Welcome to single depression cooking

Where I will be eating the same breakfast, same lunch, and same dinner every day this week because cooking for one is horribly inconvenient and I can barely scrape together the will to plan, buy, and prep 3 meals.

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iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

I am sorry. I hate cooking for my family, I would love to just cook for myself and eat what I like.

Have you made your favourite meals and frozen them? I like to do this with lasagna, chilli, home made soup, spaghetti sauce,
Stuff like that so I can just have it for dinners when I don’t want to cook.

itsok · 31-35, F

@iamonfire696 I do from time to time. I freeze my spaghetti sauce into ziplock bags and break off pieces when I need them. I’ve done chili, that keeps really well. I haven’t done lasagna, I think I’d have a breakdown if I tried that.
Does your family split up who chooses and cooks the meals?

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@itsok My husband doesn’t cook. My kids have started to cook with me so they can learn.

Lasagna freezes really well and you can cut it into pieces and freeze them separately.

I make those muffin tin omelettes and bake them in the oven and I will freeze those for the kids for breakfast. Just anything that’s easy when I am not feeling great.

ElwoodBlues · M

@itsok

I haven’t done lasagna, I think I’d have a breakdown if I tried that.

Instead of a full layered lasagna, try baking ziti or penne with all the other lasagne ingredients - same great taste, far less effort. Actually, my wife & I had been making a style of lasagna with (cooked) sausage & artichoke hearts that's really delicious. Now we do a sausage & artichoke hearts baked penne that freezes and reheats really well (actually, we've cut out red meat so we use meatless "impossible" sausage).