cooking

I found this interesting article the other day. Ironically, it coincided with my frustration at all the dirty dishes that are constantly piled up on my sink counter.

Although I have been somewhat close several times to resorting to the frozen food section in the grocery store just to save some time - cooking and cleaning up - I haven't yet. While fish sticks, tator tots, chicken wads and patties and frozen pizzas look so tasty and greasy and palatable, I fear I may never come back once I start the pattern of their place in my grocery cart. Besides that what would I have to nag the kids about at dinner time. Their plates would always be clean, licked clean of fish stick crumbs. But I don't think simply carbs and salt can be considered nutrition.

So really soon here, I'm going to wash some more sticky pans and dirty utensils and clear a small spot off the counter for the next round. I would hate to have so much extra time from eating out the frozen food section, that I'd be tempted to do things like offer long commentaries on how proper child raising should be done or get ideas about assembling a cookbook of the best recipes I know.

Then I would feel the need to add a part-time job to pay for the membership at the gym to work off the extra pounds due to chicken wads and ranch dip. And we all know what happens when one spends too much time at the gym: less time for cooking real food and more time spent in the frozen food section choosing between Tyson or Hy-Vee fish sticks.