planning dinna fi di week

[FrenchTickla]

anybody here dweet?

mi always tiyad a eveling time and nuh waan cook. so mi nuh know how fi execute dis.

do i cook everyting from sunday and freeze it <span style="font-weight: bold">or</span> cook a mawning (which mi nuh tink a go wuk fi mi caw mi mawning already pack up) <span style="font-weight: bold">or</span> just mek sure mi have a menu plan weh simple fi execute nuh matter how mi tiyad

ah don't have a chick or child but mi have a new demanding job and mi a save di environment by tekking mass transit so mi really tiyad when mi come home.

how oonu work this out?

[Gen]

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the cooking a mawning nah guh work sah.

from what i have read, dem seh yuh fi mek sure plan out the meals pan the weekend and shop ahead for the ingredients. and den most articles mi see talk bout cooking a eveling time. dat nuh work fi me cause mi too tired fi dat.

so I cook on sunday for the whole weak, or at least up till thursday, and then mi add een vegetables/salad a eveling time

is up to you a you one suh might as well do one big cooking pan sunday.

[twiney]

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Neva wuk fi mi so mi stop it ... plan something in the morning and cook it when mi ketch home ... or better yet bread and cereal cant go wrong and adale porridge

[diabolical_Tanya]

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as a single person who only haffie fend fi miself when I cook on the weekends I make plenty an freeze it so during the week I can juss tek out and microwave somting.

But as FT is a veggienyammmer it might be harder to do that.

most weeknights I don't even bother with dinner if I have a big lunch, juss have some likka an galang a mi bed

but nuff quick easy tings deh bout fi mek. omelet an salad, soup and dem kinda tings.

[kia027]

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i plan what we eating for the week even wid recipes ova the weekend.. den i have the ingredients set.

den mi season de night before fi de next day dinna where applicable..

on the days where it hawder to get dinner on the table (mon &amp; fri)... i plan meals dat are quick or can put in the slow cooker in the am.

[FrenchTickla]

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mi go shop and come back tiyad (yes is mi everlasting complaint ). it was hard fi find everything. di lesson here is nuh shop pon sunday night caw everybody and dem modda buy off everyting arredy.

so mi nuh know ef nutten a cook tonight - is already 9:30pm pon di left coast.

di plan (if i choose to accept it)

- cook golden split pea soup (it have onion, garlic, split pea, tomatoes, apples, lime juice, ginger)

- dried mushroom soup with barley (dried shiitake and porcini mushroom, regular slice mushroom, barley and some odda tings)

- salad wid goat cheese, pine nuts, mandarin orange, raisins and greens

- mi a go batta bruise a trout (mi neva can cook dem right but mi need di protein)

- beet salad

- tuna steak

den mi package dem up in a single serve containers mix and match during di week fi lunch and dinner.

wish mi luck

[diabolical_Tanya]

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good luck FT

don't pre cook the fish though, freeze it raw an tek it out a mawnin an cook when yu reach home as it noh tek long fi cook.

Package it in individual single servings. dats what I do.

vegetarian chili is also good to cook an freeze

[QK13]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: FrenchTickla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anybody here dweet?
ah don't have a chick or child but mi have a new demanding job and mi a save di environment by tekking mass transit so mi really tiyad when mi come home.

how oonu work this out?
</div></div>

Take out.

[MrsBlue]

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<span style="color: #3333FF">I started cooking almost everything on Saturday/Sunday. I make a huge pot of rice that lasts all week, Sunday dinner and two other meats that will be eaten Monday-Thursday. For MrBlue, I'll usually take a single fish out of the freezer in the morning and let it thaw. </span>

[mountaingal]

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i go back and forth with the cooking-for-the-week plan. it's really handy when you're tired and don't want to make a decision about what to cook, when the weather's bad and you just want to reach home and vegetate...

but boy, reheated food taste boring real fast, and even if you mix and match things, you still feel like you a eat the same thing everyday.

there are some nights when even though mi tired and have food inna di fridge from weekend, mi still whip up an omelet or cook up some salmon and veggies and enjoy it hot and fresh. surprisingly, cooking something simple doesn't feel like work at all and can actually make you feel rejuvenated after a long day.

good luck, FrenchTickla!

[FrenchTickla]

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mgee, i have been known to have breakfast for dinner caw it typically so much easier. mi usually end up mek oatmeal or some eggs.

well... is 12:15 a mawning and it's been bout 4 hours a cooking. it a tek fieva caw ah guess mi cooking lunch and dina fi di week from scratch. no cans involved - well except di tin a makerel mi wax off wid some brown rice tonite caw by di time mi done slave ova pot mi neva waan nyam none ah it right now.

i must say mi beet salad and mi mushroom soup come out great. neva cook dem before. mi do some butternut squash and now mi pumpkin soup a simmer (mi neva feel fi do di split pea soup).

happy nyammings to me

[Suesumba]

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frozen food is the worst

[CeaBee]

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better than air pie and breeze cake.

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">frozen food is the worst </div></div>
i've enjoyed frozen burgers and allan's beef patties for a quick dinner.

i'd agree with you so that those so-called frozen &quot;dinners&quot; are bad though, dem michelina's an ting - weh fulla summuch salt.

[Suesumba]

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when my kids were small, i'd do the big week cookings and put the food in the freezer, well except for quick things like rice and noodles.

no one can tell me that the chemistry of the food doesn't change. to this day, they will <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 26pt"> NOT</span> </span> eat &quot;left overs&quot;.

it's just not done

and then, there's the whole microwave thing.

although i must admit that the michelina's frozen fettucine alfredo has help me gain many a weight in my time