[HyulianGrader]

Get meal kits delivered. You still do >80% of the cooking but it takes out all of the planning and shopping.

I was lucky(?) to grow up with a great cook and gardener for a mum, so I'm not even really sure how you exist without doing this at least. Pardon my naivety, but what do you eat...? Is everything unwrapped from plastic or from the local takeaway joint?

[Galanwe]

> Pardon my naivety, but what do you eat...? Is everything unwrapped from plastic or from the local takeaway joint?

As a student, money was always a struggle, so I would mainly eat stupid simple meals. [Pasta|potatoes puree|green beans] with [olive oil|tomato sauce|frozen steaks].

Once I started working, yes, a lot of pre-made meals. That eventually gave me some deficiencies and led to teeth issues.

I then increasingly had more income, so I switched to food delivery (deliveroo|foodpanda|uber eat), which is close to "eating at a restaurant every day". Not really healthy though since most restaurant food, at least in Europe, is tailored for occasional meals, not everyday meals, so it's often fatty and not well balanced.

I'm married since then, and luckily my partner took on her to do the cooking, while I do the prep/cleaning. I don't mind doing the grunt work, it's definitely not a pleasure, but at least it's not stressful, and the food is much healthier.

[maccard]

One of the really neat things about the meal kits is it teaches you the skills and takes some of the pressure off. Those skills are directly transferable - at some point you might decide to buy the ingredients for the recipe card yourself. Or that the steps for a chilli are almost the same as a ragu