Food Bank Time

[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?

[siblingnoah@lemmy.world]

$9.79 here in CA.

[doomsider@lemmy.world]

We have gotten on those cook at home flour tortillas and refried beans. Great meal.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

I made apple pie from scratch last weekend for the first time. Best feeling ever.

[bstix@feddit.dk]

Going to the restaurant and back is the same distance for you as it is for the driver going from the restaurant and back.

[thetetrapod@lemmy.world]

For sit down restaurants, that's truly bizarre. Why would I pay $3.50 for a small glass of soda that's half full of ice unless I'm going to pound 3 of them?

[unforeseen@sh.itjust.works]

That only applies if they live at your house, and only deliver to you for thier entire shift, otherwise they have dead space to cover as part of being able to do delivery between other customers, restaurants and going home. That makes it not the same.

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

You can't keep a couple of cans of stew in the house?

[rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Stew doesn’t hit like pizza when I’m drunk

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

They're franchised and every single one in a 50 mile radius is this priced.

But also, everything is just way more expensive in my city. $15-20 for a lunch is average.

[canadiancarl@sh.itjust.works]

My subway was generous, and wrapped up a piece of their food safety glove with my sandwich. They wouldn't refund me, so I decided to be generous as well, and not ever go back to any locations.

[licksrocks@lemmy.world]

It primarily requires planning your meals ahead. If you don't mind left overs it's even easier. If you eat meat, properly portioning it and freezing the excess simplifies it. Planning multiple meals a week that use the same or similar ingredients saves a bunch and prevents waste.