Maybe stop doing that then. I can get a weeks worth of food for that kind of money and it tastes good.

I am fortunate we have enough mental energy to go to stores to buy ingredients to cook our own meals most days.

Its similar, to what is referred to as “adhd-tax” I am still in this picture more then i would like.

Doesn’t really matter what your mental energy is if you don’t have the money to have any other choice. Few years ago I was comfortably living on under £100 a month after paying rent for a bedroom, then putting the last £75 or so of my income into savings.

I mean its not like there was a dark where i lived on a single bag of chips a day or the occasional cup noodles or anything.

Very affordable lifestyle, but you do feel even worse long term.

For a while I got discounted veg at the end of the day and threw it all into a slow cooker that I kept running all week. Take a meal out and top up with more of what ever cheap ingredients I could get.

People I shared the house with had started to steal my food which is why I switched to storing everything in my room and the slow cooker in my room. No fridge/freezer but you can even store meat for several days in a slow cooker. 22:55 the local coop sometimes had sausages for pennies.

Thats kinda cool,

Like a modern day perpetual stew.

That is what I used as inspiration initially and it worked pretty well. A slow cooker is probably more reliable at keeping the temperature than a log fire too.