“Eat real food” is good advice, but it’s also a dead end unless we talk about the missing step. This piece does that really well. It’s not a lecture about willpower or perfect nutrition, it’s an honest look at why people don’t cook, and how the smallest, most ordinary meals are often the ones that rebuild confidence and change habits.

I also love the framing of cooking as self defence and agency. Not a performance, not a lifestyle badge, just a practical skill that makes you harder to manipulate and less dependent on a system designed around convenience and margin.