Re:The Wretched Table: How Dinner in America Became an Ordeal
by Symbiote on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:09AM
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This sounds more-or-less like how I started cooking when I was 18 (2004), in the first year of university.
We probably had a bit more "bland" — I couldn't help being British — but we'd also go shopping once a week, cook most evenings, and vary between short/long prep/cooking time things. We'd sometimes use semi-prepared foods, (British-)Indian curry pastes were used relatively often, but something like a "make tacos kit" was expensive for what it contained, and only used once or twice before we'd work out how to make it ourselves.
Also, being four 18 year olds, we were never able to make leftovers last until the next day :-D
(None of this was unusual in Britain; /not/ doing this was unusual.)
We probably had a bit more "bland" — I couldn't help being British — but we'd also go shopping once a week, cook most evenings, and vary between short/long prep/cooking time things. We'd sometimes use semi-prepared foods, (British-)Indian curry pastes were used relatively often, but something like a "make tacos kit" was expensive for what it contained, and only used once or twice before we'd work out how to make it ourselves.
Also, being four 18 year olds, we were never able to make leftovers last until the next day :-D
(None of this was unusual in Britain; /not/ doing this was unusual.)