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>Food delivery is a game changer with little kids to feed. Can you elaborate? I have little kids. We buy food at the grocery store and cook it. What game is

>Food delivery is a game changer with little kids to feed. Can you elaborate? I have little kids. We buy food at the grocery store and cook it. What game is being changed? You're talking about ordering takeout.

bluedino 1y ago
Easier to put chicken nuggets in an air fryer than order them from DoorDash last time I checked
- ghaff 1y ago
  My mother cooked but, when I was growing up, tossing a Swanson TV dinner or some Stouffer's frozen thing in the oven if my parents were going out was pretty routine. I'm sure I'd turn up my nose today but I probably regarded it as a bit of a treat at the time.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago
  Is it, though? Is it really? First you have to have frozen chicken nuggets on hand at home. That means that you've already been to the grocery store, picked some up, and brought them home somehow to be stored. Now you've also got a working and clean air fryer, sink, utensils, and other kitchen accoutrements that can be used on the nuggets. You may also find it necessary to have, on-hand, some condiments or side dishes to make a complete meal of the nuggets you're trying to make. Then you put them onto a plate -- hope you got a plate -- and eat them with clean utensils, and then you clean that stuff up, wipe the counter, wash and put away dishes. Then you make a note on your shopping list or inventory, to replenish what you just ate. It's not a simple proposition, all of these steps, especially when someone is a bachelor, mentally ill, isolated, etc. You feel it's easier for you, that is great, you've got some life skills, but other people struggle mightily with just the cleanup bits, for example.
  - daseiner1 1y ago
    Is this a point being made via absurdity or is this your sincere position? Buying a five pound bag of frozen nuggets and a bottle of ketchup isn’t climbing everest. Maintaining a shopping list takes no effort at all. Being depressed doesn’t get better by eating out of a carry out box. Your whole comment is just infantilization, plain and simple.
  - panick21_ 1y ago
    Are you not using a plate or utensils with delivery? Maybe not a plate but surely utensils. Do you never use additional sauces or spices with delivery? Delvier food often comes in layers of bags, tons of extra stuff, there is often sauce overflow and so on. Tons of trash you have to deal with and so on. > especially when someone is a bachelor, I'm a bachelor and I can easily make food as good at home. Cooking for 1 person is easy. And I'm not just heating up forzen chicken nuggets. I know in the US most people go shopping every 2 weeks, driving to some big box store getting tons of stuff. I just walk to a store, or pick some stuff up on my way home. Fresh meat and fresh vegis always. > mentally ill Doing something yourself is better for your mental health then getting delivery.
- reginald78 1y ago
  This is what always gets me about it. I get being to lazy to cook and to drunk or busy to drive or whatever. But there are actually tons of pretty good frozen prepared meals these days. If you're lazy and this happens to you all the time, throw a bunch of those in the freezer. Cleaning a baking sheet isn't actually more cleanup work than dealing with take out trash. You'll probably get the food just as fast as the delivery service as well.
  - ghaff 1y ago
    There's definitely something to be said for having some things in the freezer you can throw in the oven now and then. I cook regularly but I have those.
postexitus 1y ago
Let me explain - it is not a replacement for daily meals - of course we do cook both from scratch and frozen stuff for dailies. I would go broke pretty quickly if we ordered delivery every night. It is a replacement for eating out. If you have little kids and take them out for dining (let's say as a treat), first you need to agree on where to go, then a bunch of complaints about the lack of X / Y at the menu, then them getting bored etc. Delivery means you can do this all at your home's comfort - if somebody wants to make a scene - sure go ahead! Otherwise I would also prefer to eat in the restaurant, cheaper and easier as well.
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bluedino 1y ago

Easier to put chicken nuggets in an air fryer than order them from DoorDash last time I checked

ghaff 1y ago
My mother cooked but, when I was growing up, tossing a Swanson TV dinner or some Stouffer's frozen thing in the oven if my parents were going out was pretty routine. I'm sure I'd turn up my nose today but I probably regarded it as a bit of a treat at the time.
AStonesThrow 1y ago
Is it, though? Is it really? First you have to have frozen chicken nuggets on hand at home. That means that you've already been to the grocery store, picked some up, and brought them home somehow to be stored. Now you've also got a working and clean air fryer, sink, utensils, and other kitchen accoutrements that can be used on the nuggets. You may also find it necessary to have, on-hand, some condiments or side dishes to make a complete meal of the nuggets you're trying to make. Then you put them onto a plate -- hope you got a plate -- and eat them with clean utensils, and then you clean that stuff up, wipe the counter, wash and put away dishes. Then you make a note on your shopping list or inventory, to replenish what you just ate. It's not a simple proposition, all of these steps, especially when someone is a bachelor, mentally ill, isolated, etc. You feel it's easier for you, that is great, you've got some life skills, but other people struggle mightily with just the cleanup bits, for example.
- daseiner1 1y ago
  Is this a point being made via absurdity or is this your sincere position? Buying a five pound bag of frozen nuggets and a bottle of ketchup isn’t climbing everest. Maintaining a shopping list takes no effort at all. Being depressed doesn’t get better by eating out of a carry out box. Your whole comment is just infantilization, plain and simple.
- panick21_ 1y ago
  Are you not using a plate or utensils with delivery? Maybe not a plate but surely utensils. Do you never use additional sauces or spices with delivery? Delvier food often comes in layers of bags, tons of extra stuff, there is often sauce overflow and so on. Tons of trash you have to deal with and so on. > especially when someone is a bachelor, I'm a bachelor and I can easily make food as good at home. Cooking for 1 person is easy. And I'm not just heating up forzen chicken nuggets. I know in the US most people go shopping every 2 weeks, driving to some big box store getting tons of stuff. I just walk to a store, or pick some stuff up on my way home. Fresh meat and fresh vegis always. > mentally ill Doing something yourself is better for your mental health then getting delivery.
reginald78 1y ago
This is what always gets me about it. I get being to lazy to cook and to drunk or busy to drive or whatever. But there are actually tons of pretty good frozen prepared meals these days. If you're lazy and this happens to you all the time, throw a bunch of those in the freezer. Cleaning a baking sheet isn't actually more cleanup work than dealing with take out trash. You'll probably get the food just as fast as the delivery service as well.
- ghaff 1y ago
  There's definitely something to be said for having some things in the freezer you can throw in the oven now and then. I cook regularly but I have those.

postexitus 1y ago

Let me explain - it is not a replacement for daily meals - of course we do cook both from scratch and frozen stuff for dailies. I would go broke pretty quickly if we ordered delivery every night. It is a replacement for eating out. If you have little kids and take them out for dining (let's say as a treat), first you need to agree on where to go, then a bunch of complaints about the lack of X / Y at the menu, then them getting bored etc. Delivery means you can do this all at your home's comfort - if somebody wants to make a scene - sure go ahead! Otherwise I would also prefer to eat in the restaurant, cheaper and easier as well.

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