This is demented in a fresh new way I didn’t see coming. I remain THRILLED at the concept of a meal you cook at home that lasts several days
This is demented in a fresh new way I didn’t see coming. I remain THRILLED at the concept of a meal you cook at home that lasts several days
Cooking sucks when you don't know how to do it well. I don't say that as a burn -- most people didn't choose whether they know how to cook, and it takes a lot of time and effort to learn. What IS cheap and easy is to simply not post dumb shit like "grocerybros".
There’s no easier time in the history of the world to learn to cook, free recipes and video instructions litter the internet. Of course it takes time and effort but honestly simple stuff doesn’t take any longer to learn than how to play a new video game.
I actually think the internet makes things harder! There are too many variations to pick through, and many recipes are needlessly complicated. I was unemployed the year my kid was born, and I read the Joy of Cooking my mom gave me cover to cover. I guess that's not replicable, though lol.
I remember when I was like ten, a buddy and I called up a friend of ours to get directions on how to make spaghetti. Had been baking since kindergarten, but did very little cooking. Cook well now, but the memory entertains me still.
When I was like ten, I tried to freestyle rice krispie treats. (CALL someone?? God forbid.) It didn't occur to me to use butter. My stepmom still teases me about the mess.
@lt-jlh.bsky.social I love this comedian 😂 grocerybro
don't know him actually
He is so funny
God, there’s so much stupidity here. I mean, finding OUT there’s a term “GroceryBro” is infuriating, but also the smug self-satisfaction at thinking restaurants are some life hack/next-level thinking? Also, there ain’t no you’re spending $8 anywhere on a whole meal these days.
Also, does this imaginary $8 meal cover the OTHER two meals you eat every day? Or, you know, the end cost of eating fast food every single day? Being on Twitter does sound fun- I can pretend every decision is actually a genius move and my whole life is some chess game against basic humanity.
Also where on earth are they getting chicken bowls for $8?? I know maybe three restaurants in GENERAL that are anywhere near that price!
Proud GroceryBro here!
I guess I’ve been leftovers-pilled?
Leftovers for days!! We all know Turkey Volume Guessing Man is also a grocery Bro?!
my mom used to make a chop suey that would last alll week, and it was fucking delicious and i need to look thru her recipes cuz i wanna make it and no idea if she wrote down how to
It's weird seeing the people who don't want to eat leftovers. Like... It's still good food? Didn't you like it the first time? I'm saying this as someone who cooked twice this week and had enough food for six dinners. For two people!
Their math only math's because they are single and lonely bros.
Yeah, i am PERPLEXED by the math in this post... now that's not to say I can't spend some money on groceries, but you better believe the meal i make with the expensive groceries is GOOD
Sunday crock pot foods you eat on for the next 2-3 days for lunch at work. 😃😋
Y’know the news meme that gets me? That all food must be eaten within four days, otherwise freeze it immediately.
nothing pisses me off like people who have never felt hunger a day in their lives having the audacity to complain about eating leftover
"Yeah i'm a total storepilled foodcel. I'm basically going store mode and i'm giving producecore vibes."
say hello to my little friend, his name is Thorstein Veblen
I'm single grocerbroing it right now making some tacos while only in my underwear and a striped apron
Big ol pot of 6 bean chili
And if your leftovers are in an opaque container you get a fresh buzz a week later when you have to check what's in them.
An entire generation telling us they have no clue how to shop or cook. 🙄
I've been loving curry for this. Make a big ol' pot of Japanese curry and then just keep making rice until you're out of curry then make a Thai curry and keep making rice until you're out, then start the process all over
YES
This erases the existence of grocerysisters….
GroceryFolx 💜
making a big batch of something and then FREEZING HALF OF IT FOR LATER come on that’s god tier meal prep
me now: oh no I am so tired and lazy right now how will I ever survive? me from 6 months ago: look into your freezer and find soup you can just heat up and eat no prob buddy
when you eat leftovers you don’t have to cook OR do any dishes OR spend any additional money! Leftovers are incredible!
Yes $60 in groceries...that's like 3 items.
I mean it’s one banana, Michael, what could it cost - $10??
Sorry Paul, groceries are woke now. Real freedom patriots only eat at hooters or whalburgers.
It's rage bait and it makes me mad!
these guys need to do what i did and marry a guy who does all the grocery shopping and cooking. problem solved.
Molly is right about this. We should all marry her husband.
no!!! you have to get your own!
Shouldn't that be HIS decision.
Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?
so much for the tolerant left
Terrified to imagine what the wives of grocerybros are being called over there.
Probably something like "kale-kunts* or *TargetTwats*
That’s what I did. I haven’t turned on the oven since we met and we’ve been married 8 years
Bread is dark magic to these folk.
See, this is what my partner did. Solid play on her part ngl
In Italy cooking is a sign of masculinity.
I like it when the leftovers form that nice crust.
“crusty ahh leftovers” Why do you talk like that?
I’m not sure I’ve ever made a single meal that cost $60. Maybe the first time I cooked after living on my own and I counted having to buy all the spices? Even fancy shit like saffron risotto hasn’t cost me that much. Are they exclusively cooking with truffles or something?
whole brisket?
Oh yeah, giant roast or other expensive cut of meat could do it. 40oz porterhouse steaks for a family of 4.
Maybe the “with time and labor” is doing heavy lifting and the 15 minutes to cook spaghetti includes a valuation of one’s time at $240/hour
these guys need beans
Yeah bags of them thrown at their heads
Too crunchy
STAT
everybody could do with more beans
They probably need the fiber.
Like genuinely, home cooking let's me make sure I got at least one high fiber meal a day and can skip the metamucil.
These people eat at restaurants exclusively, they have no way of knowing that home-cooked food often tastes BETTER after marinating in the fridge and being reheated!
Every day the internet invents a strange, pointless new insult
A few times a year my wife makes a gigantic pot of chili and you better believe o am excited about CHILI WEEK
And you can portion out what you don't eat, freeze it, and you have "ohgod I don't know what to have for lunch" options in the future!
in my household growing up, we thrilled to dad’s bolognese week and the bounty to be found in the overstuffed freezer
For us it was the Huge pots of Spanish Rice or Mac n Cheese w/ sliced up Hot Dogs. Both kept well in old plastic Butter tubs in the fridge for days.
And what’s especially great is when you make so much that you can freeze some of it so that on a day when you don’t have time/ingredients/whatever you have bonus chili!
My Husband will use all parts of a Roasted Chicken for many many meals. We pick it clean, make sandwiches or chicken salad. The bones are collected and eventually end up part of stock. Love one meal becoming many.
I am also a fan of spaghetti week.
This and also a big slow cooked roast, for me!
And it gets better multiple days in a row.
Gumbo is 100% like that. Make a huge pot, pretty damn good that first day. But the next time? And the next? It's incredible.
On the last day when there’s not quite enough, it’s chili nacho night.
I can also recommend pouring it over a baked potato.
Tater tots too, if you feel like being extra. Hell, I'll put it on spaghetti.
I think you just became mayor of Cincinnati.
"As your mayor..." Nah, Cincy chili is gross. I'm glad they like cinnamon in hteir chili but... no. But putting any chili on pasta is a win.
That's the only way to eat chili, on top of spaghetti.
Chili on spaghetti is a delicacy!
Oyster crackers and cheddar on top!
You mean I have to eat my chili four days in a row? Oh. No. Please. OMG!
kind of beeeeaaans Paul? kidney, black.... Garbanzo?
Oh man! Nothing better then chili cheese waffle fries the day after a pot of chili!
And the fact that chili is meant to get better as it sits in the fridge. Dang...gonna have to have my own chili week soon
A Gas tronome
It gets better every day!!! People understand nothing these days except us
I am also excited for your chili week, please hook me up
I'm guessing your plumber is too.
I kinda wanna do Chili week now
Congratulations! I just finished my chili week a few days ago.
Damn, is it Suckin On Chili Week yet?
And there are so many things that you can do with chilli. You can make chilli dogs, you can make a chilli sloppy Joe, you can throw some chilli over a bowl of rice. You can throw chilli in a burrito. Or you can just eat that goodness straight out of a bowl. I love chilli so much.
I, too, am excited about CHILI WEEK.
Chili Week culminates on Mac & Cheese Day in my house
My go-to move to shake things up is on day 3 of chili week I add macaroni and velveeta to the chili in the instapot for 10-12 minutes and make some great chili Mac.
FUCK YEAH CHILI WEEK Best week of the goddamn year.
Is chili Week before or after shark week?
i only eat hot dogs a few times a year as well & it is always at the tail end of a chili week
Leftover pasta is often BETTER than fresh, IMO.
I learned to make a ziti and it was fucking over.
Chili week and Shark week concurrently? What a time to be alive
Same. I make it myself. Love to have a crack at it when it’s the coldest. Some good ass chili!
Nothing says fall in my house like the big batch of chili.
my mom says You make too much chili and I'm like Mother, how does one make just a little chili
Is this a Psycho situation or your actual mom
she's real, her name is Judy!
My picky-ass teen doesn’t like chili, so I have to make do with crock pot black beans (smitten kitchen recipe, natch.) I’m thinking about gradually making those beans more and more like chili until one day he realizes that chili is good
I'm single so I can and do do chili week whenever I want.
Oh, forecast in November says a week of rain in the 40s? Feels like this grocery trip is for CHILI WEEK.
Je suis un pote d'épicerie
@lt-jlh.bsky.social 🤣
Chili week is great because it also renews a love of corn chips and sour cream
Oh man, I used to make a giant pot of chili once a year, but now I'm married and have children and I'm the only one that likes chili. So I miss chili week. I don't like hot dogs, but you better god damn believe I made awesome ass home made grilled chili cheese hot dogs at least once that week.
So make a giant pot of chili & freeze most of it in small ziplocs so you can have a serving whenever you want.
Also, after freezing, you can freeze-dry it too. Lasts way longer, feels tastier, holds nutrients better.
Frankly I don't have the energy to make myself a meal and my family a different meal. I'm doing good enough getting my kids fed at all.
Understandable. I will just say that my chest freezer paid for itself within a year by reducing food waste, allowing me to batch cook a dozen portions of half a dozen favorites, make a six months worth of things like roasted garlic, caramelized onions, & ginger paste, & a bunch of other things
Gesundheit!
Garçon d'épicerie!
Mon - chili Tue - 2-way chili Wed - 3-way chili Thu - 4-way chili Fri - 5-way chili
Hell yeah.
I *just* put in a grocery order including what I need to make my own pot of chili week tomorrow. $10 for what will be five meals.
This is certainly one of the more satisfyingly Mr. Peanutbutter dialog moments.
Hell Yeah! Although we don't manage a whole week (feeding like 5 folks w/ possible others dropping by), my fam can get a good couple of nights out a big ol' pot of chili. = )
hell yeah chili week is An Event
My wife made world class pork chops last night. I'm making a steak dinner with mashed potatoes, sweet corn and chocolate mousse for us AND a friend tonight and there's no WAY it cost $60 and no way it would cost less than $60 at a restaurant. These guys are insane.
Where are these folks getting $8 rice bowls?? I went to the closest normal seeming place next to a worksite a few days ago and a shitty salad with decent falafel was $14
I don’t tend to make meals that last weeks since I’m not good at meal planning. However I am good at cooking. I did make some vegan white chocolate covered strawberries for a friend whose family lost their cat recently and I am proud of how they turned out. I wish I could do vegan chili week
Turkey cold from the fridge for a week > turkey one day on Thanksgiving
So much you can do. Chili. Chili on hotdogs. Chili on burgers. Chili on eggs. The possibilities are endless!
I frequently make giant pots of stuff, and I’m frequently excited about it, even though it does in fact cost me $100. But it’s a giant pot of delicious food I can eat at any moment. But I must ask you all this:
…imagine killing a cow, tanning the hide, cutting it, dying it, sewing it, and stitching in a rubber sole and and decals, boxing it, shipping it across an ocean, to a store, and selling 2 shoes for $100. vs I bought chicken breasts, noodles, broth, and celery and milk for like $60….etc. lies.
If this is your immediate association with chili I feel deeply sorry for you
I do the same thing for Japanese curry.
We have started freezing/vacuum sealing soups/stews/chili and it is the gift that keeps on giving. Just revisited a corn chowder from last fall that lit my brain up like Proust's madeleines
As a guy who just this very week made a huge pot of chili with which I will sustain myself over the course of multiple days: Hi.
I have two leftover dishes full of sloppy joe leftovers in my freezer and I love being able to decide to eat a couple of sandwiches from those leftovers on a whim.
We do chili week and chicken noodle soup week (but you goot keep the noodles separate!)
The biggest thrill is putting some away in the freezer and then a month later....BOOM! Surprise already cooked chili just needs reheated!
When I’m making a soup, or a slow cooked stew, or something of that ilk I will on purpose make more than we need so we have leftovers. These chuds are on a different planet and I wouldn’t even stop there for a layover.
I just made instant pot tuna noodle casserole and had it for dinner for four nights in a row.
Superb. Love that for you.
These fucking people are not going to survive the first week of this apocalypse that they like to imagine will somehow empower them.
Pretty clear these guys have no concept of how portions work.
“Grok, is it gay to eat leftovers?”
Who's got the Grocerybro t-shirts I might buy one
And where the fuck do you get a meal for $8? Taco Bell for lunch was $16 and change.
And making a big pot of chili or a big batch of whatever, you get to skip a couple days worth of "what am I having for dinner?" Which is NOT a downside!
"the store sold me 5 chicken breasts even though I only needed one for my meal? Can someone explain what's going on????"
I need to reread Kapital about that, seems suspicious
OMG there's recipes in the back! Chicken a la King? That's hilarious
Strikes me that in addition to the incomprehensible dumbness of this, it's another example of their fundamental lack of empathy. These people just don't know the love of making food for another human and how much better it tastes when you do so.
Tell me you have a filthy asshole because you think touching your butthole is gay without… “Grocerybros”
Also these folks just don’t shop well or something. The first time my (to be) wife and I got some friends together to make sushi, I think we spent like $30/$40 and made TOO MUCH TO FEED 8 PEOPLE. It would have been like $200 in a restaurant And to be clear, this was _sushi grade_ fish, so…$$
Still - they... they know you don't have to cook everything you bought immediately when you get home, right? That we have these "boxes of cold" where we can put raw ingredients to be prepared later? Do they throw all their shopping into a huge cauldron and then eat sadness stew all week?
who the heck is eating at home for 60 and eating comparable meal out for the same price? that math isn't mathing.
Must be their “time and labor” expenses. Figure it takes 7 minutes to make a grilled cheese sandwich… 7 minutes where these meal-time dynamos are off raking in the big bucks while us schmoes are buttering bread for free!
I do miss living somewhere within walking distance of decent restaurants. Miss living near grocery stores even more. Adding ~50 minutes (total) drive time to either makes me feel like turning into a hermit.
This reads exactly like a Hitler bot
Ugh 8 whole items to prep, the humanity!
I like the idea that these guys think you buy everything you need over again every time you cook. Finished cooking? Better throw out those bottles of salt and pepper before they start to rot!
The shelf life of salt is just ridiculous. You look away for just two weeks and it crystalizes... into a lot of little pieces... that... ummm...
I knew a guy whose dad would throw out a loaf of pre-sliced grocery store white bread after two days. Apparently he believed it went bad that quickly.
None of these guys own a crockpot and it shows.
I mean an instant pot is awesome. I have the Ambiano brand Aldi version of this.
"With time and labor" - are they trying to factor in the 'cost' of someone making a meal? Sounds like when companies tell you that actually you're making $250,000 per year if you factor in stuff like the office space and electricity they provide you for your job
I’m literally waiting for the water to boil as I type so I can break off a frozen chunk of the pasta sauce I made a few weeks ago, reheat it, and have some bomb ass homemade pasta sauce with my spaghetti
Maybe he's a chef making more than $60 an hour.
There are so many people who seem to spend all of their time imagining up new and stupid reasons to be angry. It sounds exhausting.
This is really a thing? I have a family of 4 and we spend $300-400 on groceries per week (not just food obviously). Let's say we ate out for every meal and it was $10 each meal. That's $840 per week. Grocery Bros might just be adults.
Mustn't forget to tally up the labor cost of fucking boiling water and opening a package.
I love that the term "Grocery Bros" implies that people who cook are weird, insular bullies.
What in the culture war?
These people are deranged
I read this as "my cooking sucks I'd rather buy chipotle" My guy you should develop yourself
Where do the “it’s gay to make food” people meet up with the “gotta be prepared to make food on an apocalypse” people meet up? What club they hang at?
The apocalypse preppers are only ever imagining Grilled Roadkill with a side of Cold Canned Beans
Preppers gave us all a hard time for "relying" too much on society, then we went through a once-in-a-century pandemic and they all started eating horse dewormer. So that's where their heads are at.
So much of the internet galaxy brain discourse is just "how can I rationalize being extremely lazy?"
Born from an inability or unwillingness to perceive the self as wrong or flawed. "I do it this way, ergo this must be the correct way to do it." Baby brain shit.
I wonder if they're also paying themselves whatever they would make hourly at their job, that's the only way those numbers could possibly make any kind of sense.
Both of my Grandfathers could cook. In fact my very stubborn trucker Grandfather told me never expect something from someone you are not willing to do for them. He'd say that while making my grandmother and I breakfast. He was good with eggs, made shit coffee.
Also, I am someone who likes spicy and heavily seasoned food. Unless I want Thai (which tastes good, but never sits well for me), I have no other options here. If I want good food, my options are either make it myself or go without.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess the subtext is‘It’s gay to cook!’🍌
*clutches his copy of 'EveryDayCook' by @altonbrown.bsky.social to his chest in horror* I used to grocery shop damn near EVERY DAY when my office was above a grocery store. My wife and I cooked a fresh meal almost every night. It was SO convenient and fun. :|
Where are they getting a chicken rice and veggie bowl for $8?!?
2019
Fellas is it gay to buy groceries