Posted on 06/23/2023 1:56:55 PM PDT by Libloather
The only food I have delivered are my groceries. Other deliveries are from Chewy.com, items needed from Walmart (batteries, light bulbs, etc.), and Amazon once or twice per year. I never order take out food.
Wife and I spend over $300 a week to eat at home. That’s not a typo. By the end of the week, the pantry is almost bare.
We decided to order pizza last night. Haven’t done that in months. $31 for a large pie. $31!!!! For a large pizza. I was floored.
They’re getting us either way. Most people are lazy and just eat out because the value add for eating at home is practically nil.
Less than $100/year. And that’s using gift cards we’ve been given. We eat all meals at home - lots of lean protein with fresh fruit and vegetables.
$0.00
I don’t do take but do tip the waitresses at the local brewery and the two restaurants we go to quite well.
They take of us when we show up.
I definitely wouldn’t trust any food delivery service.
No delivery necessary.
$11 dollars a day. When you are single and don’t wish to cook, why not!
Same here — $0. I live in the boonies, so delivery may not even be an option. Maybe two or three times a year I’ll drag home a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. It’s good for several meals plus a pot of broth. I enjoy planning and cooking my own grub.
I spend maybe $30 a month
My comparison? Zero. I spend zero per year on delivery.
I do spend about $100 per year on take-out. The take-out is about three pizza pickups a year.
Otherwise, I cook all our meals at home.
I guess I spend about $100/year.I don’t live close enough to anything to get ‘takeout’ - if I am willing to drive 70+ minutes round trip, I can get my favorite Chinese food, so I do that about once per year.
Zero for me.
Hardly. Chinx for 4 once a week from a decent place will run you $2500. Adding a good regular pizza from a good place twice a month will run you another $500. And that is just the normal takeout we’ve had in this country since VJ Day.
I don't eat pizza often these days but when I do, I will go to a sit-down restaurant that specializes in pizza (like Pepe's in New Haven, CT) where they have a reputation to uphold.
I’d bet you feel healthier.
I cook. A lot. But, I have a weakness from barbacoa and pastor street tacos, and a craft BBQ place near me. I call it balance.
A few days ago, a youtuber compared a homemade burger to a Big Mac (price for the real Big Mac, fries and shake came to $11-something). Whew! No thanks. I’ll stick to homemade to keep the daily budget of $5/per person. Yeah, that’s real food, not rice and pasta.
There are countless fast food recipes online and you don’t have to worry about having someone spit in your burger, waste time in line, waste the drive time (that’d be an hour for us) and pay out the wahzoo. I can make 6 Schlotzsky original sandwiches at home for the price of 1 at the window. That is homemade buns and homemade dressing and the price might be better post big-C than it was back in the good ol’ days.
When the kids left home, they had life skills including cooking from scratch, but still gave each a Betty Crocker Cookbook.
I don’t eat out but Mr. b will sneak a burger once in a while.
i cook all the time, but i go out to lunch 1ce a week. and get take and bake pizza from Aldi or Walmart. both are excellent.
We haven’t lived within pizza delivery for decades. A homemade pizza can be made for a fraction of the price and it’s still hot and no one has nibbled off it.
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