u/edgerton2026

I’m 71. After my husband passed away 3 years ago, my doctors advised me to try to stay active and make some new friends. I had been his caregiver for 2 years, couldn’t leave him alone, so became pretty isolated. I tried making friends with my next door neighbor (75F) who moved in during his illness, and doesn’t know anyone in the area. She wasn’t really interested in being friends. We have the same interests and philosophies. She lives with a guy, not married. He is a piece of work. He loudly told me one day he is apolitical because they are all alike and nothing they do affects him personally. I expect her reluctance to be friends is due to him. I also tried with a widow (75 I think) who I started to walk with in the morning. She doesn’t remember yesterday’s conversation and changes her age weekly. She’s also very negative. I listen to all her complaints about her health but she doesn’t really listen to anything I say. I’m discouraged. Has anyone had any luck making friends over 60?

Just got my order at 4:02 this afternoon. The good news was I ordered 14 meals and they gave me 6 ice packs. Everything was icy cold. The meals were all well packed and no spilled food or crushed meals. Not much bad news, except the delivery company must have been having problems. First they said my order was arriving at 11:28am. Then it kept getting pushed back and it kept telling me my order was next. Anyway, I had a contractor in doing work, and decided to quit waiting. He retrieved my bag at delivery for me, while I took the grands to the park.

I’ve always been in the NYC kitchen, but I live in northeast Ohio. I get deliveries on Wednesday, so they send out a text with an estimated delivery time. The text I got today had a new wrinkle:

At last. Your locally handcrafted CookUnity meals are on the way. The ETA is 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Track here: xxxxxxxxxxxx

“Locally crafted” is new. I wonder if they opened a kitchen near me?

I’m doing an experiment to decide if I should cancel Amazon prime, I previously ordered a lot of things from them. I ordered an $8 mattress disposal plastic bag on Friday 7/3. They said it would be delivered Saturday July 4. Of course I knew that wouldn’t happen because the 4th is a holiday. So now it says delivery today. We’re expecting a heavy rain, so I put up water dans at the entrance to my off grade driveway and orange cones to stop Amazon from driving over them and destroying them (yep, they did it once and tore off plastic parts of their delivery van, plus destroying my water dams). This wouldn’t be a problem for Amazon if they had delivered yesterday as promised. Let’s see what happens with this order. I don’t mind losing $8 to test them. I live 1/2 mile from Lowe’s and will get a mattress bag from them if I need to. Will report back.

I just went shopping at my local Meijer Store. For the first time. That place was amazing. Strawberries were 99 cents a quart blackberries were 50 cents a package. I found all the Applegate and other organic products I use much cheaper than Amazon or Whole Foods. The same loaf of organic sour dough bread $4 cheaper. The only product that was more was a 12 pack of Horizon shelf stable milk boxes. It was 75 cents more than Amazon, however the other items more than made up for this. Bye bye Whole Foods, bye bye Amazon for food and pantry staples. Oh, a dozen large eggs were 1.59!

I like to eat fish. I’ve been a cook Unity subscriber for over 2 years. I only ordered fish once. It was salmon. It smelled very strong. I tried eating some of it and became sick about 5 hours later. Admittedly that was back when they were only including one ice pack. Does anyone have good luck ordering fish? Does it always smell awful? I’m considering trying fish again.

Facebook, Amazon, etc. all are currently having knee jerk reactions to perceived threats, regulatory interference, and the floundering US economy. So much so that they are creating runoff and driving their customers to competitors, which also incentivizes people to actually get into the market as new competitors. A classic example is EBay. Some years ago their C-Suite decided to throw sellers without perfect 5 star reviews off the platform. It caused a mass exodus of sellers, culminating in an exodus of buyers, and the rise of multiple competitors such as Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, etc. It basically reshaped the marketplace. The 5 star program has all been forgotten and Ebay is a shell of its former self. No longer the 800 pound gorilla in the room. It’s obvious from this sub that the current crop of MBAs are failing to learn history, and are doomed to repeating its mistakes.

I received my order today. I had ordered a lot of extras because a bunch of breakfast items were discounted at Add and Save. There were 16 meals in my bag and Cook Unity put 4 ice packs in. Everything was nicely chilled when it arrived. So happy it all made it.

My weekly CU delivery day was yesterday. I normally get my meals between 1-3pm. For some reason delivery was delayed until evening and I didn’t get a tracking number until 4:31 pm. Food arrived at 6:50pm. I was worried that it would be too warm and I’d have to pitch it, but CU came through. There were 3 plastic encased ice packs in my bag of 8 meals. It was cold inside my bag, and everything was fine. The ice packs were starting to get soft around the edges, still frozen in the middle, no leaks. Exactly why we need multiple ice packs in warm weather.