Hellobee Boards Topic: If you don't cook, what do you eat?

Hellobee Boards Topic: If you don't cook, what do you eat? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 11 May 2026 00:32:14 +0000 archivedbee on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161775 Thu, 17 May 2012 16:50:35 +0000 archivedbee 161775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @cocobee: you must be a fast cook ! I take a looong time in the kitchen, so I know it ain't gonna happen for me . Plus we have hardly any counter space so that adds to the frustration. I look forward to when I can actually start cooking again without feeling like I'm in a race for time (or will that never happen ?!?) Mrs. Pen on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161762 Thu, 17 May 2012 16:39:40 +0000 Mrs. Pen 161762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @podomama: I'm in the same boat. LO is 3 mos but I make a point to cook every night. I can usually get 10 minutes out of the swing while I do prep, or I start prepping while he takes his afternoon nap. He doesn't like being baby-worn either, so I will hold him in one arm and do the rest of the cooking with my other hand. We make it work :) It is harder and takes a lot longer but I like eating homemade and the alternative is too expensive and unhealthy. PawPrints on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161751 Thu, 17 May 2012 16:21:16 +0000 PawPrints 161751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love to cook and can't imagine getting through a week without it; but, we also love take-out and going out to eat, and do that at least once or twice a week (usually on weekends). archivedbee on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161730 Thu, 17 May 2012 15:56:46 +0000 archivedbee 161730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I don't know how mothers have the time to cook with a little baby.... my LO did not take to body-wearing, so I was always holding him or I had to be right next to him at all times or he would cry. Now that he is over 1 yr old, most nights he won't go to sleep until past 9pm ! In the beginning we did take-out, but it got very expensive, so now my DH cooks or we get some semi-ready to eat meals from Costco. MusicaV on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161690 Thu, 17 May 2012 15:20:42 +0000 MusicaV 161690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Sometimes we'll do takeout, and we usually get enough food that we have leftovers for 1-2 more nights. Other times I pick up some prepared food, or we snack on whatever we have on hand (eggs, nuts, small leftovers) Smurfette on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161680 Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:27 +0000 Smurfette 161680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DH travels during the week, so I don't have to cook Mon-Wed. I usually will just make something super easy like soup, sandwich, salad or a quesdilla, if I am not meeting friends for dinner. If we don't feel like cooking on the weekend, we just go out to dinner. We hardly ever just order food for delivery. LuLu Mom on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161492 Thu, 17 May 2012 13:12:36 +0000 LuLu Mom 161492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Stroller: Wow! That is incredible, we usually have it once a week and I thought that was good! haha Mrs.Someone on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161491 Thu, 17 May 2012 13:10:25 +0000 Mrs.Someone 161491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We cook at least 3 or more times a week, and the rest of the time are leftovers. Thursdays are date night, and we often do lunch and/or breakfast out at least once on the weekends. But... We were remodeling our kitchen earlier this year, so we had to figure out this problem. We kept a toaster oven and microwave to use, but it wasn't cutting it. There is a great local food grocery store in our area (Eat Local in Seattle) that mainly carries ready to heat meals. We found that the meals were hit and miss, but they did keep us in good, healthy food for several weeks. HLK208 on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161469 Thu, 17 May 2012 12:56:59 +0000 HLK208 161469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I don't cook often, we usually have cereal or yogurt for breakfast, fresh fruit, veggies or cheese for a snack, lean cuisines or toasted bagels or sandwiches for lunch and dinner is usually some sort of take out or we go out to eat...but it's not unhealthy food, I often get salads when we're out. For us, cooking is more expensive than eating out! A trip to the grocery store for all the ingredients we need for dinner is $40-70 and eating out is $20-50. Besides we're terrible at cooking so it feels like we're lighting money on fire when our meals don't turn out haha. MrsBrewer on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161463 Thu, 17 May 2012 12:52:47 +0000 MrsBrewer 161463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Stroller: I'm very jealous!! Must be awesome living at your house :-) If I don't cook a lot of times we will try and find something around the house, mac and cheese, hot dogs, salad....and if not, then normally take-out....mcdonalds, DQ, qdoba, noodles Mrs. Stroller on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161450 Thu, 17 May 2012 12:43:21 +0000 Mrs. Stroller 161450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ "Not cooking" at our house means making spaghetti and defrosting sauce that I previous made from scratch. Or heating up one of the dozens of meals in our freezer that I previously made. When Mr. S is away I'll have cereal for dinner sometimes, but usually I'll stop and pick up some shrimp or a crabcake to have on a salad. We probably have take-out twice a year! Lozza on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161425 Thu, 17 May 2012 12:28:50 +0000 Lozza 161425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We used to do a lot of takeout... now we do a lot of mainly-already-prepped meals from upscale grocery stores. mrs. wagon on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161379 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:43:27 +0000 mrs. wagon 161379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mrs. bird: I lOVE doing the rotisserie chicken meal!! dinner in a minute!! I am NOT a big cook, because during the week I have less than 30 mins to get dinner on the table and on the weekends I like to go out. But to save money, I try to do whole wheat pasta with frozen turkey meatballs once a week (lunch for all of us the next day too) and sometimes shake n bake pork chops. We do frozen chicken nuggets or fishsticks and frozen veggies or salad a lot. Once a week we get the $7.99 large Domino's pizza special (Wagon Jr.'s lunch the next day as well). About once a week we'll do something like Chinese (Wagon Sr. works right next to Chinatown) or takeout from our local sub shop. If it were up to Wagon Sr. we'd eat cereal, yogurt, soup, and ramen every day. I need real food. In the past I'd also do cold cut sandwiches but those are a no-no while pregnant! Boo. chopsuey on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161372 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:36:09 +0000 chopsuey 161372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Salads and sandwiches are GREAT no cooking needed foods! :D Mrs. Pen on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161295 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:52:07 +0000 Mrs. Pen 161295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mrs. bird: lol that family I nannyed for in NY ate Boston Market at least once a week! mrs. bird on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161286 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:49:10 +0000 mrs. bird 161286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ last night i didn't feel like cooking- so i stopped at the grocery store and picked up a chicken, one of the bagged salad mixes & threw one of those steam in the bag frozen veggie pouches in the microwave when i got home, dinner on the table three minutes later =D i also keep blake's frozen shepherds pies, trader joe's frozen turkey meatballs, and other super easy things in the freezer for times when i don't feel like/have time to cook a whole meal. we're also guilty of ordering delivery more often than we should or grabbing boston market on the way home Alivoo01 on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161271 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:35:35 +0000 Alivoo01 161271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We do fast food or eat out. If we're trying to save money we'll make rice with chinese sausage and eggs, frozen pizza, or ramen noodles. autumnlove on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161257 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:44 +0000 autumnlove 161257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Cereal, soup, ramen, frozen pot stickers, bagged salads, hummus and chips, fruit... LuLu Mom on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161249 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:17:44 +0000 LuLu Mom 161249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ If I don't cook (which is rarely) I will have cereal, sandwiches and canned soup, or a frozen pizza. Sprite on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161247 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:15:36 +0000 Sprite 161247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ If I do cook, I'll make a giant casserole that's like 4 night of food for us, so we just eat that. But some frozen dinners aren't too bad, like Safeway's Eating Right brand, and Marie Callendar's is alright. I try to limit my sodium intake for other meals if we're eating frozen, since they do have a lot more sodium than regular cooking. Not the most healthy, but it's so easy just to take something out of the freezer and 45 mins later dinner is done (we only ever cook frozen meals in the oven, makes them taste a whole lot better than the microwave). mrsjazz on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161243 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:11:00 +0000 mrsjazz 161243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I used to cook a lot but pregnancy and a newborn have taken their toll on that for me. DH cooks occasionally. We eat pbj, cold cut sandwiches, cereal, and take out. BabyBoecksMom on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161220 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:25 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 161220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Cereal! mrbee on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161214 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:51:48 +0000 mrbee 161214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I eat yogurt and fresh fruit for breakfast a lot. :-) DillonLion on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161212 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:51:45 +0000 DillonLion 161212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Back when I used to be an avid cooker, I wondered this as well. And then I got pregnant/sick/uninterested in cooking. I still do cook some nights, but the other nights are leftovers, frozen meals, take-out, fast food, or snacking on little things throughout the night (chips, nuts, fruit, etc.) pastemoo on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161210 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:50:46 +0000 pastemoo 161210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ cheese and crackers, or pb&j, or ramen (rarely). usually with an apple. heffalump on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161208 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:49:31 +0000 heffalump 161208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I go through many periods of not cooking because of my migraines. I just can't do it, as much as I'd like to. I get so sick of take out! We eat: Crispers, Panera, Mama Fu's, lots of local restaurants like a Greek place, Falafel, Chicken, Cuban, Deli, Pizza, Thai, etc. Yes it's not as healthy or cheap as cooking, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Andrea on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161198 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:25 +0000 Andrea 161198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I used to live in NYC so it was take out every night almost! You can get take out from top restaurants so it wasn't too shabby but expensive, yes. We started cooking once we moved to the suburbs, though! Mrs. Pen on "If you don't cook, what do you eat?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-cook-what-do-you-eat#post-161182 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:09 +0000 Mrs. Pen 161182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have always wondered this! I have always cooked, so has my family. I can't imagine not cooking, and it would be so unhealthy and SO EXPENSIVE for us not to! What do you do? Order takeout? Where I live all there is is junk food for take out, chinese, applebess, buffalo wings, subway and some fast food chains. Any good stuff is far away and expensive.