This week's blogpost - https://bahnsen.co/3RTyKah

Trevor Cummings hosts the Thoughts on Money (TOM) podcast with Brett Bonecutter and Blaine Carver to discuss Brett’s article on food and its economic and cultural implications. They explore how nearly any topic connects to money, then reflect on family dinners, modern home layouts, and how convenience and abundance may reduce intentional time together. Brett shares “food dollar collapse” data: food fell from nearly 50% of household budgets in the early 1900s to 9.7% in 2025, while spending has flipped from mostly groceries to mostly eating out/convenience, and time in the kitchen dropped from six hours per day to about 45 minutes. They discuss trade-offs like lowered appreciation, snacking, delivery markups, loss of cooking skills, and “options overload” in stores with 32,000 items, plus a brief MAHA-related comparison of past low medical spending versus today’s higher costs.

00:00 Welcome to TOM

00:14 Why Talk About Food

02:15 Dinner Table Culture

06:30 Food Memories and Nostalgia

09:46 Food Dollar Collapse

15:29 Abundance Trade Offs

20:12 Convenience and Eating Out

22:04 Convenience And Doomscrolling

23:50 Cooking As Joy And Budget

26:55 Learning Kitchen Skills

28:36 Generations And Eating Out

30:42 MAHA Food And Healthcare

33:09 Pop Tarts And Choice Overload

36:09 Tradeoffs Gratitude And Wrap

Links mentioned in this episode:

• http://thoughtsonmoney.com
• http://thebahnsengroup.com