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Originally Posted by DAVES
"Not good at cooking." When, you eat out, typically they serve more than you should eat.
You decide to order fish. You read that it is good for you. They typically put butter on the fish. You order a steak. They typically put butter on that as well.
I like soup. I have a large pressure cooker. The ones sold for canning. I will make 2 or 3 different soups 2 gallons of each. It is just a matter of following instructions. Clean up takes time. It does not take any longer to clean up after 2 cups of soup than from making four gallons. With the right containers, soup does not take as much room in your freezer as other foods. Mine is concentrated, so you add water when you heat it.
Like most anything, you can watch videos on how to. I am not a chief. I do not create my own recipes. I simply copy what others have created.
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Well said. My friend told her new boyfriend/now husband of 26 years, "If you can read, you can cook." He went from knowing nothing to following cookbook instructions and became a great cook. And that was before You Tube.
Our son taught himself to cook on You Tube. He doesn't have an Instant Pot or a slow cooker, and he doesn't like meat. I'm amazed at the dishes he comes up with that are simple and inexpensive.
OP, get yourself an Instant Pot and a cookbook to go along with it (there are tons online and at Barnes & Noble). Make some simple things--soups, spaghetti sauce, chili. Get some eggs and watch a You Tube video on how to scramble them for egg sandwiches. Go for the simplest method, not some fancy chef's method. Buy a rotisserie chicken (i.e., already roasted) at the grocery store and google some things you can do with it.
Even if you can make a few items during the week, you're ahead of the game dollar-wise and taste-wise.
Weed through these posts and throw out the boasting and the negative. What you have left will be some simple, good ideas. Good luck.