God, real fresh cooked food

[thegoose]

Made by a local restaurant, not a chain, delivered by Grubhub. I've been eating frozen dinners so goddamn long.

I'm supporting my local restaurants and tipping the drivers 20 percent, because that's what we need to do. I ordered a week's wprth of Chinese food from Formosa Gardens. It's so good.

[elleng]

1. Good; will do the same.

[MLAA]

2. Sounds like it might not last the week🙂

Pace yourself!

[Demovictory9]

3. k&r

[alittlelark]

4. There are Lots of websites that can help you learn to cook.

Cooking is a BASIC skill. I was taught in Home Ec in Middle School. It is not difficult to be able to create a simple meal for yourself.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/cooking-basics-for-everyone-4684010

https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/cooking/learn-to-cook

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/cooking-tips/article/how-to-learn-to-cook


Supporting local restaurants is important - but knowing how to turn ingredients into food is an absolute must for ANY homo sapien sapien.

[thegoose]

5. Thank you

I know how to cook but I wanted some honest to God restaurant food! Goofy!

[Clash City Rocker]

6. I am very grateful for GrubHub and Blue Apron

Maybe a third of the local restaurants are closed, including our favorite Asian restaurant. We try to order from local restaurants as often as we can, because we want them to stay in business.

Blue Apron has been a godsend. We get three dinners a week from them, and the quality is excellent. It does take awhile to clean all the ingredients, but it’s still much easier than most of the alternatives.

[Drahthaardogs]

7. I find this so sad.

Why are you eating like this? Did no one teach you how to cook?

I grew up VERY Italian, grandson of immigrants. We ALL cooked. Men, women, and kids. Most restaurant food is shit, porcheria, whatever...

Parents failed their children. Knowing how to cook is a life skill.

[thegoose]

8. Im supporting my local restaurants

I know how to cook! This is the second post telling me to cook! It's about taking care of your community!

[Drahthaardogs]

9. Huh? You said you have been eating frozen dinners

What the fuck?

[thegoose]

10. I'm a lone person locked up in a one-room apartment

And I'm scared every time I go to the store. Am I supposed to cook a fucking three-course meal?

[jberryhill]

14. There's got to be enough room to slaughter a hog in there

C’mon.

Surely you have enough sunlight to grow corn in pots.

[thegoose]

15. Thank you!

At last...levity!

[Kali]

28. BWAHAHAHA!!!

[Tipperary]

31. Ha!

[Tink41]

38. Funny!

I'm in the same boat. Ordered pizza, calamari this evening tipped over 20% and the meal was heaven. I went to cooking school years ago, I'm just tired of cooking!! Been slapping meals for 1 together since February. Really it's getting harder to piece meals together because the food delivery doesn't always have what I need. They have been out of rice for weeks!

[Tipperary]

16. I grew up with a mom and dad who both taught me how to cook.

I am very grateful for that. Besides, I hate frozen dinners, except in a real pinch.

[GulfCoast66]

11. The wife and I have real, fresh cooked food every night.

Very inexpensive too.

I know how to cook.

Tonight: Greek tomato salad with homegrown tomatoes, cucumber and onion and crumpled feta. Cukes and onion purchased. Hummus made from soaked chick peas, and 6 oz of grilled filet between us chopped up and put on the hummus. One pita each. Leftovers for me.

Less than 5 bucks each.

The only way to eat healthy and inexpensively in hard times it to learn to cook.

That said, we order take out at least once a week to help mom and pop restaurants survive.

[thegoose]

12. READ. MY POST.

It's about supporting other people, not whether I can cook or not!!!!!!!!!

[jberryhill]

17. Oh come on

With a BB gun and some luck, you can shoot pigeons from the front stoop and have squab in no time.

[thegoose]

18. There's a few dogs running around loose too

But I forget which is the tenderest breed?

[jberryhill]

19. One virus at a time, please

[thegoose]

21. Thank God! Levity!

But what about Atticus Finch?

[GulfCoast66]

24. I don't care how hungry I'm am.

I ain’t eating no rabid dog!

I need to watch that again. I’ve sure got the time now. Until I can’t afford the TV!

[Tipperary]

25. Great movie!

[Hekate]

35. You know, I once read a country boy's memoir about going off to college in probably the 1930s...

He and his room mate in the boarding house were both just off the farm, and short of cash. But not far from their bedroom window was a walnut tree just alive with squirrels... He said the two of them ate really well all that year.

I call that resourceful.

[jberryhill]

36. Sounds like my father

If it grew or moved, he knew how to pick it or catch it, clean it, cook it and eat it.

[Hekate]

37. I am suburban born and raised; I have no clue. But I admire people who know how...

...when the times demand.

[smirkymonkey]

39. Hell, couple of good rat traps and you're in business.

No more pesky trips to the grocery store for packaged meat.

[GulfCoast66]

22. I did. And I am doing my best to support local businesses

But starting week after next we will have a greatly reduced income. Greatly. Like 70% reduced. We are being furloughed.

If you have the means to support locals I’m all for it and have always done so. We avoid chain restaurants, even high end ones.

And we are way better off than most Americans.

But we will soon be in the position to be unable to support any local restaurants. High or low end.

Maybe I hijacked your thread. And if so I sincerely apologize. But so many Americans are now in my position and have have never learned how to cook and that is bothering me.

Again, I apologize if I let my personal position to post something that offended you.

Have a nice evening

[thegoose]

26. Of course you didn't offend me

Hope things get better for you and me really soon! Vote blue!

[GulfCoast66]

30. Dude or dudette, I would crawl over covid19 infected glass

Naked, with hives to vote blue in November.

I know 3 people in my same position that voted trump last time, and one republican that sat it out, who have told me unsolicited they are vote for Biden. Floridians are pissed at our shitty small government bullshit. It will take months to get the unemployment relief we need here.

Biden is winning Florida. And Monday after next, since I’m not working I’m calling my local Democratic Party office to ask how I can help.

Stay safe. And support local as long as you are able.

[Tipperary]

20. Sounds great!

It’s really not hard to cook inexpensively. Yum!

[Initech]

13. I will be supporting restaurants more often.

Especially when it is safer to do so. This is supposed to be the peak here so I haven't been going anywhere.

[dalton99a]

23. Kick

[herding cats]

27. Hey, folks. I'm an excellent cook. Chef level good. And, I'm an avid gardener.

Fresh supplies here in my high risk for COVID-19 household are slim pickings. There's no slots for grocery delivery, and no curbside to be found. I'm a gardener. It's pre-summer crops and post winter. I've just about used up all my cool weather greens as they're beginning to bolt, and my warm weather crops aren't bearing yet. It's that time of year here.

I'm the apex of "doing it at home" and my resources are taxed right this moment. If not for some of my winter squashes still being edible I'd be desperate right now for fresh foods, too. But, I'm fortunately able to have those. Most of the population doesn't. So, let's relax and be less ugly, ok?

Our skill sets vary, which includes those who prepare our takeout meals locally. We all have value and a place in our society. None of us are superior to the other.

Peace and love to all of you.

[thegoose]

29. But I still have a fridge full of delicious Chinese food!!

I can't delete this post. I don't mean it to be a smug as the headline reads.

[Tipperary]

32. Damn, now I am craving Chinese!

Ah, tomorrow is another day!

[herding cats]

34. Me, too!

Dang, I'm drooling for some pho.

[herding cats]

33. You're good!

I laughed.

[Jane Austin]

40. In addition to getting deliveries from local restaurants,

I've been buying gift cards from some of my favorites to help them through this time.

I will use them for sure, and I can give some for gifts.

[DFW]

41. If we had Chinese food in the area, I order it more often

What we do have is a fabulous Greek place about 200 meters from our front door. However, since our 3 times weekly farmers market is still running, and my wife is a master chef, we have all the great fresh food right here at home we could ever want.

I miss Chinese, Japanese and Thai food, but my wife can do most anything else, including South Asian. Except for the Greek, anything we would order from a commercial establishment would be worse than what comes out of our kitchen.