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Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success (fortune.com)

submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Chev@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to ~~achieve financial success~~ survive

FTFY

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

And they’re doing it cheerfully, I’m led to believe. Images don’t lie. Look how happy they are.

[+] force@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] PeroBasta@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] TransientPunk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (6 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.

[–] darganon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 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.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I moved into an apartment with my girlfriend about 7 months ago and we had the same problem. Cooking everything ourselves was causing our grocery budget to balloon out of control because we had nothing in the pantry, no spices, no oil, no sauces, nothing. So every new dish was an extra upfront cost that would really only get used one time and then go back in the cabinet.

After about 3 months, it somewhat stabilized now that we have all the staples and it is cheaper to buy raw and cook ourselves, especially if you buy in bulk and freeze leftovers.

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[–] SpezBroughtMeHere@lemmy.world 6 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.

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