I spent $60 on a 'budget meal prep' class and it was a total joke

I went to this workshop at the community center downtown last Tuesday thinking I'd learn real tricks to stretch my grocery money. Instead the instructor spent 20 minutes talking about her 'organic backyard garden' and then showed us how to make quinoa bowls with $8 of fancy seeds. I could have bought a whole weeks worth of chicken and rice for what I spent on that class. Has anyone else tried a budgeting thing that was secretly just rich people stuff?

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the_cameron4d ago

I hear you on the organic garden stuff being annoying. But the chicken and rice thing is exactly why those classes exist in the first place. $60 is steep for any class, but walking into a meal prep workshop expecting to learn about chicken and rice is like going to a car show and getting mad they aren't talking about your 1998 Civic. You probably already know how to stretch a dollar on basics. The instructor was teaching people who never learned how to cook fancy seeds and quinoa, not you.

daniel_walker4d ago

@the_cameron makes a fair point but I think the issue is more about who these classes are aimed at. The problem is they sell them as "budget meal prep" when really they're teaching people who already have $60 to drop on a single workshop how to use fancy ingredients. Had a buddy who took a similar class and walked out more confused than when he went in. Real budgeting tips don't cost sixty bucks upfront, they come from watching your grandma cook for a week.