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⌈ Secret Post #4706 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Look, I can cook and I almost never eat out or buy prepackaged food or frozen dinners and I can tell you that you're sort of correct, but it's more complicated than that. Cooking requires cookware. It requires a certain amount of pantry staples, including spices. It requires time - time to actually learn those skills, time to plan meals and shop for the ingredients and time to do the actual cooking. And this assumes that you already have a functional kitchen.

All of that requires an upfront investment of money.

I'm a good cook now. When I first started (fresh out of college) I was terrible and it took years of trial and error before I got OK at it. I had the luxury of having time and money because I didn't have a full time job. If I'd had to get back home at 5:30pm after a long day of being underpaid and THEN start cooking, my learning curve would've been even slower. The average beginner might have the choice of spending an hour cooking after buying $20 of ingredients, or...they could eat something off the dollar menu in five minutes.

What I'm saying is, what you said is true for people who have that skillset, ingredients and equipment. It's not true for someone who is starting from nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, it is definitely cheaper, easier and healthier to cook for myself...now that I have the space, equipment and skills. All kinds of takeout are more expensive where I am (even McDonalds level) but you can live off no-name brand tinned baked beans, tinned fruit and ramen pretty cheaply. And I did, because the only cooking equipment I had access to was an electric kettle, cutlery, and some second-hand plates and bowls.

[(Anonymous)]

TBH, as someone who buys and cooks a lot more raw, unprocessed foods now than I used to, it’s still considerably more expensive, even after you have the tools and spices and know how to shop around.

When you say that cooking fresh at home can be cheaper than eating pre-packaged, if you do it right, it’s still only true if you assume the person eating pre-packaged isn’t buying exclusively the cheapest pre-packed shit they can find. The majority of people who eat pre-packaged probably do end up spending more than they think they are, because you can spend $3 on a can of chili stew and think nothing of it. So I do see where you’re coming from. But if you go into the supermarket with the objective of buying the largest mass of reasonably edible food for the least money, you’re not going to come out with much in the way of raw meat and fresh veggies, at least not if you're shopping in North America.