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Used to eat cold soup straight from the can at 23, now I meal prep 14 containers on Sundays at 34
Back in my first apartment in Denver around 2013, dinner was whatever I could eat standing over the sink, and one night that was a can of tomato soup I didn't even bother to heat up. Now I spend Sunday afternoons chopping peppers and chicken into 14 matching containers while a podcast plays, mostly because I got tired of spending $11 on sad lunch salads near my office. The weird part is I actually like the routine, and my grocery bill sits around $85 a week instead of the $140 I was bleeding before. Does anyone else meal prep, or did you find a cheaper way that doesn't involve eating the same lunch five days straight?
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wilson.joseph1mo ago
Fourteen identical containers sounds less like a life upgrade and more like you just traded one boring food routine for a slightly healthier boring food routine. The $55 a week savings is real and that part makes sense, especially if the office salads were trash, but calling it a routine you "actually like" is a stretch. Nobody loves eating the same chicken and peppers five days running, you just got used to it and stopped noticing. And the Sunday chopping session is basically unpaid labor you signed up for, so the math is more like $55 for a couple hours of work and a kitchen that smells like onions. Plenty of people just cook extra dinner and pack the leftovers, which skips the whole matching container thing and still gets you the cheaper lunches.
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