I felt that way too. Doing it changed everything. For example, I was pleasantly surprised to find cooking from scratch saved time and money and led to more social interactions. Now I often host heads of corporations for dinners, a Nobel Peace prize winner, etc.
If you change your mind, let me know, though I probably won't find it in this thread. I'm easy enough to connect to from my web page, http://joshuaspodek.com.
> Now I often host heads of corporations for dinners, a Nobel Peace prize winner, etc
Okay, if you have the social connections that you're hosting Nobel Peace Prize winners and heads of (implicit: larger than 200 employees) corporations for dinner, then there is definitely something you're not saying about the resources you have available to accomplish this.
Like, I don't even know what country you live in. I don't know how far your house is from a grocery store. I don't know what percentage of the food in that grocery store is unpackaged. I don't know how many farmers/gardeners you have a relationship with. I don't know how much time you have to spend gardening. I don't know how bad of a headache your wife would have if dinner wasn't ready until 9:30pm. I don't know what ADHD medication you're trying to titrate.
So all I have to go on are my circumstances. When I spend 30 seconds predicting what I'd have to do to "avoid all food which comes in a package", a list of like 10-20 problems comes to mind. Could I solve all of those problems? Probably.
But in the 1.5 years it takes me to solve them, there is a good chance that I would be fired from my poor performance from my visa sponsoring job and get kicked out of the country.
> By contrast, when someone acts, they find answers for themselves.
Are you saying that you don't have any highly-distressing personal problems for which you've been seeking answers for half a decade?
If you change your mind, let me know, though I probably won't find it in this thread. I'm easy enough to connect to from my web page, http://joshuaspodek.com.