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# Meal Preparation |
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Now that you've learned to cook some recipes, and are hopefully experimenting with your own, you can move on to meal prep. |
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one of the hardest parts of cooking for yourself is sticking to eating what you cook, and ensuring you have enough food for the |
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week that isnt from a box or a can. |
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#### Economics of meal prep. |
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It hardly needs emphasis: eating food you cook makes good economic sense as you no longer include markups for labor, taxes, profit, |
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livery, marketing, and other mainstays of even the cheapest restaurants. As an example, take a prepared meal of oats for breakfast. |
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at 340 grams, it costs 2USD. assuming this was only consumed 260 business days out of the year, you're still wasting more than $500 |
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per year on something less than $2 per uncooked kilo. |
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#### Environmental impact |
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eating out is contingent largely upon consumers ignoring the impact of the food they consume. paper wrappers and cups are trucked |
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thousands of miles in some cases to their final destination, your table (and ultimately the landfill.) if one cup weighs 12 grams, |
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and you eat lunch at fat burger 260 business days per year, thats more than 3 kilos of waste just from the cup. cooking food |
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yourself means reusing flatware and cutlery, which reduces the carbon footprint of your consumption. |
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#### quality. |
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restaurants are not in business for quality, but sales. preparing your own meals means you know exactly what went into them. |
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Restaurants make more money if they add more sugar, salt, and fat to their meals indiscriminately as humans are evolutionarily programmed |
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to seek these elements of food out. You can improve the nutritional quality of your meals by cooking them yourself. |
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# getting started |