Americans fed like cats and dogs: Frozen food in America

I remember years ago when we first had packaged dogs and cats' food. I almost got myself some as snacks.

A lot of Chinese people here do their own cooking in California which turns out to be even cheaper than living in Beijing. Most Chinese women from the last generation are quite good at cooking, fast and delicious.

I'm not a woman. I am the post-80 generation and I am lazy. I am on exchange, so I need to do it as the Americans do.

I went to Trader Joes today and got myself a lot of frozen goods. I don't think we have it in China so I find it amazing. It is almost made ready for you and you just need to microwave it. It can last like forever too. They come in packages and I think they very much look like cats and dogs' food.

Chinese cooking is very involved. There's no strict recipe either-everything is like "add a little bit of salt into..." "heat it for a while" etc. I think the reason most Chinese families do their own cooking is first of all lower price. The Chinese supermarkets are much cheaper because they have much cheaper labor from HK or Cantonese immigrants. So most Chinese families in America own more fixed assets (forgot the accounting term. I got an A+ for that course and so you really don't remember much from school...) than American families with similar income. Secondly, it is supposed to taste better to Chinese people than American food. I really don't have that concern because my Chinese cooking is generic- it doesn't have a taste so I am quite satisfied with today's frozen food discovery and we'll see how it works out tonight.