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[Your Pretty Brains]

Also, food prices are out of control. Why are frozen dinners as expensive as fast casual food at this point?? Even Trader Joe’s finally jacked their prices up.

RIGHT!?!? It's the damn frozen food that gets me off. Restaurant prices are high because of service costs, right? Then why the hell can't I get a decent frozen meal for $4, especially when you consider it's a way for them to turn the same ingredients they already have into a new cash stream.

Now I want to start discourse about frozen meals in the food thread. We might not be able to fix the country, but we can help each other avoid shitty frozen meals.

 

[TheDangerZone]

Sorry if this is off-topic but while we're quickly discussing grocery prices, I'd love to recommend HelloFresh, Dinnerly, and EveryPlate girls.

I sign up for one service for a week, before cancelling the auto renew. Then, I sign up for a different service the following week and repeat the process with the third meal prep service. By the time I circle back to the first prep service that I signed up for, I've received a discount coupon to the first meal prep service trying to get me to re-subscribe to the service (sometimes like 55%-75% off your first week back) and I repeat the whole cycle. Also with my husband's email, I get double the number of discount coupon codes.

It takes a little work, and you have to be on top of cancelling the auto-renew to avoid situations where you pay for two services in a week (happened to me during Thanksgiving UGHHH), but it's been helpful for reducing the grocery bills during these tough times with inflation.

On an expensive week, my husband and I have been able to pay for 5 dinners/week for ~$30 each (normally HelloFresh). Overall, in terms of prices, HelloFresh > Everyplate >>> Dinnerly.

Obviously this is trickier if you don't have someone to split the cost with (i.e. a partner/friend/roommate) but you can take the second serving for lunch the next day if that helps. Also helpful if you don't mind and/or enjoy cooking your own meals, but I'm down to try whatever if I'm looking for any means to reduce my monthly budget.

 

[theelusivechanteuse]

Sorry if this is off-topic but while we're quickly discussing grocery prices, I'd love to recommend HelloFresh, Dinnerly, and EveryPlate girls.

I sign up for one service for a week, before cancelling the auto renew. Then, I sign up for a different service the following week and repeat the process with the third meal prep service. By the time I circle back to the first prep service that I signed up for, I've received a discount coupon to the first meal prep service trying to get me to re-subscribe to the service (sometimes like 55%-75% off your first week back) and I repeat the whole cycle. Also with my husband's email, I get double the number of discount coupon codes.

It takes a little work, and you have to be on top of cancelling the auto-renew to avoid situations where you pay for two services in a week (happened to me during Thanksgiving UGHHH), but it's been helpful for reducing the grocery bills during these tough times with inflation.

On an expensive week, my husband and I have been able to pay for 5 dinners/week for ~$30 each (normally HelloFresh). Overall, in terms of prices, HelloFresh > Everyplate >>> Dinnerly.

Obviously this is trickier if you don't have someone to split the cost with (i.e. a partner/friend/roommate) but you can take the second serving for lunch the next day if that helps. Also helpful if you don't mind and/or enjoy cooking your own meals, but I'm down to try whatever if I'm looking for any means to reduce my monthly budget.

Is that $30 (each) for 5 meals? Or $30 (each) per meal? The former is how I'm trying to live nn. I also feel like I just have to start meal prepping, but maybe this is a good way to try to get into that.

 

[TheDangerZone]

Is that $30 (each) for 5 meals? Or $30 (each) per meal? The former is how I'm trying to live nn. I also feel like I just have to start meal prepping, but maybe this is a good way to try to get into that.

$30 per person for the week (i.e 5 meals) so basically $60 total for the week (i.e the former!)

And by cycling through you’re basically constantly getting discount coupons. You do normally need to provide like your own flour, olive oil, butter, salt/pepper but otherwise you everything else is provided!

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

Sorry if this is off-topic but while we're quickly discussing grocery prices, I'd love to recommend HelloFresh, Dinnerly, and EveryPlate girls.

I sign up for one service for a week, before cancelling the auto renew. Then, I sign up for a different service the following week and repeat the process with the third meal prep service. By the time I circle back to the first prep service that I signed up for, I've received a discount coupon to the first meal prep service trying to get me to re-subscribe to the service (sometimes like 55%-75% off your first week back) and I repeat the whole cycle. Also with my husband's email, I get double the number of discount coupon codes.

It takes a little work, and you have to be on top of cancelling the auto-renew to avoid situations where you pay for two services in a week (happened to me during Thanksgiving UGHHH), but it's been helpful for reducing the grocery bills during these tough times with inflation.

On an expensive week, my husband and I have been able to pay for 5 dinners/week for ~$30 each (normally HelloFresh). Overall, in terms of prices, HelloFresh > Everyplate >>> Dinnerly.

Obviously this is trickier if you don't have someone to split the cost with (i.e. a partner/friend/roommate) but you can take the second serving for lunch the next day if that helps. Also helpful if you don't mind and/or enjoy cooking your own meals, but I'm down to try whatever if I'm looking for any means to reduce my monthly budget.

This is seriously impressive, good freaking job figuring out a way to come out ahead in this year.

 

[Sam]

Sorry if this is off-topic but while we're quickly discussing grocery prices, I'd love to recommend HelloFresh, Dinnerly, and EveryPlate girls.

I sign up for one service for a week, before cancelling the auto renew. Then, I sign up for a different service the following week and repeat the process with the third meal prep service. By the time I circle back to the first prep service that I signed up for, I've received a discount coupon to the first meal prep service trying to get me to re-subscribe to the service (sometimes like 55%-75% off your first week back) and I repeat the whole cycle. Also with my husband's email, I get double the number of discount coupon codes.

It takes a little work, and you have to be on top of cancelling the auto-renew to avoid situations where you pay for two services in a week (happened to me during Thanksgiving UGHHH), but it's been helpful for reducing the grocery bills during these tough times with inflation.

On an expensive week, my husband and I have been able to pay for 5 dinners/week for ~$30 each (normally HelloFresh). Overall, in terms of prices, HelloFresh > Everyplate >>> Dinnerly.

Obviously this is trickier if you don't have someone to split the cost with (i.e. a partner/friend/roommate) but you can take the second serving for lunch the next day if that helps. Also helpful if you don't mind and/or enjoy cooking your own meals, but I'm down to try whatever if I'm looking for any means to reduce my monthly budget.

I’m not in the US but iCloud’s Hide Your Email feature is useful for this too. You can just generate a new email account for a new sign up and then cancel the subscription.

If you’re on Gmail you can just create aliases for your existing account by adding “+1”, “+2” etc onto the end which technically creates a new email but redirects to your own inbox.

 

[Artemisia]

Feels like conservatives are gonna go nuclear this Pride month. Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light-level outrage on steroids for all of June. Can't wait!

 

[Beginner]

 

[Hyrulian]

I really am not prepared for 2024 and what bizarre tactics will be wheeled out / weaponized by the far right.

 

[Sanctuary]

I feel like "hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting kicked off of SNAP" is probably more news-worthy than liberals falling into the trap of not believing women when powerful men in their political party get accused of sexual assault.

I know it'll be written off as "being snide", but can we please avoid dipping into "how much I believe you were sexually assaulted is based on your partisan leaning" levels of discourse? The discourse around the Tara Reade accusations have always been the darkest and most disturbing part of the 2020 primary in the way people spoke of if a woman can be believed or not ("she had unpaid bills!") and I genuinely don't think it serves the interests of the party at large for Dem operatives to still be stuck in a 2017, Mueller investigation-style mindset where all ills of America are due to Russian manipulation. Let alone if the things it digs back up are discussions on what kind of lifestyle choices make someone credible enough to have been sexually assaulted. Biden "won" that fight by becoming president. There's no reason to re-litigate an unpalatable case already closed.

 

[Synthline]

Yeah we really need to get past the "everything is a Russian psyop" era of Democratic politics.

 

[drewsky]

Feels like conservatives are gonna go nuclear this Pride month. Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light-level outrage on steroids for all of June. Can't wait!

Lowkey terrified to march in the SF Pride parade with how the Proud Boys seem to be slowly infiltrating the most random LGBT/LGBT-friendly events in NorCal.

 

[Mirwais Ahmadzaï]

Lowkey terrified to march in the SF Pride parade with how the Proud Boys seem to be slowly infiltrating the most random LGBT/LGBT-friendly events in NorCal.

Yeah, there's been an uptick in neo-Nazi protests at drag events here in O**o. The optimist in me thinks that their presence at large-scale events like Pride would be kind of pointless, since the sheer volume of supporters would drown them out? I guess the scary prospect is someone responding to the bait and all hell breaking loose, but I've been pretty impressed with people's responses to these ku klux chuckleheads so far.

 

[Hyrulian]

 

[theelusivechanteuse]

I know jack shit about the details but tea. I feel like it's a manufactured concept purely for political theater bs. (Actually, I think that about money in general nn).

 

[drewsky]

I know jack shit about the details but tea. I feel like it's a manufactured concept purely for political theater bs. (Actually, I think that about money in general nn).

National debt and us selling ours/owning other countries' is stupid. There's no expectation you're getting it back or will ever pay it off so why keep track of it or name a ceiling.

 

[Sanctuary]

Functional society.

 

[Your Pretty Brains]

I hope we get some fun stuff in the rest of these dystopic years of our American life. Let's get a presidential candidate who runs an album era as their campaign. Without Dr. Luke.

No but seriously I'm done. I declare myself independent of my debts thank you!

 

[Sanctuary]

Gotta *checks note* vote harder!(?)

 

[Hyrulian]

Gotta *checks note* vote harder!(?)

I’m pretty sure Biden is vetoing this, but yes, depressing that it even passed the senate. Dems that voted yes - Manchin, Tester, Sinema.