All the "time is money" folks are lying to themselves. Just like everyone else, they regularly waste massive amounts of time. It may be that it's time wasted on activities higher in self-indulgent immediate pleasure than cooking like self-stimulation or video games or chatting away with random strangers via webcam or posting to meaningless threads on internet message boards. Yet it's still wasted.
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Dan Cooper wrote:
All the "time is money" folks are lying to themselves. Just like everyone else, they regularly waste massive amounts of time. It may be that it's time wasted on activities higher in self-indulgent immediate pleasure than cooking like self-stimulation or video games or chatting away with random strangers via webcam or posting to meaningless threads on internet message boards. Yet it's still wasted.
Exactly, like any running beyond at most 3 hours/week.
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Eating Out wrote:
Cooking at home is always cheaper when just calculating the cost of raw ingredients. But if you start pricing the value of your time it takes to cook + clean up, even at minimum wage, it is then almost always cheaper to eat out. That holds true for cooking/ eating out for one. When you're talking, 2, 3, or especially larger families, cooking at home becomes much cheaper again since cooking for 5 only takes a marginally smaller time than cooking for one. Not to mention when you cook for one you almost always end up with leftovers that eventually find their way in the trash.
Lastly cooking at home just tastes significantly worse. All the power to the people who actually enjoy cooking and become great cooks, but that's not me.
Looks like you never ever cooked.
Cooking for one is my easier than cooking for 5.
Cooking at home tastes "significantly worse" because restaurants cheat with a lot of salt and other unhealthy ingredients to make it "taste better". Home cooking can be much healthier if you do it the right way.
If you price in the time for cooking+ cleanup you also have to price in the time for parking, waiting at the restaurant, dealing with the staff, paying enormous unjustified tips and so on.191 -
OP is trolling. You can make an eggs/oatmeal/coffee breakfast at home for about $2.
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$15 to eat once at Chipotle. For $15 worth of groceries, you can make your own Chipotle for a week. Rice and beans are cheap. Salsa is easy to make. A pound of chicken and a pound of skirt steak is a week’s worth of double protein. Spices are relatively inexpensive. My college kid eats like this plus fresh fruit and vegetables for under $60/week.
Americans are poor and unhealthy because they willingly pay for convenience and processed foods.
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Excess Pounds Foolish wrote:
$15 to eat once at Chipotle. For $15 worth of groceries, you can make your own Chipotle for a week. Rice and beans are cheap. Salsa is easy to make. A pound of chicken and a pound of skirt steak is a week’s worth of double protein. Spices are relatively inexpensive.
While the thread is dumb and the answer is obvious, what you just listed is absolutely more than $15.
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weigherre wrote:
Excess Pounds Foolish wrote:
$15 to eat once at Chipotle. For $15 worth of groceries, you can make your own Chipotle for a week. Rice and beans are cheap. Salsa is easy to make. A pound of chicken and a pound of skirt steak is a week’s worth of double protein. Spices are relatively inexpensive.
While the thread is dumb and the answer is obvious, what you just listed is absolutely more than $15.
That looks closer to $25-30 per week in my neighborhood with chicken thighs and steak comprising 50% of the bill. Still, that is seven days of Chipotle style bowls / burritos for the price of two trips to the actual restaurant. People that cannot or will not cook for themselves are wasting loads of money.
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Excess Pounds Foolish wrote:
$15 to eat once at Chipotle.
Huh? Chicken burrito is still $9.XX
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rice and beans are the way wrote:
For under 10 dollars you can buy a 10 pound bag of white rice(16,000 calories) add in some meat and veggies. I dare you to eat this cheaply at restaurants and fast food.
That's not an apples-to-apples compassion (No pun intended). You don't go to a restaurant to eat plain rice with plain chicken breast.
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Eat more veggies wrote:
Eating Out wrote:
Cooking at home is always cheaper when just calculating the cost of raw ingredients. But if you start pricing the value of your time it takes to cook + clean up, even at minimum wage, it is then almost always cheaper to eat out. That holds true for cooking/ eating out for one. When you're talking, 2, 3, or especially larger families, cooking at home becomes much cheaper again since cooking for 5 only takes a marginally smaller time than cooking for one. Not to mention when you cook for one you almost always end up with leftovers that eventually find their way in the trash.
Lastly cooking at home just tastes significantly worse. All the power to the people who actually enjoy cooking and become great cooks, but that's not me.
Looks like you never ever cooked.
Cooking for one is my easier than cooking for 5.
Cooking at home tastes "significantly worse" because restaurants cheat with a lot of salt and other unhealthy ingredients to make it "taste better". Home cooking can be much healthier if you do it the right way.
If you price in the time for cooking+ cleanup you also have to price in the time for parking, waiting at the restaurant, dealing with the staff, paying enormous unjustified tips and so on.
You don’t have be a cook, just a food assembler.
Buy whole chickens roasted. Nuke some broccoli and a carb of choice . Add a condiment. Done.
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Femboi8 wrote:
More evidence that the American dream is dead.
Nah, but your username is a strong indicator of societal decay.
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My food budget as a grad student is $300-350/month. It would be less if I were really trying to save (or if I wasn't running and burning a ton of calories), and it would be more if I wasn't vegetarian. Let's say it evens out.
That's under $4 per meal assuming 3 meals a day. I challenge anyone to come up with even a vaguely balanced meal plan from eating out on that budget (you can't)
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My wife just brought home the salmon I will grill tomorrow night. 2½ pounds: $24.98. I will use a dill mayo marinade. Plenty for the meal and some leftover we can eat cold the following day. Cost of the propane is less than $1.
You can cook incredible meals at home for bargain prices, but we are both retired. Time is not a consideration for us.
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Long PLTR wrote:
rice and beans are the way wrote:
For under 10 dollars you can buy a 10 pound bag of white rice(16,000 calories) add in some meat and veggies. I dare you to eat this cheaply at restaurants and fast food.
That's not an apples-to-apples compassion (No pun intended). You don't go to a restaurant to eat plain rice with plain chicken breast.
Yeah because eating rice as the base of your diet wouldn't leave you with a bunch of money leftover for spices, sauces and other types of food. Funny enough yesterday I bought a 10 ibs bag of white rice for 7 dollars. Per serving that works out to about 7 cents. I usually eat four servings per meal for 640 calories which works out to about 28 cents per meal. Add in the veggies, spices, sauces and whatever kind of meat I am eating for the meal. I might spend at most 4 to 5 dollars per meal at home. If I go out to eat I am spending at least 2-3 times the amount of money.
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I don't cook my own meals - I eat fruits and vegetables. I guarantee you it is cheaper than eating out.
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This sounds like someone from a restaurant association.
It is like the old school print encyclopedias which had articles written by the NYC chamber of commerce or sugar industry saying, "All things considered, New York City is probably the greatest city in the world", or "all carbohydrates are sugars".
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okay!!!!!!!!!! wrote:
I don't cook my own meals - I eat fruits and vegetables. I guarantee you it is cheaper than eating out.
Are you a fruitarian?
I'd like to try that.
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Long PLTR wrote:
Excess Pounds Foolish wrote:
$15 to eat once at Chipotle.
Huh? Chicken burrito is still $9.XX
Pork offal burrito is still 4 years.
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bacon and pineapple wrote:
okay!!!!!!!!!! wrote:
I don't cook my own meals - I eat fruits and vegetables. I guarantee you it is cheaper than eating out.
Are you a fruitarian?
I'd like to try that.
Vegetables ain't fruit
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