What to cook?

A problem that exists in my life everyday, is what to cook for dinner. (Sorry I was tried about write about school life). Everyday when I come home from a long day at school I have to decide what to cook for dinner. There are a few possibilities:

1. Ordering/ going out

2. Cooking myself (which is involved and means I would have to go to the store)

3. Have cereal

4. Just snack throughout the night

Most of the time, I just find quick things in the cupboard that will satisfy my hunger but may not be very healthy or nutritious. I’ll get a snack when I first get home that that will keep me full until about 7:00 and then I don’t want anything really filling because I will be going to bed soon. Also, when I am just cooking for myself I am not motivated to spend a lot of time making a meal for myself. If I am cooking for someone else I will gladly spend that time to prepare a meal, because someone else is relying on me. But if it is just for myself I see the preparation time as time wasted.

Going out or ordering out is always fun, but can get expensive if you take out too often. The other problem about getting food from restaurants is that the food is usually unhealthy and loaded with a lot more grease and fat than what you could cook at home.

The fact is that cooking every night involves prep time and planning, but is cheaper in the long run than eating out every night and is also healthier for you. Now that I have decided which of these possibilities I am going to choose- cooking myself, I have to decide what to cook. Which might even be a bigger problem than my first. I only have a limited number of dishes in my repertoire that I know how to make and they are all very simple and planed.

To cook a complete meal you need to grocery shop and plan out what you are going to make so that you have the ingredients. (So now I have two disadvantages, I don’t know what to cook and I dislike grocery shopping.) Maybe I need to re-evaluate what my problem is :)