I just dont understand people...

[Weedygarden]

I think a lot of it is lack of planning. I'm guilty of that sometimes too, so I keep some "quickie" frozen tenders, pizzas, pot pies, etc. in the freezer for those times. I don't use them very often, but even those "quickie" things beat running to the tavern or ordering out. I usually have a lasagna in there too, but those take 45 min to an hour to heat through. I make them on the hearty side. We don't like the store bought or restaurant lasagna's........yuck!

We eat at home most of the time b/c it just tastes better! Many times DH and I will be enjoying a meal and say "there's nowhere you're gonna get a meal like that in any restaurant"....and even if you could, it would cost you an arm and a leg. Last week we had venison tenderloin, morell mushrooms, and nice salad. Yummy! Nope - not gonna find that anywhere else! Today I have a roast in the crock pot for dinner tonight and tomorrow I will shred some of the leftover meat and make pulled beef sliders with some left over rolls we have to use up. There's at least 4 meals with just one roast since DH loves to eat that roast as leftovers right from the frig. I'll even make my own cakes and rice krispie treats b/c even those pre-packaged treats have a weird taste to them.

I agree. I think for many it is a lack of planning.

I had a student whose mother was sharp, Master's degree, organized, focused, driven, etc. Her son would come to school and had moments daily of staring into space, not able to concentrate, sleeping with his eyes open. I mentioned to her at parent teacher conferences that I thought he was often tired. What I didn't know was that she was told the same thing about her daughter at her conference. Children were in after care. Mom worked at least half an hour away. By the time they got home, it was always after 6:00 p.m. Now mom had to cook dinner, family time to eat, baths, maybe homework, and by the time they were done, it was 9:00 or later. Her children were not getting enough sleep because life was so busy. What did mom take away from parent teacher conferences? That she needed to change up evenings. She reached out to her friends for their favorite crock pot recipes. She got organized so that when they got home from the day, they could sit down to dinner, and have a much better evening, with children getting to bed much earlier.

Not everyone thinks like her. Not everyone can figure it out, or cares to figure it out. And sometimes we are so busy, we don't even have time to think about it. That was my life for many years while teaching. So busy, so much on my mind, so much to do. Home life always suffered at the expense of work. I have many regrets about it.

 

[lonewolf]

for many I think its several things, modern British houses have been getting smaller and smaller over the years, anything the developer can get away with, so there isn't much worktop room, no room to have a dining table, people eat on their laps, so its easier and lazier to have a ready meal which takes minutes to "cook" or a takeaway -some places delivered to the door, some houses don't have a cooker or oven just a microwave, another excuse is time.
I may have been married 3 times but I had one rule, always marry a good cook who could cook from fresh.

 

[backlash]

I prefer the "tales from the green valley" series, available on youtube, this is how I think we will be living in the UK in a post SHTF life.

Thanks I added it to my watch later list.

For quick food an air fryer works very well. All those quick finger foods, chicken nuggets, pizza,breaded fish,things like that heat in less time, less oil, and they are crisp.

 

[Meerkat]

Sounds like the UK needs to revisit the Wartime Farm series. It was a great one.

Is this the one Amish?

I prefer the "tales from the green valley" series, available on youtube, this is how I think we will be living in the UK in a post SHTF life.

Here is another, I think both of these you two put up will be interesting and give us something else to watch.

 

[Terri9630]

Those are the ones meerkat.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yep! Loved Wartime Farm. I have the books, too. Amazing what Britain had to go through since they're an island and Hitler was bombing supply ships. They had stopped producing enough foodstuff for their people before the war, and were in a world of hurt when the imports stopped coming. I believe that they are in the same situation again, and also overrun with immigrants that are on the dole. It wouldn't be pretty if it happened again. I wonder what the mayor of London would do?

 

[lonewolf]

don't talk to me about that idiot(mayor of London), he's too busy getting his face on the TV to do anything about crime in London.
which is why I will never go there.