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You take one hour a week to go grocery shopping and then you have everything you need to stay alive for that week. Then another two hours on the weekend to cook

by orev 1y ago

You take one hour a week to go grocery shopping and then you have everything you need to stay alive for that week. Then another two hours on the weekend to cook everything and clean. It’s really a non-negotiable activity that’s essential for life. The mental gymnastics people use to justify their bad habits is really shocking.

ericmay 1y ago
Completely agree. And to add on, many are complaining about not having time and working, but you're working more because you're spending more on eating out, DoorDash, etc., then your waistline expands, health problems creep in, and so on and so forth. The American version of how we eat is abject nonsense - DoorDash expensive food that's worse than what you can cook for yourself, incredibly unhealthy, and then in between doomscrolling Elon Musk's latest Tweets and your ever expanding waste line complain that there's no time to do anything and you just can't cook because it takes "2 hours to go to the grocery store". Americans don't even go out to eat and take their time and enjoy life and the culinary arts because they're in a rush. Unfortunately our car-only infrastructure reinforces this learned helplessness, and so we have crappy food quality, obese people and massive healthcare costs, and antisocial behavior as people spend their time terminally online. Sorry for the rant to anyone reading. Don't take it too seriously. It just drives me crazy that we have such a great and vibrant country and we refuse to truly live in it for some god forsaken reason.
em-bee 1y ago
erm, where i have been living for the past 15-20 years, each large grocery run takes at least 3-4 hours. 1-2 of which are simply the time to get to the supermarket and back. and then one hour to top up every other day, mostly fresh vegetables. so in a week, shopping takes me 6 to 8 hours. and i have no idea how i am supposed to be cooking for a whole week in two hours unless i eat the same thing every day. that doesn't sound desirable at all

by orev 1y ago

ericmay 1y ago

Completely agree. And to add on, many are complaining about not having time and working, but you're working more because you're spending more on eating out, DoorDash, etc., then your waistline expands, health problems creep in, and so on and so forth. The American version of how we eat is abject nonsense - DoorDash expensive food that's worse than what you can cook for yourself, incredibly unhealthy, and then in between doomscrolling Elon Musk's latest Tweets and your ever expanding waste line complain that there's no time to do anything and you just can't cook because it takes "2 hours to go to the grocery store". Americans don't even go out to eat and take their time and enjoy life and the culinary arts because they're in a rush. Unfortunately our car-only infrastructure reinforces this learned helplessness, and so we have crappy food quality, obese people and massive healthcare costs, and antisocial behavior as people spend their time terminally online. Sorry for the rant to anyone reading. Don't take it too seriously. It just drives me crazy that we have such a great and vibrant country and we refuse to truly live in it for some god forsaken reason.

em-bee 1y ago

erm, where i have been living for the past 15-20 years, each large grocery run takes at least 3-4 hours. 1-2 of which are simply the time to get to the supermarket and back. and then one hour to top up every other day, mostly fresh vegetables. so in a week, shopping takes me 6 to 8 hours. and i have no idea how i am supposed to be cooking for a whole week in two hours unless i eat the same thing every day. that doesn't sound desirable at all