Warning: hamburger

[jere7my]

I think it's a little dangerous to have a McDonald's, a Dunkin Donuts, and a Pizza Hut a block from my house. I don't particularly like any of them (well, maybe the donuts), but when I look into the cupboard and find all my bread moldy it's just too easy to toddle down the block for a hamburger. I mustn't do that too often—rather, I must explore the other nearby food options.

I spent much of the afternoon going to the post office. The post office is only a twenty-minute walk from my house (it's a few blocks north of the center of town), but when I got there I found my iPod had not, for some reason, stored the address I needed. So I walked back home—in the rain, I might add—found the address, walked to CVS to buy the mailer the post office lacked, walked back to the post office, waited in a second long line...and by the time I got home and discovered my bread was moldy I was ready for a fast hamburger. See above.

Quiet night tonight, and not just because I spent the evening IRCing and working: our cat is at the vet, getting spayed, and had to spend the night there. I wince to think of how sad and scared she must be right now. Tomorrow, much love and attention for our fluffball.

Comments

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

I recommend Hattie's.

Fast food

[kairon-gnothi.livejournal.com]

As a result of the move and the limited shopping I have accomplished, I have had more fast food (and spent too damn much money) in the last month than in the entire five years before then.

For eating cheap (and non-burger - I have mad cow paranoia for any ground beef product as beef companies extract the last yummy meaty bits by crunching machines along the cow's spinal cord) I recommend the McDonald's chicken on the $1 menu. Add extra lettuce, tomato, hold the mayo, and add the cheese and it's like having something reasonably health. Two make a generous meal.

For the next level of expense ($3-$6) I like Subway because I can customize.

I never get fries and soda - I resent the huge profit margin in addition to the health consequences.

You know, I skipped dinner to meet with a client and now I'm hungry. Damn. I wonder if there's a Mickey D's nearby????

[ajacs.livejournal.com]

When Megan and I had a WaWa 75 yards from our front door, we went through periods of eating extremely badly. The way we dealt with it was to keep lots of non-terrible frozen foods and cans of soup in the house, so that we never absolutely had to get fast food (or wawa hoagies or, worse yet, Ben n' Jerry's). Our favorites include Campbell's Clam Chowder and Trader Joe's frozen rice bowls. We also had some number of frozen pizzas, spagettios, and other typically bacheloresque food choices. Less expensive and less bad for you than mickey d's.