AYTA if you can't afford rent or groceries, but regularly get food delivered

[dead0man]

yes, and bonus asshole points if the fridge you didn't buy in the house you live in for free is full of your leftovers

[vitoNova]

During the entire china-covid ordeal, I must have spent easily over $20k on Uber/DoorDASH alone

[Meclazine for Israel]

They are not related to one another.

The person might have great time constraints on cooking.

[progressive85]

I like to order pizza or Chinese every now and then, but do most of the cooking at home.  I like comfort foods so I will make Mac and Cheese Spirals if I have very little money.

UberEats and Doordash are extremely expensive, but I became addicted to them and had to stop.  They swallowed up so much of the budget, and for what I was paying, the food just wasn't enough and it wasn't worth it.

[dead0man]

They are not related to one another.

The person might have great time constraints on cooking.

where is the time going if they don't have any money for rent?

[DaleCooper]

They are not related to one another.

The person might have great time constraints on cooking.

where is the time going if they don't have any money for rent?

It's baffling, isn't it? No one has time to throw something in the microwave anymore. They act like we've had delivery apps since the beginning of time and it's impossible to imagine life without them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Don't care because I make decent money doing the deliveries.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Hard to say without solid details, but generally I think the only times you should really use Uber Eats, etc. is if you’re disabled, sick, or intoxicated.

[Property Representative of the Harold Holt Swimming Centre]

During the entire china-covid ordeal, I must have spent easily over $20k on Uber/Doorsash alone

I've never ordered groceries on such sites and apps but I've noticed that they constantly offer big discounts (like £15 off, which is probably around a third of a lot of peoples' weekly grocery shopping bills). I only use them to order takeaway food (almost always just once a week) but the discounts seem to have dried up on that front compared to a few years ago.

[dead0man]

Hard to say without solid details, but generally I think the only times you should really use Uber Eats, etc. is if you’re disabled, sick, or intoxicated.

the poll is about healthy adults without solid excuses.  Obviously a disabled person that does this is not an asshole (though being disabled isn't an excuse to keep the fridge full of leftovers).

[Mr. Smith]

Don't care because I make decent money doing the deliveries.

This.

[Ferguson97]

They are not related to one another.

The person might have great time constraints on cooking.

Are there people who don't have time to cook a full meal every night? Absolutely.

But there are always other options.

It takes 5-7 minutes to microwave a Hungry Man frozen dinner, which is significantly cheaper than ordering takeout.

There's also meal-prepping. Take 5 minutes to cut up some vegetables, put that in a crock pot with some meat and broth, cook it on low while you're at work, you've got soup/stew for a week!

[dead0man]

the "not enough time to prepare meals" excuse reminds me of the "some people have a medical reason to be fat".  Sure, but the other 99% of people have plenty time to prepare meals and the reason they are fat is because they input more calories than they burn.

[ingemann]

I don’t think it makes you asshole, if you’re poor and get food delivered. I think it makes you an idiot. I can afford to o get food delivered, but I almost never do so (in the last five years I have only done so once), mostly because I ‘m cheap and doesn’t trust delivery workers.

As for doesn’t have the time to make food, in the time it takes to get food delivered you could make it yourself. But let’s be honest a lot of people who get food delivered do so because they’re stressed out, yes they have the time to make it themselves, but when life have browbeaten you, this is a often a small luxury, which make daily life a little less horrible.