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Posted on 03/13/2023 10:49:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
If you have no kitchen than ordering food can be cheaper. But if you have a full fridge and stove, then cooking is much cheaper. Go to the store and buy a cheap cut of meat. Chop it up. Toss it in a pot with water and fresh or frozen vegies. And you have a meal for days. What could be easier. Get eggs or Hot Dogs or just cheese and crackers. Eating at home is much cheaper. Or how about Campbell’s in a can. Food should not cost even ten dollars a meal.
I doubt it.
I say cater for meal ideas. You’re getting well balanced meals from professional chefs and with cooking instructions included.
Then cook your own.
As I am currently the only one in my household, I opt for personalized keto meals from a nearby establishment at a cost of $600 per month.
I have a personal relationship with the proprietors and appreciate that they prepare meals from whole foods, rather than processed ones.
Although it costs me an additional $150 monthly compared to purchasing and cooking my own meals, factoring in the time I would have spent shopping and cooking, I am actually saving money.
Given the value I place on my leisure time, this arrangement works well for me.
It’s reported that the average IQ in the USA is now 100, just saying.
It’s a simple formula.
What is the value of your time per hour and how may hours does it take to buy, prepare and clean up the kitchen after your meal.
Add the cost of your ingredients for the meal.
Compare that to the cost of going out to eat.
Now, suppose your time is worth $50.00 an hour, that meal that your spend three hours purchasing and preparing is costing $150.00.
I can eat a nice meal at a restaurant for less than $150.00.
*** Others were outraged: “I’m sorry but anybody who tells you it’s a better deal to order Chipotle catering as meal prep instead of buying the ingredients at a grocery store is probably a trust fund idiot who has literally never shopped anywhere except Whole Foods,” wrote one Twitter user.***
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You’ll eat your crickets, hot dogs, and Raisin Bran and you will love it.
Dogs, squirrels, rats, cats, etc will become delicacies.
And you feel confident in the ingredients they use, etc.?
In other words, on average, half the people in America have an IQ below 100.
Big salmon fillet, half an avocado, refried black beans and two brown eggs for lunch. Yummm. Estimate about 4.50$ and 10 minutes cooking.
Cooking is always cheaper but I can see someone who doesn’t eat a lot finding meal solutions that beat cooking in either convenience for an acceptable cost difference or getting on a kick like a good burrito that they order in large numbers, cut in half, and freeze for individual meals and that can’t really be cooked for cheaper without someone being a really talented and dedicated cook and buying and cooking in bulk.
“”It’s a simple formula.
What is the value of your time per hour and how may hours does it take to buy, prepare and clean up the kitchen after your meal””
If you are watching TV then your time is worth less than nothing, you would be making/saving money by using that kind of time cooking, and the activity is good for you.
My wife started ordering “Hello Fresh” ready to cook meals. They come with all the ingredients, including the meat (chicken, pork, or beef) to make. Their recipes are simple to follow, and they taste great. They generally only take 30-45 minutes to prepare.
We get a week’s worth of dinners at a time and we don’t have to go grocery shopping.
Not to mention the spit they don’t charge for when they decide you offend them.
Three hours purchasing and preparing? Lol. No way.
That would also mean 3 hours of Xbox also costs $150. An hour of showering and picking up the bathroom …. $50. An hour of posting on free republic and twitter…. $50.
I would order from Hello Fresh but unfortunately, they don’t ship to Hawaii.
Yep
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