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I'm a millennial and I know how to cook, but I absolutely hate it, and food is so expensive. I live alone, so either I eat the same meal for a week straight or seem to waste half the ingredients for a meal. I started using a restaurant that does a meal prep service and I can buy 10 dinners for ~$75. They're all healthy-ish, give me dinners for 2 weeks, and all I have to do is take them from the freezer and heat them up in the microwave. In contrast, last time I went to the grocery store I bought 2 limes, 5 lemons, a loaf of bread, a cup of soup, and a bag of pretzels and it cost over $30.
I'd also recommend Too Good to Go if money ever gets tight. Same service, but the restaurant offers meals that they would've had to dump at the end of the day.
YMMV. In my toogoodtogo experience, many stores use it as a way to get you in the door.
I'm in an extremely HCOL area and the prices aren't that bad. Weekend meal 4 servings was <$15, three dishes + rice mix and match, including ribs, eggs, fresh veg (tomatoes, imported gai lan cuz I missed the stuff), etc. I am shopping discounts a lot but there's always something on sale which brings down the cost. Didn't take long to cook either. Gai lan took 90s to cook, eggs and tomatoes were around 5min, and the ribs were braised for an hour while I was doing other stuff. Meanwhile, the portions for something like Hello Fresh seem awful price-wise and they never have what I like.
Could it be the stuff you bought were all premade? That tends to rack up the price. I avoid the hot aisles unless its close to closing and there's steep discounts on everything.
Uhh... I mean I'm a fish. "Blub blub".
I got exactly what was listed, and I don't shop at a high end grocery story either. The only thing "premade" was the cup of soup and that wasn't hot, it was potato soup out of a refrigerated section and I only got it because that particular potato soup is banger.
Unless you want to consider a loaf of bread premade :)