Okay, Newyweds! So, how many days a week do you cook for hubby? or

Original post by AnnBrunoXO

Jun 09, 2004 02:16 PM

Does he cook for you!

Ive been married almost 3 months and starting to run out of ideas of what to make for dinner...lol

I cook 4-5 days out of the week, maybe a day we'll order in or go to eat at parents house..etc..

Does anyone feel the pressure to cook?!! Or what to make every night?

I know, it can get pretty expensive eating out all the time>

jar823 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 05:02 PM

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I try to cook at least 4 nights a week, if not more. I've been cooking for him for about 4 years now. And yes I cook the same things over and over and over again! Everytime I try a new recipie, it is not edible! I am no chef!

DH NEVER cooks for me! He's tried and he is a horrible cook! He made me steakums, american cheese with ketchup on a lenders bagel. So I do the cooking!

We eat Chinese A LOT!o

SeptemberBride03 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 05:34 PM

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I cook 5 or 6 nights a week. My DH tries to help, but it works out better when I cook and he cleans up after, which he always does.

I get Cooking Light magazine and LOVE it! I make at least 8 new recipes a month.

mv1003 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 06:09 PM

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It'll vary.. sometimes I'll cook 4 days a week, sometimes, I'll cook all 7 days. Especially since we're saving for a home now, it's back to 7.

I LOVE to cook, so I started spicing it up a bit. I'll make your typical chicken cutlets and all that good stuff. However, lately, we've been making kabobs at home. We both love fish, so I've been making catfish, sole, salmon and scallops. I've ventured sometimes (mostly in the winter) to a roast beef etc.....

We actually play a game w/ food too that we like to call, 'try something new'. Once a week, he'll search for a recipe that he wants to try, or I will. We'll go buy what we need, and make it. There's this excellent Greek recipe that is to die for- and it's fool proof!!! We absoluely love it...

JodiBabe Posted: Jun 09, 2004 06:56 PM

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Posted by princess99

Dh is a picky eater.

Then tell him to cook!!!

VickiC Posted: Jun 09, 2004 06:59 PM

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I hardly ever cook - and he hardly ever cooks! Although, we are both pretty good cooks.

Mondays we are usually at my parents, and since we are on opposite schedules during the week, he has a big lunch, and I'll have sald or cereal for dinner.

I'll usually cook on a Sunday since I have the time. If he's home during the week, than he'll cook.

kathleenmarie Posted: Jun 09, 2004 07:25 PM

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Since we have opposite schedules, Just on the weekend.

farah416 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 07:44 PM

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I'm using my wife's account but let me answer for her.
ZERO
And FYI when we don't order in I am the one that cooks.

(The wife here - I do EVERYTHING else!!)
(The husband - Except pay the bills )

luvsun27 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 08:11 PM

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DH usually cooks 4 nights during the week (M-TH). We have all sorts of chicken, pasta, turkey burgers, pork chops...tonight we had tacos!

He gets home first...so he cooks. After dinner, I clean up the dished and I make our lunches to take to work the next day

On the weekends, we usually eat out on Saturday and then Sunday it's either a big meal that takes long...or sandwhich's because we are lazy.

beachgirl13 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 08:44 PM

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um, he is a MUCH better cook than I am. When he's not working nights, he'll cook for me. I really need to start cooking though, I'm starting to feel guilty. But it's hard bc he's so much better at it than I am!!

J.Lo24 Posted: Jun 09, 2004 09:22 PM

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I was also going to posted about this topic. I cook about 1 or 2 times during the week and I cook on the weekend. My DH cooks on my late night. He cleans the dishes, so actually I rather cook because I HATE cleaning dishes. I try to cook a dish during the week that we can get a couple of meals out of....Like today, I cooked baked ziti. I love to cook, just not during the week. I am shot when I get home.

JodiBabe Posted: Jun 09, 2004 09:32 PM

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Never! He cooks!

itsbouttime Posted: Jun 09, 2004 10:01 PM

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lol!!!
me cook for him= NONE!!!

him cook for me=2 nights

the other 5 i am on my own!!!

haha

Sunny Posted: Jun 09, 2004 10:26 PM

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I do not cook.

julybride44 Posted: Jun 10, 2004 03:04 AM

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I cook about 5 days a week. We usually eat out once, and one night a week if I'm tired we'll either order in or he'll make something (like grilled cheese and soup or veggie burgers-he's not much of a cook:)

I tend to mix up things that I usually make if I get bored (maybe making homeade sauce with a different amount of spice, using different veggies in the curry I make, or taking a big salad and putting it in a wrap with veggie chicken instead of in a bowl).

Sometimes simple changes can make an old favorite feel new.

Try a new cookbook if all else fails.

julybride44 Posted: Jun 10, 2004 03:06 AM

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You could also scour the grocery store for new sauces and ideas (sometimes I'll pick up a new stir-fry sauce or new kinds of soup).
Try going down aisles you don't spend too much time in.

If you aren't vegetarian, try some of those items for something different...

Also, making something that usually comes prepared from scratch can be a good change (homeade mac and cheese or homeade soups).

CheeChee Posted: Jun 10, 2004 05:55 PM

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i cant help it, i dont cook. I hate every min of it. I would rather just not eat. But maybe its b/c we both go to school and work and i dont get home till like 8ish from work while he gets home at like 5ish. So shouldnt he be cooking for me??? He complains but i say your a grown man, you can feed yourself... we've been living together for 3 yrs so he's pretty much used to no meals by now.. so bad, what can i say???

HearzBellz Posted: Jun 10, 2004 06:04 PM

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5-6 days.....Dh will cook 1-2 days......i am alo getting bored & Dh is not very keen on new foods....... I think I will have to find some really killer recepies.

matron Posted: Jun 11, 2004 12:16 AM

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Posted by Donna

I've cooked once since I've been married! DH and I are on different work schedules - we can only eat together 2 nights a week and those nights we either go out (date night) or end up eating my mother's or his mothers. During the week I'm too lazy to cook for myself so usually have a salad, cereal or some leftovers

Ditto -- and I've been married since 2002!