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Minimum wage is a decent metric for assigning a dollar amount to free time slices. Suddenly cooking all the time doesn't seem as beneficial money-wise. (There a

by Jach 15y ago

Minimum wage is a decent metric for assigning a dollar amount to free time slices. Suddenly cooking all the time doesn't seem as beneficial money-wise. (There are a bunch of other, better, reasons to cook though.) Personally I don't enjoy the process of cooking or cleaning, so on top of the time there's also some psychological stressors involved, and I don't want the overhead of a bunch of cooking devices and spices and so forth that I'll only ever use a few times a year. I have the necessities for when I do cook and even that feels like a bit too much. If I ever have kids I suspect I'll be forced to change my attitude, or find a wife who absolutely loves to cook. Not giving your kids home-cooked meals when they're home the majority of the time seems near the line of parental abuse to me. Don't even talk about the parents who feed their kids nothing but McD's. Edit: I'm going to throw in a plug for http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

roel_v 15y ago
Out of interest, does that mean you eat out most of the time? Breakfast, lunch and dinner? How do you avoid getting tired of eating the same things? After eating out for a week when on a business trip or vacation, I get so tired of it that I'm happy to go home and just bake a simple steak or sausage with some broccoli, or whatever else most basic thing I feel like. Of course you can go to a restaurant and have a steak but they still never taste as... uncomplicated... as a home-baked one.
- Jach 15y ago
  I find a mixture of eating out (and switching up places, e.g. for fast food I tend to go with Wendy's, Arby's, and mexican food), cooking full meals, and microwaving or oven-baking frozen stuff to suit my needs, as well as fresh veggies and fruit, cereal, and sandwiches. The majority of what I eat is definitely the third group of stuff-at-home-but-not-really-cooking type of food, and I'm pretty sure it's the cheapest. I rarely eat out at a sit-down restaurant since that defeats the point of saving time and also costs too much. (More than $16 or so a meal is "a lot" from my perspective.)

by Jach 15y ago

roel_v 15y ago

Out of interest, does that mean you eat out most of the time? Breakfast, lunch and dinner? How do you avoid getting tired of eating the same things? After eating out for a week when on a business trip or vacation, I get so tired of it that I'm happy to go home and just bake a simple steak or sausage with some broccoli, or whatever else most basic thing I feel like. Of course you can go to a restaurant and have a steak but they still never taste as... uncomplicated... as a home-baked one.

Jach 15y ago
I find a mixture of eating out (and switching up places, e.g. for fast food I tend to go with Wendy's, Arby's, and mexican food), cooking full meals, and microwaving or oven-baking frozen stuff to suit my needs, as well as fresh veggies and fruit, cereal, and sandwiches. The majority of what I eat is definitely the third group of stuff-at-home-but-not-really-cooking type of food, and I'm pretty sure it's the cheapest. I rarely eat out at a sit-down restaurant since that defeats the point of saving time and also costs too much. (More than $16 or so a meal is "a lot" from my perspective.)