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> I buy ready made food all of the time, I just try to go for high protein options and limit bullshit. It's a lot more expensive. But you do it because you can
by jolmg 4y ago
> I buy ready made food all of the time, I just try to go for high protein options and limit bullshit. It's a lot more expensive.
But you do it because you can afford it. People that find it expensive would first cook for their meals rather than eat junkfood for meals. Do you think they wouldn't cook because it takes time? When you're low on income, money is more valuable than time. Cooking saves money over junkfood.
> Protein is more expensive than carbs is basically the entire thing.
There's cheap sources of protein, too, like beans. Not sure how it fits with the rest of the argument though. Are you talking about people getting their protein mainly from chocolate protein bars or something like that?
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- throwaway22032 4y agoI am talking exclusively about ready to eat food. There are many reasons for a person to struggle to be able to cook. I agree that in most cases these are solvable. Usually via money, which brings us back to... money helps. A direct example I can give is that I have many friends who live in shared accommodation with shitty kitchens because they're shared amongst 4 people or more and inevitably someone is a cretin. In that case invariably people end up "cooking" stuff like pizzas in order to minimize time in the shitty environment.
- jolmg 4y ago> A direct example I can give is that I have many friends who live in shared accommodation with shitty kitchens because they're shared amongst 4 people or more and inevitably someone is a cretin. Ok, that makes more sense. I guess housing is so bad that not even shitty apartments that people can rent individually are available? I'm not familiar with such arrangements, so I'm not sure how bad it can get. I guess it's an issue with the dishes, a permanently filled sink? Why not just use disposable dishes and have very few shared cookware so it's not possible to fill the space in the sink? If home is totally useless for cooking for whatever reason, one might be able to make a kitchen portable enough to fit in a backpack by getting a single-burner portable stove. If you get a gas one, you won't depend on an electrical outlet. For cookware, a small pan and a small wooden spatula takes you far. Eggs, canned food, etc. don't need refrigeration. If one avoids using too much oil/fat, one should be able to skip needing water to wash the cookware by wiping with a paper towel. This ought to be cheap enough even for students. Park in the daily commute? There's the kitchen. Just do breakfast, and snack on e.g. carrots for other times of the day. Who am I kidding. We're talking about people in general and not anyone in particular. That's quite awful...
- throwaway22032 4y agoI mean, this is fun problem solving, I also enjoy camping and can make healthy meals whilst I'm in the woods. > Why not just use disposable dishes and have very few shared cookware so it's not possible to fill the space in the sink? Your flatmates, who you can't evict, never clean up after themselves and they block the sink. The worktops are covered in dirty stuff. The oven is dirty so that you personally have to clean it each time, so in the end you give up and get takeaways. The actual solution is to have enough capital or at least an income source in order to not have to deal with bullshit poverty world people.
- jolmg 4y ago> The actual solution is to have enough capital or at least an income source in order to not have to deal with bullshit poverty world people. Ha. Being poor might not be the thing to focus on, since they're all in the same arrangement. The actual problem is that they're badly raised and don't know how to behave properly. People wouldn't have a problem with how poor they may be if they were more considerate to their flatmates.