Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success : aboringdystopia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where are they getting their ingridients from to cook if they shop less? Or do they just eat less? Is this about starvation?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From personal experience:

Store brands
Self-checkout ("shopping less" on record)
Not buying avocado that ripens in 3.23 days and goes bad in 3.56 days. You're on time out, avocado.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's a solid take on avocado.

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[+] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Why is this a headline? It's just called living within your means. Smart people have been doing this forever, it's nothing news worthy.

[+] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe if you're considering buying a single meal at a restaurant vs the cost of buying packages of ingredients at the grocery store which would net you many meals. But I don't think there's a single place on Earth where grocery store food is more expensive than the equivalent restaurant serving.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Where do you leave? What if you buy family packs and mealprep and freeze?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

even if I wanted to

That's the key phrase in their post. They simply don't want to, so they've come up with excuses to justify that stance. Raw ingredients are always cheaper, but you have to put effort in to see the savings, they don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There is more upfront cost in acquiring some stuff, and that has to be amortized over many meals. Some spices are just... expensive if you're not using the whole container, so if the recipe calls for a pinch of something that's $7 for a one-time use, it gets pretty crazy pretty quick. Not that I went through this very recently.

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