"Hope" > wrote in message
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> 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?
>>
>>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.

The clean up is part of it too.
When I go out today I'm going to pick up paper plates and plastic forks.
Making the clean up simple may help too.

>
> 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
>