• AwesomeLowlander
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    15 hours ago

    If you’re tight on cash and getting fast food, I have doubts about how tight on cash you actually are

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      11 hours ago

      Damn straight. I could feed myself for a day on $5 easy.

      I could even stretch it to a weeks worth of meals, if shoplifting is allowed.

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      15 hours ago

      Cooking unfortunately isn’t really taught anymore. As someone who graduated and knew nothing about how to even do basic cooking, like didn’t know how to make pasta basic, I was basically in that spot. Luckily I found cooking videos and learned, but right after school it was a hard few years. If it wasn’t peanut butter, top ramen, or Mac and cheese I didn’t know how to make it - and it was incredibly intimidating

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        6 hours ago

        I made apple pie from scratch last weekend for the first time. Best feeling ever.

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        12 hours ago

        Also, it’s really hard to cook for one. I end up spending as much on food that goes bad before I can eat it as it would have cost me to get a $5 value meal.

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          12 hours ago

          Agreed. Amortized it much cheaper but when you have an empty kitchen with only a box of macaroni and cheese, getting groceries can feel very expensive.

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            8 hours ago

            There are cheap, single serving meals, such as:

            • baked potato - extra lazy version is 6 min in the microwave, add toppings
            • oatmeal - overnight oats, microwave (3 min, water shouldn’t quite cover oats), etc
            • sandwiches - lots of options; freeze extra bread and cheese
            • eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled; eggs last weeks

            I got through college cooking stuff like this. It was cheap, quick to make small portions, and didn’t require many seasonings. I lived on sleek something like $45-50/month, which covered the vast majority of my meals.

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        14 hours ago

        Cooking videos are probably the most prolific type on the internet after cat videos. But even then, peanut butter, ramen, or mac and cheese would be a lot smarter than spending your last fiver on a single sandwich.

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        11 hours ago

        I was taught cooking in school, graduated in 2014 is that far too long for your “taught anymore”?