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Yeah I hesitated to post the Instagram url, but the domain owlturd.com forwarded to their Instagram so I put that
If food is as much of a time sink as sleep you either sleep too little, or eat way too much
If you considering purcahsing and travel time to the store, recipe research, cooking the recipe, eating the food, cleaning the kitchen and the dishes, it adds up to a lot of time each day/week. Maybe not as much as sleeping but as a single adult living alone i probably spend at least 2-3 hours worth a day on the above tasks.
Store is like 2 hours a week. Less if you live at a place where groceries can be delivered. Just get your weekly food at once. Save on gas and time.
Cleanup is usually 15 minutes for my family. Including the mess my toddler makes.
That won’t leave hours a day if you ask me.
Maybe 2.5 hours a day if you include breakfast and lunch. I can’t live on 2.5 hours of sleep.
Food can also be 5 minutes a day if you use paper plates and microwave pizza pops for every meal.
You’re paying with something else if it’s not your time.
Eating proper nutritious meals and not having others to share the burden with adds time. 15 minutes of cleanup for 4 people would be an hour for a single person, granted there is less overall to do, but now you need to each task alone.
Putting plates in the dishwasher is hardly more work than using disposable plates, aspecially after you consider the additional trips of taking the trash out
It doesn’t take that long if you clean as you go. Something has to simmer, boil, or bake? Clean during that time.
When I cook, the only thing left after I eat is cleaning the pot/pan used to cook with (which was soaking in hot soapy water while I eat). I also just meal prep food for the whole week on Sundays. Maybe 3-4h of total work if I’m doing more complex recipes.
There are a fuck ton of quick, easy, tasty, and healthy recipes out there.
How do you not include breakfast and lunch as food prep?
Store is 2 hours a week? For me it’s more like 1 hour every other week. What are y’all doing at the store that it takes so long.
Driving to and from
No loading / unloading the dishwasher, cleaning pots and pans. Ingredient prep like chopping etc cooking…
I DK dude seems like you are microwaving everything or just wiping a table down and don’t do much in the kitchen…
Most our meals take 15-30 minutes to prepare. Including chopping and cooking. It doesn’t have to take a long time to be healthy. Our microwave is in the shed, and gets used about 6 times a year. But you seem to know best…
Shopping, cooking and cleanup are part of food.
Each meal can easily be considered 1-2 hours of labor.
That’s if you’re doing it inefficiently as possible, or are just starting.
Fill the sink with water and soap and wash up as you cook, and let your cooking pan/pot/whatever soak while you eat so cleanup only takes a few minutes.
Hell, if you git gud enough, you can cook 2-3 meals in that time period and have food for the whole week.
Most meals should only take about 30m of actual activity, especially if you choose recipes that are single sheet pan/skillet, or slow cooked.
Cutting corners on quality and standards saves time yes.
Did I say anything about cutting quality and standards?
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Soaking dishes is a corner cutting, making multiple meals to microwave or reheat is lowering your quality and standards.
Single pan dishes have all the same texture, it’s lower quality as well, etc.
Yes, every suggestion you had is one of those.
How is soaking dishes corner cutting?
Good food can be reheated and still be good. Meal prep is pretty widely practiced, so there are great recipes out there. And people have been eating leftovers since there have been people.
I mean, if you’re really bad at cooking I could see those being issues, but that’s why you keep practicing until they aren’t issues.
It could be, maybe, just maybe, and here me out here, that the comic is not the absolute, actual depiction of one’s day to the second, just a generalism to get through the point. Which can be done through not too dense heads which are able to do a bit of imagination and not taking a comic literally. Geez.
You might be on to something. Try applying it to my previous comment.
Nice try.
Real life hack is a feeding tube while sleeping.
I eat while on work.
If it’s time spent, you just have to be French.
(From a French spending the end of the year with familly and friends).
I’d rather sleep to be honest.
I used to make time for gaming with my friends every day by sacrificing my sleep. I only realized how much it messed with my health once I started getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Now I mostly play during the weekends.
9 hours of sleep gang. Blows my mind people can feel ok with less than 8 (or do they just not know???)
People are not equal with sleep.
Some people don’t need as much sleep as others.
I’m perfect with 7h.
i need just around 6 hours to feel ok and last till 12 pm
How? I have a hard time getting above 8 hours unless I physically and mentally exhaust myself
Don’t force it, but sleep schedules
Try getting old. I used to want 9 or so. These days, I seem to just wake up after about 7 hours. I don’t really use an alarm anymore. I just get up when I am awake and know that getting back to sleep isn’t going to happen. Even nights after a good workout, I pop awake after about 6 1/2 to 7 hours. Never used to be this way. But, I just seem to need less these days.
Have time for food but no time for toilet…?
Shit on the clock like a boss. If the boss pretends he’s paying a lot, I’ll pretend I work hard.
Work is taking the hit if I need to choose
I got a steam deck for this. It’s helped a lot.
Because it’s smaller, right?
Right?
Right?
A Steam Deck helps! I can lay in bed after the kid is asleep and knock out a half hour/hour session before sleep. Let’s not talk about the advisability of using devices in bed…
Low screen brightness and not playing in a completely pitch-black room (with warm lighting) works for me.
A good game can keep me up til 2am. That seems to be my limit.
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