight. Last night I had two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with chocolate milk. ——————————————————————— ——————————————————————— http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=dd95baf2.0210050832.5af9b…@posting.google.com From: Virgo Cluster (gamma_n…@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: I went out last night Newsgroups: alt.support.shyness Date: 2002-10-05 09:32:01 PST fullmetalgro…@aol.com (Semi-Detached) wrote in message
<news:20021004221108.02894.00002455@mb-fr.aol.com>… <snip "night out"> My Friday night started with my waiting for the rain to die down a bit before rushing out to my car (I might have ass-posted once or twice; if I did, it would have been around 5:30 or 6:00 P.M. Eastern daylight savings time), since I didn’t have my umbrella with me. I had already dressed out in my running shorts in my office, so when I got to my car I drove to the other side of campus where the indoor running track is, got out, and went in. I went into a bathroom to wipe my glasses off (it was still raining) and for a pre-run pee, then I walked to the jogging track. Since I ran 12 miles the evening before, with about 75% of it pacing behind who ever was the fastest person on the track at the time, I was a bit tired and sore. I was also worried about going too hard and getting injured, so I ran very very slow. I wasn’t sure how far I’d go — 6 miles, 8 miles, etc. I was going to go by how I felt. I wound up doing 10 miles, but since I was only running at about a 10 minute/mile pace I don’t think I accomplished much besides burning up some calories. But that’s fine, since burning carolies was about the only reason for running last night, given the workout that I did the night before. When I finished running I went to a back corner area and stretched some while watching the other people run by. I actually didn’t stretch very much but I was there for almost half an hour. It’s kind of like watching people while sitting on a bench at a shopping mall, except the girls are wearing tiny stretchy shorts with tank tops which makes it more interesting. I was thinking of stopping by a video store on my drive home (a small town of about 3000 that’s about 15 miles away from the metropolis of 23,000 where I work at), but I saw a bunch of cars in the parking lot and chickened out. Speaking of chicken, there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken place next to the video store and I was thinking of stopping there to get something to eat (I hadn’t eaten all day yet, except for a very small bowel of raison cereal that morning), but I decided that I wanted to avoid all the calories that stopping there and getting something to take home with me would entail. I started thinking that I haven’t had much, if any, meat in several days, and so I thought that I should probably eat something with protein in it. I passed by a grocery store before leaving town, but I was too scared to go in and buy something while wearing my tiny black running pants, especially since it was cold and raining and people would think I was weird wearing something like that on a Friday night in the kind of weather we had. I continued driving and the road that goes through the middle of town opens up into a four lane highway (speed limit becomes 70). About 5 or 6 miles down the road there is a really small town that I sometimes stop at for gas (it’s the only exit that exists on the 15 mile stretch between the town where I work at and where I live). By really small, I mean the population is only two or three hundred. Anyway, I decided to stop there at a gas station that also sells some grocery items (this town has no grocery stores aside from what’s at this gas station) and buy a steak to cook when I get home. There were a few people inside when I went in, so I hurried over to the meat area and picked out a nice big (about 1.3 lbs.) red something or other that only cost $3.50. (I just looked at the wrapper in my trash can. It was a chuck steak, whatever that is.) Then I got a pint of chocolate milk and a Chunky candy bar (these two items were to hold me until I got home), went to the counter and paid for the stuff. When I got home I noticed that my wife had already left for work, so I went ahead and took my wet (sweat + rain) clothes off before putting the steak into the oven. I turned the oven up to 350 degrees, got a metal pan with about 2" high sides, and wrapped the top and sides in tin foil. Then I put the steak on a large plate and with a knife I made several cuts across the steak so that when it cooked it wouldn’t curl up. (I was a cook at a fish and steak restaurant when I was in high school and this was something I learned there.) I put a lot of garlic salt and pepper on both sides of the steak and then I put the steak onto the tin foil-wrapped metal pan and put it in the oven. I grabbed a few tootsie roll midgets and then went to take a shower. (Have I ever mentioned that I like chocolate?) After the shower I looked over some of the videos that we own and decided to watch the original "Star Wars" movie. I don’t think I’ve seen it in 3 or 4 years. While I was waiting for the steak I put two pieces of bread into the toaster and made a crunchy peanut butter sandwich … read more »
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:31:02 GMT, Insert Pseudonym Here <i…@iphfakeaddr.com> wrote: > Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook > your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? > Eat out all the time? > In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
I prepare my own food, and am good at it when I have time to be. I have a kitchen aid mixer with multiple attachments, all clad pans, fancy ceramic knife, you name it. I’d addicted to Alton Brown. — Bob M in CT Remove ‘x.’ to reply
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IPH said >Curious how you bachelors and bachelorettes eat. Do you prepare and cook >your own food? Rely mostly on frozen dinners? Mooch off friends/family? >Eat out all the time? >In particular, if you prepare and cook your own food, are you good at it?
I like to cook my own food when I live in my parent’s house, but I can’t cook when I’m at college. My meals are very edible. — http://animeg.blogspot.com/ <–yet another shitty blog. http://members.fortunecity.com/animeg3282/ <—Fancy Lala Club! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fancy_lala <mailing list for Lala fans