people habituated to shit and society not recovering from covid, my two favorite things!

Millennial here. We fell victim to the ease and variety of delivery apps, but broke the habit this year. It was a mix of things, but mostly price went gone up and quality went down.

How my house break the habit? We set a goal. A vacation next year, partly funded by what was going to delivery food. When laid out clearly, the choice was clear, a sizable vacation to another country was worth way more than underwhelming fast food.

I'm thinking of a few families who I dined with periodically -- cookouts, Thanksgiving, etc -- and today they order breakfast from McDonalds. It's Uber or Doordash or Grubhub for every single meal.

Funny. I'm on the older side of Gen Z (closing in on 30) and I actually started cooking because of quarantine. (See my other comment.) I make a fruit smoothie for breakfast every day and prep salads for lunch at work, which I guess technically isn't "cooking", but it's food that I prepared. I often meal prep by cooking something for Sunday dinner that I'll reheat as leftovers for weekday dinners.

I do get takeout occasionally, but my favorite places tend to be things like a local Thai place whose curry pad Thai is under $15 and lasts 2-3, so it balances out to more like $5 or $7.5 a meal.

The Indian food that I've gotten also tends to last at least a couple meals for a very reasonable cost — and has become my favourite cuisine since first trying it in 2023 — but regrettably the nearest place is like 45 minutes away, and driving an hour and a half to pick up food is not my go-to, so I don't get it often.