Food Bank Time

[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.

[fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works]

And the last one isn't even full size. Is there nothing shrinkflation won't take from us?

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Especially when most restaurants I'd order from are like 1-2 miles away. It's worth it to me to drive 15 min roundtrip to save $10-15 and be able to check my order.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

As someone with a family with young kids, it makes even less sense. Kids will order chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, or hotdogs or something, which are expensive at restaurants (>$5 usually), cheap at home (like $2), and easy to make (~10 min)

It literally takes longer to order than to cook IMO. For each of those meals, here's the process:

1. Prep for cooking - about the same time as entering an order, less if kids get to pick drinks and sides
2. Wait
3. Finish (add sauce, mix, etc) - about the same as unpacking and distributing the doordash stuff

And it costs less than half as much. We keep easy meals in the freezer if it has been one of those days and we need food to be ready in 15-20 min. I made orange chicken tonight, and with cooking rice in the rice cooker, active time was 5 min (wash rice, preheat oven, prep cooking sheet), and we had food about 25 min after starting. Total cost to feed 3 kids and 1 adult (SO was out) was ~$10. If I ordered the same thing, it would've been $30 if I picked up or $40-50 delivered. Oh, and no fighting about sodas, we just had water.

[meliaesc@lemmy.world]

Buy bread and deli meat. In fact, rice & beans.

[phoneymouse@lemmy.world]

I read some article about how subway franchise owners HATED $5 footlong because it was making them go broke. You could tell too, if you went in there by how aggressively they pushed the cookie on you.

Just the sandwich? You don’t want a cookie? Come on buy a cookie! How about a soda?