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Does today's XKCD describe you?
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I couldn't think of a real clever solution to the problem besides bundling the necessary fresh ingredients into portions that would feed one or two people. This is pretty much what a meal in a box type thing already does. Perhaps someone can come up with a better solution for this pain point.
Cindy: Might wanna remove that html {overflow:hidden} Your site doesn't scroll, obscuring the rest of that form (OSX 10.6, FFox 4.0b10)
To answer the questions, I cook pretty much every day. I hate it, but it's the fastest, cheapest and healthiest way to eat. It's even faster than take-away, but I wish I never had to cook again. If I had money that's one of the things I'd happily spend it on.
EDIT: OK, now I can complete the form, but you ask if you can contact me for a follow up, but give no way to give you my contact details!
Yes, it does. I'm a young bachelor, and I actually run through this exact scenario every several months. Right now I'm in the point where a few months has passed and I'm thinking of cooking again. During lunch today, I saw an advertisement for pasta primavera and thought to myself, "Wow, I should totally make some of that for Wed night when that girl wants to hang out." I couldn't think of a real clever solution to t…
1. Dinner parties. Nothing formal, just invite people over for food. I am pretty well compensated, so while I spend a little more than is strictly necessary, it is less than eating out all the time, and I can share tasty meals with friends. Further, costs can be amortized by having others bring dishes, and you'll start getting in dinner invites too.
2. Know lots of recipes and variations for a few ingredients. This helps with the "too much" problem, as you can use stuff quickly without getting bored. When you add new ingredients to your repertoire add them with depth. Eventually you will start learning how things work together and just whip up stuff pretty easily. A good way to get into this is make it a game -- try to figure out how to make a tasty meal from say, only things on shelf #2 or have each friend bring one ingredient and it is your job to make a dinner.
3. Similar to the previous one: get good at what I call "ingredient chains". There are lots of these, but a classic example: Buy a chicken, roast it. eat it hot. Take some of the meat for sandwiches this week. Take the bones and bits and pieces of meat and make a stock out of them for soup.
4. Don't worry about throwing away food. Seriously, I throw away ingredients all the time... sometimes I just don't get around to using them, or I change my mind. This is still so much more frugal than eating out, that it is worth it (within reason of course).
5. Buy the good stuff.. reasoning here is the same as #4. I can pay $100 for groceries per week, getting the quality stuff, and still spend less than eating out at all but the crappiest fast food places.
None of these are clever solutions, but they are a different approach to the situation that obviate the problem by either eliminating the problem via base assumptions or by changing the problem to "not actually a problem".
hth :)
What somebody needs to do is create a "No Ingredient Left Behind" product that will yell at you to east the tomatoes before they go bad.
Cindy: Might wanna remove that html {overflow:hidden} Your site doesn't scroll, obscuring the rest of that form (OSX 10.6, FFox 4.0b10)
Thanks - done!
If you can add inline CSS to the "powertiny" link element ... specifically, position:absolute;right:0;bottom:0; it should get it out of the way.
Not exactly, but i definitely travel through a subloop of this chart. I often buy things at the grocery store that i want to eat in general, but specifically. Bananas area good example. I love bananas but when it comes to grabbing one in the morning there is like a mental block about it, so eventually the bananas go bad.... What somebody needs to do is create a "No Ingredient Left Behind" product that will yell at yo…