i am having outside food as i do not know how to cook..

Hmm, depending on fast food or outside food for 5 days can have an effect on your health so you should try to be more selective. However, you can try preparing simple home dishes like friend chicken maybe? Recipes are easily available online and are easy to follow. :) Stirred fried rice also works! Or maybe you could try inviting a friend to come over and help you out with cooking. Good luck and I wish you the best of health!

It isn't healthy nor cost effective to live that way for five days. I hope that yo uhave adequate funds to do this. I would suggest once you get a chance to learn to cook some basic things. Even some boiled eggs or fried eggs, pancakes, macaroni and cheese, something so you can live on it when things like this arise.

Ohhh God outside food is not good why you are eating daily outside food. At least make rice and eat with curd or make Dal fry and eat with rice.

I know how to cook so I don't have any experience on this. But when I am lazy to cook, I just buy outside too. You just have to be very careful because sometimes, the other stores aren't that clean. Have a nice day!

i have not any experience anything like this.,your parents should have taught you how to use the gas or you should have looked and helped when your parents are cooking, so you can learn. if you rely on them all the time, what happens if they are not there anymore and you don't know anything? i think we should learn to cook even instant food and to use things around the house, to be independent when other people are not there to cook or prepare anything or something for us. just try to know and learn sometime, so will you know next time.

Sounds like a real problem you have. The part about not being able to cook or use the cooking tools, I mean, not the eating outside part, lol! Homecook meal is the best, because you know what you're putting inside, health wise. Maybe learn to cook when your mom returns? :) That said, just go to your regular eating place in the meantime, places you know have good reputation health-wise. Good luck!

You're mom should've taught you how to do basic cooking. It's not that hard to cook once you learn. I just print recipes online and go from there that's how I learn and then once I get good at it I can just throw things together on my own. I love to cook now. Just try eating healthy foods when you have to order out and stuff. I would hate to waste my money on food for 5 days while they were gone. You could also just go to the store and buy microwavable foods and stuff that should be easy for you to do. Good luck.

Cooking is a basic survival skill. It is something that you should already have learned, and it is rather odd to think that someone past their pre-teen years has never learned to even turn on a stove. It is not too late to learn to prepare food, though. Start with basic things that require little preparation. Doing things such as boiling eggs, steaming veggies and cooking rice, lentils, or pasta are all very easy. It takes time and creativity to turn these things into spectacular meals, but it is a start. Some pasta cooked al dente tossed with some lightly steamed fresh veggies and olive oil served with a greens salad is a good beginner's meal. Chopping up some veggies and stir frying them in a bit of oil and adding in a bit of tofu is another fairly easy thing to do. When your mother returns from her travels, tell her that you want to learn to cook. Ask her to show you how to prepare some basic dishes. If she does not trust you enough to do that, seek out another teacher--someone who will allow you access to a kitchen and give you some guidance to get started.

Cooking is a basic survival skill. It is something that you should already have learned, and it is rather odd to think that someone past their pre-teen years has never learned to even turn on a stove. It is not too late to learn to prepare food, though. Start with basic things that require little preparation. Doing things such as boiling eggs, steaming veggies and cooking rice, lentils, or pasta are all very easy. It takes time and creativity to turn these things into spectacular meals, but it is a start. Some pasta cooked al dente tossed with some lightly steamed fresh veggies and olive oil served with a greens salad is a good beginner's meal. Chopping up some veggies and stir frying them in a bit of oil and adding in a bit of tofu is another fairly easy thing to do. When your mother returns from her travels, tell her that you want to learn to cook. Ask her to show you how to prepare some basic dishes. If she does not trust you enough to do that, seek out another teacher--someone who will allow you access to a kitchen and give you some guidance to get started.

i too don't know much about cooking,,but unlike u can turn on the gas as well as cook noodles as well as prepare tea,so if i had been on your case i would have surely eaten noodels,noodels and again noodles all those 5 days lol

I am sorry to hear that you are in such tough situation. But I have to say I am doubt about your situation. Firstly, how old are you? According to your words, I figure that you may be young, and you may be a student. If you are a student, there are no problems for you because you can eat in your school canteen, I consider that the food in school canteen is healthy and nutritious. So you don't need to eat outside food. But if you aren't a student,and you may be an adult. I should say you are too lazy and inability. As an adult, you still depend on your mother for your meal. I should say, Ushit. Otherwise, you should consider that why you still can't "turn on the gas" by yourself. Are you a kid of four years old...

That sucks. I was lucky though because anytime my dad left town, he did the cooking in the house, there were meals to be heated and eaten around. My mom didn't cook because she worked a lot and this only happened when I was in grade/elementary school and middle/ secondary school. It has been ages since then. I mean I would think that it wouldn't have been hard for you to try just doing pasta in boiling water. I think that if you may want to work on cooking with your mom when she gets back so that this doesn't happen to you again. It is really costly and like you said not good for your health if you order in a lot of junk. Make sure you add some salads or vegetables to what ever you are ordering in.

Well, it's tough to survive on outside food. Moreover, there are high cases of dengue/malaria and food borne illnesses going on in India these days. Due to monsoons and unhygenic conditions, it is better to keep safe and eat out at good places. Maybe you can keep a loaf of bread, some butter and use tomato/cucumber to make a sandwich. You could eat this for breakfast at home. It does not involve any cooking, except for cutting. You can buy yogurt/curd and keep in the fridge. If you have friends, probably you can eat at their place for a day or two. Once your mom is back, you can invite the friends for a treat at home to say thank you. I didn't know how to cook either. After wedding is what I really learnt and now able to dish out tasty dishes. Once your mom is back, either learn basics from her or join a cooking class..for me, I could even burn a pan while trying to boil water..so, I know how it is with you!

Cooking is just as easy when you are interested doing it. I suggest you have to learn a basic cooking enough for you to use within yourself and even share to friends and family. When a person know how to cook its a big help when we are spending our life by ourselves.

It is bad that you don't know how to cook anything at all, because there are so many things that are easy to make. Things like pasta only need to be boiled for about 15 minutes and they are ready to eat, so I don't really understand why you don't think that you're able to make it. I have been able to cook things since I was quite young because my parents taught me well, so this means that I would always want to teach my children to cook as well because lessons like that are very important in the future when they go to live on their own.

Oh she did the right thing to lock the kitchen. Some accidents can happen if you don't know how to on the gas and all. I think it is okay to eat outside since you do not have much choice left. Maybe your neighbors can help you here or some close relatives or friends . Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

Are you really 21?Cooking is so funny!You should try it! I hardly cook food according to any recipe and I like create new food that nobody have ever cooked. But I was afraid of cooking formerly( the same reason as you)but when I tried it and finally enjoyed it I forgot I had such a difficult time with ronating the knob of the cooking station…It seems so easy now. Just try it!You'll enjoy cooking soon!

i had an experience like this not to long ago when my husband would leave to work i will go buy me outside food every morning its really not the same because i rather have a home cook breakfest instead of wasting money knowing i could eat at home and saving the money on sumthing more important.