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[listersgirl]

I am so failing at cooking for myself this week! (Starting from about...Friday? Or maybe even all last week, too, heh.) I am buying lunch and dinner left right and centre. Or some other meaningless combination of words. It's all very tasty, of course, but the longer I go without making food at home the harder it is to get back into that habit. And it's not likely to be broken tonight, since I have dance class and then I have to go to the library to pick up some books, which gets me home just in time for SYTYCD pretty late, and very hungry.

Maybe tomorrow I will remember to go to the farmer's market across the street, and will be inspired by the food? Maybe.

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[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

the longer I go without making food at home the harder it is to get back into that habit.

TOTALLY. If I go a few weeks doing a lot of eating out/convenience foods, when a time comes that I have an opportunity to cook, I look at the fridge and can't really tell if there IS food to cook, because I forget what I cook when I do cook.

That sentence broke my brain, but you know what I'm saying. Right now if there aren't obvious salad or sandwich makings I'm pretty much screwed.

Perhaps we will jointly begin to fix this on Thursday? :D

[listersgirl]

Plus the vegetables get soggy. So I can't even cook on Wednesday what I planned for last Thursday. :P Oh the trials of life!

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Probably not the best time to make plans for dinner, right? ;-)

[listersgirl]

No, I think that makes it an EXCELLENT time to make plans for dinner.

Dinner? :D

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Dinner!

[pink-vegan.livejournal.com]

you and me both! I am acutely aware of how much money I can save and calories I won't use up if I bring my lunch....and yet...

I'll go to the market with you tomorrow if you want some company! I have Bohnanza at my desk, ready for a bean showdown!

[listersgirl]

We should totally play Bohnanza at lunch. Best lunch break ever.

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

I made vegan chili dogs last night. It involved heating up the franks, and heating up the chili. That's as close as I've come to cooking lately. Heh.

[listersgirl]

Tonight...I broiled cheese on bread. It's magic!

[mystery-diva.livejournal.com]

I'm still shocked that I *am* taking my lunch. Don't get me wrong...I'm not bragging, because it's completely boyfriend-driven. He's adamantly against lunch-buying, and basically lunches made from home come out of our common grocery account, but buying lunch has to come out of our own accounts. So I have a financial incentive. Could you create some kind of financial incentive? Hmm. Or, quit your job and go work somewhere devoid of yummy lunch options. Like...Environment Canada! :)

[listersgirl]

I think it's much easier to take lunch if there's two of you anyway, because someone else is making lunch, so you might as well too. :D

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

...but the longer I go without making food at home the harder it is to get back into that habit.
Oh, it'll happen eventually. My friend Heidi is known for the way she and her family literally live on either take-out pizza or plain chicken and plain rice when they eat out (seriously, horrendous diet, but each to their own, so...) yet while I was there cooking, she was actually interested in a couple of recipes.

Okay, so that was supposed to be positive but it didn't sound all that encouraging really, did it? Maybe your get-out will be having a friend who cooks over to stay for a while. :) How was dance class?

[listersgirl]

Dance class was sweaty! We've got our student recital coming up so we ran, ran, ran the choreography. And I tried not to break out laughing at all the eye contact I had to make (it's a back-and-forth kind of thing, playing off each other).

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

:) When's the recital? I love the different ways students react to the eye contact thing. Problem is, it's essential in tribal because you're watching each other for cues! What's your choreography to, if you dont' mind me asking?

[listersgirl]

The recital is next Friday, I believe. One is two drum solos - Tabla Ala Hak and Tabla Fe Lelat Sammar from the CD Dla El Hoanam, and the other is Darbet Malem by Abdel Baset Hamouda.

I have a long history of cracking up at eye contact, starting with trying to play in wind quartets during university. Not my strong point. :D

[sh1mm3r.livejournal.com]

The farmers market never works for me because I think "What can I make with beets? Ooh, I'm sure I can find something," and then I take them home and its too overwhelming (d-u-m) so then they rot.

It works better to pour through my thousands of cookbooks and find a recipe that speaks to me and go shopping for it. THen I only get overwhelmed half the time.

It isn't that bad once I start, but sometimes I freeze at the getting started phase for no particular reason!

[listersgirl]

The market helps to narrow it down a bit sometimes - I'll buy asparagus, and then I'll go through all my cookbooks looking for asparagus recipes. But it's not always successful, that's for sure.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

Could you make a dish or two on the weekends and then freeze individual portions for meals? Asks the girl who is having a smoothie for dinner because she's too lazy to cook...

[listersgirl]

That's usually what I do, but last weekend I wasn't really ever home for meals, which is part of what caused all this. :P