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I can cook quite well but honestly living in NYC and going to the grocery store to serve my partner and I ~2 meals a day every day of the week is nearly impossi
by lemax 6y ago
I can cook quite well but honestly living in NYC and going to the grocery store to serve my partner and I ~2 meals a day every day of the week is nearly impossible with our work schedule. If I wanted to do nothing else with my day but work and cook, that might be fine, but Doordash et al. are making life a whole lot better. When we were launching our company, we joked that it was often just a stream of delivery drivers bringing us stuff to sustain ourselves.
- istorical 6y agoThe truth is though that if these apps and conveniences didn't exist, you'd adapt and find meals to eat that required 5 min prep time - things like a sandwich that are just assembling pre-ready ingredients in a bowl or in a piece of bread or in a wrap truly don't require cooking. Laziness is an adaption, and we adapt to whatever level of effort is required. Money is just an intangible so it's easy to be wasteful with it when it pretty much doesn't exist and is just a number somewhere we can't see. But if a particular luxury disappeared, you'd adapt just fine.
- ghaff 6y agoWhen I was regularly in an office quite a few years ago, there certainly were days when I just didn't feel like cooking at all and would pickup takeout. However, I also had a stable of recipes that were generally in the vein of throw some things in a skillet and saute for 5-10 minutes. Especially with partially pre-prepped food in grocery stores these days, it's pretty easy to throw decent meals together quickly with very little time or effort given just a little bit of planning.