Cooking & Baking

Mr.Bill

(24,905 posts) Tue Oct 24, 2023, 09:37 PM Oct 2023

Cooking and eating in a senior mobile home park. [View all]

We just spent seven years in a mobile home park made up of seniors. Among them are a number of widowers who live alone. A number of them have meals on wheels delivered. Not because they are poor. They actually make the voluntary donation of $5 a meal. It's because they don't know how to cook. They are the generation where the wife did the cooking.

It baffles me that someone could reach the age of 75 or so without knowing how to feed themselves. They are, in my opinion, missing one of the great pleasures in life.

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Cooking and eating in a senior mobile home park. [View all] Mr.Bill Oct 2023 OP

It's no fun just cooking for yourself, though. Making a meal for one Walleye Oct 2023 #1

I made beef bourguignon tonight. amerikat Oct 2023 #4

I will agree. Deuxcents Oct 2023 #5

I love to cook. amerikat Oct 2023 #2

oreder out all the time then wonder where their money went lol msongs Oct 2023 #3

Then when they come up broke they blame Joe Biden Walleye Oct 2023 #9

Single male cook. usonian Oct 2023 #6

I spent my 20s living alone in an apartment. Mr.Bill Oct 2023 #11

I'm retired now, and cooked a lot for the family, now dispersed. usonian Oct 2023 #12

My dad was like that, pushed the job off on my mother, who loathed it Warpy Oct 2023 #7

Love to cook BlueTexasMan Oct 2023 #8

learned to cook in the Military littlewolf Oct 2023 #10

Cooking is not at all difficult. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #13

not difficult, also therapeutic NJCher Oct 2023 #14

I know one of those guys spinbaby Oct 2023 #15