I am a take out queen. It is a terrible admission but that is who and what I am. I KNOW I should be cooking healthy dishes and I do thoroughly enjoy a good home cooked meal (mahalo Wandaful!) but all those preparation logistics such as rinsing and starting the rice pot and defrosting frozen meats make me dizzy. And so, I do take out and fast food.
This month, I downloaded the Zipster app. This is a new app by Zippy’s Restaurants to replace the old one. I had paid my $20 annual dues to be in the Senior discount club saving me 10% on my purchases there but that program was going to be discontinued SO they offered me a refund check of $20 or a credit of $100 if I joined the Zipster app. Of course I opted for the $100 and followed the instructions on their fun “how to” video. So now I have $100 in food credit! My first purchase with the app with be a glazed donut. I love Zippy’s glazed donuts. After any first purchase by September 30, I earn a Zip Pack meal – woohoo, such a deal!
The next app I downloaded was the McDonald’s app. Why? Because I made a bet with a friend and lost. The bet was for lunch and he wanted a Big Mac meal. I hadn’t eaten at McDonalds for decades – other than getting their 99¢ large Coca Cola in drive through. I took a bite of my Big Mac. Surprise! It was delicious! Juicy, with dill pickles and shredded lettuce on a soft bun. Probably totally unhealthy but REALLY tasty and satisfying. (Good for the soul but not for the body.)
So he heard from pal Cookie about the deals on the app. Buy one Big Mac, get one free – and our mutual friend downloaded the app and we kept making Big Mac bets, happily winning or losing, going through the drive through windows and getting 2 Big Macs and our 99¢ Coca Colas. Easy to do – order through the deal through the app and tell the drive through teller the 4 digit code that pops up. We order our sodas after we supply the app codes. Only one deal can be done at a time (so we didn’t order french fries.)
But today, my daughter said the deal is a Big Mac and fries for $4.01. Ayeeyah! So I downloaded the McDonald’s app (very fast) and sure enough – that was the deal today. A thank you for signing up deal is a free large fries expiring on August 31, which I will use in the coming weeks. Yum yum yum.
Guess what I am having for lunch today!
Those apps sound great! Thanks for the advice.
I’ll let Wendell know! He’s into apps. He even does the scan and go at Sam’s.
Yup. Art also signed up for the credit too. We haven’t used it though. Mom loves their wun tun min da BEST. We should take her again. We haven’t been there in such a LONG time. We have the McDonalds, Wendy’s and Starbuck app. 🙂
Hmmm. I wonder if Zippy’s wun tun min is better than Sekiya’s. I’ll have to try it at Zippy’s soon.
We LOVED Sekiya’s when we lived on University Avenue during college days. However, we’re now too far away. We always had their saimin with 2 sticks of teri beef. Aaahhh… Those were the days!
Salad. Cookie said you eat lots of salads every day. That sounds really healthy.
I am not eating as much salads as I should. Too lazy. But I need to do that.
We don’t eat out much but I expect that to change when we are empty nesters.
I loved when we became empty nesters. But you have a ways to go!