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@karla said in In other news today...:
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Only two out of us four boys were planned, apparently.
Pretty sure I wasn't planned! My parents anniversary and my birthday are less than 9 months apart (something like 7). And I was full-term!
I certainly wasn't planned. I was put up for adoption. My husband only planned his 5th child. His ex planned the first 2 though.
Ouch.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
I swear, these kids are gonna die of starvation in college.
Meal plan. It's literally mandatory here.
Just another way for them to price gouge you.
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@benjamin-hall Sort of. It's half decent food, and it's not a giant amount of money for what I'm getting, but they are making sure the money goes to them instead of grocery stores etc.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall Sort of. It's half decent food, and it's not a giant amount of money for what I'm getting, but they are making sure the money goes to them instead of grocery stores etc.
You can live much cheaper than that, but I agree that most places it's not a horrible bargain. I'm just down on the whole college thing in general.
I only had a meal plan when I was living in the dorm-style dorms (no place to cook). Other than that I was in apartments and cooked for myself.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
You can live much cheaper than that, but I agree that most places it's not a horrible bargain.
$2775 a semester, all you can eat while they're open (which is until midnight on weekdays), seven days a week, plus $450 in 'dining dollars' which can be used at a few different areas including the college food equivalent of a grocery store. I don't know if that's a good deal or not.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
I was born in 1982, so I'm the oldest of the millennial generation. But then again, I'm an old soul (I was a curmudgeon in high school).
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
You can live much cheaper than that, but I agree that most places it's not a horrible bargain.
$2775 a semester, all you can eat while they're open (which is until midnight on weekdays), seven days a week, plus $450 in 'dining dollars' which can be used at a few different areas including the college food equivalent of a grocery store. I don't know if that's a good deal or not.
That's a budget of ~$25/day. I spend maybe $100 per week, and I don't eat very cheap. I think I survived on ~$200/month in college. The offset is the instant availability and the low effort.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
I swear, these kids are gonna die of starvation in college.
Meal plan. It's literally mandatory here.
When I lived in the university dorm, it was, too, for IIRC either 20 or 15(?) meals per week. There was simply no way to prepare your own food; rooms contained beds and desks, period, and appliances were prohibited as fire hazards. If you lived off-campus, though, it was optional, and they also had a 5-meal plan so you could get lunches on campus.
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@pie_flavor it probably has more to do with not wanting students to cook in their dorm rooms. If you have a meal plan, you have less of an excuse.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
not wanting students to cook in their dorm rooms
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
I think I survived on ~$200/month in college.
When I lived off-campus, well, it's been over 30 years, so prices were lower and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think our budget was $15/person/month. It's remarkable how efficient you can be when a bunch of guys are sharing food and buying in bulk. And you cooked; if you didn't know how, you learned in a hurry, because cooking for the whole house was mandatory at least once every two weeks.
Edit: Wait, that can't be right. I seen to remember spending about $200/week, for 10 guys, $20/person/week, ~$80-ish/month. Still cheap.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
I think I survived on ~$200/month in college.
When I lived off-campus, well, it's been over 30 years, so prices were lower and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think our budget was $15/person/month. It's remarkable how efficient you can be when a bunch of guys are sharing food and buying in bulk. And you cooked; if you didn't know how, you learned in a hurry, because cooking for the whole house was mandatory at least once every two weeks.
Yeah. Doing group cooking is quite efficient--cooking for one person is horribly inefficient (lots of recipes don't scale down that well and/or don't freeze well).
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@hungrier yeah, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between 'shut down' and 'normal'
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor it probably has more to do with not wanting students to cook in their dorm rooms. If you have a meal plan, you have less of an excuse.
At my undergraduate university, it was only mandatory for first-years; I believe it was (at least ostensibly) meant to help with the transition, so you don't have 18-year-olds malnourishing themselves horribly as they work to figure out a rhythm of food around schoolwork. Same reason they all lived on-campus. Give them as little variables as possible while they adjust to being away from home and then they can add back whatever variables they want, gradually.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
I think I survived on ~$200/month in college.
When I lived off-campus, well, it's been over 30 years, so prices were lower and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think our budget was $15/person/month. It's remarkable how efficient you can be when a bunch of guys are sharing food and buying in bulk. And you cooked; if you didn't know how, you learned in a hurry, because cooking for the whole house was mandatory at least once every two weeks.
Yeah. Doing group cooking is quite efficient--cooking for one person is horribly inefficient (lots of recipes don't scale down that well and/or don't freeze well).
That's one of my problems with living alone, is that half the stuff I might want to cook I either can't because I'd end up with leftovers I probably won't eat, I'm wasting ingredients, or I don't have variety.
Example: When I make Shake N Bake porkchops for myself and my daughter when she's over, it's usually one porkchop each plus half of a packet of either "instant" mashed potatoes or one of the Knorr rice side packets. However, if it's just me, I'm still making two porkchops (because using an entire packet of Shake N Bake for a single porkchop is stupid), but I'm not making any of the sides because two porkchops will fill me up (not to mention that there would be leftover sides even if I did, and those don't keep well).
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@e4tmyl33t it's a lot easier if you don't mind eating the same thing several days in a row.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
it's a lot easier if you don't mind eating the same thing several days in a row.
It's even easier in Canada, you just put the leftover outside
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@anotherusername Some stuff I can do that with. Pizza, for example, I can order a large pizza and eat for 3 days on it. Most stuff though, I can't, either because I know what it's like "fresh" and it's always worse afterwards.
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@timebandit we do have freezers here, you know. They're just a lot smaller, and you're less likely to run into polar bears.
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@anotherusername What you call freezers are really just portals to Canada. We steal your food but since we're so polite we just replace it afterwards.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
you're less likely to run into polar bears
She said she didn't want to eat the leftovers. Let the polar bears have some
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t it's a lot easier if you don't mind eating the same thing several days in a row.
When cooking for myself, and even now, when I'm cooking for my son and I, I cook with leftovers in mind. Except for single-serving convenience meals, which we eat too many of, I always plan on getting at least two meals for two people, or four meals for one.
For example, pasta. I always cook a full pound, with a whole jar of sauce and a pound of meat; I can get a bunch meals out of that, and it's no more effort than cooking just enough for one meal.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
the low effort
^^^ This is THE reason ^^^
It's the reason we're doing the all-inclusive option on our next vacation!
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Pizza, for example, I can order a large pizza and eat for 3 days on it.
When I was in college, a large pizza was one meal... (I was racing bicycles then, so 5000-6000 calories/day was normal.)
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
It doesn't take that much to cook avocado toast...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
It doesn't take that much to cook avocado toast...
Just remember, the knife does not go into the toaster. Or...
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@dcon To me it depends on the type of pizza and how I'm feeling. One particular pizza place near me I'll damn near demolish an entire large in one go because it's that good, but since they don't deliver I rarely get it. The stuff I usually get from delivery isn't nearly as good, so I only have a couple slices at a time. Combine that with my usual "one meal a day" eating habits and it ends up lasting for 3 days.
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@timebandit Yeah, sort of. I usually have one "meal" around dinnertime, the rest of the day is usually just grazing on stuff like pretzels or something. Every once in a while on a weekend I'll make myself some form of eggs for breakfast and then have dinner later that day, but those are outside the norm.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
I usually have one "meal" around dinnertime, the rest of the day is usually just grazing on stuff like pretzels or something
That doesn't sound very healthy
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
It doesn't take that much to cook avocado toast...
But managing the avocado purchasing and cooking so that you get properly ripe avocados is not trivial.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
It doesn't take that much to cook avocado toast...
But managing the avocado purchasing and cooking so that you get properly ripe avocados is not trivial.
I solve that by not liking avocados.
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@timebandit Oh, I'm pretty sure my metabolism's been fucked for years. It's just what I'm used to at this point.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
That's one of my problems with living alone, is that half the stuff I might want to cook I either can't because I'd end up with leftovers I probably won't eat, I'm wasting ingredients, or I don't have variety.
Example: When I make Shake N Bake porkchops for myself and my daughter when she's over, it's usually one porkchop each plus half of a packet of either "instant" mashed potatoes or one of the Knorr rice side packets. However, if it's just me, I'm still making two porkchops (because using an entire packet of Shake N Bake for a single porkchop is stupid), but I'm not making any of the sides because two porkchops will fill me up (not to mention that there would be leftover sides even if I did, and those don't keep well).
I sort of agree (live on my own and know that that's not good in terms of preparing interesting meals) but will be intrusively judgemental anyway ...
you can easily do a hell of a lot better than instant mash or packet rice. Making that sort of stuff from scratch is still really quick and gives you the flexibility to make the quantity that you want (and probably a better outcome than you can get from pre-prepared gunk).
Small packs of pork chops are mostly not a good choice, buy a bigger pork cut (at lower unit cost) cook it to destruction for ages - to get a big tasty hot meal from it, then a series of additional meals (sandwiches, salads or whatever) as pulled-pork.
Cooking can be quite fun, easy, risk free and social, but falling back to ready-meals and other semi-instant packaged stuff is a trap (that I easily fall into).
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
and cooked for myself
IOW, you're not a millennial :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
It doesn't take that much to cook avocado toast...
But managing the avocado purchasing and cooking so that you get properly ripe avocados is not trivial.
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@karla Unfortunately, pears are exactly the same. Unlike avocados, I do like pears very much, and the difficulty of getting them properly ripe makes me sad.
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@hardwaregeek it's easier with bananas. You buy a bunch of them, and then one day, you have to eat them all right now
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@timebandit Bananas have a wider range of ripeness within which they are edible. Slightly underripe are definitely subprime but still edible. Overripe bananas are fine if they haven't been bruised (which is difficult to avoid), and even then the unbruised portions are fine; they're also ideal for banana nut bread
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t it's a lot easier if you don't mind eating the same thing several days in a row.
Rame for two meals out of the day every day is totally fine with me! :D
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@hardwaregeek nuts in banana bread are an abomination. Commence Operation Stone the Heretic at once, my brothers!
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek it's easier with bananas. You buy a bunch of them, and then one day, you have to eat them all right now
Better yet, toss them in the trash.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@timebandit Bananas have a wider range of ripeness within which they are edible. Slightly underripe are definitely subprime but still edible. Overripe bananas are fine if they haven't been bruised (which is difficult to avoid), and even then the unbruised portions are fine; they're also ideal for banana nut bread
Trash, trash, and... well, too much work for an ehh return.
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@tsaukpaetra rame?