| Excuses, excuses. Cooking meals is a non-trivial skill, many people don't have the time or money to learn Saving money over eating out all the time is easy. Canned food and spaghetti are trivial. Most veggies are fine totally raw. Rice and veggies can be done brainlessly with a rice cooker. A George Forman grill and a giant bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken thighs is cheap, healthy protein. Being able to cook creative homecooked meals is hard, sure. Cheap foolproof meals are easy, though. they can't afford to "experiment" with cooking, because if their children don't want to eat what they make when experimenting then the children are going to go hungry. Kids get to refuse eating what they're served? News to me. I was sixteen years old before I was able to get away with refusing broccoli and brussels sprouts. I was a pretty disobedient kid, too. So I don't really understand this argument. Some parents are so spineless they'll cave in to a kid's choice of meal? Cable TV is often the primary form of entertainment, and is much cheaper than going out or the most popular form of "free" entertainment, unprotected sex. Unfortunately this is a major cultural problem. Fortunately, almost every other consumer startup is solving this. The internet contains Facebook and YouTube for free, and Netflix for far, far cheaper. Cigarettes...are addictive, though. One of the most addictive drugs ever. I have no argument with you on that point. |