On Fri, 27 May 2005 03:04:15 GMT, "Bell Jar" >
wrote:

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>"Hope" > wrote in message
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>> is it the cooking or the menu planning that's getting you down?
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>Both.
>
>I am
>> ok once I know what we're having, but I hate hate HATE that part. I
>> have even subscribed to services where yoiu get a weekly menu sent to
>> you to cook (this was ok but lots of "add a can of soup to some other
>> processed thing" recipes, and also lots of things I can't get here).
>
>I did that too ... and thought the same thing. We can get those foods here
>... I just don't want to.
>
>> Anyway I wondered if it was the cookingor the planning that you're
>> hating.
>
>Right now it's both. I need to get my menu book back out and work on a
>summer plan.


Well I hope you get on top of it. I am feeling the
labours-of-Hercules-ness of the whole cooking/eating/cleaning up cycle
at the moment- it's this never ending job that even with an
appreciative family is just starting to depress me.

Most months I buy a food magazine (just everyday food, not necessarily
for foodies) that has loads of recipes and even weekly menus. It's
all from-scratch which I appreciate (even though a lot of the ads have
recipes containing prepared products, some of which have not been too
horrible). ANyway sometimes that helps, and sometimes flipping thru
back issues helps.

I'll be following the suggestions you get with interest because I am a
bit "over it" too at the moment.

Hope