very kirk van houten coded
bullshit world
I’ve been poor before but I’ve always had access to food and decent shelter. I use to eat ramen noodles, chili and rice, and baloney sandwiches. I could really stretch out a $20 a week food budget.
When I eat a microwave meal I’m just happy I can afford to enjoy variety in my meals now though I still like sandwiches.
Probably all the textured vegetable protein that they use as filler makes everything seem like fake food.
Because it’s low quality and stuffed with trash.
If it’s real food you freeze and reheat it’s different.
I just wanted to say I love how you phrased the question and un upvote was not enough to express that
Doesn’t for me, so it’s in your head. I actually feel less satisfied if I put the effort in, doesn’t feel like a pleasant gift from the universe, more like a zero sum game.
You could be focusing on “it’s amazing how easy it is for me to make food!” But you’re not. Your emotions are leading you somewhere, instead of your rational mind. Next time you recognize that you feel like that, pause, and pay attention to what exactly it is that you are feeling, without judgement. Use your rational mind to observe your emotional state. Just observe it, don’t control it or try to change it. Hopefully you’ll discover something, maybe even the answer you’re looking for.
Nourishment is nourishment. I would love to have a home-cooked three course meal every night, but that’s a lot of effort and money to spend on lil’ old me. Ready meals are fine for those nights where I can’t be bothered to actually prepare a decent meal.
Add some love to it. Put it on a plate, add a sprig of whatever, eat with a fancy fork, whatever it is that makes you happy. It’s a little gift of love to yourself. Soon after living on my own I realized I could eat whatever I wanted out of those big wine glasses. So… I did. Juice, yogurt, cereal, mac and cheese. I liked how it looked and it was a small thing that made my day brighter.
I prefer eating ice cream out of tumblers, guess it’s like those paper cups from froyo places.
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Because in general, most of them look like straight garbage. They say you eat with your eyes first so you’re swallowing a whole lotta depression before your first bite. Plate it up and pretty it up with some garnish. Some brands look better than others too. Stouffers and Boston Market come off as more of a home-cooked look.
Unless we’re focusing on the alone part. Can’t help you there. The answer as to why it feels that way is pretty obvious.
Because we live in a society.
In part because the time we devote to something is felt as representative of how important it is - the sink cost fallacy can be visceral.
When you spend the minimum possible time feeding or looking after yourself, it’s easy to feel like you’re not treating yourself as important .
Because it’s not healthy. Check the nutrition content and it’s probably loaded on sodium for example.
“I sleep in a race car. Do you?”
Some of those frozen meals are cheaply made and have ingredients that are not necessarily the best for your body.
Those meals are sometimes REALLY high in nitrates. Those can cause some issues for your gut biome.
Food has always been something that’s very social and growing/hunting/preparing it a crucial part of culture. We’re wired for it. It binds us. Even if you had made no effort as part of the process, the kinship of knowing someone went all that effort for you is difficult to replace.
Anyway, when you just heat frozen food and eat it alone, all that pretty much goes down the drain.
I do agree, but its also kind of an amazing thing. I know this meal was made by a corporation for profit, but there was still a farmer that made the contents and a chef somewhere along the line cooked it before it was packaged. You might be missing the personal interaction with them, but there were still a lot of humans involved in bringing that meal to your table.
