Buying groceries and putting them away is a biggish task. And when you’re done, you’re tired of looking at food and thinking about all the prep work of cooking food. But most of what you have isn’t food yet, it’s still ingredients.
You deserve to have that one ready dinner tonight, whether it’s pizza or rotisserie chicken or sushi or Greek-salad-inna-box or rat-onna-stick. You know you’ll do it anyway, so just plan it in as you shop.
That’s why I’m buying two pizzas. Take that, brain!
Just make sure you have some ketchup for that rat!
And I’m also out of room in the freezer by the time I’m tired and staring at the thawing pizza
I started using meal delivery kits a few years ago because of what you mentioned. I don’t mind the cooking aspect, but it’s the planning and buying groceries part that’s a pain in the ass. Having something that says “here’s everything you need, go make some food” has been a game changer for me.
I agree with your point completely but it’s the reason those don’t appeal to me at all. I enjoy the tiny creativity of looking in the fridge and cupboard, with whatever appetite and influences my mind has picked up that day, and also an eye to what needs cooking while it’s still good, and making a meal.
Now I just wanna have a buffet of pizza, rotisserie chicken, and sushi, and I have none of these things on hand.
Rat it is, then!
I sometimes will buy the little Red Baron personal pizzas that come in a two pack with the idea being that they will be something quick I can microwave for lunch at work for two days. They never make it through the weekend though lol
microwave 🤮
If it makes you feel any better since I usually give up and eat them on the weekend when I have more time they end up in the air fryer lol
Omg lol, yeah. Felt. Totally felt.
Half of my freezer is frozen pizzas. I know how I operate.
I have the opposite.
Two whole fish. About 3kg each. Each of them for when I feel like cooking and make a nice meal.
It has been 2 years.
remember that though the time is vastly extended - things can still go bad in the freezer https://foodsguy.com/how-long-fish-last-freezer/
Yep, I am not going to eat that fish. I have a freezer which is too large for my needs, so stuff like that just ends up being left at the bottom as a monument of my apathy.
valid and relatable, I prefer eating fresh so I don’t freeze much aside from ice cubes and the occasional bread, and there’s this half a package of fish sticks just, in the freezer, probably not good to eat anymore, but taking them out would be more effort than leaving them there
USDA says fish (and pretty much everything else) is “safe” indefinitely if properly frozen. Taste and texture are what the majority of timelines are about. That and your chances of accidentally messing up the freezing with a power outage or improperly shut door goes up over time.
Frozen pizza costs the same as most chains, may as well get it fresh. There was a time this wasn’t true but now they’re all like 8.50+
What chain can you get a pizza for $8.50? Only one I can think of is Little Caesars (which I personally adore, but I am a living trash can). Actual question, pizza is hilarious inflated price wise used to be a cheap treat.
10 years ago I paid my pizzas 5€ fresh, now I pay them 6€ because I lost the student discount… Please don’t tell the owner about inflation I beg you
Maybe you should learn to make pizza at home. Detroit style pizza is relatively easy to make if you know how to produce bread. Thin crust can be done, it’s just a little more effort.
Thin crust (Napoli style) is easy, so long as you have an oven that can attain 500°C (932°F)
Ok but can I eat the fresh pizza from a chain without going outside?
Where I am I can consistently get bogos that make the premium frozen pizza brands about $5 per pizza. There are also cheaper store brands that are $3-4. Definitely cheaper than dominos/Papa John’s. Especially since they’ve raised there prices considerably in recent years as well as stopped offering the kinds of deep discount specials and deals they used to offer.
Wtf why do I feel called out
I feel personally attacked
I saw this posted before, and I’ll give the same advice.
If you don’t have a freezer big enough to hold two weeks worth of food, buy a bigger one. They have models that can fit in any apartment. I like to cook big pots of soup or chili and freeze them in pint size containers. Knowing you’ve got a few good frozen meals in the house is a nice feeling.
Meal prep is a godsend
AND PUT LABELS ON THAT!
(Have various bags of food I prepped in the freezer, all reddish-brown stuff like tomato soup, all marked with black Edding on the bags. Can’t decipher a thing, so it’s always suprise supper…)
Once I save up and buy a chest freezer(and eventually fill it with expired frozen UPF as well as various game meat I hunt) I’ll know I’m living that good good middle class life. I can only dream of having yet another refrigerator in the garage just for beer and bevies.
making frozen pizza is cooking as far as I’m concerned
honestly, frozen is pretty unnecessary for easy pizza though, the hard part of pizza is making the crust, so if you want personal pizzas, get a cheap pack of pocketless pita breads to add sauce and cheese and whatever else to, and then its basically the same as making a piece of toast with a bunch of toppings. takes about the same time to cook up as a frozen one and probably will end up being cheaper. Make it in a pan with a little oil and the crust will probably turn out nicer than frozen pizza, even.
The whole point is not doing all that
You have never encountered executive dysfunction.
On the contrary, its been one of the bigger issues in my life, I just have such anxiety over spending money on one use things like food that I cant stomach buying frozen pizza
Real ones would just starve.
(Just kidding, money anxiety + executive dysfunction is it’s own level of hell. Hope you’re doing better now)
It sort of counters itself to some extent for me, in that I can use my aversion to spending much unnecessarily to force myself into doing things, or avoid overindulging in things that my poor self control might otherwise make an issue, it just creates more stress than if I would just function in a more healthy manner.
So true, the other day I’m like oh I’ll buy two pizzas they’re on sale that way it will last me the next few weeks for the days I don’t feel like cooking, day zero I cooked the first pizza, leftovers lasted me until day 3 after which I baked the second pizza
We have three teenagers. My 15yo son eats a whole frozen pizza by himself and then asks for more. Sometimes I buy six at a time.
How large/heavy is a regular frozen pizza where you’re from? Eating less than a whole one sounds a bit odd to me as they’re really not very big around here, around 350-400 g each.
20-29oz. On the heavier end that’s approaching a kilo.
I do it because I’m tired from shopping and don’t want to cook.
That’s why I buy 5.
Frozen pizza once a week for two decades, almost no exceptions. It’s a tradition I will keep up until the day I die.
