Most places won't let you use the drive-thru on foot either, and some stores (due to "labor shortages") are drive thru only. So they literally won't serve you without a car.

American car culture is terrible but it's not like we get a choice at the DMV between driving and having functional, walkable towns and cities. You get to be a driver or a second-class person.

Okay jeez. Its not uncommon however, for people to believe that a ten minute drive (maybe a 30 minute walk) away is impossibly far to walk. Its very much baked in to "American" car culture to believe like this, and you can resist that culture by sometimes walking instead of driving.

One of the games I play on my commute is imagining what the bike route would be like. I looked it up once and every path included a high traffic street with no sidewalk; where I live, that's straight up flirting with death. Cycling in my area requires a large group and/or limited capacity for risk assessment.

Jesus christ, if you can't manage to use a bus properly and feed yourself without relying on door dash you should move back in with an adult.

Damn, you tip before the delivery? Then it's really just part of the fee, no? Especially if it's like a bid. :o

University meal plan costs are pretty high from what I remember. Sure it's possible, but you need the facilities, you need the people making food for you and cleaning up after. There's reasons making your own meals from stuff you buy at the grocery store can be a fraction of the cost.

When I was in college me and six friends had a dinner coop going where one person would cook a meal each night of the week (the dorms had kitchens). It worked great except for the one girl that would make things like bulgar wheat - like, just a big bowl of boiled bulgar wheat and nothing else. We made sure her night was Thursday, since the tavern in town had all-you-can-eat spaghetti for $1 on Thursdays.

Two of my former coworkers live next to each other. Both are married, but one has a wife who stays home to raise their kids (couple #1), while the other has a working wife (couple #2) and their kids are older. #2 buys groceries for both couples, and #1 cooks the dinners for both couples.

Seems like something like this arrangement could work for others. Free food in exchange for cooked meals.

One job for the avocado and one for the toast.

Super easy, we don't even blanch. We grow like 20lbs of bush beans, cut tips and tails and chunk to an inch or so long, freeze in bags. Toss straight into a soup or stir fry from frozen. Same for beet tops when we harvest the beets, rinse and chop the tops into packable size, dump into just about anything and they are like fresh.

Some vegetables just do not freeze though, no salads of course, only the kinds that you cook.

I rarely buy fresh fruits except for apples these days as they are always poor quality here, and frozen are excellent and far cheaper. Especially berry type fruit like cherries, blueberries, strawberries etc as they go straight from the field to the freezer plant when they are ripe unlike the supermarket crap.

We keep our own apples in the fridge and cellar, same with carrots, beets, potatoes. Onions hang in the basement. Crabapples we have a huge bounty of and core and quarter and freeze, they are great in a fruit smoothie, pie, applesauce etc.

I would highly recommend an upright freezer over a chest aside from secondary bulk meat storage. I have both, the upright you can select your food much better instead of just eating what's on top. Everyone says they will dig in the chest, NOBODY DOES. Modern uprights have similar efficiency and power failure performance, and nothing ends up freezer burnt at the bottom.

I'm in the Randstad, guilty as charged. Not quite Amsterdam though.

It's actually an electric microtruck or sometimes a full truck, since a bunch of people order out here and a single truck carries many people's groceries. The guys usually get a dolly and have a few laps up and down the cargo elevator.

If I order anything for quick delivery like a pizza, it's always a cyclist or rarely an electric moped. A car wouldn't even find a parking spot, much less get through the city in time.