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amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 4:10 pm

amother Valerian wrote:

Can anyone send you something?
How many people do you need to cook for?
Do you eat standard Shabbos foods?
Maybe some mothers here can help out.

Aww thanks so much! That's so sweet of you! I got myself together (partially) and currently working on some salads and have chicken soup in the Instant Pot. We'll get there eventually.
No guests as of yet, so that's good.

Soul on fire

Yesterday at 5:16 pm

Use frozen bagged mixed veggies and chicken thighs put together on a roasting pan. season and bake till done.
for lunch deli roll, chips, dips, raw veggies, etc.

amother

Chicory

Yesterday at 5:44 pm

Pita bread for challah both meals
Meaty soup /stew as a main course for Friday night.
Deli /cholent/ salad ( can have sliced bread for sandwiches) salad

chocolate moose

Yesterday at 7:39 pm

could you make double of something and share with a neighbor who also makes double of something else?

Batsheva1

Yesterday at 10:51 pm

Is that unusual for you? I feel that way every week. Every day actually. I hate cooking. In my next life I will have a personal chef.

amother

Bellflower

Yesterday at 10:59 pm

amother OP wrote:

It's been a cr*ppy week and I'm not in the mood to cook for Shabbos. Wwyd? Takeout is not an option.

When I'm having one of those weeks, and I'm fortunate to not have company to impress, I make a giant pot of chicken soup, loaded with veggies, chicken, either knaidlach or lukshen, and that's the dinner. Everyone can help themselves to as many servings as they like. Very simple but nobody goes hungry.

Then as for lunch, I'd put up the simplest cholent possible and serve for 1st course a basic salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and tuna salad to get in the fish for shabbos.

And definitely store bought challahs.
DONE.

amother

↑ Gladiolus ↓

Yesterday at 11:21 pm

amother Aster wrote:

Do you happen to have a freezer that cooks for you?

Soup and challah don't grow in my freezer. I need to make it for it to get there.

OP, I feel you. It's really hard. Is there anyone who can help, even by making it less boring? Do the peeling, keep you company while you cook, listen to a podcast or audiobook?

Of course they don't grow in my freezer. Anytime I have guests I make a big pot of fresh soup, and then I freeze the leftovers in several tubs, and then I'm set for the next few weeks without guests. I'll cook up a loaf of gefilte fish and then freeze the rest of it as individual slices that I can pull out other weeks. I'll make a full batch of challah dough into 5 or 6 smaller challos, once a month, and then it will last me about a month if we don't have guests.

OP did not make it sound like this is her every week- she specified this week has been a bad one. I'm assuming other weeks she doesn't feel like this, and other weeks she's more up to cooking and putting leftovers into the freezer...

amother

Moonstone

Yesterday at 11:27 pm

I barely make anything. Friday night: salmon, soup, London broil, potato kugel that I get from my MIL every week
Shabbos day: deli with basic salad, cholent, same potato kugel.

I make salmon and London broil with just basic spices. So the only things that take more than 3 minutes are soup and cholent.

imaima ↓

Today at 2:10 am

amother OP wrote:

It's been a cr*ppy week and I'm not in the mood to cook for Shabbos. Wwyd? Takeout is not an option.

If it wasn’t shabbes, you would still have to feed and eat something

amother

↑ Gladiolus ↓

Today at 2:12 am

imaima wrote:

If it wasn’t shabbes, you would still have to feed and eat something

But if it weren't Shabbos you could just do cereal, macaroni and cheese, omelettes, etc.

↑ imaima ↓

Today at 2:16 am

amother Gladiolus wrote:

But if it weren't Shabbos you could just do cereal, macaroni and cheese, omelettes, etc.

No I wouldn’t. I am not a toddler and neither are the majority of my family.

If I aim for vegetable starch and protein then it’s not far off from Shabbat food.

amother

DarkYellow ↓

Today at 2:17 am

amother Viola wrote:

Part of being a grown-up is acknowledging that sometimes (quite often, in fact) one must do things one has no desire to do, and then going ahead and doing them. Get moving.

maybe what you're saying is technically correct but your tone is quite condescending.

amother

↑ DarkYellow

Today at 2:26 am

I'm with you OP! some (most) weeks I'm just not in the right space to put in effort with menus real dishes etc... I don't have kids yet so I can only understand a part of your exhaustion, but anyway. here's what I do when I am *finished* and on thursday my dh asks "shabbos plans? wanna go away?" and my brain is like "shabbos again?? I just put the stuff away!"

- If I have emotional energy to socialize I go to my in laws. (don't live near parents)
-If I have half energy I invite a SIL for a meal or go to them just for the night meal. this way we don't feel lonely for that meal and I don't have to cook 7769080 things. My SIL's are chilled and fun and we always split the cooking.
-If it's BEEN A WEEK between work, IF treatments, doctors, or whatever, and I am just finished, then we stay home.

Buy challah and dips
smoked salmon and small salad for fish
chicken soup - put up friday morning or skip entirely in the summer
mains - make shnitzel, buy kugel (yes it's blasphemous) , maybe roast some frozen broccoli
dessert - whatever is in freezer, ice cream type.
day meal:
buy liver
overnight kugel (bought kugel well wrapped in oven overnight)
navel pastrami
tastes IMO better than cholent, I don't prep a thing - dh takes care. takes a few min.

heidi

Today at 2:34 am

amother Viola wrote:

Part of being a grown-up is acknowledging that sometimes (quite often, in fact) one must do things one has no desire to do, and then going ahead and doing them. Get moving.

I have to agree
And add that I sincerely hope your children are not privy to your underwhelm about shabbos.

amother

↑ Gladiolus

Today at 3:01 am

imaima wrote:

No I wouldn’t. I am not a toddler and neither are the majority of my family.

If I aim for vegetable starch and protein then it’s not far off from Shabbat food.

Of course people aim for vegetable starch and protein, but on a day where I am DONE, that goes out the window and I do the barebones basics, just to feed my family something filling and somewhat nutritious. On Shabbos, however, one has to do more than a dish like that...

↑ imaima

Today at 3:41 am

amother Gladiolus wrote:

yes I know
But technically Shabbes cooking is cooking two dinnerS in one day so you don’t cook the next day. If doing basics.

Sugarcube

Today at 5:35 am

I don't think it's about menu, prepare in your mind an incentive for after everything is done.

BaltoMom65 ↓

Today at 5:54 am

amother Gladiolus wrote:

I feel like this all the time Very Happy

I don't enjoy cooking.
I do the barebones basics. Take soup out of the freezer. Buy challah or take from the freezer. Make a larger cholent and have some as the main Friday night. Take just a few slices of frozen gefilte fish from the freezer. Make some eggs for egg salad. Buy some dips and drinks. Cut up some fresh veggies and buy a package of cold cuts. Some candy or store bought cake for desserts. That's all.

I'm liking this magical freezer!! Can I get one in Diagon Alley?

↑ BaltoMom65

Today at 5:59 am

amother Gladiolus wrote:

We're just joking!! Seriously, you're amazing!! I need to learn from you!

amother

↑ OP

Today at 8:35 am

Thank you all for the helpful suggestions! It's not usual for me. I normally love cooking and find it relaxing but it's just been a hard week for many reasons.

BH I was able to make chicken soup, a main, two salads, and fish last night. Just have one more salad and a dip left today and DH will do cholent.

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