Would Someone Else Like Your Meals or Vice Versa

Jules

Jules

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If you started living with someone else - a roommate, S/O, family member - would they like the same kind of meals as you? What about the food in Senior Living Centers.

If I have company, there’s no limits on what I serve. Everyday dining is pretty simple and suits our lifestyle. I’m pretty set in my ways and dread the thought of shared meals anywhere.
 

I doubt it. 🤔🤭😂

When I cook for company I usually fix an old fashioned Sunday dinner type meal.

When it’s just me I tend to eat like a twelve year old.

I am apprehensive about the food offered in most of the assisted living facilities.

The local hospice has the best, offering cooked to order meals or takeout for each residence.
 

I don't think anyone would dislike the foods I eat but most people would be bored into starvation since I eat the same food everyday for years at a time.

As for eating what others do I guess it depends, if it's healthy I'll eat it, if it's junk food or prepared in a way I don't like (over seasoned) I won't touch it.
 
I've become a "functional eater", focused on nutritional value rather than particular flavors, so others would probably find my day to day diet rather weird. That said, my dear wife is an excellent cook. :D

What I'm finding annoying lately is the trend toward self-imposed restricted diets. More than once we've invited people to our home for a meal only to have them announce on arrival things like "Oh, I'm gluten free", "Oh, I'm vegan", "I only eat organic foods", &c.

It seems to me that it might be prudent, on receiving an invitation for a meal, for them to maybe mention this beforehand? :rolleyes:

If eating food prepared by others, I always graciously eat what is served.
 
Tommy said:
If eating food prepared by others, I always graciously eat what is served.
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Same here. But I should add, in my community of friends we're usually doing potluck. The host will provide a main-course type of thing (but it's not the only one), plus wine, beer, juice. Other guests will contribute other main-course or side-dish sorts of items, and maybe something for dessert.

In terms of whether other people would like my cooking (sans the potluck contributions), I have to say I'm somewhat limited as a cook. My strong suits are quiche, pizza, scalloped potatoes, barbecued west-coast salmon, and a couple of different soups. Sort of a 'rotation' and maybe not true variety.
 
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Tommy said:
I've become a "functional eater", focused on nutritional value rather than particular flavors, so others would probably find my day to day diet rather weird. That said, my dear wife is an excellent cook. :D

What I'm finding annoying lately is the trend toward self-imposed restricted diets. More than once we've invited people to our home for a meal only to have them announce on arrival things like "Oh, I'm gluten free", "Oh, I'm vegan", "I only eat organic foods", &c.

It seems to me that it might be prudent, on receiving an invitation for a meal, for them to maybe mention this beforehand? :rolleyes:

If eating food prepared by others, I always graciously eat what is served.
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That's why we seldom entertain at home. Everybody seems to be on some kind of restricted diet....no red meat or no seafood or gluten free or low fat/salt/sugar or vegetarian/vegan or.....

Meet up at a restaurant and everyone can ride their own personal hobby horse.
 
JBR said:
Same here. But I should add, in my community of friends we're usually doing potluck. The host will provide a main-course type of thing (but it's not the only one), plus wine, beer, juice. Other guests will contribute other main-course or side-dish sorts of items, and maybe something for dessert.

In terms of whether other people would like my cooking (sans the potluck contributions), I have to say I'm somewhat limited as a cook. My strong suits are quiche, pizza, scalloped potatoes, barbecued west-coast salmon, and a couple of different soups. Sort of a 'rotation' and maybe not true variety.
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Sounds good to me!
 
I’m just a everyday cook ,I make foods like roasts / beef stews in winter , I was chuffed when my 30 year old granddaughter asked me how to cook the beef stew I used to give her when they visited in winter .

Tomorrow menu in our home is old fashioned silverside cooked in the slow cooker with mash / carrots and greens , my DH loves cabbage .,I don’t and I’m not paying $3.50 for a very tiny 1/4 of cabbage ,……so there ….

so I’ll likely buy broccoli .
We go to friends to meals about once every couple of months ….and they come here, they always say how nice the meal was …
We also have other friends over for lunch and visa versa …I almost always make roast lamb for them cause they always say how nice “ my meats” I cook are .

Im not a fan of high carb / pastry dishes but I do make chicken hot pot pies in winter ( with only a pasty top ) to cut back on carbs.
 
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