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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Have you tried making your sandwiches at home?

[+] droporain 126 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah seriously, the "cOoK aT hOmE" crowd really annoys me sometimes. Unless you only buy non-perishables, more often than not it's just not economically practical for one or two people. Grocery stores are optimized for families.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what it's like where you live but I've never had that problem and I mainly just buy groceries for myself.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

From personal experience, it's a personal failing and not an environmental issue. The only time I have issues with food spoilage like described above is when I over buy, forget about, or get tired of something. If I properly plan out my meals (lol) and space out purchases and freeze leftovers when necessary, I have very little issues with spoilage.

And having sandwiches regularly without having ingredients go bad is something I do all he time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

When ever I hear how expensive it is to cook I know I'm dealing with a young person who's clueless. Have parents not been teaching their kids to cook?!

Reminds me of visiting my niece and her husband for dinner. They never cooked but made a nice meal that night. But they said it just wasn't economical when they totaled the price vs. portions. They did the math and proudly claimed it was cheaper to eat out. My wife and I were stunned.

Well, duh? Now you have leftover ingredients. Add to those and plan another meal. FFS, they had to buy salt and figured that into the total meal price. They literally started with nothing. Yes, it's expensive to spin up a fridge and pantry, but once you're rolling it's cheap to eat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Eating out in the US used to be famously cheap. Now that people have been conditioned that way and everything belongs to a few oligopolists, they'll squeeze every last drop of blood out of people.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

what? I have never had this problem for myself. it seems people just want an excuse to eat out

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you know what a "refrigerator" is?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Freeze your food and eat more?

I cook at home a lot since 2020 and stuff does not really spoil. I have not seen cheese or yogurt or bread spoil. Veggies not really.

The only thing I am cautious with is meat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Are you under the impression that families are going to the grocery store every day and trying to eat everything within 48 hours of picking it up from the store? No, people are buying the week's worth of stuff and might not be getting to actually cooking it until 6 days later.

Buy a week's worth of food, with each perishable item in quantities small enough to go into a few meals per week, out of the 21 meals you'll be eating that week.

Fresh vegetables and fruit last a week or two. Fresh meat lasts a week. Eggs last a few weeks. Most dairy products last a week or two.

Make meals out of a combination of fresh ingredients, dry goods (pasta, rice, beans, breads), canned/preserved foods/sauces/condiments, frozen foods. With basically one perishable feature ingredient per dinner, it doesn't take that much planning to feed yourself for maybe 10-25% as much as it costs from takeout or restaurants. Even if your food waste is double as a single person, that's still 20-50% the cost.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The ingredients spoil?! Either you don't have a fridge or don't have a clue how to cook. Or maybe turn your fridge temp down?

Lunch meat lasts a month, easy. Cheese? Multiple months. Bread? Depends. 1-day to 2-weeks, forever if frozen.

I get ham slices every trip. Any idea how many things you can do with those?! Fry them for eggs benedict, with melted cheese on a bagel, chop into an omelette, ham and cheese melt, part of a charcuterie board, 20 different kinds of sandwiches, and more.

All of that only talking about one of the ingredients you have bought. Learn to cook or pay someone a premium to do it for you. That's how it works.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh goodie, first world problems. Never get sick of hearing ungrateful privileged people act the most oppressed by their super easiest problems to fix.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

If you save $12 every work day, you save 50%. And you can buy cheaper stuff that lasts longer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know, you don't have to buy everything in industrial quantities.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The avocados keep going bad though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I had this problem. If it helps, avocados keep for a good deal longer in the refrigerator.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This only really works when you're at home.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'll be so amazed when you learn about sandwich boxes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something funny I noticed at my last two jobs. The people who had their financial act together always brought their lunch. The broke people, like me, almost always ate out. Go figure.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Then we can afford housing!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

well but also just born in time to live the golden age of computer games as a teenager. oh man those gorgeous manuals of 1990-2000 era games

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As I read your comment, I could smell the manual, hear the gentle crack as I broke the hymen of a new manual, it's semiglossy pages revealing the secrets of button layouts to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Uhhhh phrasing

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My local sub shop has great sandwiches for $8

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same. People need to stop buying from giant corporations. Everything they sell is cheap shit sold at a ridiculous price now because investors expect a 30% profit margin.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For real. Who the fuck eats at subway these days, the food quality is absolute shit, they treat their staff like shit, and they charge you more for the pleasure

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

And cups of yogurt go from 25¢ to $1.50 while also going from 8oz to 5.5oz.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

Who tf pays $15 for a sandwich? Y'all motherfuckers need to learn how to cook.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

🎶 five dollar foot longggg 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Just a constant reminder that gen z home ownership by individuals is up. But who cares, let's be doomers all the time. The economy certainly didn't have any effect on anything important like an election or something.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Up compared to what, where, and by how much?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (26 children)

Fuck gen z. Millennials have had it way worse and have been beaten to death by the economy since our late teens.

Also it’s mainly mommy and daddy buying them houses.

They didn’t graduate into the worst economy since the Great Depression, and then when they finally regained their footing get the rug pulled out with covid. And the cost of housing quadruple. Nah. In fact wages skyrocketed under covid if they were lucky enough to get a work from home “job”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey, graduating Gen Z here, where are those mythical high-paying remote jobs? Hell, where's somewhere that will actually look at my resume? People that got hired during COVID got laid off and now we're competing with people who have 2-4 years of experience for a junior position, inflation is significantly higher and paying for college and rent didn't exactly get easier. How can you look at the current situation and say we have it easy, just because you also had it rough?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Also it’s mainly mommy and daddy buying them houses.

How else can you afford a down payment? I'm a home owning millennial and I'll happily admit my house down payment was covered in large part by what was left in my college fund. No way I'd just have $50k laying around at age 30, otherwise

And that was ten years ago, when housing was half the price it is today.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You’re extremely privileged. I didn’t have a college fund, I was coerced into taking out a mortgage on my worthless education.

My mom is on the brink of homelessness (she lost the house after dad died) and my dad is dead (thank you for profit american healthcare system). Despite being college educated, the most money I’ve ever consistently made per hour is $25. I’m just barely getting by, and jobs in my field pay less than what I currently make as a valet driver with tips (~35 an hour but half is tips).

Unless I win the lottery or fall into exceptionally lucky circumstances, I will never have a house of my own. And all I want is a simple house with a mother in law apartment so my mom and I can share the house but live in separate quarters.

Being in vermont I’m surrounded by rich people and my job is a pointless job fellating the egos of the rich. They hate us and we hate them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

This is a super shitty comment you wrote here dude. Gen Z isn't having life handed to them any more than we millennials did. If anything it's worse for them because inequality isn't getting any less striking.

I'm a millennial who has a remote, work from home job, go ahead and shit on my career. Gen Z are our friends and allies in the end, they understand pretty well what we went through and they'll almost certainly go through worse because gestures vaguely at the state and trajectory of everything. The pain Olympics suck and someone's suffering doesn't invalidate yours.

We gotta use the empathy the boomers didn't, we need to be better and not continue generational infighting or the only people who win are the rich.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

I blame Hardee’s normalizing a $6 burger mid 2000’s, oh and greed, a fuck ton of greed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You can still be a middle-aged Tiktok star complaining about the high prices compared to the good old days.

That option remains. Seize it. Dominate the airwaves. Organize a rebellion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)