Also, let’s remember that it’s way cheaper to be married. Half the rent per person, agreement about the use of birth control, shared meals, food preparation, tools, household items, all of that stuff. I was a born into the upper-middle class, as was my husband. We got married when I was 21 and he was 22. We have…

Holy shit, your anecdote negates everything! Two person household, no kids! Only 50 hours? Congrats! You are NOT WHO THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT.

So you work that many hours yet you have almost an entire Sunday to devote to cooking all those meals? That right there is something many poor people would never have... if they had 10 am to 3:15 pm free every Sunday they would be trying to make more money. Also, all those meals you made require a stocked pantry with…

If a resident physician and an attorney can dedicate 5 hours to cooking meals, anyone can

You have Sunday off? You don’t have a physical job either. I’m an attorney and have one LeCreuset dutch oven to use to braise my short ribs.

Heh he thinks 50 or 80 hours a week is a lot. Everyone point and laugh

I have to disagree with 130 hours a week combined being more than 90% of households. I live in a very low income area and most people around here put in 70 or more hours apiece, spread across two or three part-time jobs (the only kind available for the most part), which adds even more time in transit. I know several…

You do realize you just bragged about your pressure cooker, bread maker, and storage availability, right? I’m not commenting on the inclusion of beef choices, because chicken is all most people affected in this thread can afford.

You do realize that lots of poor people work those schedules or worse right? Single Mom’s with 3 jobs envy your surplus of free time.

That’s really awesome that 2 professional, college-educated, middle-class people who live together have the time and where-withal to buy $120 in meat and food to cook in their $80 pressure cooker. Good for you, man!

That’s assuming everyone has a) a working oven, stove, and whatever other gadgets necessary to make everything, b) the storage space for meal planning, c) the consecutive time to make so much in one sitting, d) the access to the food in the first place, and e) the knowledge with which to do those things. My spouse is…

You just ignored what everyone else had to say about lack of skills, time, and energy, didn’t you? There’s also something the poor face that you and your white collar wife don’t: decision fatigue.