Sick of Cooking
By SandeeE
@SandeeE (346)
United States
December 15, 2011 6:25pm CST
Anyone else agree that when you cook 247 it's exhausting after a while. What is exhausting is not so much the actual cooking of the meal it's planning meals and what to buy. It's thinking each and every night what you have to defrost for the next day or what that night you will make for everyone. If you have picky people to please that makes it even that much harder and often the meals you cook go very unappreciated such as no thanks or help cleaning up. I believe when you cook someone else should clean up. Just how I was raised and it's only fair in my eyes. The headaches of buying, planning, cooking and cleaning up every night makes me dread cooking. I used to find new recipies and challange myself to cooking anything and everything. I enjoyed cooking and eating with my kids. NO I trully just dread it.
6 responses
@emdjay23 (1575)
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
I agree that cooking for 24/7 is kinda exhausting, specially when no one is helping you to prepare, plan and cleaning up. In out house every time I cook, my mom usually prepares all the ingredients needed for a specific food, but, we always caught up arguing in what meal i am going to cook..:)
I am also kinda irritated when my cooking workplace is just so messy, but I make sure that after I cook I always clean up my mess..because y mom will get mad..:)
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
21 Dec 11
LoL I must agree!
But what gets me is how someone makes the mess and just walks away knowing someone else will come along and clean it for them. I know when I get cereal I might splash some milk or get some sugar on the counter..But I clean it up before I go off to eat. Worse case scenario I'd be happy if they just came back to clean it AFTER they ate.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
16 Dec 11
Yah I totally have to clean as I cook. I mean it's nasty to splash and spill ingredients and leave it. I know people that will get ceral with a spoonful of sugar and spill the sugar and just walk away to eat leaving the sugar all over the table or the milk drops are left on the counte. ANNOYING lol..
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
16 Dec 11
I love to cook, but I agree with you that the rest of the people at home should help or stop being picky. You are not a servant. I want to have some freedom from cooking sometimes, so I make two bactches of sauces at the same time and freeze one. I defrost them to serve with pasta (easy to boil). I also fry and cook double amount of rice as it keeps for about a week in the fridge. It´s a good side dish.
I think that you should set some rules about helping out with cleaning OR ELSE!
I think that you should set some rules about helping out with cleaning OR ELSE!@SandeeE (346)
• United States
16 Dec 11
SUPER GREAT IDEAS. I too will make extra and freeze but this last year I also cook and shop for seven of us now my roomate and her two kids, me and my three kids. It's hard. My kids know it's hard with money and we have to be thankful for food at all let alone to be so picky.
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
17 Dec 11
Legumes are a good idea for large families. I don´t use canned ones, but buy the dry natural kind and soak them overnight in lukewarm water. My lentils are out of this world and VERY easy and cheap.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
16 Dec 11
Well in my experience I've turned to the internet or asked friends to send me recipies and i've gone to different social network sites and asked them to give me recipes or even just ideas! It works and then make a monthly list of every nights dinners and then you can pick from the list each night. Make the list have complicated meals and some that are simple like chicken nuggets etc.
@butterscotsh (1012)
• Philippines
21 Apr 12
I'm sorry to hear about all the troubles you
do everyday just to provide your family
with food. I can now understand what
my mother and father always feels whenever I don't
appreciate what they cook. Next time, even if
I don't like whatever they're cooking, I'll try to
understand them that thinking and planning and cooking
meals for the family is not at all easy.
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
16 Dec 11
Hi SandeeE, your point was well expressed and we got it for sure.
But what are you going to do. SOmetone has to do it especially if
you are considered the cook of the family...But I do believe that
just because they don't say "Thank You" or help clean up dosen't
meam they do not appreciate you...I am almost positive that they
appreciate you beside if you didn't do it who would do it.
They are probably just not use to showing appreciation and I am
sure if you speak on it things will change a little anyway...Maybe
not with the cleaning always....LOL..
You are entitled to complain but just hand in there and keep doing
the fantastic jog you are doing as a Mom...it will eventully be ove
and you want have those family members to cook for and oh boy you
will really miss it...speaking from experiences....Good luck and have
a great holiday....
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
16 Dec 11
Well thank you BjC I hope you have a great holiday too. I have started just not cooking on the nights where the pickiest child is home and let his mom do it so she can make exactly what they will eat. I also don't always do the dishes anymore and or clean up after dinner. I mean when I cook I clean as I go. The other's in the house don't which makes for even worse clean up. I always put my dirty dishes in the dishwasher so that someone else does not have to wash dishes.
I have started w/the saying. IF YOU CAN EAT ON IT, YOU CAN CLEAN IT ya know!
@rusale (647)
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
Nice discussion you got. My sister is always saying that she's tired of cooking too. My mother is too busy to cook for us. I don't know how to cook tasty meals too. I can only make fried fish and some other ready to cook foods. I'm not fond of cooking too because the oil keeps on hitting me. I hope to learn to cook something that is quite harder than frying a fish. Happy mylotting.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
16 Dec 11
Hey fried fish is not an easy food and one I've never made so good for you! I say start with easier food's like spegetti where you can change up the types of flavor's such as some with onions & mushroom sauces or the garden style sauce. I like to change up the pasta's too. You can also add thing's like meatballs or italian sausage instead of hambuger or use both hambuger and sausage ya know.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
23 Dec 11
Ya I can and have done that to my kid's but my rommates youngest is a hellion. This kid will make EVERYONE in the house want to run away. He breaks stuff, screams, says awful thing's. One of those kids you get tested for everything and the psycologist says I'm sorry there's nothing wrong w/him, he is the way he is from lack of proper discipline as a younger child. It's hard to punish him and stick to it and do the TUFF LUV thing because he trully makes life miserable. BUT like I've said JUST DO IT a few times and he will finally learn. But they do it maybe once and then start giving in again..endless cycle. I just won't cook on the night's he's here to be safe and save us allll the stress lol...I pray he'll grow out of it for his Mama's sake.
