Let the guys make dinner tonight!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 18:37 — AuntDiane

It's National Men Make Dinner night!

http://www.menmakedinnerday.com/home/index.php

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Thu, 11/05/2009 - 20:00 — deanng23

Mine guy did make dinner!

If you can call tossing a couple of frozen pizzas in the oven making dinner! Well, at least I didn't have to worry about it when I got home!!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 21:09 — shlee

speaking of pizzas

for dinner....we made the Gino's East pizzas on sale at Jewel for $6.99....WOW! They are the best frozen pizza I've ever eaten. Each is 32 0z., enough for at least 2 adults. YUM!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:34 — shoptiludrop

shlee! I bought these last night, too!

Decided to 'splurge' on them with the cats---we love them---and I was out of the cheap frozens!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:04 — heybets30

Speaking of pizza - we got a great deal on uno's frozen pizza a while ago. Got 2 sausage frozen ones. ICK!!! They were not good at all. We thought maybe it was just the first one with a funky sausage taste (and it was only ~6 inches in diameter), but the second one tasted funky too. My 35-month old daughter wouldn't even touch it, and she LOVES all kinds of pizza.

Will have to keep the Gino's East pizzas on the radar to try!

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 19:00 — prea

Ha!

During these cat deals, he has to make dinner every night as I'm busy reading, plotting, clipping & shopping. Come on ladies, get those men trained properly! He loves the deals but can't do them, for some reason they never work for him, even if I spell it out item by item, upc by upc. Since he does love to save money as much as I do, he's willing to do his share of the work to get us to the goal. He didn't come this way, it took a LOT of training. ;-)

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:06 — Yamaha Girl

Lots of training

I agree about the training part. It has taken me 10 years, but hubby is a wonderful help. He helps clip coupons but won't go to the store, which is fine, I'd rather do the shopping. But he always helps unload and he does 95% of the cooking, even though I stay home with our kids! With all this food, I just can't seem to get the hang of cooking. Everything burns, is too soupy like, isn't cooked enough, or I just plain forgot to add something in the dish to taste good. :)

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:03 — prea

Me too

"Everything burns, is too soupy like, isn't cooked enough, or I just plain forgot to add something in the dish to taste good"

See, and I did all that on purpose when we were dating
;-) He so totally thought I COULDN'T cook for the longest time.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 21:26 — Yamaha Girl

LMAO

I WISH I could say that I did all that on purpose but I was not blessed with the ability to cook. It was so bad that when I was 18, I tried to cook mac & cheese and couldn't get the water to boil, that I called the pizza place I worked to ask them. The first question they asked me was "Is the burner on". I said yes. Then he said "turn the heat up". Sure enough, it worked. DUH me. I once even made a ice cream pumpkin pie for my very first dinner party and bought a frozen crust and just made the pie. When we went to eat it, I couldn't cut into the crust. Turns out, you had to cook the crust. Didn't know that. Again, DUH me. Every time I do rice, it turns out soupy. Pancakes burn or they taste to eggy. So, I have given up and just let my DH cook. He's so much better than me.

However, I have gotten out of cleaning anything gross in the house (floors, toliets, garbage cans) by pretending the chemicals make me sick. ;)

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 23:44 — prea

ROFLMAO

Yeah, I don't have to clean that stuff either. Hurt my back ;-p
"Again?" he says. Yep, carrying all those darn grocery bags. Rats.

Don't feel bad about not being able to cook, it'll come - eventually. Just learn to cook one thing, really well. When you've got that down, go onto a new item. Try crockpot cooking too. It's pretty hard to mess that up! The menu is usually the hardest part of cooking around here anyway. All this food and no idea what to make. Ugh. It sure was easier when we were ordering pizza and going out once a week.

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:46 — Yamaha Girl

I do keep trying!

I do have a few basic things I can cook. Chicken, tacos, anything in a crockpot I can do, spaghetti but I have become a very good baker over the years, minus that pumpkin pie incident. I can make one mean apple pie! Appetizers, breads, anything in the oven works for me. I just really hate cooking so it's hard for to to want to learn anything new. We kind of came up with a system... I prepare all meats, DH cooks the meal, I clean up and do dishes. It seems to work for the both of us and he doesn't mind cooking, most of the time. And the surprising thing is, we cook Thanksgiving dinner every year for 15 people. Most of my hard dishes, I ask someone to bring it and the rest is in the oven, so I can handle it.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 02:08 — Guy