Comment by jstanley
> It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that I could do some cooking myself.
What were you eating before you had this realisation?
> It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that I could do some cooking myself.
What were you eating before you had this realisation?
Most folks eat microwaved food. Not cooking, just heating precooked meals.
I'm really curious about who "most folks" you refer to are; no one in my extended family does this normally, and I don't know of any friends or neighbors who do it either (we all microwave a snack here and there, sometimes a meal, but it's not how we habitually feed ourselves and our families).
When I was around 20, I lived exclusively on takeout. And not because I couldn't cook, I am and was a solid cook, it's that cooking for one is not that economical (specifically time-wise) and I could just eat places that would allow me to eat a days worth of food in one sitting, think lots of Indian buffets, which made feeding myself on takeout pretty cost effective.
Before that, I lived on takeout because I worked in a restaurant and it was free to take home the food that was going in the trash at the end of the night.