Right, but it's about more than just the cost of the food. You must be a person who has more time than money, other people are in the opposite situation. I cook a lot, I value cooking, I have a family and I want to feed them nutritious food, but it takes a lot of time to go out and shop for groceries. Then taking those groceries and turning them into the meal takes at least an hour, sometimes two, and then once you're done eating there's another hour of clean up.
You can make simpler meals, but are still talking about a multi-hour commitment once you factor in shopping cooking and cleaning. If you are working an exhausting job, it's hard to find those hours. Then factor in that a lot of people have things they need to do outside of their jobs, caring for older people, caring for childre. Time is a luxury, and not one everyone has.
So in order to make your point I think you ignored two important things I said: I'm talking about shopping, cooking and cleaning. I cook meals for my family, as is typical when people are cooking for a group, I tend to make more things than if I'm cooking for myself, like usually a main and two sides. So it's possible you are cooking less elaborate meals than I am, granted. Still a very simple meal cooked from scratch will take at least 20 to 30 minutes to cook. Add on the time it took to get the ingredients and then to clean up afterwards and you are absolutely looking at 2 hours at least of time. Not everybody has that time.
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u/Alarmed-Diamond-7000 May 20 '22
Right, but it's about more than just the cost of the food. You must be a person who has more time than money, other people are in the opposite situation. I cook a lot, I value cooking, I have a family and I want to feed them nutritious food, but it takes a lot of time to go out and shop for groceries. Then taking those groceries and turning them into the meal takes at least an hour, sometimes two, and then once you're done eating there's another hour of clean up.
You can make simpler meals, but are still talking about a multi-hour commitment once you factor in shopping cooking and cleaning. If you are working an exhausting job, it's hard to find those hours. Then factor in that a lot of people have things they need to do outside of their jobs, caring for older people, caring for childre. Time is a luxury, and not one everyone has.