This life, each stage has things to do and distances that can be calculated.
It's hard to have all three: afford, eat well, and not be tired.
It's not that you can't cook, but that "time, money, and energy are not enough, and health is not a priority yet."
Verification Signals (count more than two to be considered):
· Self-cooking frequency ≤ 2 times per week
· Takeout expenditure accounts for more than 70% of food expenditure per month
· Weight or energy level hasclearly changed in the past six months
Be able to make 5 signature dishes of your own
Eat healthily, and keep the food budget within 800 yuan per month
Live like a normal person without relying on takeout
Definition
Number of self-cooked meals per week · Cost per meal (yuan) · Number of days with vegetables
How to measure
Record for a week: how many meals you cook yourself, the average cost per meal, and how many days you eat vegetables
Healthy Range
Self-cooking ≥ 4 times/week · Cost per meal ≤ 15 yuan · Vegetables ≥ 4 days/week
Start with complex dishes — Fail once and don't want to do it anymore, start with "one pot out"
Buy a lot of ingredients and let them go bad — Buy "enough for three days" at first
Chase "healthy meals" — Expensive and tasteless, can't last for two weeks
Only eat boiled vegetables — Nutritional imbalance, and easily give up
Believe in "meal replacements" — Short-term weight loss, long-term rebound and damage metabolism
First learn 3 "one pot out" dishes: tomato egg noodles, rice pot steamed rice, fried rice
Buy vegetables every week, buy enough for three days
Prepare "emergency combination": eggs + milk + frozen vegetables, 10 minutes to make a meal
Cut the takeout budget in half, and use the saved money to buy better ingredients
After a month, keep only the 3–5 dishes you really like