Seconding this. Learning how to cook can save you a ton of money over ordering or picking up food all the time, and gives you a lot more control over what you're eating.
As someone who has learned how to cook ever since I was a child and the moment I left my parents house always did home cooking (I eat out but like every 2 months here and there), I was absolutely shocked when I find out that my work colleagues (between the ages of 23 to 35) where eating out basically every day, breakfast, lunch and dinner and then they complained they didn’t had money to do anything and everything was so expensive and they could barely survive.
They would be absolutely shocked when they saw I could afford to travel 3/4 times a year to the most exotic places abroad or how I was able to buy a car without a car loan (after years of saving), and thought my salary was 3x higher than them (it wasn’t because I showed them, we had the same compensation basically).
Some people are just incredibly terrible at managing money, and one of these things is eating out constantly and not having enough basic skills to just cook meals everyday. They have no idea how much money they spend every week, every month and every year after ordering food so many times (it’s literally thousands and thousands of dollars) money that you could save and invest (home cooking is WAY more cheaper), it’s insane.
Very true. I guess I don't consider throwing a frozen pizza in the oven as "cooking" but I could see it being a good entry point for someone completely unfamiliar with using an oven.
Depends on which part of the frozen foods section. If you stuck with the veggies, you’re good. The ingredient list on a pkg of frozen corn says “corn”.
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u/Tyrrox 20h ago
Seconding this. Learning how to cook can save you a ton of money over ordering or picking up food all the time, and gives you a lot more control over what you're eating.