• w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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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.