This is sad to read. Probably related in some part to the topic under discussion. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67443189.amp

More illness among young affecting work ability.

“Working young people have experienced a particularly sharp rise – and are now as likely to report ill-health affecting their work as a middle-aged person a decade ago.”

So planning the weekly recipes and then getting all the required ingredients takes no longer than just picking up 7 ready meals, right.

Pretty much, I just walk round Lidl and buy the same stuff I need each week. I can do this very easily as I have been living life as a fully functioning adult for quite some time. It takes no planning or forethought.

I am not sure 7 ready meals would feedthe family for a week

To be fair, it takes no planning or forethought because you have been doing it week in week out for your adult life.

That said I essentially do the same, or my wife will, as we both value avoiding processed low quality food.

As some have noted with practice the actual cooking bit doesn’t take that much effort either.

To be fair, it takes no planning or forethought because you have been doing it week in week out for your adult life.

Exactly, it is easy for some of us and we have done it for ages. We are not talking about us though are we.

For someone to start planning their meals a week ahead, writing down all the ingredients, buying all the ingredients, preparing and cooking all the ingredients into meals is so clearly going to take more time and effort than buying ready meals that I really don’t know why I am even wasting time writing this but then it is STW…

Exactly, it is easy for some of us and we have done it for ages. We are not talking about us though are we.

True, but when you keep saying it’s quicker and cheaper to buy shit food you only make matters worse. It’s not cheaper, it does take a little more time to cook and it doesn’t take any longer to buy.

The impression given by all these cooking programmes is bollocks. Just try posting in here that you don’t need to stand next to a risotto stirring and adding small amounts of stock all the time and you will get howls of derision, meanwhile I canleavea risotto on low for 20mins and it makes a perfectly acceptable family meal. This shit doesn’t need over complicating. 

More illness among young affecting work ability.

“Working young people have experienced a particularly sharp rise

Although obviously some proportion of this will be obesity related, as someone who has struggled with long COVID for nearly 4 years (and knowing others who have) I think there’s another clear reason for the recent increase there

Added up the calories from my weekend beer drinking 1950! Yikes no wonder I can’t out train that.

More illness among young affecting work ability.
“Working young people have experienced a particularly sharp riseAlthough obviously some proportion of this will be obesity related, as someone who has struggled with long COVID for nearly 4 years (and knowing others who have) I think there’s another clear reason for the recent increase there

Judging by where I work, and completely anecdotally, illness among the 20-somethings here tends to be more anxiety related, not so much physical illness.

To be fair, it takes no planning or forethought because you have been doing it week in week out for your adult life.
That said I essentially do the same, or my wife will, as we both value avoiding processed low quality food.
As some have noted with practice the actual cooking bit doesn’t take that much effort either.

My oldest daughter is just learning this, having recently moved into a shared house. We keep having boring conversations about where to shop, and what to buy, and how much toilet paper costs! She is surprised by how few of her housemates can cook, but tbf, even when I was a student 30 years ago, few to none of us  could cook. We just learned as went along. I don’t think any of us who can now cook think that we popped out of the womb with that skill. 😀

True, but when you keep saying it’s quicker and cheaper to buy shit food you only make matters worse.

How can what I am posting on an MTB forum make matters worse, get some perspective.

It’s not cheaper, it does take a little more time to cook and it doesn’t take any longer to buy.

It may or may not be cheaper (depends what you buy) but it will take longer to cook and it will take longer to think about and buy – That time is well worth it for me, for others it doesn’t appear to be.

More illness among young affecting work ability.

“Working young people have experienced a particularly sharp rise

Covid hopefully taught people that going into work when you are ill doesn’t make you a hero, it makes you a “disease spreader” and an arsehole. It also taught most people that companies don’t give a shit about them so why suffer when someone else takes most of the benefit of your suffering.

Young people have been disproportionately **** over by the financial crash and 15 years of austerity, high asset inflation and low wage inflation means they have really poor prospects for buying homes or into pensions, many had there educations badly affected by covid, they will bear the brunt of the climate crisis etc. etc.

Frankly I am surprised they don’t reject the world we have created with far more vigour, probably because we have squeezed hope out of them as well.

How can what I am posting on an MTB forum make matters worse, get some perspective.

By people reading it and then repeating it. You are after all very keen to have me believe what you post is true