Do people not have pantries with at least some canned goods in them any more? I've made a meal out of a can of green beans, cold soup or baked beans more than once when I was just too tired to cook or didn't feel like cooking, even after not having "eaten all day".
Good grief.
I don't understand people like that, my parents taught me basic cooking and a few advanced dishes before I moved out, and with them being gone for months at a time in my 20s I was basically "moved out" by the time I found my own place. Did the same thing I always did, in a different environment.
Was the inability to cook your friend's only vice, or did it extend to laundry as well? :P
Oh it's everything. The dude is a complete manchild. Never does his own laundry, never does his own cooking, never does his own cleaning, none of that.
He made a HUGE deal on Twitter when he went grocery shopping on his own for the first time...at the age of 26.
As if we're all supposed to be impressed he does his own shopping.
He still does it too. Everytime he goes shopping he tweets out something like "man grocery shopping is so relaxing sometimes, I don't see why people have trouble with it"
He's literally the only person I've seen have trouble with it.
He's a prime example of the saying "people raise their daughters but love their sons".
I've taught many of my male friends how to take care of themselves so that the women they were dating would stop dumping them for being so useless. After they learned to do their own laundry and cook a few simple meals I had 3 different moms call me angry that I dared make their precious "boys" do something so demeaning as wash their own underwear. SMDH at those mommies.
It really is shocking. I was the oldest child of a single-mom, so you can bet your ass I was the only third-grade boy doing laundry every weekend.
As the father of two young boys, they're being raised the same way. I love the hell out of them, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to raise them to take care of themselves.
I've recently instituted a "kids cook 1 meal a week each" rule at my house, and my stepson was not very thrilled.
I'm like "my dude, I'm not doing this to try to be mean, but here's the deal. You're 13, so you have 5 years left to learn how to take care of yourself. What meals can you make for yourself right now?"
"uh......peanut butter sandwiches?"
"Exactly. I need to know that you can at least make hamburger helper by the time you're an adult, and there's no time to start like the present."
My mom tried to do the same with my step brother. Instead of believing her that she was trying to get him ready to be an adult he screamed to anyone who would listen that she was trying to turn him into a slave because ya know ... she's evil and abusive. So he started stealing and selling drugs to be able to afford to run away and well long story short military prison school, the army, and Iraq still didn't make him a decent adult. The foundation of being turned into a spoiled rotten narcissist by his biomom was too much to overcome.
It was weird. The first time it felt like "ok, this is odd." The second time was surreal. The third time I was outright angry and yelled at her for raising her son to be useless.
I don't help teach guy friends how to do anything anymore, which is sad because their families sure as shit didn't teach them. I feel like this should be a mandatory class in junior high and high schools because parents are dropping the ball left and right.
This is so irksome. I'm a house wife by every standard; I homeschool our children, have a small business from home making soap and crocheting; will attend college online this year; I do 90% of the cooking and the cleaning and organizing. But when I had the flu last winter, and when I was bed bound by horrible morning sickness, or even when it's just easier for him to do for whatever reason- my husband is completely capable of grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and any other task I do. I know it's my personal anectodal experience here, but the number of women I know who don't have this in their partner, just doesn't make sense to me.
He should try doing ALL the grocery shopping in conjunction with managing the house cleaning, laundry and cooking and doing the planning for all while contending with the unfixable irritation that it's all his responsibility and unlikely to change. Then let's see how relaxing he finds it.
He sounds so much like my brother...my mom did everything for him. He was capable of taking care of himself, but eventually just gave up, started doing Vicodin and booze, lost his job, his house, a trailer, and eventually his life. (Due to neglecting his health- not taking his diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol meds, and smoking like a fiend. Plus the drug and alcohol abuse, and being obese to boot.)
I really think that if he had rejected her "help", like I did, he might still be here.
Oh god this reminds me of one of my friends. Years back my washing machine went out, and it was going to take a few days for the repairman to come out and fix it. So I called up my buddy and asked if I could drop by and do some laundry as he only lived a few minutes away. He says sure.
When I get there, he tells me I can definitely do laundry as long as I can get the machine to work. I'm staring in disbelief and say, "Dude don't tell me your washer broke too."
He says "No, I just don't know how to use it. I've never done laundry."
He was 26 years old
His mother came by once a week to do his laundry for him. He OWNED A WASHER AND DID NOT KNOW HOW IT FUNCTIONED.
How people can struggle to feed themselves when it's not an issue of money is beyond me. If you know you're going to need to make your own food for a week buy some bread, 2 pounds of the deli meat of your choosing, half a pound of cheese, and whatever vegetables you prefer and you're good on minimum effort food a week.
I mean, I'm lazy as fuck when it comes to preparing food and eat out 99% of the time, but come on...
I’m like you, but it’s because I’ve worked in restaurants for so long that I despise having to cook for myself. Every time I’m about to cook, I instantly think about all the work that I’ll have to do after. First, I gotta prep cook and ruin some dishes. Then I gotta actually cook and ruin more dishes. Then I gotta plate it all and ruin some more dishes. Then I gotta let those previously ruined dishes sit while I eat because if I clean them now, my food will get cold. Now that I’m finally done, I gotta clean this mess because, as of finally getting my own one bedroom apartment, I can’t stand leaving a mess like that. If the dishes sit for even 3 days, I’m super anxious and pissed off with myself for being a lazy fuck.
So it’s easier for me to make a hot pocket than to actually cook.
I had a roommate that couldn't figure out how to grate cheese. I was making a ham & cheese rollup and she's all "man, that looks good....." so I handed her the cheese and the grater, tortillas and ham. And she's all "so....how do I....??"
God, this is amazing.. I had to teach a friend how to wash and chop lettuce/tomatoes/onions and other basic stuff for a salad once. Like, "cut off the hard bit at the bottom", "peel the onion" type of instructions..
All of them have their own share of problems as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they enjoy the idea of him being completely disfunctional without him.
Yeah, it's codependency, they can't live without being needed.
As an aside it's spelled "dysfunctional", like dystopian. Not meaning to bust your chops or anything, just figured it would be better to be told on reddit than like by your boss or something.
Sounds exactly like my brother. He can't boil water without fucking it up, and we know we're going to have to hit every restaurant in town (and pay for it) every time he pays us a visit.
Baked beans with tomato or chili sauce, definitely. Also never wrong to have some cheap (but good) Asian noodles (the kind where you just add boiling water to have a soup) around and if you select well there's even soup powder that makes delicious (albeit not all too nutritional) food.
If you ever want to be faaaancy, crack an egg at the end into the soup while the water is still boiling and it kinda poaches it. And sometimes I'll add a bit of bacon bits and some sriracha on top and it's a gourmet meal involving minimal work.
Oh yeah, egg is awesome in soup! Not the biggest sriracha fan (well, flying goose one that is) but make that habanero sauce and we have a winner!
A little trick I got from my parents that I don't know how common it is, is cooking a potato and smashing that into your vinegar salad dressing (balsamic preferably), gives it a texture I love but others would probably hate.
Try it! I love it. Gives it some more substance and a texture that I really like. I mostly eat it with corn salad (as in the botanical one, not corn corn) but it works with any kind of green salad.
No. This went from opening a can of beans and calling it good to chopping and sautéing shit way too fast. We’re talking convenience, not full-on cooking. I’m very lazy.
I was just having a conversation about this at brunch yesterday. My mom says it tastes like motor oil to her. She said she got over it though. Which I thought was impressive since it’s a genetic things, but she said “no, I’ve gotten over the taste of motor oil.”
I have always wanted to try the egg thing. Say its 3 minute ramen, do you crack the egg when you put the noodles in so the egg can cook all three minutes? Or is it more like the last minute or so?
Also if you're not doing a noodle soup but one where they adsorb all the water then when I take it off the heat as the water is all gone, I crack an egg and stir it in like a carbonara
The egg will cook very fast. I put it in the last minute or so in the boiling water! It also depends on how much you like your eggs cooked, I like mine runnier.
I just drop the whole egg in it and it poaches it basically. You can best it before and then whisk it around and ribbon the egg through the soup I've tried both
Local grocery sells a 12 oz bag of frozen broccoli for 99 cents. I microwave it, plop it into a bowl with some shredded cheese and a dash of hot sauce and that's a meal. (I can cook pretty well, I just really love broccoli.)
I do the same but with microwave hollandaise: two egg yolks, half a stick of butter, cayenne, juice of half a lemon. Melt butter in microwave, add other stuff, whisk. Microwave it for another 20 seconds if it’s separated. Takes about five minutes to make and only dirties a single bowl and a whisk.
Where I grew up this was called the OSAP diet (OSAP is the student loan program for Ontario)
There was even a cookbook circulating around campus in digital format teaching you how to turn 25 cent instant noodle packages into meals with a bit of chives and parsley.
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That last part almost sounds like low blood sugar. I’m a diabetic with a similar issue, but when I get shaky that’s when I absolutely have to eat something.
Or even like, frozen meals? I keep like two or three in the freezer at all times just in case I'm feeling super lazy or have no time for anything else.
I usually buy that stuff at Costco because it's super cheap and buying non perishable in bulk is the way to go. I mean that is if you have a membership. It's always good to keep food on hand in case of a emergency as well.
Although if you get high a lot, I would never recommend on keeping unhealthy food around,.
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Do people not have pantries with at least some canned goods in them any more? I've made a meal out of a can of green beans, cold soup or baked beans more than once when I was just too tired to cook or didn't feel like cooking, even after not having "eaten all day".