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When I lived alone I ate a lot of convenience food and pre-made sauces and such, then I moved in with my partner and she cooks everything from scratch (she's sa
by noir_lord 6y ago
When I lived alone I ate a lot of convenience food and pre-made sauces and such, then I moved in with my partner and she cooks everything from scratch (she's same age as me and Hungarian so she grew up under communism-lite where having your own animals and veg/fruit gardens was common if you lived in the country).
Honestly I'd forgotten how good basic food tastes when it's cooked fresh - she makes simple things like mashed potato amazing and she bakes a lot as well - she wastes no food, left-overs are used up as lunch or frozen.
The really stupid part of all this from my point of view was that our combined food bill from raw ingredients is about the same as what I was paying living alone.
- carapace 6y agoMy sister got a whole chicken from the butcher and roasted it. I tasted a bit and went into a fugue, when I came to I found I had made a chicken sandwich! I used to think I didn't like chicken but it turns out I'd just never tasted it before.
- noir_lord 6y agoMy partner can get 3 meals for 3 of us out of a single chicken. She also buys the 'cheaper' parts like Chicken thighs and then slow cooks them to utter perfection, with a few herbs and veggies it is sublime. I honestly though since I 'cooked' I was been economical but things like spaghetti bolognaise jars of sauce added 30% to the cost of a meal compared to the way she does it.
- carapace 6y agoRiiiiight? It's cheaper and tastier and I'm sure it's healthier. > She also buys the 'cheaper' parts like Chicken thighs and then slow cooks them to utter perfection, with a few herbs and veggies it is sublime. That sounds so good. :-)