We all know the street bakeries, restaurants, fast food joints offering burgers, doner kebab, banitza and much more.
In best of luck the food is fresh, hot and tasty, but is that truly the case? How much of this food is unhealthy for you and is using low quality ingredients? If it’s cheap then it’s for sure low quality, being mixed with sauces and sweeteners to mask the staleness that surround it.
But expensive doesn’t mean anything either, because it’s all about fooling the customer’s tongue into liking the eaten, not about providing them a full meal worth the price.
Imagine you’re purchasing some fried potato chips for a hefty price. You’d expect a nice bowl of food enough for 2 people at least, meanwhile you’re getting a small handful of potato chips that fit in both your palms, for a price that would get you around 3 kilograms worth of raw potatoes, meanwhile you just got around 150-200grams. Do you see how ridiculous it is?
But then you can say the price goes into the skill of the chef, and the cooking and the bla-bla-bla. It’s a pretty basic skill to wash a potato, cut it into pieces and throw it into a frier, where you wait x amount of minutes, until it’s ready to be put on a dish. In no way is it justified a price where the ratio of raw product you can buy, to cooked product as a service, is 15:1. And even if the ratio was 6:1, it’s still a bad investment of money.
Only reason I’m mentioning frying is because it’s the fastest way to cook something at restaurants or fast food joints. It’s not a way of cooking I indulge in, or see as healthy. Roasting is the best, but it does take hours.
You might like buying pizza with delivery to your home, everyone does. And it’s pretty common knowledge they are expensive, like super expensive. Of course they are tasty and do count as a full meal. But if you look at the insane price and think about raw product ratio to amount of delivered food, it’s pretty much the same horror. And the only reason you think it’s worth it is because you never tried to learn the skill of making a simply silly pizza.
You need dough (1kg), a big pot to stir the dough in, tomatoes (or tomato sauce in a can), olives, mushrooms, spatula, baking paper, 40 minutes for preparations. This can yield you 4 servings. It takes around 40-50 minutes of baking.
But what about the people working in the industry, you’re taking away bread from their table!
What? First of all this article won’t bring revolution the world, but it can provide helpful ways of thinking to some people out there who can make a positive change in their lives by bringing more independence to themselves.
Second of all, the sheer thought that your personal interests of well-being by seeking a healthier and cheaper alternative is a BAD THING is silly. Yes, customers will be lost, so maybe that should force those places to provide a better, cheaper service that would be worth the money. And if you do have such places that you know of, cherish them with all your patronage.
One of the harder meals to cook is anything that involves meat, because it’s a product that can be dangerous if undercooked. Also it’s expensive, the animals have been filled with hormones and anti-biotics, and the industry on itself is a graveyard of death. Pretty much on any 1 of those grounds is a reason for repulsion. Kids growing too fast and having knee pain, stretch marks on their backs. Adults with elevated cholesterol and increased cancer risks. It’s all things that are pretty nasty.
Cooking with oil is also not a fun experience. Unhealthy and messy. Worst thing about it is the amount of time it takes to clean up after you’re done, and it’s always the same sticky procedure. It’d be fine if the ruddy thing wouldn’t spurt drops of oil all over the place, and that the pan could just be rinsed and left to dry, but such a reality only exists at the highest clouds above.
Easiest meals to do are lentils, wholegrain rice, wholegrain pasta, wholegrain bread, beans, chickpeas, roasted nuts, potatoes…
