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Cooking in general is time consuming. You and I appear to eat vastly differently, yet we both make our own food from scratch. For breakfast I eat 10oz whole mil

by jriot 6y ago

Cooking in general is time consuming. You and I appear to eat vastly differently, yet we both make our own food from scratch. For breakfast I eat 10oz whole milk, 2 - 3 strips of bacon, 2 - 3 eggs, and grits with butter (at time I'll have potatoes or toast depending). Our other other meals will include roasted vegetables, potatoes and meat. Preparing each meal everyday is time consuming but I view as the best investment in my family's life. We rarely get sick, if so its a day cold when the weather changes. We sleep a solid 8 hours a day, and only go to the for our yearly health check-ups. We also highly naturally so this factors into it. Now I do live in Louisiana and Mardi Gras is right around the corner which means King Cake. Is this healthy for me? No, not at all. But it's once a year and we buy them from the local bakeries, where each bakery has their own recipe. Does this it make anymore healthy? Probably not, but they are good.

selimthegrim 6y ago
Are you a Randazzo’s devotee? Also curious about data science prospects in the area or remote, tbh
- jriot 6y ago
  Randazzo's is currently my favorite! Though I pre-ordered a Dong Phong's this morning as I was unable to get one last year. Local Data Science prospects are low to non-existent. I work remotely and remote prior to Covid. Companies reach out and don't seemed concerned about my location so I don't foresee being remote an issue.
vram22 6y ago
You seem to have missed some words in your second paragraph. What were they? One, I guess, is doctor.
- jriot 6y ago
  Ah, sorry about that. Edit - Preparing each meal everyday is time consuming but I view it as the best investment in my family's life. We rarely get sick, if so its a day (a cold) when the weather changes. We sleep a solid 8 hours a day, and only go to the doctor for our yearly health check-ups. We also highly active naturally so this factors into it.
  - vram22 6y ago
    Got it, thanks.
matheusmoreira 6y ago
It's extremely time consuming. It takes hours to properly cook meals for an entire family. That's time I'd rather spend doing something else since I don't really enjoy the process of cooking itself. There's also the time required to prepare the dining room, clean the dishes, shop for ingredients and supplies and more incredibly boring tasks that I'm probably forgetting. Doing this every single day is just so tiresome! Of course people would rather open an app and order some delicious fast food which arrives in about 20 minutes. It's not healthy but it wastes less time.
- com2kid 6y ago
  Apps like "Eat This Much" can simplify meal planning by helping you make dishes that last multiple days. It lets you optimize each meal for time to prepare, variety, cost, etc. It also prepares a weekly shopping list. (Seriously, great app, few rough edges though and onboarding is not friendly) Also, sauces. 1 day making bolognese is 3 days of main courses. Ideally you are only making 2 or 3 main courses during the week.
  - papa_bear 6y ago
    If you have any thoughts on what would make ETM’s onboarding more friendly, would love to hear them :)
    - com2kid 6y ago
      Hi! I was one of your early sign ups when you first announced on reddit. I came back this year and resumed my usage. So, originally, I was a single guy looking to put on muscle. ETM works great for that! Like, super duper well. Baring a few issues. But now, it isn't just me! And I can't get away with arguing "well the meal is nutritionally balanced." So, from a wife acceptance factor, whole meals, more than 1 course. Next, ETM gives wacko shopping amounts sometimes. I know that the math may work out, but 25 cups of spinach is too much. The amounts listed to buy are so far off reality that I am not going to trust the delivery option, which, well, totally sucks because that'd be nice. I think it had me buy 6 heads of lettuce one week.... I did. I ended the week with 4 heads of lettuce in my fridge. For that matter, the entire UI around "original serving size, servings to make" is confusing as hell. I should sign up for a new account to give a real FRE feedback, but the UI for existing users to configure meals and such is both absurdly powerful and also hard to manage in regards to "types of meals" and "meal plan". I totally get why the UI is how it is (except for why menus are where they are, separate topic) but I wouldn't ever suggest someone who isn't technically inclined, and also very dedicated, to even try to get started. Which sort of sums up ETM: It is a power user's tool. Oh and adding a recipe sucks. After doing one I gave up. I currently have a one note of "recipes from ETM except fixed so they taste like food." No offense (since I fit in this category) but a lot of the recipes are obviously written by gym bros to be as efficient as possible. Like, some of the recipes are easily transformed from meh to good by the addition of basic seasonings. On the topic of recipes write some sort of import tool so I can point you at a website and you just scrap that shit. Or even let me paste it in and you parse it. Even if I had to take the parsed results and verify each ingredient, it's be 10x better. I need to be clear, I like ETM, it saves me a ton of money and makes meal planning easier, but if I didn't know how to cook, estimate amounts of food I need to buy, and if I wasn't able to on the fly figure out other courses for the meals, it would be far less useful to me. But, as a tool for gym bros to meet their macros, bloody amazing. And gym bros will learn any UI if it promises gains, none of the other tools I use are exactly user friendly. At the end of the day, if you had a slick onboarding process of "select 5 meals from NYT cooking that we legally slurped up because recipes have no copyright protection, and we'll ship you all the ingredients you need to cook them", well that's be an awesome product. Oh and pay attention to when certain proteins are cooked. Buying $40 of fish on Sunday for Friday dinner is stupid. Either I freeze $40 of fish and hate you, or the fish goes to waste and I hate you. Both are shitty options. I chose C, ignore the schedule and I cooked the Halibut on Monday.

by jriot 6y ago

selimthegrim 6y ago

Are you a Randazzo’s devotee? Also curious about data science prospects in the area or remote, tbh

jriot 6y ago
Randazzo's is currently my favorite! Though I pre-ordered a Dong Phong's this morning as I was unable to get one last year. Local Data Science prospects are low to non-existent. I work remotely and remote prior to Covid. Companies reach out and don't seemed concerned about my location so I don't foresee being remote an issue.

vram22 6y ago

You seem to have missed some words in your second paragraph. What were they? One, I guess, is doctor.

jriot 6y ago
Ah, sorry about that. Edit - Preparing each meal everyday is time consuming but I view it as the best investment in my family's life. We rarely get sick, if so its a day (a cold) when the weather changes. We sleep a solid 8 hours a day, and only go to the doctor for our yearly health check-ups. We also highly active naturally so this factors into it.
- vram22 6y ago
  Got it, thanks.

matheusmoreira 6y ago

It's extremely time consuming. It takes hours to properly cook meals for an entire family. That's time I'd rather spend doing something else since I don't really enjoy the process of cooking itself. There's also the time required to prepare the dining room, clean the dishes, shop for ingredients and supplies and more incredibly boring tasks that I'm probably forgetting. Doing this every single day is just so tiresome! Of course people would rather open an app and order some delicious fast food which arrives in about 20 minutes. It's not healthy but it wastes less time.

com2kid 6y ago
Apps like "Eat This Much" can simplify meal planning by helping you make dishes that last multiple days. It lets you optimize each meal for time to prepare, variety, cost, etc. It also prepares a weekly shopping list. (Seriously, great app, few rough edges though and onboarding is not friendly) Also, sauces. 1 day making bolognese is 3 days of main courses. Ideally you are only making 2 or 3 main courses during the week.
- papa_bear 6y ago
  If you have any thoughts on what would make ETM’s onboarding more friendly, would love to hear them :)
  - com2kid 6y ago
    Hi! I was one of your early sign ups when you first announced on reddit. I came back this year and resumed my usage. So, originally, I was a single guy looking to put on muscle. ETM works great for that! Like, super duper well. Baring a few issues. But now, it isn't just me! And I can't get away with arguing "well the meal is nutritionally balanced." So, from a wife acceptance factor, whole meals, more than 1 course. Next, ETM gives wacko shopping amounts sometimes. I know that the math may work out, but 25 cups of spinach is too much. The amounts listed to buy are so far off reality that I am not going to trust the delivery option, which, well, totally sucks because that'd be nice. I think it had me buy 6 heads of lettuce one week.... I did. I ended the week with 4 heads of lettuce in my fridge. For that matter, the entire UI around "original serving size, servings to make" is confusing as hell. I should sign up for a new account to give a real FRE feedback, but the UI for existing users to configure meals and such is both absurdly powerful and also hard to manage in regards to "types of meals" and "meal plan". I totally get why the UI is how it is (except for why menus are where they are, separate topic) but I wouldn't ever suggest someone who isn't technically inclined, and also very dedicated, to even try to get started. Which sort of sums up ETM: It is a power user's tool. Oh and adding a recipe sucks. After doing one I gave up. I currently have a one note of "recipes from ETM except fixed so they taste like food." No offense (since I fit in this category) but a lot of the recipes are obviously written by gym bros to be as efficient as possible. Like, some of the recipes are easily transformed from meh to good by the addition of basic seasonings. On the topic of recipes write some sort of import tool so I can point you at a website and you just scrap that shit. Or even let me paste it in and you parse it. Even if I had to take the parsed results and verify each ingredient, it's be 10x better. I need to be clear, I like ETM, it saves me a ton of money and makes meal planning easier, but if I didn't know how to cook, estimate amounts of food I need to buy, and if I wasn't able to on the fly figure out other courses for the meals, it would be far less useful to me. But, as a tool for gym bros to meet their macros, bloody amazing. And gym bros will learn any UI if it promises gains, none of the other tools I use are exactly user friendly. At the end of the day, if you had a slick onboarding process of "select 5 meals from NYT cooking that we legally slurped up because recipes have no copyright protection, and we'll ship you all the ingredients you need to cook them", well that's be an awesome product. Oh and pay attention to when certain proteins are cooked. Buying $40 of fish on Sunday for Friday dinner is stupid. Either I freeze $40 of fish and hate you, or the fish goes to waste and I hate you. Both are shitty options. I chose C, ignore the schedule and I cooked the Halibut on Monday.