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You can get away with this until you’re thirty

USA – Child’s School Lunch

We’ll definitely become proper adults one day, but not just yet. 

Foto van culinair journalist Nora van den Heuvel

Ordering takeaway and pretending you made it yourself

Friends are coming over for dinner at the weekend, but you really don’t feel like grocery shopping and cooking an elaborate meal. Your ideal solution? Order takeaway or pay a visit to the caterer and pretend you conjured these culinary masterpieces up yourself.

Having dinner with a bag of crisps

You come home after a busy day at work and have dinner with a bag of crisps, because, well, they’re potatoes after all.

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Serving your guests student-style food

Eating pasta with Boursin, spinach, cherry tomatoes and bacon bits every week: in your eyes, a nutritious and delicious meal.

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Being proud of your packet-mix creation

Mexican tacos, Lebanese falafel or American chicken jambalaya: you’re more than happy to serve these dishes—made with various powders and the like—and incredibly proud of this “exotic” meal.

Drinking from a pouch

Capri-Sun, Wicky or Yoki drink: who didn’t grow up with one of those? Sipping through a straw from a pouch or carton: it brings back good memories. But once you’re past thirty, it does become a little sad, enjoy it while it lasts!

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