The Friday Five

[nanila]

1. In an average week, how many nights do you eat home-cooked dinners?
   
   7 out of 7, unless I’m on travel. We rarely eat in restaurants, not least because it’s fiendishly expensive for four people compared to preparing our own food.
   
   
2. Do you plan your meals out in advance, or just wing it?
   
   Usually there is a loose plan at the start of the week, because we have to plan for nights the children have activities (most weeknights) and / or when one of the adults will not be there.
   
   
3. How many nights per week do you eat out or order food delivered?
   
   If you average it over a month, 0.25 nights per week for eating out, 0 nights per week for food delivery. We live in a rural area so very few places deliver to us. Also, only one of our children likes Indian or Chinese takeaway; the other one won’t touch it, so it feels pretty pointless when you’re still going to end up preparing at least one meal.
   
   
4. Do you keep a stock of nonperishable foods from which you could whip up a meal or two if you needed to?
   
   Oh yes. We have all the pasta shapes and all the tinned goods.
   
   
5. Have you ever tried preparing meals for the week all at once, say, on the weekend?
   
   See the pinned post at the top of my journal. I don’t do this every week, but when I know the bloke is going to be away, all the meals get slow-cooked the weekend prior.
   
   My slow cooker is hands-down my favourite electrically powered kitchen device*, followed closely by the KitchenAid stand mixer and now the Ninja Creami.

* Kettle, toaster and microwave excluded from this hierarchy as their presence is not contingent upon whether or not I like them.

[I have not been around here much. I apologise. I have been disinclined to write since Comet's death, but I'm starting to come out the other side of that period of silent grieving now.]