[oldel]

He's an apprentice, so probably couldn't afford most good meat dishes.

I'm not a vego, but years of being a student, a stay at home dad, and also unemployed means I hardly bother with meat. I like it, but the cheap meat is awful and it's meat for the sake of it. I like a decent steak done medium but that hasn;t been on the menu for years, so I learnt a lot of wordwide vego cuisine instead.

I just bought chicken for the first time in ages and I'm blowing the dust of my mae ply thai curry paste tub (never opened) and a can of coconut milk. The best before dates are 2019, but 2017 was the last time I used to cook for a family, I haven't bothered since. It's been some salad, some bread, some rice or noodles and veg for me since 2017. 'Meat' for me is usually the occasional canned tuna, sardines or mackerel and it's not by choice.