My 14 year kid is smart enough to know that delivery food (outside of a very exceptions) is generally mediocre at best, and typically nasty.
Plus 50% of the time the order is messed up and you end up driving there anyway.

My DD has the Door Dash app on her phone. She’s allowed to order herself lunch or dinner on days when DH and I go out for a meal or occasionally when she’s been home sick from school and we’re both at work. She sends me a screen shot to what she wants to order first and I will let her know if it’s ok.

This happens maybe 4-5 times a year.

Oh, I’ve also let her order for herself and a friend once or twice when she had a friend sleep over and they wanted a fun dinner.

We get takeout for the family once a week or so but we try to avoid using Door Dash for that. We pick up to save $.

The moralizing on this thread is a bit much.

Anonymous wrote:I see this thread has attracted the anti food delivery brigade. Lol! Ya’ll are so f-ing crazy.

OP just limit it to once a week or twice a month.

You’re a complete loon.

Mine are not allowed to order food. I have three young teens and it would be a disaster.

If we are out, we will sometimes order food to be delivered at home to the kids - but we do the ordering, and we do the paying.

We are always well stocked with food, and leave suggestions (frozen pizza or leftovers etc) if we won’t be home. Also, they all know how to cook simple things.

We have a supermarket, convenience store and Starbucks within biking distance (or longish walking distance) - they can and do sometimes run out to buy something (with their own $).

That said, my oldest (twins) are 15 and so do not have real jobs or drive etc yet. If an older teen with their own $, I suppose this could change.

I give my DD a $50 door dash gift card every 6 weeks or so, she can do what she wants with it

I see this thread has attracted the anti food delivery brigade. Lol! Ya’ll are so f-ing crazy.

OP just limit it to once a week or twice a month.

Our teens don’t have jobs yet. They have an allowance, and they can go out to get food with it, but have never asked to order delivery. If they asked, I’m sure we’d order for them if they gave us the cash from their allowance, but I suspect they’d get their bike and go to the restaurant when they see the cost for delivery/tip/service charge.

I expect once they get a job, they can budget however much they want to spend on it.

The budget would be 0.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No ordering food at home, unless we do take out/delivery as a family one night (not often)
It’s a lazy, unhealthy, and expensive habit.
Take them to Trader Joe’s. Easy frozen options for kids who don’t want to cook.

This. You are raising lazy, high maintenance teens

Maybe but TJ frozen entrees are not a health food.

Kids are 18 and 13 and do not have food delivered. I have correctly taught them to despise wasting money like this. They can walk to pick up their orders once in a while, as a treat, but most days, we cook from scratch.

I don't pay for delivery, ever, because it's such a bad deal. If we're getting takeout for the family, I'll get something for everyone, but otherwise they have to use their own money.

Kid is 15.5 and does not have Starbucks app nor food ordering apps (although he's asked) because I know exactly what will happen - $40 for 10 chicken wings. The fees on those services are outrageous. If I'm away for a few hours at night which rarely happens, I'd order him a pizza in advance.

I send mine off to the grocery store with cash. It’s much more cost efficient and they get some exercise.

Our family never has food delivered. We pick and take out up. Kids also can’t just buy or order anything without permission. The idea of this is so foreign to me.

Anonymous wrote:$20 for eight wings is a teachable moment for getting value for your money. That is truly a waste and money poorly spent.

Yeah it might be interesting to take him to the story, buy some chicken wings, cook them, and and eat the wings while you talk about what you could do with the money leftover. But I'm not sure how well that would go over with a teenager.