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I’m curious - how much do you earn per hour and how many hours do you spend on cooking/shopping/cleaning per month?

• crazygringo 6y ago
  Well I'm certainly not telling you my salary. :P But I cook for myself because food prep/delivery simply isn't nutritious enough. There's just no way to get enough high-quality protein and high-quality veggies. (Like, I order a salad, and it has 3 cherry tomatoes in it when I want 20. Or the salmon filet is 3 oz when I need 10.) Delivery is either way too high on carbs, or way too low on calories. And here's the secret: if you do all your prep work and actual cooking in huge batches and then freeze, it takes remarkably little time. I'll cook two pork shoulders, or ten pounds of chicken thighs, or twelve eggplants, at a time. I've got probably 200 Rubbermaid freezer containers of various sizes. Then when it comes to mealtime, it's just assembly that takes 5 minutes. Microwaving protein, assembling a salad, toasting some bread. An easy breakfast burrito in a pan with some fresh eggs. That kind of thing. And of course I throw everything in the dishwasher afterwards, and it definitely takes less than a minute to wipe down my counter and stove afterwards. I shop once a week for milk, eggs, fresh produce, etc. It takes a grand total of a half an hour. Granted I have a lot of culinary experience. But honestly, the total time spent cooking+shopping is minimal. Plus I enjoy it anyways. I mean, if you're making complicated recipes every night cooking can easily consume all your free time. But if you plan, prep, freeze, and never use recipes because you know how to cook from experience, the time spent just isn't significant in your life.