June 11th, 2008
#527 - Char
It’s easier to shop at grocery stores now that I have a family. Back when I lived by myself it was hard to get food in reasonable quantities. Luckily I have a tolerance for repetition of flavor. I would frequently eat the same meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a few days in a row. It’s not so much of a problem now that I can share.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Micro-Grill!
More useful than a Foreman(TM) grill, and you get to play with (small) amounts of fire, too!
In days past, when I was sans family, too, I was known to sometimes grill a weeks worth of food, and live off the same meal leftovers the whole week.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Er. Should that have quotes around “for one” for clarity? I had to read it about 5 times to get it >.>
June 11th, 2008 at 12:18 am
@AdmiralChaos - Ha, there was a typo, that’s why it was hurting your brain. Try it now.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I am at a stage in my college life where I am eating mostly Eggo waffles and chilli.
Not necessarily at the same time.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I live alone, and I don’t have that problem — of course, I only eat once a day (supper, around 6 P.M.); so I eat a larger portion than most people who eat three times a day.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
i find that the freezer is always a necessity when single; nothing finer for the diet than frozen burritos, chicken and pizza! It is sad when the freezer has more food than the fridge.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Is it sad that sometimes grocery shopping for me is just a loaf of bread, a jar of jam, and a jar of peanut butter, all of which i buy at 2:00am?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Poor Biff… cooking out by himself… Maybe he should’ve let the ants come.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I want one of those. Put in four briquettes, light, and reduce your hamburger to a slab of industrial-grade carbon! (Not me, of course. I’m a decent grill-master)
June 11th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Ah I remember having this problem. I solved it by buying the Family pack of chicken discounted and then inviting a pile of friends over, otherwise I’d end up frozen burritos.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Ooh, does it come with mini scraper and all? I want one!
June 11th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I only have a frying pan…it’s too big for hamburgers and too small for bacon.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Aww, poor Biff.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Can you get those? Why don’t I have one? I have a portable barbecue/smoker thingy that folds up to the size of a postage stamp (okay, maybe not quite that small), disposable barbecues, a gas barbecue, an electric grill (like the foreman one, but a cheaper brand) a pair of electric hotplates (only one of which works), an electric frypan, and apparently a very bad case of verbal diahorrea (sp?)
June 11th, 2008 at 4:41 am
BREAKFAST, lunch and dinner?????
XD
Over here we most often (almost always) breakfast sweet foods
(Yeah, I DID know previously that over there it was common to breakfast “food” =) )
Great as always Chris, keep on!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:45 am
why is biff grilling a veggie burger with cheese rather than a cheese burger dose the little grill not get hot enough and I only know it’s a veggie burger (not cheep veggie burgers ether it looks like one of the more expensive one the ones that are passable) because I have the ability to tell a veggie burger from a hamburger form a distance its one of my many strange gifts.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:48 am
i’ve tried living off of pizza n cereal for a couple days at a time… my digestive system usually starts complaining at that point. i’ve found it’s not hard to make other stuff w/ a stove & frying pan, though.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Is Biff floating in the sky?
June 11th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I knoew how that is. I constantly have to throw food away. I’m a student and me and my current housemates don’t exactly have the same taste when it comes to food, so I often buy my own stuff and end up binning half of it.
I try to freeze stuff when I can, but the freezer is not very large.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Heh. I’m currently dealing witht he other side of the issue - I spent a lot of time cooking for only one or two, and we just had a new roommate move in, plus having a houseguest for the past week. Four people make a LOT of dishes - considerably more than 4 times as many as one person!
June 11th, 2008 at 7:31 am
@steve-o
perhaps he’s still using his anti-grav plate from the previous comic?
June 11th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I like him being on the gravity pad.
And he must be upside down, actually.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I’v heard of disposable-grills that are about size of Biffs grill
June 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
O.O Arent disposable grills a big waste of resources?
I hope hes using the GrillOMatic, the type that dont get thrown out.
On another note, my stepfather, as much of a jerk he may have been at times, was KIng of the Grill. Man, to bite into one of his prime ribs or chicken was to experience the utter joy of grilling to perfection.
My stepdad is the Grill King.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am
haha, I did the same thing.
I always felt like I was getting stared at when I’d get, like, a single tomato or a couple hungry-man dinners.
It practically screamed “Yes, I am all alone… *sob*”
June 11th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Ahaha, yeah, I’ve done the Shopping For One thing. What’s almost as awkward is shopping for three. You can get portions for two or four easily, but one and three? Noooope.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Yup, I’m doing the shopping for one thing at the moment.
Luckily, I don’t get sick of things
I can eat the same meal for dinner every night for a week. And I do 
June 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
i think he’s still on the gravity plate, but for your convenience, chris flipped the frame
June 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Wait a second…
Where’s the gas tank?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Sometimes, having a family to eat with is a minus more than a plus. I live with my parents while I’m in college, and although breakfast and lunch are made and eaten at my discretion, dinner is something that is collectively decided upon. There’s only three of us in the house, but we can never come to a decision. Plus, with the wierd hours my parents keep, it’s almost impossible to find time to actually cook dinner, so roughly 8 times out of 10 we’ll decide on some form of fast food.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Twitter: “Why does it bother me so much when people use the word add as an abbreviation for advertisement?”
It bothers me because “Add” is misspelled. There’s only one ‘d’, the proper abbreviation is “Ad.” Used to be “Advert”, maybe you’d prefer that? “Ad” seems more like slang.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
This is all too true.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Biff looks . . . lonely . . . and bored. More so than normally.
@ Chris & AdmiralChaos - what was it before?
June 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I can imagine how it feels, since I work in a grocery store =3 It’s really not that akward to buy stuff for one, imo. I’ll probably be doing it within a year or two anyway, but who knows.
also, I want one of those for camping (or a slightly bigger one, but not by much).
@Rys: Charcoal grill, not propane (much better tasting and less expensive overall, I think. That and propane tanks are heavy O_O;;)
June 11th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
all i get from the grocery store is Generic Brand Frosted flakes, milk, and bagels… and im fine with that…
June 11th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I cook 4 or 5 meals for 4 on my day off, then divy into portions and freeze, then i have a mix through the week.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Ha! I’d love a tiny BBQ to cook single things on! A lot of Biff’s inventions are silly but some are truly magnificant novelty items I’d love to own, hehe.
As a student I too find buying food for one a bit of a chore. I’m yet to make it through a full loaf of bread before it expires, even a smaller size one. Thankfully I’ve been sharing a lot of my food (and therefore the price too) with my girlfriend which has made things much easier.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
damn ,, and i was hoping to be the only one who noiticed hes on the gpad….
June 14th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Is biff standing on the anti gravity plate? It looks like it, but there’s no shade.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
That grill is cute!!