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And can afford food couriers for dinners.

Or a functional kitchen. It's one of the major factors for me in a dwelling. I used to have to make myself a loaf of soda bread as my only food for the week in my "kitchen" that was a stove and a sink in the corner of a room. Now that I'm a little more established I have a kitchen that my partner and I can both move about freely while we work on a meal and it never ceases to feel like we somehow cheated to gain such a luxury.

So food can increase qualitatively in more way than one when you have more resources behind you! And it's certainly not a fact that's lost on people who are struggling

Eh. I'm still on microwave dishes. It's been a while since I ordered food.

You...could be...healthier?

I could be a lot healthier in many ways.

That's probably true for 99% of us?

There is nothing unhealthy about microwaved dishes.

In fact, frozen food, a primary candidate for the microwave, may be just as good as fresh food, sometimes better depending on the process and on how fresh the "fresh" food is. Also microwaving is actually a healthy way of cooking things.

It all depends on what you put inside your microwave. Healthy food is healthy, junk food is junk, but the microwave has nothing to do with it.

This is true for at least a lot of frozen food, but doesn't speak to the distribution of available microwaved dishes.

As you say healthy food is healthy, but there may not be a lot of it available in your local freezer aisle. Or there may, depends where you live and shop I suspect.

Yes but doesn't preparing the food require at least a semblance of a kitchen? I mean you need a fridge, a sink, a countertop and all the utensils. Adding a real stovetop/oven combo doesn't take up that much space.

So...what?

Ordering in is probably just as bad unless you really go out of your way to order healthy.

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