Vanessa Bayer Quotes

For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.

I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

I rely way too much on Seamless, and I really need to learn how to feed myself.

I do not live off canned soup.

I do sometimes cook myself, and I do enjoy it, though it does depend what's in the fridge, and filming can mean I don't have much time.

I cook every day.

Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness into it and, yes, a little bit more money.

I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days.

Most people are hungry, therefore they eat. I am hungry, therefore I cook. Since my senior year in college, when I moved into an apartment with a bunch of friends, I have cooked almost every day of my life.

I don't really cook much to be honest.

I don't cook as often as I would like.

It's tough to eat well if you don't know how to cook.

I have a busy schedule and am constantly traveling so when I do have the time to grocery shop or prepare a meal, I make it a priority.

I hired a full-time chef, so I wasn't taking that time to order pizzas or eat Wild Wings or stuff like that. I travel somewhere, I'm gone for a long period, I have a chef. I think that elevated my game.

I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.

Ideally, we should be controlling what we eat by cooking for ourselves.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

I will make a ton of meat and fish and poultry on Sunday and then again on Wednesday. It's not always easy to get protein if you don't prepare in advance.