Freelance shifts often look smoother from the outside. A buddy of mine had a solid design background but still ate canned soup for weeks figuring out invoices. It's the little daily stuff that throws you off.

Broth cubes help, but water works for bean soup.

Oh man, my buddy burned some garlic bread so bad last week that his fire alarm went off and the whole place smelled like a campfire for days. He still ate it though lmao.