I have pigged out....

[boxtops]

tonight, there's only me home, and instead of cooking something sensible to feed by hunger, I have eaten a load of rubbish all evening. Quick fix doesn't work, I feel really bloated now. Why do we do it..? Rhetorical question really, laziness and ... well, laziness.

[tamborine]

me tooo but am scoffing all the OOD stuff the girls have thrown out, like trifle - 5 Oct, Cottage cheese 5.10, cheese cake 6.10, 3 yoghurts 3.10, bring it on gals -yums :)

[Eve]

I'm so bad at that. Just have no real motivation to cook for myself (love cooking for others) so with living alone and working long days, eating proper meals just doesn't happen very often for me.

Not really a breakfast person and don't usually have anything, don't tend to eat much during the day generally, often just grab some soup and/or a crusty roll at lunch, often buy a seed snack bar with nuts in it if I'm feeling peckish.

I'm usually out of the house before 7 on a work morning, in work by 8 then get out at 6 at the earliest, often after 7, so by the time I've walked to the shop to pick up something for tea my motivation to make an effort has disappeared, let alone for preparing it by the time I've got the bus home and it's already 8/9pm.

It is laziness and I really should make more of an effort to do a proper big shop in a decent sized supermarket (not the mini ones in town with limited choice) once a week to get a load of fresh stuff and cook up batches of meals to fridge/freeze and eat through the week.

I have periods of making more of an effort, getting veggies I can steam quick in the microwave and some meat I can do on the George Forman but tend to revert to quick microwave fixes.

[Prudentia]

I cook every evening, a good balanced evening meal, once you get into the habit, almost a ritual, it's simple, and most enjoyable and rewarding.

[askyourgran]

this is the worst time of day for me,we've been out for a few drinks. So now I'll be wanting to eat, normally just a biscuit will do. But tonight we have fishcakes and scampi in the oven. I know I'll be bloated but I really need to have something now.

[sherrardk]

Jenna - get it delivered then you wont have the hassle of spending your limited free time in a supermarket.

[pastafreak]

Do you go to work Pru?

I too am lazy when it comes to cooking for myself...though I do do it. Tonight it was a pea and Parmesan risotto...sometimes it's just a jacket,or some filled pasta in a quick cheesy sauce. But after being on my feet all day...in a kitchen....'real' cooking is the last thing on my mind-especially as it is just for me.

[boxtops]

ooh - I'm glad it's not just me then. Prudentia - I know exactly what you mean, but after a hard day at work it's the last thing I have the energy to do. Tambo - I cannot believe what people throw out - two days out of date? I'm still eating yoghurt which says September! - and I'm usually with you Jemma, the things I can cook straight from the freezer all on one plate usually come to my aid. Not tonight though!