https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615902 Tue, 06 May 2014 10:39:35 +0000 LuLu Mom 1615902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I enjoy cooking, I hate clean up ;) I do like it more when I have more time to prep, I feel stressed when I get home from work and have to throw something together for a LO who immediately thinks she needs to climb into her chair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615884 Tue, 06 May 2014 10:33:35 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1615884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hate it but do it a lot. i would rather hire a cook than a house cleaner if i had the choice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615876 Tue, 06 May 2014 10:30:50 +0000 Alivoo01 1615876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I enjoy it when I have the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615129 Tue, 06 May 2014 05:55:43 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1615129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love cooking! Baking, I can live without. DH's jokes by saying he's "cooking with fear", that's the exact same thing for me with baking! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615108 Tue, 06 May 2014 04:58:04 +0000 artsyfartsy 1615108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: I can relate! If it's not prepared right I can't eat it. DH usually gets it right though! Eating out with anyone but DH is soooo stressful. I know what you mean! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1615096 Tue, 06 May 2014 03:53:38 +0000 lamariniere 1615096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love cooking and baking. BUT, I have recently come to the realization that I love both of these things when I'm not single parenting (like when it's 6:30 and my husband is still not home). If I know I have time in front of me and no kids to look after, then I love it. But these days I'm usually rushing to throw things together in the kitchen before one of the kids needs me. I am SO excited for when both of them are old enough to really help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614959 Mon, 05 May 2014 22:30:11 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1614959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to enjoy cooking when I didn't have to cook. Now that I am married I *have* to cook. It's a chore. I have to shop for the food myself, cook it, serve it and then clean up. The whole process is just not fun. I have no help and if I don't cook, then we eat take out and guess who gets to order that and pick it up? Me. If there was some help in the kitchen maybe I would enjoy it agaun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614880 Mon, 05 May 2014 21:39:09 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1614880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hotchildinthecity: me too.</p> <p>How in the HELL is baking relaxing? All that flour and egg yolk and watching the oven so nothing burns? No thanks.</p> <p>I do like cooking and I good at it. Of course I like it more when DH takes me out:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614850 Mon, 05 May 2014 21:20:20 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1614850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Adore it. Cooking, baking-- the whole shebang.</p> <p>It is one of the few things I do in life that gets me out of my own head a little bit. When I cook it feels like really decadent personal time. So I guess I would be a great personal chef for someone else because I would feel like I was always on vacation. They'd have to let me eat some of the food, though. ;) I like the eating part, too. And it makes me feel good to think of the girls having good memories of things I've made. Lots of times I wear Lorelei for part of my cooking time and she helps me. It's pretty cool. Though having funny stories of things that not even dogs would eat (like we got from my mom) is kinda fun, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614831 Mon, 05 May 2014 21:09:46 +0000 Mrs. Coral 1614831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love to cook but don't find time as often as I like. I do marathon cooking once every month or two for the freezer. </p> <p>I don't like baking. Too much measuring, too many dirty dishes, I hate washing dishes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614784 Mon, 05 May 2014 20:49:09 +0000 Mae 1614784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Danizaur: Interesting... I think we talked about this in another thread but I have similar eating issues. I don't know that they rise to the level of anything diagnosable, but I'm the pickiest people most people know when it comes to what I can/will eat. I handle it the exact opposite way though-- I have to do everything with related to food prep. Every time my husband cooks it gives me anxiety because he doesn't do it the way I'd do it, and then I have trouble eating it. If I do all the cooking (even though I hate it) I can control exactly what I'm eating and how it is prepared. (Don't get me started on going to dinner at other people's houses... whyyyyy lol. Let's just go out please? Where I can order what I like?) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614730 Mon, 05 May 2014 20:26:27 +0000 artsyfartsy 1614730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hate it. But food and I have an odd relationship. I have SED so I have a small amount of foods I can eat, which makes food prep stressful and upsetting when trying to please my husband as well. Cleaning up leftover food gives me anxiety at the thought of accidentally touching any of it (because it grosses me out). So I let DH do all food prep and grocery shopping and cooking. Fortunately he likes it. I wish I could cook nice meals for him though. I tried when we first got married but I eventually gave up. This is something I struggle with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614681 Mon, 05 May 2014 20:07:00 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1614681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love it, as long as I have someone to help with the dishes after! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614663 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:59:37 +0000 Pancakes 1614663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love cooking and baking. I think it's because I like eating the end result :wink: </p> <p>Like some others mentioned, I love reading cookbooks, like as my bedtime reading. I especially enjoy cooking for company. But, during the week sometimes it can feel like a chore, especially if I'm really tired. And I don't love grocery shopping or dishes!</p> <p>ETA: I feel less motivated to cook now because it's frustrating having LO reject what I cook night after night. But that is the subject of another post... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614633 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:49:44 +0000 MrsF 1614633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't like cooking, but I do like knowing that I have prepared a meal that will feed my family. </p> <p>The cooking itself is just a chore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614569 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:26:11 +0000 Purpledaisy 1614569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love cooking! And I enjoy meal planning and I look forward to grocery shopping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614500 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:08:17 +0000 ElbieKay 1614500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have not cooked regularly in years, so I am mediocre-at-best at it. My husband does most of the cooking in our household, and I often order delivery when it's up to me to arrange dinner. If I didn't have a full time job and could make cooking a fun project, then it would be different. But after work I don't have the energy for that, and I can't handle cleaning up the kitchen after a full day at work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614490 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:03:37 +0000 JerricaBenton 1614490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really enjoy cooking. I actually like the meal planning and shopping, too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614480 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:00:51 +0000 yin 1614480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not a fan of cooking because it's more of a chore for me and a necessity. I cook with food restrictions due to allergies, and it can be stressful preparing every single meal. It's even more challenging with two kids who want my attention. Then there's the clean up... Bleh. If I didn't have so many stress factors, I might enjoy cooking. </p> <p>I do like to bake, although I'm not great at it. It's fun and just a spur of the moment thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614465 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:54:36 +0000 Mae 1614465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Reese: haha no I am not. I work at home anyways, so there is just no reason for me to stop working before I actually go into labor, even though I'm late now. Except for the whole hard-to-focus thing! </p> <p>I'm so surprised by people who like cooking but hate baking! Maybe it's because I just really like sweets. I'm so pumped that when I'm done baking I have cookies or a cake or whatever... no entree is going to make me excited like that haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614454 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:51:07 +0000 Ra 1614454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Love cooking. Hate baking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614436 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:46:25 +0000 mfa_lady 1614436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I enjoy it! I actually prefer cooking to baking--I'm impatient and not super precise, so baking feels like more of a chore to me than cooking! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614390 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:28:09 +0000 Smurfette 1614390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like it for the most part. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614365 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:18:26 +0000 NavyRN2012 1614365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's miserable. That's why DH does all of the cooking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614362 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:15:21 +0000 LovelyPlum 1614362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: @yoursilverlining: @swurlygurl: same! I love, love cooking, but I am not very good at baking. It stresses me out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614306 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:51:36 +0000 preggomeggo82 1614306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614293 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:45:50 +0000 lovehoneybee 1614293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I generally love it, but there are definitely some nights when I just have no interest and it's a chore or I order pizza. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614288 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:40:43 +0000 Reese 1614288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: Holy crap! How could you possibly focus!?!? Are you at an actual workplace/office!?! So exciiiiting!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614267 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:34:03 +0000 nana87 1614267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like to cook when I have lots of time and am not hungry during prep, lol. Dh LOVES to cook though so he does most of it though! Id love to cook together but a) out kitchen is too small and b) dh is a bossy alpha chef, which is no fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-like-cooking/page/2#post-1614266 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:33:54 +0000 MrsPastryLady 1614266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really love cooking (and baking too), but I really hate the clean-up. plus our dishwasher just doesn't always get stuff clean :( </p>