Good Riddance to the "Home Cooked" Meal

From a couple of years ago is this article by a dude who laments the decline of home cooking.  He thinks we should mourn it because cooking at home is allegedly cheaper and "healthier."  Neither is true.

When you figure in the time and labor in preparation and cleanup, not to mention the time and money it takes to buy the ingredients, it is NOT cheaper and it is a time suck.  It isn't "healthier."  There is no evidence of that whatsoever.  People are living longer anyway, and it has nothing to do with whether mommy is cooking meals at home from scratch, for crying out loud.  And face it:  It IS always the woman who is expected to perform this time sucking bullshit day in day out, in times of yore three times a day, for decades.

Though the author denies he is shaming women for rejecting the bullshit "homemaking" role whether out of choice or necessity, he is doing exactly that.  Men as a rule do not do it if women are anywhere around.  It's changing, to be true, but cooking is still seen as a sex-typed chore.  And it is a CHORE, a giant pain in the ass.

I have written about this topic before.  I was way, way, way ahead of my time rejecting this housewife bullshit.  My mother and two sisters (the latter way older than I am) performed this nonsense because it was expected of them.  It was a way different era.  I was a little girl then, and I wanted no part of it.  I always thought it was an inferior endeavor, as I noticed men never would lower themselves to doing it.

Good riddance to the expectation of a home-cooked meal along with the family eating together.