• BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    During the pandemic an old friend of mine and myself reconnected abd played video games together. He told me a couple of times that money is kinda tight and whatever. He worked way different shifts than me so i invited him to eat at my place 4 times a week or so. I love cooking and cooking double doesn’t really makes much of a difference. After a few weeks i was at his place for the first time ever and he had two full ass garbage bags full of delivery and fast food on his porch. Motherfucker that’s where your money goes. I can coock for the both of us a good healthy meal for a week for what he spends alone in two days. He basically said: well, i can’t cook, so there is nothing he can do, really. Wegot out of touch again, aside from talking on discord every bow and then, but i seen him recently and he’s almost doubled in size now, so i assume nothing has changed.

    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      I don’t get people who say they “can’t cook”. Anyone can cook basic recipes…. No, the real issue is that they lack the willpower to cook. I say this as someone who dislikes cooking. I can do it if I need to (or rarely, if I feel inspired), and hell, I can do it well! But I detest the idea of spending like an hour cooking every day when I could just buy premade things like frozen meals or whatever and save myself the time. If my wife didn’t like cooking, that’s what I’d be doing for dinner each night (I already do it for lunch basically).

    • katharta@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      That’s sad. I don’t mind cooking, but after a typical work day, I often don’t have enough mental energy leftover to cook for myself either though. If I didn’t have a wife who loved me, I’d probably end up a lot like your friend. We try to save eating out for special occasions or when we’re both pooped and there’s no leftovers at least. But I can totally understand how that can happen to a person.