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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Most of my lunches are leftovers, but many of them are things like a burger or a bratwurst that I can cook with little effort. Or I can buy something.

Imagine complaining about £4 for lunch, I'm lucky if I get out for under $20.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

british people are poor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I interpreted it as a 4 pound tv dinner. But maybe I'm reading it wrong.

[Edit] Now I am doubting what even a meal deal is

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

In Brazil, if you work more that 6hs a day, the company have to give you lunch. The majority of them, give you a pre paid debit card that can be used in restaurants. This mean that they are a lot of money there that can be used in restaurants, so any office building have lots of restaurants around.

From my union contract, I get 40R daily to lunch, and the restaurant I go they serve "prato feito" (beans, rice, salad, meat) for 25, and use the rest for some icecream or to eat something with my wife at weekends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's actually a very cool concept.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I think something that is missing in the minds of the "but you could just..." posters here is that the mindset of the OP doesn't always come from laziness, immaturity, or the inability to understand how to pack a sandwich, it sometimes comes from crippling or barely functional depression.

I work from home and the thought of even making a sandwich most days in the middle of the day is just too much. I don't want to make a sandwich; I want to go back to bed for eight to ten years and I agree that lunch is the fucking worst.

(But so is breakfast, and dinner, and all of the meetings, and work, and life generally speaking, etc.)

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

This is precisely why always working from home is unhealthy and the context switch would be worth the psychological boost it provides if not for the commute. I know people really liked the liberation of WFH at first but I just don't think it is going to be sustainable. It has nothing to do with productivity, but it's the next simmering mental health crisis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I like how the "why don't you just" people have now moved on to armchair psychology.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you're not eating a croque monsieur for lunch, that's your fault, and you deserve to be miserable

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've seriously considered buying MREs because I can't be bothered to meal prep.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's still basically canned food, it's just that the can is a pouch. It's more expensive too.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dont forget to put it on a tray.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (14 children)

This thread just oozes of early adults that don't understand how to spend 30 minutes preparing meals

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There is another option.

Just going to put this out there, cook too much the previous night, don't eat all the dinner you cooked. Place the remainder into some form of container; transport said container to work with you the next day.

Lunch is sorted when you make your dinner!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

That's crazy talk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Didn't know psychopaths were just showing themselves like this on Lemmy, wtf

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (25 children)

Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Good Lord I am happy I can handle my shit and not have to publicly post my executive dysfunction for the planet to see.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 3 days ago (19 children)

This person’s problem can be solved by a sandwich. Takes like 3 minutes to make, or can be prepped earlier, no cooking necessary, has color, is fresh, not frozen, beats any fast food meal in price and quality. Also can even be healthy if you shop wisely. Can be different every day. Can be hot or cold. The possibilities are endless. Sandwiches are the best.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone needs to raise their sandwich game.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Look I'm not saying that cooking your own lunch is a prerequisite for being an adult. However complaining about the quality of prepared food while not acknowledging you could just cook is sure as hell immature.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s frustrating as an adult with ARFID/eating disorders. I can’t bring myself to eat leftovers because I worry that they are contaminated. I’ve thrown away so much food because I won’t reuse a pasta sauce jar if it has been opened.

A lot of the common “easy” meals are things that I absolutely will not eat - spaghetti, canned veggies, ground beef. Sometimes I struggle with eating ramen. It’s fucking embarrassing but I literally cannot help it. I will gag and puke if my brain decides I can’t eat something.

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

Have you considered taking a serve safe restaurant hygiene class. I used to be similarly worried about food, but after learning about the safe handling and storage rules and temperature danger zones, I'm much less worried about left overs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds absolutely horrible. I usually have to tame myself, to not eat all leftovers in the evening so I have some for tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Cooking takes SO MUCH TIME when you're single. But eating out is so expensive. It sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cooking takes the same amount of time whether you're single or not?

Like wtf.

Pasta boils at the same speed regardless of how many people are in the house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the problem. It's more efficient with bigger meals. If you're single, you have to cook and then clean. If there's two of you, you can divide tasks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have good news for you:

Being single doesn't mean you can only cook single portions of stuff.

You can cook two portions, and have an entire meal ready to eat anytime during the next few days.

You might even find yourself adventurous and cook three portions, and have TWO whole meals ready to go.

But be wary, most people who just learn the ability to plan ahead quickly get carried on and start preparing 5, 6 or even 7 servings ahead of time and I only recommend this for experienced meal preppers who know what they are doing.

Also, clean as you go, and cleaning suddenly doesn't become this insurmountable task.

I swear to god half of the people in these threads are not fit for life.

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

The other half are armchair quarterbacks who can't fathom that anything is ever difficult for other people.

meals ready to go.

Reheating leftovers is a gamble. Sometimes reheated food just tastes like ass, no matter how good it was fresh.

clean as you go

It still takes twice as much effort, IF the recipe you're making leaves time for it.

Jesus, you condescending fuck, you think I don't know this shit? Are you so damn arrogant you think no one else has figured out meal prepping? You think you're goddamn einstein because you discovered cleaning as you go? We fucking know. And it sucks.

Douchenozzle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

of course I am being condescending.

I am talking to a supposedly grown ass man having mental breakdowns because they have to clean the dishes after cooking.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Honestly they should just make nutrition bricks. Just combining nutrients into a brick. It could even be modular so you can add/remove various nutrients based on your nutritional needs. The perfect life would be working for the nutrition brick manufacturer and then going home to eat some nice nutrition bricks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The nutrition brick manufacturer would absolutely not allow you to take nutrition bricks home. You'd have to buy them like everyone else

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

That’s what cliff bars/energy bars/protein shakes are.

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