The funny thing about me is that I am a lazy cook. I like it fast and simple which usually means take out food. Lately I do bake more of my foods and I am watching the portions on my plate. The recipes on cooking shows are full of ingrediants I do not usually keep in my kitchen and I do not have most of the equipment they use in cooking. I love to watch and see the final product. I am like that with the decorating shows. I love to see the end results.. I feel like I have accompliched something for some reason. LOL!!

I dont have nearly as many of the ingredients that they have on the shows, but I just take what I have and make my own version of the recipe. Its fun! You should try it! I was a lazy cook too until I realised that I loved to cook, but hated doing the dishes. So now, my husband does the dishes and I get to be creative!

I always say that Food TV is pornography for fat people.... lol at least thats what it is for me. I watch it and dream, it doesnt make me hungry though oddly enough. lol

I've turned into somewhat of a lazy cook over the years. I use to love to cook until the kids came along. All that pickiness ruined that for me. Now cooking always seems like a good idea until I am midway through and start wondering if this was a good idea and it's taking too long, ha!

I love watching the cooking shows. If you want to keep your eating out habits to a minimum I suggest watching Chef Ramsey's Kitchen. Ugh, to see how dirty some of those kitchens are would keep me home!

My wife and i could have just food network thats like all we watch. You are right the Butter queen, not so healthy. But you can make alot of things they make healthier. I like to watch Rachel ray personally. Yesterday i bought the biggest loser cook book and fitness plan book, But there is a ton of things to cook in it that actually look good! I have the WW books too and half of it i cant stand!!

I have been a horribly lazy cook as well and haven't eaten enough fruits and veggies for ages. We've mostly been eating "out of a box". But today I made the easiest food for lunch ever in keeping with the new regimine! (it's really more of a dinner meal). I stuck an orange roughy filet with a little lemon juice and dill weed sprinkled on it under the broiler. I included 1/2 a red pepper cut into strips next to it. Then I steamed some fresh asparagus on the stove for about five minutes. I had a plain whole wheat roll and it made a really pretty plate. I felt like I was pampering myself 'cause it looked like fancy restaurant food. I swear that it took 10 minutes. (Less time than the tuna melts I made for my kids.)

If your are going to watch Food Network then watch Ellie Krieger(?sp). She makes some really good food that is good for you. My problem is that I can't eat fish so I eat quite a bit of chicken, which I am not supposed to. Allergic to both. Chicken doesn't affect me as bad as fish but it still gets to me.

www.rosereisman.com

delicious recipes and all healthy, very tasty

Thankyou for the rosereisman.com site, I will be checking it out and see what apeals to me.

I need to cook sooooo much more. The last year, I've been doing fast food constantly. I'm done with it now. I miss home cooked meals...

And Giada Delorentis? LOVE her! My brother's girlfriend made a dish a few days ago that was awesome. She served it over pasta which isn't the greatest points wise but the chicken was awesome. I plan on making in a couple weeks when I have a dinner party and going to tweak it to make it a little healthier...now only if I can find a healthy recipe for tiramisiu...lol...

By the way, here's the recipe...it was actually pretty easy to make. I watched her make it, it was simple:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_37318,00.html

Ok seriously I cannot watch the Food Network and then go into my fridge and eat a healthy salad. Last time I watched it I ran to the store bought a bus load of items and baked until I was too tired to think. Food Network is pure evil LOL