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The problem is sometimes you dont wanna have to be forced to eat 12 sandos before the ingredients go stale or bad ..
Is eating out cheaper than cooking at home every day in 2022?
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The problem is sometimes you dont wanna have to be forced to eat 12 sandos before the ingredients go stale or bad ..
wastedmermaid
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It definitely does save money. For breakfast alone, if I go out to eat it's like 15 dollars for a waffle, 2 eggs, and 2 sausages plus a 15% tip. On the other hand for that 15-plus tip, i could go to the grocery store and get a box of waffles, a dozen eggs, and a pack of sausages and eat for like 4-5 days
The problem is sometimes you dont wanna have to be forced to eat 12 sandos before the ingredients go stale or bad ..
I feel that. My lady and I do the meal prep thing but by the third day, I'm ready to break the cycle for a meal or two. Either way, the best course of action is to find foods that no matter what, you wouldn't get tired/turn it down more often than not. I'm a simple breh so a turkey club will do the job a lot of times, hence the example I gave.
The question wasn't about variety, it was about cost efficiency.The problem is sometimes you dont wanna have to be forced to eat 12 sandos before the ingredients go stale or bad ..
You can buy a large pack of chicken thighs for about $15. A big bag of frozen vegetables for about $4. 5lbs of potatoes for about $5. Add another $10 for trimmings and you're about $40 for a weeks worth of dinners. Chicken and potatoes are versatile af, so you can essentially have a different meal every night. You can barely buy a balanced meal for $40. Fast food, sure, but an actual meal is more expensive. Definitely more cost efficient to cook at home.
Justin lafag is the WOAT
You have to consider most people eat like straight up fat assess and eat way too much meat and don’t maximize their carb, veggies, and fruit intake properly nor the management. It’s def still cheaper to make your food but you have to have discipline when you eat it
Tres Leches
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No
Depends.
I spend about 800 a month on groceries.
To eat how I eat, eating out, I’d probably avg 100 a day (I eat about 5 “meals” consisting of mostly whole foods)
So for me, it’s saves money.
I spend about 800 a month on groceries.
To eat how I eat, eating out, I’d probably avg 100 a day (I eat about 5 “meals” consisting of mostly whole foods)
So for me, it’s saves money.
It's only true if you don't shop efficiently.
Midweek meals don't need to be extravagant, since most people don't really feel like cooking anyway, so you can get relatively cheap stuff that can cover multiple meals.
For example, a decent sized pack of ground beef can be tacos one night, and pasta or burgers the next. A pack of chicken breasts or thighs can cover multiple meals. Occasionally have a bigger grocery trip where you restock on pantry stuff that goes along with the proteins like pastas, rice, etc. Produce can still be kept relatively cheap, too.
Midweek meals don't need to be extravagant, since most people don't really feel like cooking anyway, so you can get relatively cheap stuff that can cover multiple meals.
For example, a decent sized pack of ground beef can be tacos one night, and pasta or burgers the next. A pack of chicken breasts or thighs can cover multiple meals. Occasionally have a bigger grocery trip where you restock on pantry stuff that goes along with the proteins like pastas, rice, etc. Produce can still be kept relatively cheap, too.
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The problem is sometimes you dont wanna have to be forced to eat 12 sandos before the ingredients go stale or bad ..
True, but only the bread is requiring you to eat 12 sandwiches. You could buy a smaller bag of bread; the rest of the perishable items can certainly be reduced to meet the number of sandwiches you eat.
Even if you had to let some bread go to waste your cost per sandwich consumed still wouldn’t go up by more than 50 cents or so; nowhere near the levels of deli prices.
Eating out saves nothing but time (which is not unimportant).
Depends on how valuable your time is. Cooking is a process and can take a few hours to prepare a meal for a family. I love cooking but sometimes it's just easier to get take out because of the time it would take to cook a meal and clean.
Number one, you not cooking EVERY DAY. You buy a couple packs of meat/protein, a large bag of rice or potatoes, and rotate fresh veggies in you probably spent like $40-50. You getting SEVERAL meals out of that.
Now how much you spending for a takeout/sitdown meal that maybe lasts you 2 days. The cost per plate of the meal you made is MUCH cheaper (and healthier!) than what you spending going out. Let these goofball "influencers" steer yall wrong
Now how much you spending for a takeout/sitdown meal that maybe lasts you 2 days. The cost per plate of the meal you made is MUCH cheaper (and healthier!) than what you spending going out. Let these goofball "influencers" steer yall wrong
Brandsdale
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sandwiches are a solid idea and i unno how i never meal prepped them
meat dishes are much easier for me tho
I copped 4 quarter chicken legs from the deli for $6, some veggies for from a local spot for $5 and used some leftover rice to meal-prep
chicken is hella cheap tho and you can mix the recipe based on the sauce or whatever you like (im doing honey jerk this week). Just an issue once you switch to another cut of meat