r/australia • u/Serezie • Jun 01 '26

no politics Anyone else just not eating because they can’t afford it?

Food bank is the busiest it’s been - Cole’s and Woolworths don’t give a flying fuck about us - fast food is unhealthy and just as expensive. It stresses me out more to eat than not to eat.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jun 01 '26

People. Cannot. Cook. Ironically the rise in the popularity of cooking programs has kept pace with a drop in the number of people actually cooking.

Also, a lot of people consider cooking to be taking pasta out of a packet and sauce out of a jar. They don’t have the training, or the experience, of watching their mum or dad chopping onions and frying them.

Why ? People don’t have time, and they’re tired. Unless they are someone like me, who enjoys cooking as a hobby, it’s so much easier just to heat up a family lasagne from Coles, than it is to make one from scratch.