Would you rather cook or do delivery/take-out/eating out? *money and nutrition aside*

i had pad thai at the pok pok pad thai only joint in the LES and it was really good, im still bad at andy tho

I need to learn how to cook.
At the moment I think I'm mainly eating from purchased meals, part of this is because I'm eating lunches at the training centre. & that isn't the healthiest probably. Veg is often extra and doesn't tend to come with the cheaper meals to any great degree.
I keep buying veg at the market at the weekend and not preparing it.

Sundays I go and buy takeaways from the Indian takeaway stall on the market. Probably not as healthy as I initialy thought it was. Nice stuff though.

& I think i'm putting weight on, which is a drag. Cos I was supposed to be losing it.

Subsequently I really need to learn to cook. Would really love to do a cookery course. Or work through the coookery books I was buying throughout last year, and basically haven't used.

damn i wanna eat with dylannnnnnnn

I quite enjoy cooking, I don't particularly enjoy shopping for groceries (save perhaps an occassional foray to a farmer's market).

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tonight i feel like cooking. i'm in mourning over my cat (who was just euthanized and sent to kitty heaven) and i want something to take my mind off him.

i am a sick fuck who loves grocery shopping

oh I am so sorry about your kitty :(

Cooking the sads away is otm, even if the sads don't go away and you don't even feel like eating. Anything that feels comforting is the way to go.

sorry gb :) cook up something comforting <3

I'm so sorry, gb. I hope cooking helps.

how is your old lady, carl? It tugs my heart especially because she is an old tabby lady like my dearly departed quincie :(

Your cat was also named quincie?

Sorry gb.

Delivery would be my comfort for sads.

cat came before I started posting on ILX; I stole her name. My name is Kate. Wonder why I didn't post as that.

She's hanging in there. She's creaky and wobbly and just physically frail, but her personality is in full effect and she seems pretty content so we're rolling with it. Thank you for asking!

Yeah my little one did frail for a long time, while seeming perfectly happy to be alive, carried around on a cushion (she learned to load up in the evening to be carried upstairs, then carried downstairs to her favorite window in the a.m.), and eating whatever tasty things she wanted to eat. When the time came, it was really clear. I bawled on and off for weeks, but now I have happy memories and two rescue kitties that I constantly remind they have a lot to live up to. Also, her ashes are in a pretty box that goes everywhere with us. Quincie is our co-pilot!

I'd like to eat clif bars, tuna salad, Special K, and toaster waffles all the time.

I misread that as 'all at the same time' and was sad for you momentarily

I do mix and match. The above is the majority of my breakfast and lunch diet.

Aw, quincie, the cushion!

She led our wedding procession, carried on her cushion!

!! what a dignified lady she must have been. <3

I would rather cook, for the most part. It's cheaper, more satisfying, and I thoroughly enjoy it.

Saying that, there are certain things I can't recreate in a domestic kitchen. Like a proper good balti. And sometimes it's nice not to have to cook or wash-up. So take-away / eating out is far from a complete no-no.

Obviously I'd love to get involved in this thread properly and turn it into a proper Lex-in-the-kitchen-panic-attack-clusterfuck, but you can't always get what you want.

i actually hate eating out a little bit, it actually stresses me out way more because i've worked in restaurants for so long and i'm so so aware all the time of the labour and process. also i'm poor so it bothers me to spend any more than i have to on food because there's way more things i'd love to be spending my money on and forking out in restaurants feels sortof just like i'm giving my wages back somehow. that said i like conveyer belt sushi places and takeaway felafel with a can when i have an assignment due and its pretty much the only thing that keeps me from curling up in bed in the fetal position procrastinating. which is almost exactly what i'm doing right now actually.

i love having friends around for food so I cook a big pile of something simple like chili and let everybody hang out and people bring me wine this way and i love drinking wine and hanging out. i'm not in any real way interested in food in and of itself but as an catalyst for socialising im fully on board. but i'd rather eat something quick and spend the whole night dancing and this is how i'm always gonna prioritise.

conveyer belt sushi is the best meal to have by yourself. it's because it minimizes the serving/waited-on component

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would the 34 ilxors plz submit their names to lex so that he may murder them

He'd approach murder like potato-peeling and fuck it all up, peel his arm instead or something.

man i could just murder a baked potato right now, probably pretty easy to fix up at home too

I'm honestly surprised that 34 people would take the time and effort to cook more often than not if money and nutrition were non-issues,

(I do cook the vast majority of my meals and even like it well enough btw.)

someone should ask drake what he'd murder.

Tbh if I order, I'm likely to get "unhealthy" things, whereas if I cook I have to think about what I'm putting in (and there's no hidden sugar or fat or w/e). Otoh I'm p boring as a cook because I don't mind eating similar things again and again. Pasta with plain tomato sauce, tomatoes and sausage and white beans and sage, beef stew, pot roast, adobo brisket, tuna melts.

there's no hidden sugar or fat or w/e

Well, sure, this is a reason to cook. But I understand this question as meaning that you can assume that whatever you order or eat out is perfectly nutritious (and free).

Yeah I decided to ignore that part because that question didn't interest me.

Money, nutrition, availability--those things are never "aside," they are always operative! Why reduce the question to a level faux-simplicity that actually makes it way less interesting and also turns it into a complete hypothetical?

teh internet

I blame philosophy majors.

It shouldn't have been part of the question b/c like someone pointed out, it makes it too "would you cease to exist."

I'm pretty surprised so many people voted for cooking.

Fixed my own food tonight: franks 'n' beans w/ sweet corn niblets mixed in and a side of Jingos. But I still "cooked" for about 45 minutes, prepping stuff for later meals. Meh.

To each his own. There's no accounting for taste. Different strokes for different folks. And so on and so forth.

If I had the ability to conjure any food in any setting at will - tied to some deep subconscious understanding where it would always be the most perfect possible thing for that exact moment, like a dinner at El Bulli or a hot dog off the grill in my back yard - with no health or money repercussions, I still think I would cook at least a couple of times a week. I honestly like it as an activity that much.

Nothing against anyone who thinks that's crazy, obviously, as everyone loves some chore they enjoy that someone else hates.

I'd have cooking down as a hobby, I think.

What the fart are "Jingos"?

They're a new snack food craze that is sweeping the country!!!!! They're smallish wavy shaped crackers w/ flavors.

wish there were more places where you could get delivery for a small amount of food at a small price point, instead of having to order a bunch of food you don't really want. RIP kozmo.com; there was no way you were ever going to make any money but you identified a need in the marketplace and filled it very well.