The Next Best Thing
In our new and improved world there is always someone touting a better, stronger, or faster product. It astounds me that there is still a way to make laundry detergent more effective at cleaning our clothes. It must be true if they are advertising it on the television. As Americans, we have come to expect that everything can be done more quickly or more easily than it was done before. Our lifestyles reflect our desire to achieve the ultimate in simplicity. Look at fast food. We can drive up to a speaker, order our food, ensure the correct order and cost on the screen, drive around and pay with our credit card, and get handed a bag of food, ready for consumption. 100 years ago you could go out for a meal but it would probably have taken as long to get it as it would have been to cook it yourself. 50 years ago you could have gone to a drive in restaurant and been served in your car. 20 years ago you could have gone through the drive through and just recently, you can avoid having cash and just pay with your card.
All of this is done to eliminate the need to create a meal at home. First you have to go to the grocery store and purchase the ingredients for your home cooked meal. Granted this is a one time per week (at least for me) but it takes about 2.25 hours to complete. Then you get to carry in and put the groceries away once you get home. This again takes about 15 minutes to accomplish, depending on the amount of people helping. Now there is meal planning but I do that mostly in the car so it does not count. For meal prep and cooking it takes about an hour to an hour and a half to accomplish. Then there is the clean up from the meal with is about a half hour from washing the dishes to putting them away.
If you look at this weekly, you have 17 hours and 30 minutes devoted to providing nutrition to the family, main meal only. With a drive up, you are talking maybe 10 minutes to get the food from start to finish. That gives you an hour and 10 minutes. It is no wonder we are pushing to reduce the complications in our lives. To have 16 and a half hours to use in any fashion I wanted would be heaven. Unfortunately it would drain the pocket book and I would spend more time buying larger clothes. Plus, I love to cook so it is more a labor of love than a chore.
Of course, I do not clean up. The kids have to learn something about chores.
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Cobb
All of this is done to eliminate the need to create a meal at home. First you have to go to the grocery store and purchase the ingredients for your home cooked meal. Granted this is a one time per week (at least for me) but it takes about 2.25 hours to complete. Then you get to carry in and put the groceries away once you get home. This again takes about 15 minutes to accomplish, depending on the amount of people helping. Now there is meal planning but I do that mostly in the car so it does not count. For meal prep and cooking it takes about an hour to an hour and a half to accomplish. Then there is the clean up from the meal with is about a half hour from washing the dishes to putting them away.
If you look at this weekly, you have 17 hours and 30 minutes devoted to providing nutrition to the family, main meal only. With a drive up, you are talking maybe 10 minutes to get the food from start to finish. That gives you an hour and 10 minutes. It is no wonder we are pushing to reduce the complications in our lives. To have 16 and a half hours to use in any fashion I wanted would be heaven. Unfortunately it would drain the pocket book and I would spend more time buying larger clothes. Plus, I love to cook so it is more a labor of love than a chore.
Of course, I do not clean up. The kids have to learn something about chores.
Icool
Cobb
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