People who can't cook - what do you eat?

Posted by wardyms@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 5 comments

Full disclosure, I can cook - and I'm intrigued by people who can't. Crucially, I'm not here to judge. I'm more interested in people who live on their own or in a house share and have to source their own food. I get lots of people can't cook but their partner, housemate or parents might do it all for you. But if you have lived alone what did you do? I assume loads of people can at least heat food when they say they "can't cook". So, what is it you eat? Also, to what level can't you cook? Do you wish you could?

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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

I can cook, and well, but I've lived with a number of people who had very strange eating habits when sharing... One guy I lived with bought frozen breaded chicken fillet type things, frozen packets of microwavable vegetables with peas, carrots and sweetcorn in and oven chips, and ate that **every day**. I currently live with a guy who buys tinned soup, cream cakes, crisps, bread and eats combinations of those things every day. I've never seen him have breakfast. Much more commonly people I've lived with are the sort of inexperienced-at-cooking 'assembler' type people who can just about stretch to make a crappy spaghetti/chilli or something, but other than that they're lost. They'll buy ready meal pizza, curry, quiches, ready made salads and occasionally try and make something, but usually really simple things like mixing peas and sweetcorn and tuna into pasta, or buying a pasta sauce, which I wouldn't really count as 'cooking'. These people spend tons of money on eating! I've noticed a few friends of mine who were like this have got really into things like HelloFresh. I think it's more a fear of things going wrong or not wanting to spend the time cooking in this case.

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dontuseaccount@reddit

I guess I'm an "assembler", but it's really not that expensive. I spend £10-15 a week on food. My friend who eats similar things to me but does more cooking for it spends about 20-25 and has nothing more to show for it.

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zxw@reddit

Can you do a breakdown of what you spend and eat? I don't understand how its possible to eat on ~£2 a day.

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dontuseaccount@reddit

Obviously it varies from day to day but today was: Cereal bar 10p (often skip this) Pasta 5p Pesto ~10p kitkat 13p Then chilli for tea which makes 4 portions: Mince 190p Jar of sauce 70p Mushrooms 40p Onion 15p Pepper 60p So about 93p for one day, with 2 slices of garlic bread so 20p Then a yoghurt for 25p. So today comes in just under £2 if my maths is right. Not particularly exciting but it's enough for me.

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Eurydice1233@reddit

I mean sure it’s cheap but that sounds depressing