Informal survey ??

[Guest guest]

Anyone care to participate in this little survey I thought up?

 

How many people are you cooking for? Of those how many are veg / veg friendly?

How many meals do you actually prepare daily (breakfast,

lunch,dinner) versus people fending for themselves off your

pantry/frig/freezer? Do you sit down together?

How many courses in a typical meal that you prepare?

On average, what is a typical weekly grocery bill for your family

(should probably state where) and what the largest expense group is.

How much time do you estimate that you spend daily thinking about

planning a meal, going through recipes and preparing the food?

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I will start the ball rolling for those who wish to participate.

 

1. Five people with no kids under 15. If it has cheese or eggs, it's

OK with all. Bah humbug to legumes and howls of despair for the 3

sons.

 

2. Prepare only dinner, usually. I make bag lunches for school age

kids. Our schedules are such that frequently only 3/5 persons will be

here at the same time. Often hard to get people away from their

computer (games, e-mail) to come to the table, so we rarely sit down

anymore and the younger are in a rush to get back to whatever they

left. (This is not how we started out early on, btw. ) People

" scrounge " fruit or items from the frig. A couple of my sons are

night owls and post-midnight eaters who are cooking food for

themselves at 2 am. Also, kids eat a lot of cereal if they want

something fast.

 

3.When I make dinner, it is usually a main course and a salad and/or

cooked veg if it's one I know they'll eat some of.

 

4. Average grocery bill is over $200. Highest $240 and lasts about 1

1/2 weeks.before the next desperate shop. Lowest is maybe $170. This

is in central Maryland. I am not buying anything exotic. Thank

goodness we can use garden produce to offset some of this in the

summer. I think my major expense is milk products since I don't buy

high dollar meat cuts for those who want it. I go to our green grocer

in support of local food growing.

 

5. ALthough one of my favorite things to do was to curl up with a

cookbook on a rainy day and making EVERYTHING from scratch, I would

say that now I spend less than an hour thinking about making food or

preparing it (not counting oven or stove top times)

 

Suji