• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    3 days ago

    Cooking unfortunately isn’t really taught anymore. As someone who graduated and knew nothing about how to even do basic cooking, like didn’t know how to make pasta basic, I was basically in that spot. Luckily I found cooking videos and learned, but right after school it was a hard few years. If it wasn’t peanut butter, top ramen, or Mac and cheese I didn’t know how to make it - and it was incredibly intimidating

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      2 days ago

      I know how to cook, but it’s hard with 2 kids, and we both work A LOT all week. Weekends we are almost always busy as well, so meal prep and cooking most days is hard. I try to do simple stuff, but it’s hard, and I know I can’t be the only one. Plus, I consider this guy lucky since let me check my bank account right now, and oh, it’s currently negative $300 until next friday… life is super hard these days, do what you can…

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      3 days ago

      Cooking videos are probably the most prolific type on the internet after cat videos. But even then, peanut butter, ramen, or mac and cheese would be a lot smarter than spending your last fiver on a single sandwich.

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      3 days ago

      Also, it’s really hard to cook for one. I end up spending as much on food that goes bad before I can eat it as it would have cost me to get a $5 value meal.

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        It primarily requires planning your meals ahead. If you don’t mind left overs it’s even easier. If you eat meat, properly portioning it and freezing the excess simplifies it. Planning multiple meals a week that use the same or similar ingredients saves a bunch and prevents waste.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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        3 days ago

        Agreed. Amortized it much cheaper but when you have an empty kitchen with only a box of macaroni and cheese, getting groceries can feel very expensive.

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          3 days ago

          There are cheap, single serving meals, such as:

          • baked potato - extra lazy version is 6 min in the microwave, add toppings
          • oatmeal - overnight oats, microwave (3 min, water shouldn’t quite cover oats), etc
          • sandwiches - lots of options; freeze extra bread and cheese
          • eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled; eggs last weeks

          I got through college cooking stuff like this. It was cheap, quick to make small portions, and didn’t require many seasonings. I lived on sleek something like $45-50/month, which covered the vast majority of my meals.

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      3 days ago

      I was taught cooking in school, graduated in 2014 is that far too long for your “taught anymore”?

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        My school taught cooking but only 5 students per year could take it because of limited equipment. Suffice it to say, I was not taught cooking

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          we had a room dedicated for cooking with stoves and stuff, the class also taught how to sew and stuff

          it was an elective though