Yeah an online solution is probably the only real way, although I would be surprised if you couldn’t hit a big chunk of what people need from 2-3 types of shop simply because they overlap or the things some people are avoiding are repellent (allergy) instead of addictive (sugary treats).
In Poland supposedly meal delivery has become the norm and has replaced many “Standard” meals due to the low cost. It’s wild how expensive it is in the US though.
Precut veggies low key saved me during grad school, I’d always been resistant due to cost and the fact that “I can cut stuff”. But then I heard it recast as the adhd tax, and got called out hard for the fact that if the transition energy between me and a cooked meal is too high I just won’t eat anything. Cold salad bars are also technically like this as well, although those are often quite sad.
I suspect I have some ADHD or something similar too, and I observed that difficult things stop being difficult when I develop a habit around them. Basically, “doing it for the first time” and “doing it after I haven’t been doing it for months” are super hard. But “doing the same thing I did yesterday” is easy.
In context of cooking, it means it is easier for me to cook the same two or three meals over and over again. Choices are bad, mindless repetition is good. I mean, I should think about the things that I want to do, but at a different time than when I am actually supposed to do them—at that moment, thinking just leads to procrastination.
Precise plans are easier to do. “Cut some vegetables” is too abstract. “Cut 1⁄3 of iceberg lettuce, 1⁄3 of Chinese cabbage, a few cherry tomatoes, and put some dressing on top of that, maybe add some meat” is a plan I can do reliably.
Yeah an online solution is probably the only real way, although I would be surprised if you couldn’t hit a big chunk of what people need from 2-3 types of shop simply because they overlap or the things some people are avoiding are repellent (allergy) instead of addictive (sugary treats).
In Poland supposedly meal delivery has become the norm and has replaced many “Standard” meals due to the low cost. It’s wild how expensive it is in the US though.
Precut veggies low key saved me during grad school, I’d always been resistant due to cost and the fact that “I can cut stuff”. But then I heard it recast as the adhd tax, and got called out hard for the fact that if the transition energy between me and a cooked meal is too high I just won’t eat anything. Cold salad bars are also technically like this as well, although those are often quite sad.
I suspect I have some ADHD or something similar too, and I observed that difficult things stop being difficult when I develop a habit around them. Basically, “doing it for the first time” and “doing it after I haven’t been doing it for months” are super hard. But “doing the same thing I did yesterday” is easy.
In context of cooking, it means it is easier for me to cook the same two or three meals over and over again. Choices are bad, mindless repetition is good. I mean, I should think about the things that I want to do, but at a different time than when I am actually supposed to do them—at that moment, thinking just leads to procrastination.
Precise plans are easier to do. “Cut some vegetables” is too abstract. “Cut 1⁄3 of iceberg lettuce, 1⁄3 of Chinese cabbage, a few cherry tomatoes, and put some dressing on top of that, maybe add some meat” is a plan I can do reliably.