So very domestic

I'm sure my pictures of me making pasta the other month didn't fool any of you into thinking that I've turned domestic. I'm still as apathetic to open a recipe book as ever. I suspect the past couple months of unexplained weight loss (which by the way I am now remedying) has less to do with stress/pseudo-parasite/transition to marriage and more to do with actually having to buy and make my own food.

Reasons I don't like to cook:

1. Too boring to do all by myself
2. Too much effort and time for such few results
3. I actually don't know how very well
4. I don't know what tastes good in the recipe books
5. I never have all the ingredients I need
6. When I cook, I'm never hungry

As you might have guessed, this leaves a frightening position for the my future/current family.
Well, this blog post is to tell you I've found my solution to avoid starvation at last. . . . binge cooking.

Binge cooking is pretty much cooking once a month, a month's worth of meals and then freezing them and eating when so desired in the next six months.

My dear sister Sarah told me about the idea before my mission and I've hung to it as my only hope. Today I finally tried it out with her and her next door neighbor and found it to be an utter sucess.
Pretty much we made 24 meals (8 for each of us) in the last two days. Yesterday we went grocery shopping and did the prep work by cutting up the vegetables and meat and today we just put it all together, cooked it, and put it in plastic bags and those tin foil lasagna thingies in the freezer and we were done.

As for my list of reasons why I don't like cook, all of them pretty much disappeared. While doing this wasn't necessarily cheaper, it is better quality than constant cold cereal and canned green beans as these meals all contain meat. It turned about to be about 5 dollars a meal, but the meals are a family size meal so I think it actually works out to be more meals for Stephen and I so it is probably cheaper).

Anyway I thought I'd share the idea for any of you who just might be to busy to cook every night and want a break now and then.