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Does your partner cook?

fteale
fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Mine doesn't, so I make all the food we eat, which makes it very easy for me to keep track of what I am eating. I always think it must be harder for people who have to eat what other people make them. I also think my poor husband must be feeling a bit starved at the moment, as I am giving him the same food I am eating.

Do you like cooking? Or would you rather someone else did it?
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  • whateverdamnit
    whateverdamnit Posts: 130
    I'm not really in to cooking.. good thing my partner's a chef. :D
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    I'm not really in to cooking.. good thing my partner's a chef. :D
    Mine too :laugh: I like cooking too, though, so I have to shove him out of the kitchen or he interferes.
  • seansquared
    seansquared Posts: 328 Member
    I do all the cooking, she does all the baking. I don't touch carbs any more, but if she were to make her banana nut bread you'd better believe I'd drop the lifestyle for 24hrs ;)
  • LeeKetty1176
    LeeKetty1176 Posts: 881 Member
    i do all the cooking and I love it!!
  • crasula
    crasula Posts: 53 Member
    I see a pattern forming here ladies! I also do all the cooking in my home although my wife has a stash of goodies because she thinks my idea of snacks is more like torture.

    :laugh:
  • susiewusie
    susiewusie Posts: 432 Member
    I do all the cooking ,I love it :)
  • joannbuist23
    joannbuist23 Posts: 127 Member
    My husband is good at making breakfast for us but I usually cook all of the other meals.
  • rhapsody527
    rhapsody527 Posts: 60
    I do most of the cooking, but my husband usually cooks one or two meals a week. I love cooking, but it is nice to get a break once in awhile! He usually cooks pretty healthily, but he always overdoes it on the portions, so I have to make my own dish!
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    I adore cooking! My partner will do it but he sees it as a chore but he cooks very healthily. Before starting MFP, we'd alternate weeks but now I do most of it, which I am more than happy to do. He feels guilty about me doing it all but assuages it by doing all the washing up!
  • CARNAT22
    CARNAT22 Posts: 764 Member
    My OH cooks only 2 things. Steak and a fried breakfast.... bith if which I have not had this year LOL!!

    Being the main cook makes it much easier to control what I eat... and I love cooking!
  • suzycreamcheese
    suzycreamcheese Posts: 1,766 Member
    no, or very rarely.
    If i want fish fingers and chips for my dinner, or frozen pizza, then he can cope, but nothing more taxing than that unfortunately
  • Plumpqt
    Plumpqt Posts: 156
    I cook and enjoy it but my fiance also cooks, but when he cooks I make my own food
  • PhoenixRising11
    PhoenixRising11 Posts: 245 Member
    My oh used to cook more often than he does now. I don't know how it's happened but I make most of the meals now. Sometimes he puts my porridge in the microwave for me! Does that count?
    I kind of wish he'd do a bit more cooking for us though.
  • janemartin02
    janemartin02 Posts: 2,653 Member
    Love to cook.Glad hubby doesn`t except for the grill.makes it easier to plan the meals and know ahead of time what I`m eating
  • casey12105
    casey12105 Posts: 293
    Ha yea my husband could burn water. I do all the cooking but I hate it lol
  • Bviera
    Bviera Posts: 106 Member
    My boyfriend and I take turns, but lately when I'm at his place, I've been doing most of the cooking because he likes to bread and deep fry things!
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    Love cooking - hate cleaning up after.
  • kittybitz79
    kittybitz79 Posts: 213
    My hubby's idea of cooking is going out. I do most of the cooking and baking in our house. Good thing I love to take recipes and make them my own by changing and substituting.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,439 MFP Moderator
    I cook about 90% of the time for my wife but I am the one who is also pushing the strict diet.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    My partner has been cooking most of his own dinners since I became vegetarian. It's made the being on a diet easier for both of us as there are no rows over food, cooking or shopping, he eats what he wants and I do the same.
  • l3ugjuice
    l3ugjuice Posts: 233
    Since I've been dieting, we both just kinda fend for ourselves....and our daughter just sort of picks between the two.

    Not alot of cooking going on, though....but a whole lot of salad preparation.
  • beccarockslife
    beccarockslife Posts: 816 Member
    Steve cooks 99% of the time, funnily enough I'm cooking dinner tonight but it's the first time in about a month I think.

    He sticks to the slimming world plan I'm following, he understands it well and knows what to cook.
  • dustyhockeymom
    dustyhockeymom Posts: 537 Member
    I do almost all the cooking. Hubby grills, which we do a couple times a week. He also makes the pancakes. Our son insists on that. It makes it easier to control what I am having for me to do the cooking. The hard part for us is that due to our son's sports schedules we eat out a couple times a week sometimes and that is hard to know exactly what you are eating.
  • plantboy2
    plantboy2 Posts: 224 Member
    We've sold our house without anywhere to move to, so have had to move in with our in laws on a farm. I usually cook, but now my mother in law does and she does it in true farm style - loads of roast food, loads of potatoes, loads of pastry, loads of cake and puddings - it is a minefield! Definitely honed my will power.

    She looks a bit hurt when I only eat a bit and turn down puddings :-0

    Saying that, not cooking certainly frees up my evenings :-)
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    I do all the cooking, she does all the baking. I don't touch carbs any more, but if she were to make her banana nut bread you'd better believe I'd drop the lifestyle for 24hrs ;)


    Have her tweak the recipe using coconut flour, coconut oil and coconut milk, extra vanilla bean............I made some recently and my husband said it is best he has ever had!!!
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    I do the cooking, baking and grilling in my house!!!! I also do all the cleaning because he doesn't do it like I want it done.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    My ILs have a farm, but they know when I am there, I'll do my own cooking. I don't do heavy farm work, so I don't need heavy farm food!
  • ltlemermaid
    ltlemermaid Posts: 637 Member
    I do all the cooking and grilling...if I'm not up to it we go out to eat... I love to cook, grill, bake so that is a plus. It just sucks when I have to cook my veggies seperately most of the time since he won't touch them or eat the food if its in there-big baby!!

    He is getting better about helping put dishes away ect but he is banned from cooking after he made oatmeal explode!!
  • KariQuiteContrary
    KariQuiteContrary Posts: 274 Member
    I do all the cooking, she does all the baking. I don't touch carbs any more, but if she were to make her banana nut bread you'd better believe I'd drop the lifestyle for 24hrs ;)

    For banana nut bread, HECK YES! :drinker: Great....now I wanna go bake some....mmmmm
  • Joyjmb
    Joyjmb Posts: 221 Member
    Boyfriend is actually BETTER cook than me - with a chef dad and nutritionist mom, he's just got better instincts and palate.
    However, he LOVES the carbs. Could eat a whole pot of rice and makes a wickedly good homemade alfredo. So when I cook for us, I make a carb just for him . My plate is 2/3 veg, 1/3 protein, while his is 1/2 carb, 1/2 protein, and 1/2 veg - which is 150%!! =)
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