I didn’t do much cooking before my 30s.
I was single for much of this time, which meant that I didn’t spend a lot of money on anyone but myself.
This gives you the opportunity to fall into the unhealthy habit of eating out all of the time, often more than once a day. Even if you eat the healthiest vegan diet, it’s a bad habit for future financial security. I didn’t foresee the COVID pandemic and the dissolution of my boss’s company as a result. But it made a lot of sense, because it was a restaurant and food service consulting company which saw a massive deficit in clients when so many restaurants had to close down for good when the transition to carry-out and delivery orders didn’t manage to keep them afloat. Either way, the job I had to take when I lost my old one was a huge pay-cut right out the gate. While I used it as leverage for my current job position, I was forced to immediately switch to cooking my own meals if I wanted to afford all of my bills on time every single month. After I had moved to almost all home cooking, I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. Whenever I would pull my old air conditioner filters out of my central HVAC system, they would smell like burnt food from all of the cooking oils permeating my indoor air. With so much food being cooked in the kitchen every single day, it’s a small wonder the inside of my air handler isn’t sticky to the touch from cooking grease.