SeanFromCanada's Blog

Originally posted on Oct 7, 2014

There are 168 hours in a 7 day week. I figure most adults spent between 20 and 30 hours every week dealing with food. That’s a lot of time from my perspective…here’s how I arrive at those numbers:

• Shopping, Sorting, Separating, Bagging and Storing Food: 2 – 4 hours / week.
• Cooking / Preparing Food: 21 meals x 15 – 30 minutes: 5 – 10 hours / week.
• Eating: 21 x 30 minutes: 10.5 hours
• Cleaning up: 21 x 10 minutes: 3.5 hours
• Bathroom Time: ?… your call on this one.

I know the numbers above contain ‘averages’ and perhaps you do a few of the activities faster (or slower), but let’s reflect on what 30 hours a week really represents.

If you put in a 40 hour work week, and sleep 7 hours a night, you only have 79 hours in the week left for everything else (168-40-49). If you spend 30 hours dealing with food, you are spending almost 40% of your available time on this activity. Compare that number to cave man days (where I figure the average cave man spent 80% of their time trying to feed themselves – with the other 20% going to safety, shelter and procreating). At 40%, we’ve only been able to half the amount of time we spend on food in several million years! I mean, really? We put a man on the moon, we’ve cured polio and we’ve cross bread a poodle and a lab… don’t you think we could have shaved down the ‘food time’ a little more? I would have thought the human race would have evolved farther…come-on science, get in the game!

Where is that food pill?