Food Bank Time

[pika@sh.itjust.works]

I'm seeing that apparently but yeah, I'm up in Maine close to the border, almost every establishment that has those machines generally also have a sign that says no refill and I really can't think of any place here that advertises refills as free outside of coffee at dine in establishments.

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

Agreed. Amortized it much cheaper but when you have an empty kitchen with only a box of macaroni and cheese, getting groceries can feel very expensive.

[dan@upvote.au]

They usually have a coupon code for $7.99 for any footlong, which isn't too bad.

[swab148@lemm.ee]

You forgot about porn

[_____@lemm.ee]

I was taught cooking in school, graduated in 2014 is that far too long for your "taught anymore"?

[agent641@lemmy.world]

Damn straight. I could feed myself for a day on $5 easy.

I could even stretch it to a weeks worth of meals, if shoplifting is allowed.

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

I graduated in 2009 and my school didn't teach us

[agent641@lemmy.world]

My ex did, and was of limited funds. I think the answer is depression, apathy, and a good dose of financial illiteracy.

[rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just when I’m drunk

[clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

$5.99 where I'm at. You're getting gouged.

[clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Definitely financial illiteracy.

I can afford it but refuse to use those services. They inflate the menu prices, add fees. I'm ok with tipping but not the rest of that.

Also, it's ridiculously inefficient compared to picking it up yourself. It's not just someone else is doing the drive for you. The delivery does work for the store so there is extra driving occurring, deadheading in trucker parlance.

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

I did mention cat / pussy videos

[frostysauce@lemmy.world]

I graduated over a decade before and was not taught cooking in school.

[frostysauce@lemmy.world]

Are you saying it is inefficient because the delivery driver has to drive from the restaurant to your house with food and then back to the restaurant without food? Because delivery drivers usually take more than one order or at a time.

[frostysauce@lemmy.world]

If I'm not at work I'm drunk and I'm not driving to pick up food drunk.

[inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Maybe work on the drunk part? Or at least work > pick up food > get drunk?

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

If shoplifting is allowed, you could go indefinitely...

[clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That's going to depend on the location. I do not live in a heavily populated area so they are usually delivering one order at a time. The only time there was enough volume to stack orders was during Covid.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

There are cheap, single serving meals, such as:

• baked potato - extra lazy version is 6 min in the microwave, add toppings
• oatmeal - overnight oats, microwave (3 min, water shouldn't quite cover oats), etc
• sandwiches - lots of options; freeze extra bread and cheese
• eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled; eggs last weeks

I got through college cooking stuff like this. It was cheap, quick to make small portions, and didn't require many seasonings. I lived on sleek something like $45-50/month, which covered the vast majority of my meals.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

We went to Little Caesars for the first time in 5 years, and it ended up being more than Dominos, took longer, and wasn't as good. Little Caesars used to suck but was cheap, now it just sucks.