"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>> Shel making meatloaf with five pounds of meat, and making soup in Navy
>> quantities just isn't practical
>> for most of us. For one thing, frozen cooked goods lose texture and
>> taste after six months or so, and if one
>> is a single or feeding a couple, those quantities would be losing all
>> kinds of quality before being consumed.
>> Many people here enjoy cooking and feel it isn't a waste of time to cook
>> anew for each meal, or most
>> meals. As a solo diner, if I make enough to have one extra serving for a
>> future time suits me and my taste
>> buds very well. For another, the cost of having storage space (freezers
>> or shelves for home canned goods) for those
>> kinds of quantities is prohibitive.
>>
>> N.
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> All very true, with just the two of us now and being older we don't really
> eat that much at all anymore, so I do like to cook just about every day,
> not always complicated cooking or anything, but usually decide the evening
> before what we'll have the next day. I do like leftovers, so do make
> larger batches of soup and things like that to freeze.

Yes, we are just two like you, and like you our appetites are much smaller
than they used to be! I like to cook a fresh meal every day, but I do
freeze some stuff, like I just froze half of that meat loaf I just made. DH
likes that in sandwiches too so it might not appear again as part of dinner,
but it will be eaten and enjoyed. If I made massive amounts of food at once
it would last a very long time and I wouldn't have the pleasure of cooking
so often.


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