Now I finally understand why Wegmans seems to be making such a big push into prepared food picks and Instacart. Assuming this article is correct, there's a decline of people who just go in and go shopping (though if there is I haven't seen it, my local store seems busy all the time). I guess it makes sense. More people eating out and getting food delivered from restaurants means fewer people going to Wegmans.
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
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#22I have another statistic: 0% of Americans love doing laundry. So why is Tide still in business?
Uber for laundry sounds like a business plan to me.
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#23I guess I’m crazy, but I enjoy the forced break from modern life that the ancient ritual of cooking dinner brings. That’s not to say that I’m always stoked to cook, but I don’t dislike it and am almost always happy with the results. I’m all for new ingenious things, but I also like to be in touch with age old traditions. Heh, I use vim too tho, so go figure.
I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg. Meanwhile I can bang out a rosemary chicken that's low calorie and delicious in like 10 minutes of actual work and a half an hour playing games on my couch, and steam up some vegetables to go wi…
Throw in all those Food Network chefs whose recipe books are full of ingredients you're, realistically, only ever gonna use for that one recipe, and the leftovers of which'll—let's face it—just end up sitting around cluttering your pantry or fridge until they go bad.
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#24I've been seeing a nutritionist to try to help with weight loss and his emphasis has been on a healthy plate, which is a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter starch or grains. Even at nice restaurants, it is extremely difficult to order meals that fit these proportions, and, as you move down the quick service spectrum it gets harder and harder. By the time you arrive at fast food, its difficult to find a vegetable at all.
And, almost all the vegetables you find at quick service restaurants are lettuce or greens heavy salads, which are fine, but not ideal. Really, the only way to guarantee that you are getting a vegetable heavy diet is by cooking at home.
The less we cook at home and the more we eat out, the fatter we (as a society) will become.
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#25I'm not sure that I love cooking, but I haven't yet figured out how to stay healthy on prepared food. The things we cook at home tend to be pretty basic and quick, possibly monotonous if you care about variety. I love homemade bread.
I am the same. I started eating extremely basic and lost nearly 50 pounds and save a ton of money -- rice, potatoes, peas, corn, lentils. I don't give a hoot about variety, so that helps.
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#26I've been seeing a nutritionist to try to help with weight loss and his emphasis has been on a healthy plate, which is a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter starch or grains. Even at nice restaurants, it is extremely difficult to order meals that fit these proportions, and, as you move down the quick service spectrum it gets harder and harder. By the time you arrive at fast food, its difficult…
Greens keep pretty well and have decent, smoothish availability year-round. I'd guess that's why they favor them at restaurants.
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#28I guess I’m crazy, but I enjoy the forced break from modern life that the ancient ritual of cooking dinner brings. That’s not to say that I’m always stoked to cook, but I don’t dislike it and am almost always happy with the results. I’m all for new ingenious things, but I also like to be in touch with age old traditions. Heh, I use vim too tho, so go figure.
I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg. Meanwhile I can bang out a rosemary chicken that's low calorie and delicious in like 10 minutes of actual work and a half an hour playing games on my couch, and steam up some vegetables to go wi…
Well modern America has no real food culture. Most countries combine the same 5 local staples like rice, vegetables meat, local seasonings etc so they always have it on hand and know how to easily make something. Here check an Nytimes recipe and it will have you doing hours of prep and ridiculous steps like getting one pan out and dirty just to slightly toast something to make it restaurant quality presentation. Don’t get me wrong I love that detailed stuff because cooking is an escape and relaxing for me but there is no easy first step for most people to acquire a few simple recipes and techniques that they can execute quickly here so they go for instant gratification frozen food boxes.
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#29How do other countries compare, specifically Asian, urban areas where street food is ubiquitous?
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#30I have another statistic: 0% of Americans love doing laundry. So why is Tide still in business?
It's expensive. About 2 years ago my girlfriend moved in with her service animal and my landlord forbid us from using the communal laundry machine due to allergies he said another tenant has. From that point forward, I took my laundry to one of those places that charge by the pound because there were no DIY laundromats nearby. I loved it. Super convenient. But the costs really added up.