I handle all the meal prep for my wife and I. You’re not wrong about the middle isles, we hardly touch them anymore, we go from produce to meat to dairy/eggs and don’t go much further in save for the occasional party. It’s several hours out of my Sunday to make sure we both have enough meals to get through Friday, she’s kind of helpless in the kitchen and depends on having something to quickly heat up.

This arrangement works for us.

I have no fucking clue what we’ll do when we’re feeding a child. A kid, who if is anything like me, will be incredibly picky to the point of regurgitation when something with an off texture touches their lips. I work nights, and my wife works days. We’re both sensitive to carbs, which as adults is manageable but kids actually do need some.

Don’t get me wrong, we’ll figure it out. But we’re fortunate enough to have decently paying jobs. We earn more than most do at our age, and when it becomes important we’ll have access to childcare that most Americans don’t.

Someone on even the median income in our area is going to struggle to eat the way we do. Someone working two jobs is going to really struggle to not hit the drive through several times a week. Someone feeding children is going to struggle even further.

My point is, you’re fucking dense.

People need cheap food. Cheap food isn’t healthy. People need food that doesn’t take much time. Fast food also isn’t healthy. Sure, there’s a decent size of the population hitting the drive through exclusively due to laziness. That’s not everyone, I’d argue it’s not even the majority.

I get it, it’s easy for you to stay home and cook when you’re single living in your mom’s basement, most of us moved out around college.