I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
If you look at food online, it feels like everyone is:
meal prepping perfectly
tracking macros
trying new recipes every week
eating aesthetic bowls
But when you look at how people actually eat in real life, it’s very different.
Most people I know rotate the same 5–10 meals.
Eggs. Pasta. Rice. Toast. Chicken.
Things that are cheap, predictable, and easy.
Not because they don’t care about food.
But because life is busy and food is just one part of it.
The internet makes everyday eating feel like a performance.
Like you’re supposed to constantly optimize it.
But most real meals are quiet.
A plate you don’t photograph.
A dinner you forget the next day.
And maybe that’s normal.
Maybe food was never meant to be this visible.
Most people don’t actually eat the way the internet thinks they do
byu/Parking_Ball3483 inFrugal
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Wait til you hear about social media and see what people posts and what their actual lives are.
Is this supposed to be revelatory?
No one does anything the way they show it when they publish it.
Reads like AI…
Breaking news: life somewhat different from curated collection of photos of life.
Indeed. The internet is rarely a reflection of reality (this place included).
As long as the best dishes like awesome stews look like something that came out of someone, not like something that goes in someone, I‘ll keep not photographing them and enjoying them all for myself.
Today OP learned what social media is.
AI SLOP