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[Poll #977725]

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[tinbender.livejournal.com]

My week is a split between cooking from scratch and eating something that was frozen. Other than occasionally eating Hamburger Helper or using taco mix, I make all my own stuff. As far as nutrition goes, I try, I just don't do very well.

[kint.livejournal.com]

Obviously there are sporadic box dinner days (like tonight...though there was fresh baked bread with it!) and there are days when I allow myself to be a little gluttonous, but by and large I try to stick with this.

It should also be noted that 'more days than not' tends to include Jason and I cooking about four or five days out of the week. Were I on my own I'd probably have closer to half box days and half totally scratch days (give or take)

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

The basic food groups are meat, ketchup, and diet pop. :-P

[dongstyle-ltd.livejournal.com]

Given that I am still largely a walking culinary disaster (slight exaggeration) I don't actually cook very much (yet)- if I do it's usually in the course of helping somebody else do so.

That said, I think one of the greatest rewards of eating healthily can be summed up as "you get out what you put in".

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Living in a dorm room doesn't really lend itself to home cooking. There's a few folks in my dorm that bake cookies in toaster ovens once in a while, but even that's quite an accomplishment

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

I spend my time in the modern-day version of monastic seclusion in a kind of a dormitory worthy of the Cappadocian caves, so I can't fuss over real food too much. All my time goes into traditional monkly stuff like reading, attending lectures, writing and getting very phenomenally drunk. As far as I'm concerned, caffeine is food.

[dragon-punk.livejournal.com]

"It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno" Is the phrase I think. >_>;

My results are slightly skewed because I'm at home till college starts up so I don't cook much~

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Darn. I wanted a 'None of the above' option. Since I live alone, if I don't make the meals, there's no meals. My cooking varies, depending upon various factors such as work, work travel, what kind of day I had, etc. Sometimes it'll be stuff from scratch, sometimes it'll be something from the freezer tossed into the microwave or oven, sometimes it'll be box-food to which I'll add a bit.

And then there's leftovers. I dunno where they fall in the survey. I'm a big proponent of cooking up a meal that'll give me a couple more meals.

As for vegetables, I'll admit to being bad about my consumption of 'em. For some reason, I never made that leap from childhood hatred of vegetables to adult acceptance of them. Most make me want to gag. I guess I'm just finicky or something. My vegetable consumption tends to be the boring tame stuff like peas, corn, and greenbeans. I do like spinach (raw, not cooked) and will generally use it in place of lettuce in salads.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

My diet at present makes me sound far healthier than I am. 'Cause right at the moment I'm on cabbage, broccoli, cooked-from-frozen synthmeat, melon... and not much else besides. Ooh, and beansprouts when my mother sprouts 'em.

But for more than a third of a year before that I was on nothing but sachets of aspartamey powder, so... :)

[delphinelicorne.livejournal.com]

I'm french, does that count as an exception? ;)

[nekura-ca.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to answer #2, I tend to use intermediate prepared foods, like premade pasta sause, etc. and then combine them in various ways to make a meal. So it's not fresh, raw ingredients, and it's not really just a frozen dinner.

I try and keep an eye to make sure I'm eating enough fruits and veggies, but I can't cook them very well, so I try and get the veggie of the day at the cafe at work as my lunch. It's weird, I use to hate it as a kid, but Broccoli is suddenly my favourite vegitable now.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

I object to your categories.

While, yes, when in season, I cook fresh, frozen raw vegetables shouldn't be in the same category as a TV dinner...