Ashwo"Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in"
I totally feel that guy. Cooking sucks. If you have the money, that time can be spent on something better instead.
The quality if the food you eat is such a big determiner for quality of life though… I would rather spent a few hours every weekend mealprepping and living an extra ten years of healthy active life. Plus, if you can save 600 dollars on food you might be able to just work less.
I’d rather work an hour than spend an hour cooking.
Also if you’re spending $700 it’s probably not just fast food, put proper restaurant take-out.
You don’t have to spend one hour cooking. You can’t cook in 20 minutes.
I’d rather not cook at all. And what ever money I’m saving I could get more by just working the same time.
So don’t eat ultra processed food then. Order proper food from a proper restaurant.
Do you if that it what you feel. But personally your mindset seems extremely exhausting to me, especially your work addiction.
But again, you are free to do whatever suits you best.
I have no work addiction. It’s just that I don’t hate my work professional work. So I’d rather work my job than work in the kitchen. I don’t think that’s that strange.
khannieThere’s a bit more nuance to it than home cooked meals being healthy and eating out being unhealthy.
Sure, but going to a proper restaurant tends to cost a bit more than doing it yourself.
Like, making some roasted pork with steamed veggies, sauce, and potatoes takes some 10+40 minutes of preparation and about 10 minutes of cleanup, and it costs me about 25$ (and is, of course, not including any deals). That’s for 4 grownups, plus some leftovers for lunch next day.
Obviously food and restaurant prices differ wildly depending on where you live, but I’m not sure I could get a decent and healthy takeout/restaurant meal for less than 60$ for 4 people in my area (assuming that 4 kebabs can be considered “decent and healthy”).
That’d leave me with a hourly “food-wage” of roughly 35$ (or 75$ if we’d assume 100$ for takeout), which I think is acceptable. I’d not make more than that after taxes either way.
Really rich people employ cooks and butlers. The butlers make sure the cooks respect the nutritionists advice.
All restaurant chains have factories. Anything that comes from a factory is ultra-processed.
Just because it’s frozen and made in a factory doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s unhealthy.
Vitamin C is pretty much the only nutrient that gets degraded by freezing and storage. Usually the problem is that the nutrients weren’t in there to begin with.
Having a look at the ingredients is really worth it. Of course that is a lot more difficult in a restaurant compared to a grocery store. Thanks to regulations.
TheLowestStoneOrdering fast food to be delivered for 3 people 7 days a week can easily total up to $700.