"I must be lazy too... my asparagus never makes it back to the house, and the peas get eaten right off the vine. If I had corn growing, I would eat that outside too " Oh, yeah... I forgot about mentioning the peas. I have been filling up on those. I ate some beets with the dirt still on them while I was thinning them one day, asparagus is my "drink" when I am parched trying to get work done out in the garden, strawberries never get washed before they make it to my mouth, well, practically everything that isn't moving gets eaten out there.
Carolyn, that isn't being lazy, that is "sampling to see if it merits making it to the kitchen." Sadly, almost all my produce isn't up to snuff, except the cucumbers. If I ate them all on the way to the house, I'd turn green and warty myself!
Just curious but what do the "too much trouble" people eat ?? If slicing a couple of cucumbers is too much trouble they would probably faint if the had to make a bologna sandwich .
Mart, that is why peanut butter and jelly is sold in the same jar. There are also little cracker and cheese sandwiches in packages, and if a lazy cook is really ambitious there are bags of pasta and seasonings that you dump in water and heat. I know this because my sister is kitchen challenged and keeps telling me about all these fast, fast, no-cook meals.
When I was making quilts I heard many younger women complain that sewing the fabric pieces together to make the quilt top using a sewing machine was the lazy way of doing it....that we should be doing it the way our fore-mothers had to do .... By hand. There was an 80-something year young quilter sitting up front when one of them made the comment that you couldn't make a "real" quilt unless you sewed it all by hand. She immediately countered with the fact that she had been making quilts for close to 70 years and as soon as she had saved enough of her egg and butter money she had bought a sewing machine and had no interest in doing it the 'old fashioned' way ever again. I really don't think that taking advantage of time saving methods in sewing or cooking makes one lazy. It's simply a matter of what you do or do not want to do.
I enjoy cooking generally and am fortunate that Mike will eat almost anything but I do get tired of trying to figure out what to fix next and how to fix smaller portions so we won't have so many leftovers. I used to sew most of our clothing, including jeans and even bridesmaid dresses but fabric is so expensive now that it is about the same as buying off the rack. As far as quilting, I not only machine sewed the quilt pieces together, I also used the machine to quilt it. No hand sewing was involved at all. I'm not very handy with a sewing needle and thread. Mainly I do scrapbooking now.
Oh ! I have no problem with time saving methods or anything else for that matter. But when someone says the minute and 30 seconds it takes to slice a couple of cucumbers is too much trouble,,,,well it makes you wonder.
Jane when my youngest lad was entering high school he decided he wanted to become a fruitarian. As I was worried about how his health might suffer we took him to our GP who advised him what he could eat without depriving himself of any fat, protein and so on. He eats only what falls or can be harvested naturally from a plant. This means foods that can be gathered without killing or harming the plant. These foods consist mainly of fruits, nuts, and various seeds. However, during the winter months, he will eat roasted peppers, butternut squashes and has even been known to add curry powder to spice things up. He won't eat root vegetables but will take the outer leaves from cabbages etc. His diet also lets him eat his own homemade humus and use soya. Strangely enough I've managed to make him three course meals that actually look and taste great. Considering he lifts weights, cycles and runs and has grown to 6'2", never had so much a common cold or any other virus I don't think his diet is doing him any harm.
Thank you for explaining! I couldn't do it myself, but I do admire your son (all 6'2" of him) for being so healthy, and for being a "fruitarian."
