I mean something like an old fashioned is not going to work by just adding less alcohol, since tasting the alcohol (with a bit of extra flavor over just drinking it neat) is kind of the whole point there. The idea here is to have the complexity of those kinds of cocktails taste-wise, but with less alcohol.

Even if the break-even point is relatively low in theory, my rule is that a subscription needs to do quite a bit better than breaking even to be worth giving up the flexibility and convenience of pay-as-you-go. For example what if I have a month where I don’t love any of the movies out, or am busy doing other things? N…

Isn’t the whole idea that intermittent fasting allows you to eat fewer calories with less mental effort, though? Also possibly while getting to eat more calorie-dense foods. If you need to eat 1500 calories a day to lose weight at a reasonable pace, and eat 3+ times a day, you’re going to need to be really mindful of…

It’s funny you mention the drink, because if you’re really looking to save money wouldn’t tap water be the way to go? I feel like the requirement of a drink and side to make it a “meal” limit your options considerably here. Like, a Chipotle meat or sofritas burrito on its own with no guac (or a bean burrito so you can…

I’m also wondering what the baseline is on the “cheap” part of this. Like don’t get me wrong, ground turkey is great, but I would consider that one “cheap” only in the sense that home cooking from scratch in general is a cheaper way of eating. Or maybe compared to like, a salmon filet or a steak or something.

There is also the abomination that is “mooz”, though that’s pretty much exclusively an Italian-American thing in the same vein as “gabagool”.

My neighborhood has a Saturday farmer’s market where I like to buy my eggs when I can, but it’s seasonal and only open May-early November or so. There are other year-round farmer’s markets around, but those require travel. So when I need to get them from the grocery store for convenience’ sake during the six colder…

I am currently engaged to someone I went to 5-8th grade with, though neither of us were each other’s crush back then. So maybe look on Facebook and see if anyone you didn’t think was hot back then has since become hot? Lol.

The only time I could see this making sense is if you already happen to have normal mozzarella and heavy cream on hand, and don’t want to go to the store and buy something new.

Life pro tip - Taco Bell sells their own brand of refried beans in grocery stores also. Makes a great replacement for the unfortunately discontinued pintos and cheese side they used to have.

I love trains but even if you can get a good deal on the tickets themselves they’re kind of impractical or at least expensive if you’re visiting anywhere outside of a few major cities. Since you’ll then need a rental car when you arrive.

As an NYC resident where the water flows virtually unlimited from upstate and we’ve had like one drought my entire life, I feel like the environmental impact of using extra water for people who live in places like this is overstated. The energy use for hot water is a more valid concern, but it’s still just not that…

Yeah my job is really great about work-life balance and no one expects me to answer emails on vacation. But I don’t have a problem with getting emails on vacation and just having them sit in my inbox for two weeks as long as I am not expected to respond to them while away.

Yeah the big risk to me here is that this lie is basically accepting the premise that you can only disconnect when it is physically impossible to connect. This means you will have to lie again every time you go on vacation. I don’t necessarily need to be best friends with my coworkers, but I might for example some day…

I’ve always thought those disclaimers were a CYA move by gyms so they don’t get sued if you drop dead during Zumba, rather than an actual medical recommendation.

I mean this doesn’t actually create any extra time though? To wake up early you need to either go to bed earlier or sleep less. If you go to bed earlier, you miss out on nighttime uninterrupted you time. Which is fine if you’re just a morning person, but if you’re not the alternative shift achieves the same thing.

I mean this was how parenting worked for ages before the modern era. I was elementary school age in the late 90s/early 2000s and my parents weren’t with me while I watched the first hour or so at least of Saturday morning cartoons. There’s a lot of parenting from that era that isn’t the best, but I think this is one…

Whether you agree or disagree with such laws I personally also wouldn’t count on being able to rent out a property I own given strong anti-eviction laws are still in place in many places, or could come back at any time even if they are no longer in effect. What if your tenant just refuses to pay rent, and you can’t…

Oh I know about the Costco, but it’s a bit out of the way still for some people. I was saying we don’t have Sam’s Club at all.

There are no shortage of those kind of jobs. I don’t really like self checkout for other reasons (it rarely works well with the constant “unexpected item in bagging area” nonsense). But we really don’t need more of those kinds of jobs. If you’re looking for a basic cashier job it’s not like they are hard to find.