Millennial here. Definitely been cooking a lot more. The quality of fast food and most restaurants have gone down while the prices go up.

Millennial here, fuck DD. I love cooking.

$40 for a cheap meal delivered to my door ready to eat ... made by someone who doesn't like their job, made with the cheapest ingredients, in a questionable kitchen, by a worker I trust follows proper hygiene, processed by a series of people who will take care of my food to be handed off to some guy who I trust will take care of my food as it travels to my house with everyone being paid as minimally as possible so that several companies can squeeze as much profit out of the transaction as possible.

Or I just take a few hours every weekend to make a ton of good food to eat for the entire week.

I prefer cooking meals over food delivery and I don't think it's fair to scoff at those who do the latter. Time constraints and exhaustion-from-a-9-to-5 and all that.

I decided to work on a cookbook not too long ago that specifically attempts to address this, one which is focused on spending as MINIMAL time on cooking as possible whilst being somewhat "affordable" and "easy to remember", if that makes sense...

It's either time or money. If you have one but not the other, do what works, it's fine, stop judging.

If you have neither though...

I feel seen

I'm 30 and i detest delivery services becauae they feel so exploitative and ick, learn to cook beans

Im broke okay? There is no choice.

I’m a 42 year old millennial guy and I’ve been cooking 90% of my meals for years, learn to cook fam, it’s a good skill and girls find it attractive.

Never ordered to office or to home.
So not every Gen Z :p

At what point did doing things for yourself become cringe?

Methinks this is what the collapse of civilization looks like.

Today I made vegetarian salisbury steaks using impossible patties, store bought broth, and fresh veggies and herbs (and some stuff I had laying around). I spent less than $15 total (costco, price per unit) on the ingredients. It took 2 hours of cooking.

Assuming a wage of $25/hr, lower than adequate but relatively high in service fields in the US (those who work enough that delivery is super tempting), my meal cost me $65 including my labor. That's less than it'd cost for delivery of a similar meal, is higher quality than I could get for delivery, and I've got leftovers for tomorrow, which I wouldn't get with delivery.

Delivery is a scam. Gig economy Based delivery doubly so.

Almost everyday my wife and I cook dinner together. For that time there's no phones, no distractions. I treasure that time with her everyday.