• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    14 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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      11 hours ago

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

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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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        11 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.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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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.