wtf, for 2800$/month you can pay someone to shop for groceries and cook for you. Groceries included.
"Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in"
Submitted 1 day ago by Ashwo@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Damage@feddit.it 1 day ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
700$ goes a long way in terms of frozen foods. I get making a full meal is difficult but it isn’t hard to put chicken nuggets in the oven. For 700$ a week, you can even get the fancy “healthy” frozen meals. This is just pure stupidity.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This. Exactly this. I work ridiculous hours. I help raise two kids. The microwave and air fryer feed them both, and quite well.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
I totally feel that guy. Cooking sucks. If you have the money, that time can be spent on something better instead.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The quality if the food you eat is such a big determiner for quality of life though… I would rather spent a few hours every weekend mealprepping and living an extra ten years of healthy active life. Plus, if you can save 600 dollars on food you might be able to just work less.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It really depends on the restaurant. Eating Chick-fil-A every day certainly isn’t healthy. But there are plenty of proper restaurants that are.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
I’d rather work an hour than spend an hour cooking.
Also if you’re spending $700 it’s probably not just fast food, put proper restaurant take-out.
uienia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cooking rules. It can be an excellent anti-stress ritual as well.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
I’m sure it is if you enjoy it in the first place.
Naich@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Cooking is great if you have the time. It’s a good way to relieve stress, and it’s cheaper and better in every way than bought in food.
The modern economy is designed to keep everyone working long hours and exhausted, so not many ordinary people have the time.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
I have the time, I just choose not to spent it on a cooking. There are much better things to relieve stress.
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why does cooking suck for you?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I don’t like grocery shopping, cooking, eating or doing the dishes. I’d even hire someone to eat for me if I could.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
How does it not? It’s just a boring activity. What’s so great about cutting stuff into pieces, stirring and watching stuff get warm?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cooking is a basic survival skill. and what that can you spend an hour a day to make up those 700$?
get your shit together and learn to cook. just because whoever raised you failed as a parent doesn’t mean you don’t get to have responsibility over your own life and learn to cook.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
cooking is a basic survival skill.
So was hunting and gathering for food … but than we had a civilisation with division of labour an all.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
The world is a funny place with lots of varying opinions.
Your opinion is valid.
Do you enjoy the taste of food? Because my co-worker takes it to the extreme. Food is just a necessary part of life to him. He eats the same meal for lunch every single day, a Tim Hortons sandwich of some sort. It never changes. When we walk into the gas station where they Tim Hortons is? The staff greet him, and tell him his total so he can pay, because they know without a doubt, that’s what he’s ordering. The guy doesn’t like salt or pepper or ketchup or any type of sauce. His words “too flavorful”.
My opinion, is that I love the taste of delicious food, and generally dislike cooking. Now, I know how to cook, I help my wife cook often, and sometimes I make the whole meal myself. We make delicious things, a wide variety, lots of flavor and spice and zest.
But when she’s out of town? I make bachelor-chow. Carb heavy and easy. Ramen, Mac n cheese, freezer pizza, hotdogs, you get the idea. Tastes good enough to me, quick and easy, cheap. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked a proper meal while she’s away.
BUT, I usually start to feel like crap after a few days of this. And one of the many reasons I miss her when she’s gone, is that she’ll force us to make good food again when she’s back.
I really do love good food. I’m just supremely cheap and lazy, and won’t do it myself. Maybe if she’s ever gone forever, I would eventually start eating right? Hard to say.
But everyone’s relationship with food is different. My wife will eat “girl dinner” on occasion. But would much rather spend the time and make a proper meal from scratch. Tastes better.
remon@ani.social 23 hours ago
I would say I do enjoy food, but I probably don’t have the broadest palate there is. I very much prefer cooked food over frozen or other read-to-eat stuff … hence the regular ordering of food.
It is only when I’m actually cooking that I’ll eat the same food for several days. Usually I just cook something easy like a bunch of pasta and my dad’s custom sauce. Takes like 40 minutes and I’ll have food for 3 days, that kind of justifies it. But more fancy meals only very rarely make it over my effort/taste ratio.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb and day probably not. I get the jam they are in though and it sucks.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
That poor kid is going to struggle with food for the rest of his life
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
She is terrified of putting a PIN to protect her phone?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll get that phone is the child real mother, they probably gives that child the phone instead of giving the child attention. let alone cook and love them.
parents giving the phone/tablet to the child instead of affection is child abuse
kn33@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
He’s terrified at the state of his child’s development. How’s that unclear? I swear the reading comprehension on this site rivals Tumblr sometimes.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
How can his child order fast food?
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
That paying extra to get faster service thing is a complete scam too, at least with DoorDash. But they probably didn’t bother researching anything about how these junk services work either.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If you’re not disabled and use these delivery apps extensively, I judge the shit out of you. I don’t even get pizza delivered, I’ll pick that shit up. Some lazy ass people these days I swear
Taldan@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
In many cases it’s cheaper to get delivery than to drive
About the only reason I would need a car is getting groceries or food. The median cost of car ownership in the US is over $10,000 per year. I choose to not own a car and instead pay for delivery. I save a ton of money doing it. The time savings is just a bonus
Since you’ve indicated you’re a judgemental dick, you probably won’t take the clear L here, and can’t argue against my circumstances for using delivery, you’ll likely try to attack me, as a person. To get ahead of that: I do leave the house plenty. I just prefer to walk and bike everywhere. Most stores are inconveniently far away, and I’m quite limited as to how much I can carry back with me
Duckingold@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Someone has never tried to get 2 toddlers into a car to go pick up food, get them in the store and then get back in the car. The $10 extra cost to have a pizza delivered vs pickup can be very worth it. I don’t use delivery often, but you really need to realize not everyone lives the same life parameters as you.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
I mean I understand being busy and not having time to cook dinner but $700? For four people? That’s like $100 a meal. Chick-fil-A ain’t that expensive. It’s pretty expensive but not that expensive.
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’ve never worked in an office, what does a marketing job entail that is so physically draining?
Jarix@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Why are you assuming it’s physically draining and not mentally or emotionally draining?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Mentally draining
Can also prevent you from cooking
ameancow@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I do entirely mental work all day and it leaves me feeling like I’ve been digging trenches. I can’t really impart this to people who don’t have similar jobs, I get told I should be energetic and grateful I have a job I can do from my home office.
And I am grateful, that doesn’t make it easier when you actually care about your work and try to do it effectively. I’m just as tired doing a week-long analysis project for a big-ticket corporation doing it from my office as if I went into corporate and made use of their “first come, first serve” workspaces.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 23 hours ago
“he and his husband” … “Chick-fil-A”.
Yeah, fuck this clown.