How do you guys motivate yourselves to cook?

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  • AirborneEd
    AirborneEd Posts: 69
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    Go to your favorite fast food place and look at the people ordering there. Motivation found.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
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    WTF?? COOKING IS JOY, LOVE, AND PASSION!! Why on earth would you not want to cook? How else do you get wonderful food you can't get at the supermarket, like curried parsnip soup, spiced oven-roasted golden beets, pork and peanut curry, chocolate peanut butter mousse, garlic roasted lamb.........

    I've never played a video game in my life.

    Que sera, sera.
    You know the amazing thing about human beings is that no 2 are alike?

    So, to your response I give you mine:

    WTF?? VIDEO GAMES ARE AMAZING. IT'S JOY, LOVE, AND PASSION! Why on EARTH would you not want to play a VIDEO GAME?

    So yeah, at least one of us is trying to step outside of themselves and try something new.
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    I don't play any games, period. I'd rather do something creative, painting, drawing, sculpture, pyrography, gardening, work with the horses, fiberarts, wet felting, sewing, beadwork, jewelry, interior design... as I said, que sera, sera. Whatever floats your boat.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
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    Step 1: Do not buy prepacked meals - buy only raw ingredients.
    Step 2: There is no Step 2.
    Step 3: Refer to Step 2.
  • aribugg
    aribugg Posts: 164 Member
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    in all honesty, my biggest motivation is the scale. my feet hurt, im tired, im hungry. i dont want to cook. but i never really ate "unhealthy", i ate pre-packaged. (along with being lazy) and now im fat. lol
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
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    honestly, my wallet motivates that just fine. dining out is EXPENSIVE.

    I cut out dining out for a month and was able to afford an awesome pressure cooker. saves SO much time!!
  • Crateria_
    Crateria_ Posts: 253 Member
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    Thanks everyone for all the great responses. :)
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
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    edited to not answer a post also now edited.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
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    Quite honestly, the only thing that motivates me is not keeping food around that I don't have to cook. I live alone and cooking for myself is not really fun.
  • Grammanut
    Grammanut Posts: 37 Member
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    Yea, not everyone loves cooking as much as some of us do. My son, the gamer, is majoring in Graphic Arts. I got home from work a couple months ago and found a brain shaped rice krispie treat in my fridge. Thinking he was just being cute and artsy I almost ate the temporal lobe when he informed me it was the model for his Psychology project. LOL He did get an "A" !!!

    I saw your creative food log, you could log your foods/ recipes in the same manner.....XBOX snick snacks, PS II power breakfast eggs delight, lame I know but I'm a Mom and Gramma.

    Maybe there's a gamers dieting/ heath forum out there somewhere. If not maybe you should start one :-)

    Good Luck to ya!!!
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
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    What? I never said i was better, just different interests. Jeez.

    Comments like 'WTF?! WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO?" sort of imply it, even if that wasn't what you meant. (I don't think it was what you meant, but it can easily come across that way).
  • RobinLynx
    RobinLynx Posts: 60
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    I like to play Mad Scientist in the kitchen, trying out recipes. The best part is that when you make the food, you get to make it YOUR way!!

    Both of my sons cook --& enjoy it. We always had fun in the kitchen while they were growing up, it's a good experience cooking something from scratch-- the colors, the scents, the creativity, all that. It's kind of all in how you look at it. Both do the cooking in their homes & their fiancees LOVE it. I think I told them pretty early on that chicks love a man who can cook :happy: And who has fun cooking. (well, it's true). You can show my older son how to cook a particular meal & he will make it about 100 times better, he works full time & is going to college but it's his passion. His fiancee hangs out in the kitchen with him, makes the salad, that kind of thing. My younger son cooks after work-- he leaves his work at work but his fiancee is a teacher, so her work follows her home. But they both have happy homes.

    Prepackaged, processed foods are not fun but not unpleasant or anything. When I'm cooking (which is pretty much every evening) & someone wants that, I'll make something separate for myself & go ahead & feed them what they want. I can't eat many calories (am short with a small frame) & I don't want to waste them lol.

    I love the recipe section in here btw.
  • Crateria_
    Crateria_ Posts: 253 Member
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    Yea, not everyone loves cooking as much as some of us do. My son, the gamer, is majoring in Graphic Arts. I got home from work a couple months ago and found a brain shaped rice krispie treat in my fridge. Thinking he was just being cute and artsy I almost ate the temporal lobe when he informed me it was the model for his Psychology project. LOL He did get an "A" !!!

    I saw your creative food log, you could log your foods/ recipes in the same manner.....XBOX snick snacks, PS II power breakfast eggs delight, lame I know but I'm a Mom and Gramma.

    Maybe there's a gamers dieting/ heath forum out there somewhere. If not maybe you should start one :-)

    Good Luck to ya!!!
    Hahaha that's really cute about your son :)
  • grillnchill
    grillnchill Posts: 772 Member
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    I prep meals in advance and store them for the days ahead so i can just reach in the fridge and grab a container of this or that. Sunday afternoons are usually my prepping days. During the week it can get hectic so I rely heavily on that.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
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    I dislike cooking and therefor only make very simple things. Do things like bake some fish/chicken/pork with some sauce and/or random spices, serve with boxed noodle mix, rice, boxed mashed potatoes and a bag of salad. We also have Zatarains Red Beans and Rice w/ chicken sausage probably once a week.

    Spaghetti:
    Cook noodles, brown turkey sausage, add jar of sauce to sausage.

    Tacos:
    Brown meat, add 1/2 cup tomoato sauce and some taco seasoning, pre-cooked taco shells, serve with canned green beans.

    Chicken Enchiladas:
    http://www.food.com/recipe/quick-and-easy-chicken-enchiladas-75758

    Meatloaf
    http://www.cooks.com/recipe/as7od5ku/oatmeal-meatloaf.html

    Chicken crockpot stuff:
    http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotchicken/r/bl104c4.htm
  • Grammanut
    Grammanut Posts: 37 Member
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    Ha ha yea thanks, he's cute!!!

    You could probably start another thread reaching out to other gamers on here too.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
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    It's called "being poor" :laugh:

    But in all seriousness, I love cooking. I just hate the clean-up.
  • wyattj99
    wyattj99 Posts: 454 Member
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    My husband does it if I'm being lazy..lol
  • kmbweber2014
    kmbweber2014 Posts: 680 Member
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    You're a gamer like my son. Did you try googling video gamer cookbook or something to that effect?

    Here's some ideas I found..........

    http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/video-game-food

    http://www.gourmetgaming.co.uk/

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/mouthwatering-video-game-foods-in-real-life-70fn

    http://mideastfood.about.com/od/tipsandtechniques/tp/video_games.htm

    These are seriously awesome.

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