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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.

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.)

Cereal!

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).

Cereal, soup, ramen, frozen pot stickers, bagged salads, hummus and chips, fruit...

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

Salads and sandwiches are GREAT no cooking needed foods!

We used to do a lot of takeout... now we do a lot of mainly-already-prepped meals from upscale grocery stores.

@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

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.

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.

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.