Food has gotten expensive over the past 5 years. But I also think we’ve been taught to shop for food in one of the most expensive ways possible. We buy individual meals instead of ingredients. Many times people pay someone else to chop, season, portion, marinate, package, and even deliver our food. We buy the convenient cut of meat instead of the affordable one, and we throw away leftovers because we don’t know how to turn them into something ne…