Re: The cost of food

Sue,

I'm one of the people who still pack lunch.
But I'm also (have become recently, especially this time of year,
but also in summer) one of the people who buy takeout food more than
once a week (make that more like about 3-5 times/week).
There are times when I don't make it home until well after 8 p.m.,
that's after leaving at 7:30 in the morning, 6 days per week. Full
time job + self-employment runs that way. Yes, it probably would
be _cheaper_ to go home and cook, sell the land, give up trying to
farm, but doggoneit, I enjoy it (and never mind how much the land
went up in value since we bought it, and we wouldn't have bought
it if I wasn't trying to do something with it).
I know how to cook, I like to cook, but I'm quite often too
tired to cook, and when I get back near home, also too hungry
to cook (i.e. wait until the food is done).

I live in an area where unemployment runs about 2% and there
are 'help wanted' signs everywhere. What I have the problem with
is people complaining about not having money but spending time
hanging out doing nothing (productive). Work an extra 2-4 hours/day
and there is the $20 for the take-out meal, even in a minimum wage
(or slightly above) job. (I know the answer, not yours, but the
answer of the complainers: "but that's not fun").

Maren
(this is part of my lunch break, eating a salad in front of the
computer)
Tropical seeds - Job's Tears Jewelry - Plants & Lilikoi
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/palms_etc/


jJohn Klausner wrote:
>
> And yeah....whatever happened to "packing lunch"?? The upshot of it is,
> I think, different eating/cooking habits. I agree with you - people
> don't seem to know how to cook any more - and this in spite of "the food
> channel"! You'd think cooking would be bigger than ever, given the
> exposure to "how to cook"! but it doesn't seem to be so. Maybe cooking
> is limited to entertaining? so...who entertains any more !
> Times when I feel _really_ old!
> SueK

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