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> Yes, cooking healthy may be "easy" but it's still more work than junk food. One advantage of intermittent fasting is that it's much less burdensome to make a
by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Yes, cooking healthy may be "easy" but it's still more work than junk food.
One advantage of intermittent fasting is that it's much less burdensome to make a single, large healthy than it is to make three healthy meals plus snacks.
(Though this can be a double-edge sword. If you wind up eating junk food, like pizza, for your large meal, then it becomes the equivalent of eating junk food for breakfast, lunch and dinner.)
- UnFleshedOne 6y agoWho the hell makes 3 meals a day anyway? Unless you include reheating something prepared in bulk several days ago in that count?
- kazen44 6y agoalso, what consists of three meals? the way I learned to cook (and most people I know) is you get a couple of ingredients for a dinner, and use the leftovers for lunch/dinner the next day. breakfast usually consists of something simple like bread + cheese or a kind of meat. (some people don't even eat breakfast and just start the day with a coffee or a glass of water).
- ska 6y agoI typically do, although some dinners or lunches will have a component that is reheated (e.g., reheat some frozen braise from last weekend, but with fresh cooked veg and potatoes, say.) If I'm in a hurry, there are lots of things I can make in 30 min or less. More often if I'm busy I'll make something that doesn't require much interaction; e.g. 10-15 min prep and 60 nearly untouched in a 500 degree oven for a roast chicken with root veg in one pan. I do other things in that hour. Honestly, I've been doing this long enough I'm pretty efficient. I could save a little time buying more prepared food, but my meal quality would go way down so I don't mind. Shopping is pretty efficient too, as I mostly don't shop by recipe. To be fair though, I find cooking relaxing as a way to wind down after work, so sometimes I'll do something more involved just for the hell of it on a random Wednesday.
- mssundaram 6y agoHm I definitely do, for my whole family. I work at home, though
- DobryMorozov 6y agoI always made three meals a day even alone in a apartment. It's not difficult to make eggs or cook salmon