Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort
Yeah I just make a peanut butter sandwich and prep some fruit and bring it to work. Easy, healthy, and filling
Same in Germany. We have bread with butter and cheese. It’s a blessing with a good bread
Same in the UK, where the post was written.
Also, there’s literally a Greggs on every corner or a greasy spoon that’ll make you a sandwich for 2.50
I will ask my cousin about it lol
I’ll never understand how can people eat sandwiches every day, especially those woth some kind of meat in them. I’m not vegetarian but eating sandwichesv for more than two days in a row make me want to puke.
Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.
Peanut butter? Upgrading to natural peanut butter made all the difference for me, so it’s no longer just for kids.
I even get decent marmalade, which definitely doesn’t work for kids, or a dark amber maple syrup. I currently have apple butter, which goes nicely on a peanut butter sandwich, or with a scoop of cottage cheese on the side
Why?
Idk
this was a productive thread
a lot of people eat the same food several days in a row, or several meals in a row.
you only feel that way because you see food as pleasure to be enjoyed. not as a necessity for living. lots of people eat to live.
I don’t want to enjoy every meal
Just not to feel sick because of them
A sandwich can be a thousand different dishes if you get creative
Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every day? I do. But for whatever reason, lunch and dinner is different. Can’t eat the same thing twice.
Dumb brain
I don’t. But I’m a rich american who can afford to be picky and eat different stuff for every meal and eat 1-2 meals a day from restaurants regularly.
I eat sandwiches every day, and the same thing or small variety. I’m not eating for the experience, I’m eating to not be hungry. I can make and eat a sandwich is less than a minute, so I can get back to doing what I want to be doing.
If I really don’t feel like a sandwich, there’s always toast.
I also eat pretty much the same breakfast every day. For lunch I can vary what’s on the bread and the type of bread. That’s just how things are here. It’s not the nicest, but it saves a lot of time and money and can also be quite nice
I am one and it’s peanut butter every day. For 3 years basically every working day has had a peanut butter sandwich. And that’s how the next 30 some years are looking too. It’s fine. I can live that way.
That’s a fucking delicious 33 years.
Lunch is my favourite. Nothing beats a fine sandwich with cheese.
Peanut butter and provolone is one of my favorites
It’s not even an age thing, but more an economic issue, I never ran into this as an issue when the cost of eating out was affordable. Don’t feel like prepping lunch the night before? Screw it, I’ll pickup something during my lunch break for $3-4. But now that $3-4 is $10+
my weekly work lunch is a soda and a sandwich with a bag of chips. It’s $20. 5 years ago it was $12.
I find you can’t even get a sandwich anymore for less than $15.
(Fast food may be slightly cheaper. I wouldn’t know because I don’t frequent fast food chains.)
For some reason fast food is even more expensive. You’re not missing out on anything.
This thread just oozes of early adults that don’t understand how to spend 30 minutes preparing meals
Or possibly people living in milquetoast office park suburbs where the restaurant options are dogshit.
No shortage of good lunch foods in downtown Houston.
There’s nothing at my workplace other than a shitty microwave oven and we’re not allowed to leave the factory for lunch or dinner.
I still manage to eat decent meals because I’m not a lazy bum.
If you are in an office environment, where do you prep?
You bring it from home. Or find a home office job.
At home before or after work.
If you can’t make a sandwich and take it to work with a muslie bar I dunno what to say other than good luck kid.
One guy at works makes a toasted ham and cheese in the toaster. I shit you not, he just flattens it and crams it in one side for a bit.
Make a sandwich = buy a sandwich.
Make a sandwich = $5
Purchase sandwich = GDP of Haiti
19.5b USD is a quite expensive Sandwich.
Because “make” = “buy”
¯\(ツ)/¯
Because eat a sandwich = eat a sandwich.
Nothing against an occasional sandwich, but the “meal deal” referred to above is basically just sandwiches.
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.
Sounds absolutely horrible. I usually have to tame myself, to not eat all leftovers in the evening so I have some for tomorrow.
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.
I got the manager certification a long time ago, and it oddly made it worse. Weird things like being convinced that my refrigerator isn’t consistently keeping temperature or that the plastic in the packaging has holes in it. Texture sets me off and there’s a lot of variation I’m sensitive to.
I can’t get a family sized bag of chips or cereal for example, because I can only eat them the same day I opened the package. I know that there is nothing wrong with them, but the thought of a stale one upsets me. I love apples, but rarely eat them because I don’t want to risk a mushy one. I know a mushy apple or stale chips aren’t “contaminated” but they feel intensely like they are.
I’d say you have to learn to trust your nose (it really is that simple) but you seem to have a condition worth to see a therapist over.
If you’re not eating a croque monsieur for lunch, that’s your fault, and you deserve to be miserable
Mmm calories
Just eat a small one
Croque garcon?
You can just… not? Having two larger meals a day isn’t that weird.
I have adopted the “Central European” diet:
One large meal a day and then leftovers + bread and toppings.
Occasionally might have more but that’s my daily meal plan and works pretty great.
Bread is a life saver. If you don’t have time to cook just eat some bread. Healthy (depends on the kind of bread) and you don’t have to worry about beeing hungry an hour later.
And honestly, you can make a lot of really good bread quite quickly. Leaving out proofing for a bit, it’s less than watching an episode of a show. Bread it also easy enough that you can totally watch a show while making it, and not worry about chopping off your fingers lol
What does the rest of the world do then? Cook twice or thrice a day? That’s just silly.
There’s a variety of lunches that are cheap and insanely easy though:
- Stir fry with leftover rice, an egg, and some frozen veggies
- Sandwich with a piece of fruit or some veggies
- Leftover soup heated up on the stove (or in the microwave if ya nasty)
- Cold pasta dishes like pasta salad with leftover protein thrown on top
- Charcuterie plate with cold cuts, crackers, cheeses, and jams
- Salad with cold leftover proteins
- Leftover fried chicken straight out the fridge, as God intended
Like sure, some of these things rely on having leftovers laying around to dress up a bit, but I think that’s a reasonable thing to expect of most people.
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.
Why do you believe a “nutrition brick” would be at all more appetizing than the things described in OP?
Just go to prison and have a nutriloaf ffs.
Doesn’t need to be appetizing, just not downright nasty. Of course, a pill would be the desired form factor, but you couldn’t fit that much in a pill
That’s what cliff bars/energy bars/protein shakes are.
They do. They taste like shit.
they also make shakes that do this. also taste like shit.
£4 sounds pretty cheap if it’s a decent meal
So more like £8 or 10
California here. $15 minimum. Less if you give some shitty app all your data.
Meal deals are rarely ever decent. They’re enough to get you through the working day if you sit at a desk all day.
It’s a sandwich, pocket of crisps or a chocolate bar and a drink.
I would murder my whole family for a $5 sandwich meal deal in the states. Even fast food by my work is double that, and you’re still only getting America-quality food packed with sugars and preservatives.
As an American who spent time living in the UK - ‘sandwich’ is a generous description of what you get in a £4 meal deal. Some meal deals have things made from actual food but good luck finding one of those at that price.
It’s an appropriate amount of food in terms of calories, but it does leave one distinctly dissatisfied.
Yeah I’m usually more interested in nutrients than calories. Otherwise I’d just have a Guinness for lunch
Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.
Is this some sort of British joke that I am too Indian to understand?
Start going to Starbucks for lunch, instead of the roadside stall and you’ll understand.
I’m happy with cooking at 13:00Why would you assume I am eating at roadside stalls? Cause I am Indian?? Ignoring that hopefully accidental racism, I do in fact cook lunch when I have the time with mostly rice with one of the premade mixes and quick vegetable stir frys. Shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to make something simple. When I am busy I usually get something either in office or nearby restaurant. A good lunch at normal restaurants usually costs about 100-300₹ per person and could get some light food within 100₹ as well. I don’t count the shit at Starbucks as a meal, maybe a snack but why a sandwich when I can get good Indian food.
I didn’t read OP’s statement as racist.
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’
Personally, I’m always looking for the small restaurants that serve food on Styrofoam or paper plates. Bonus points if it’s attached to a gas station or the owner’s little kids are in the dining room or kitchen playing and coloring.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter, it can be a barbecue joint or some sort of Asian culture I’m ignorant of.
You see a little kid quietly coloring in a booth by themselves, you know that shit is going to be good.
The first statement sounded like I am always eating at road side stalls and never had a lunch at a restaurant. Not that I would bother going to a chain like that to begin with. I am obviously not a native speaker so maybe I misunderstood it.
I am not a fan of those road side stalls, I am not a germaphobe but at least my food should be made in a clean Kitchen. Maybe because my mom would never let me try those and I grew up that way.
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’
With my aversion to food made out in the open, right next to running cars and open-coughing people, I stopped eating from roadside stalls by the time I started having enough autonomy.
I tend to prefer non-chain restaurants with viewable kitchens [1], but due to lack of any such desirable place in my area, eating out nearby, usually means subway (which is just, less bad).Then I realise that with the amount of money I would spend to pay for the cheapest local meal place, I can actually cook with Ghee at home. And that topples the equation over its head.
- Morning: Sandwich in Ghee/butter/peanut oil depending upon the mood
- Afternoon: Fried rice in Ghee
- Evening: Gram/Kidney Beans/Lentils in Ghee, with rice
Definitely not going back to outside food with nobody knows which oil they use.
those places tend to hire cooks who actually mind their coughing ↩︎
We try and only eat out as a treat. Almost all of our my meals are eaten at home as we work from home these days. Also, my wife is an amazing cook and her food is better than most restaurants. We usually have leftovers or a sandwich for lunch.
I’m not familiar with your currency symbol? What country do you live in and are the health standards low enough that eating from a stall is a concern? That’s a different situation.
I’m in the US, so food trucks, stalls and gas stations actually have decent standards. (Often, the cleanliness in these places is heads and shoulders above corporate chain places.)
I learned to always check the bathroom of a restaurant. How clean they keep their bathroom tells you a lot about how they keep their kitchen. Small, family run, places tend to have the best food and the cleanest bathrooms, in my experience.
I’m not familiar with your currency symbol
Try
qalc.
Arch:pacman -S libqalculateDebian:apt install qalcRed Hat:yum install qalculateOtherwise: http://qalculate.github.io/It’s got both, a terminal frontend and a Qt GUI one. (Actually 3. Also a GTK one)
You can copy the currency text along with the symbol into it and by default, it will convert it to your Locale’s currency, so you can know the exchange rates at least.
Also, ₹2000 - ₹3000 per 8 hour day tends to be what an engineering fresher would normally expect in a place like Delhi, where a Subway sub will cost around ₹400.
Running stock Android on my phone and use Jerboa for Lemmy, my computer is Windows 10 as Linux still is lacking in CAD/CAM. In particular, CAM at a professional level. My home server is running Linux, however. Been playing with Linux for a long time.
Wish Mastercam worked in Linux and I’d happily make the jump.
I’m betting they didn’t mean it to be racist. I wish I had roadside stalls as options to eat at where I work. A lot of times those end up being better quality and I like the thought of giving money to the people directly making the food instead of a corporate overlord that takes 95% of the money and makes the workers divide the 5% among all of them.
We don’t have roadside stalls around me, but that’s exactly what food trucks are for. When I used to work near a bunch of food trucks, the food was fantastic, always different, and so much better than a chain restaurant
I travel a lot for work so I’ve been to a pretty large number of restaurants and such. I’ve definitely had bad food from food trucks before, but it isn’t very common for it to be abysmal. It’s not like a restaurant that can have other factors like atmosphere, lighting, etc. If the food is bad they won’t last long. Never seen a true roadside stall any of the places I’ve been though unfortunately. I’m honestly so sick of chain restaurants. They completely take over and drive local stuff out a lot of the time.
₹300 comes at around 4 euros. 4 pounds is ~₹450, so it’s pretty close.
If you check the pricing of one of the shit-listed chains, you get hardly anything filling in that price, vs ₹90 for a full meal in some places (that was somewhere in Bengaluru).But that’s on the high ends tho. I just had a rava dosa and lime soda for 110 in udupi so still very affordable. The term affordable depends on each person but I think you would agree it’s very reasonable.
Exactly why I suggested going to stuff like Starbucks to understand the feelings of OP.
Ah I assumed you were praising Starbucks for some odd reason. Hard to grasp intentions on text.
I don’t even like coffee
Me, living in France, where a cafeteria room is mandatory, 1-2h long lunchs are the norm and your employer has to give you at least 4-5€/day to buy lunch:
Sad American noises
Do I want to get 6 hours of sleep and then pay $25 for a shitty meal, or get 4.5 hours of sleep and cook something that I hope tastes okayish reheated in the microwave tomorrow?
Shit take.
A Br*tish person complaining about lunch, that’s rich.
Maybe try having a proper one, like the rest of Europe, and you will find the answer to all of your complaints.
Can you give an example of a “proper one” that isn’t cooked?
Bread with (good) cheese and some fruit.
Genuinely interested in how that is practical in an office setting. We barely have room to keep leftovers, let alone decent bread and cheese. It’s also a bit boring if you’re having it most days.
There’s tons of different kinds of bread, cheese, deli meat, spreads, nuts, fruit and vegetables that you can easily make a different combination every day for a while. And you could pack a lunchbox that is enough to feed you for the day and leave leftovers at home.
Bring an insulated lunchbox. This is easy. It only needs to last from when you leave to lunch
Depending on what the food is, you might not even need an ice pack.
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!
Didn’t know psychopaths were just showing themselves like this on Lemmy, wtf
The same meal again? Crazy talk
That’s crazy talk.
