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> It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that I could do some cooking myself. What were you eating before you had this realisation?
by jstanley 2y ago
> It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that I could do some cooking myself.
What were you eating before you had this realisation?
- jillesvangurp 2y agoI was cooking but not very well. Or healthily.
- stronglikedan 2y agoMost folks eat microwaved food. Not cooking, just heating precooked meals.
- stephencanon 2y agoI'm really curious about who "most folks" you refer to are; no one in my extended family does this normally, and I don't know of any friends or neighbors who do it either (we all microwave a snack here and there, sometimes a meal, but it's not how we habitually feed ourselves and our families).
- mattl 2y agoMost single professionals I’m guessing
- bdavbdav 2y agoI suspect this probably applies more to certain nations. Microwave meals are a lot less prevalent in Europe as a staple.
- mywittyname 2y agoWhen I was around 20, I lived exclusively on takeout. And not because I couldn't cook, I am and was a solid cook, it's that cooking for one is not that economical (specifically time-wise) and I could just eat places that would allow me to eat a days worth of food in one sitting, think lots of Indian buffets, which made feeding myself on takeout pretty cost effective. Before that, I lived on takeout because I worked in a restaurant and it was free to take home the food that was going in the trash at the end of the night.