Well?

[Anonymous No.17971154]

[Anonymous No.17971156]

>>17971154
if you're not retarded yeah

[Anonymous No.17971160]

>>17971154
Soaring restaurant prices say absofuckingloutely.

[Anonymous No.17971165]

These articles only exist to get hate clicks from triggered home cooks, and to give fast food 14x per week retards a sense of righteousness. Journalism is dead. It's all just to trick you into looking at an advertisement.

[Anonymous No.17971167]

>>17971154
I will never pay more than $10 for Fast food

[Anonymous No.17971186]

>be retard who can't cook
>just smart enough to realize you're spending too much eating out
>decide to start cooking your own food
>own zero pantry staples or seasonings because you don't cook
>get random hipster recipe on the internet
>spend $70 on a pot of chicken soup because it said you needed to buy saffron and exotic vegetables and herbs
>cooking is so expensive!!

You can't save retards from themselves. You just have to watch them repeatedly make poor decisions and fuck up their lives in new and exciting ways.

[Anonymous No.17971194]

I see a bunch of posts like this on /fit/ that really take the sting out of the sky is falling bullshit going on about food prices

[Anonymous No.17971198]

>>17971186
Nah, get a tard like that some hello fresh or similar. It's like the idiot's guide to babby's first meal.

[Anonymous No.17971226]

>>17971154
Good question. When I can't tell the quality of the food I buy, it's impossible to tell. Potatoes, onions, garlic, artichoke, various greens; when everything is rotted from the inside out there is no way to tell how much a meal will cost or if you can even make it. Fuck squeezing produce, you should be cutting open vegetables at the stores these days. Mold, inside my lemons? It's more likely than you think.

Fuck this administration.

[Anonymous No.17971239]

>>17971226
Did you take your meds this morning?
I'm talking about the schizo ones.

[Anonymous No.17971240]

>>17971226
My grocery store will take a return of anything you didn't like. I bought some milk that spoiled in a few days, took it back, full refund.

[Anonymous No.17971255]

>>17971226
You should really see a psychiatrist man

[Anonymous No.17971257]

>>17971240
You'll get banned (or a tresspass) doing that shit every day, and the local walmart has been trying to sell bags of potatoes that are dripping rancid water out of them. The best buy date is over a month ago. No one seems to give a damn anymore.

[Anonymous No.17971279]

>>17971257
Maybe stop buying from bottom of the barrel stores you fucking moron

[Anonymous No.17971297]

>>17971226
i stopped going to aldi when a 10lb bag of potatoes molded in a week in the pantry.
they're the fast food of grocery stores.
you paid less for a lesser product before, but now you pay the same for a far worse product

[Anonymous No.17971345]

Does "Local 12" think the prices havent raised for restaurants' food supply either?

[Anonymous No.17971363]

>>17971154
what are they talking about? my lasagna ingredients only cost $70 today

[Anonymous No.17971834]

>>17971194
>6 bags of chips
That's like 30 bucks right there you could put towards two nice meals or three budget meals.

[Anonymous No.17971847]

>>17971834
fat people gonna fat

[Anonymous No.17971856]

>>17971297
Perhaps clean your pantry?

[Anonymous No.17971881]

>>17971154
Buying bulk ingredients and cooking meals yourself will always be cheaper than paying someone else to do it for you.

[Anonymous No.17972336]

>>17971194
oh no no no no no do poorfags really ahahahah

[Anonymous No.17972341]

>>17971226
>BIDEN MADE MY VEGGIES ROT

[Anonymous No.17973220]

>>17971154
>Ordering Pizza
>Around 12-18€
>Making Pizza yourself
>Around 3€
Idk man, it's hard to tell.

[Anonymous No.17973325]

>>17971881
I've been buying up meat on sale, vacuum packing it an freezing it.

[Anonymous No.17973341]

>>17971154
Drinking urine in my hot tub. Chilled kids piss with pineapple.

[Anonymous No.17973385]

I'm probably gonna catch hell from you guys for this but I am a bachelor who sometimes eats twice a day but most the time just once. Maybe not the healthiest but I just rarely have an appetite.
I fucking hate repetitive meals, I despise doing dishes but even more so I hate throwing food away. Since i don't eat much, I have a ton of waste. For example say I want a sandwich so I'll go get a half pound of cheese and meat I like and a loaf of bread. I get tired after the second or third of said sandwich and then I end up using all of the meat and cheese on said sandwiches instead of spending more on more meat and cheese because I know i wont want a sandwich.
I just prefer frozen stuff like hungry man's and frozen pizzas because I don't have to do dishes for those (other than pizza cutter/ pan but those are easy).
If I go out once a day, that meal will usually fill me for the day (a lot of times I'll order say a burger meal) but get stuffed halfway through and save the rest for later if I get hungry. So I get a nice burger and fries or onion rings, don't have to cook or do dishes,, have virtually zero food waste and don't get bored with lack of food variety.
Yes, I am lazy. Yes, I can and have cooked before but back when I had a wife do the dishes so I could focus on cooking (she loved my food and didn't mind that arrangement). Now that I'm a bachelor it's just easier for me to do it this way.

Tl;Dr It could actually be somewhat cheaper eating out if you factor in things like time, dishes, food waste and now even gas getting groceries in my honest opinion.

[Anonymous No.17973396]

>>17973220
>3 euro

That must be some real gourmet shit

[Anonymous No.17973404]

>>17973220
Unless you have all the ingredients on hand to make your own dough, you have to either buy said ingredients or buy premade crusts. Then you have to buy your toppings unless you also randomly keep fresh mozarella and salami on hand. Then you have to buy the pizza sauce or tomato to make the sauce.
Then you have to make the pizza. Dough can be very time consuming depending on your recipe. Make the sauce, cut the mozzarella, cut the salami, all making a mess. Finally, you get to just put it in the oven but still.

Then what if you didn't use all those ingredients but don't have enough to make another pizza? Now you got extras of stuff that might not really have another purpose for you at the time. That's food waste.

My argument is, you wasted the time and moneybuying ingredients at the store, making it and then cleaning up. Whereas if you just want one pizza, you could make a call and just pick up a pizza after work and get right into what you wanna do, have no mess and have a second meal (assuming you only eat half the pizza).

Like I said, I know I'm gonna be roasted for this mindset.

[Anonymous No.17973412]

Even when I walk to a restaurant to pick up a meal it can easily cost more than a week of groceries.

[Anonymous No.17973419]

>>17971154
This ability never fails me. See if I ever have kids. Yet if I do, first lesson bitches. frying pan. Go get that chicken fuck you if you gave it a name.

[Anonymous No.17973421]

>>17973412
I guess it does depend on what your idea of a week of groceries and if you're budget allows. I rarely spend more $10 at a fast food place so say $70 a week roughly.
$70 would be a good but of groceries but it would be a lot of cheap food or a little good food (by good i mean quality meats etc). And I'd get bored, have to dishes and go get groceries for a whole week once a week. I also hate grocery stores. Can't seem to find a non-crowded time to go and I have 3 grocery stores near me.

[Anonymous No.17973423]

>>17973404
I get where you're coming from and sometimes ordering out is perfectly acceptable but paying upwards of 5x the worth of the ingredients is just a scam.

[Anonymous No.17973428]

>>17971194
Don't be retarded. Some fat fuck taking a picture of their purchase doesn't erase the very real price increase coupled with shrinkflation

[Anonymous No.17973435]

>>17973423
Thanks for hearing me out anon lol I felt like a rambling idiot writing those walls of texts but as a bachelor who works manufacturing 40-60 hrs a week, I just don't wanna fucking cook or clean lol. I haven't noticed my food expenses rising enough for me to notice at least and I have been using that method for almost 2 years.
That method would ONLY truly work for a bachelor though and not a family.

[Anonymous No.17973444]

>>17973428
That's part of the other reason I hate grocery shopping. I'm in an East coast state and prices have been getting fucking nuts for everything. I'll go for milk and a couple frozen food items for when I'm exceptionally lazy (Tina's big burritos and cholula hot sauce) and just walking by I see how bad it is and I just buy less than $10 things. Can't imagine having to shop for a family. When your family grocery bills goes up even as little as 5-10% I can imagine that hurts the wallet and the soul.

[Anonymous No.17973446]

>>17971160
A fast food "meal" costs around $7-9 depending on your location, just the sandwich is around $5.50-6.50.
A "cheap" restaurant is around $12-18 for an entree these days.

I can buy 3lbs of ground beef for around $9 and make 2-4 meals out of it.

[Anonymous No.17973449]

>>17973444
And it's amazing how many people will only look at the price of something. They'll see something go from $4 to $4.50, shrug, but not notice that the oz's also decreased by 10%

[Anonymous No.17973455]

>>17971194
>mountain jew
>chip bags half filled with air
>lunchables
>sliced to order deli meat
>meme-tier pop tart flavor
>4 chicken breasts
>bag of small suckers
this has to be a joke, r...ri...right anon?
>sliced to order deli cheese

[Anonymous No.17973457]

>>17973446
Right but do factor in the other ingredients you would need to buy unless you're only eating the ground beef by itself. Then factor in any food waste if you don't use it all, the time you spent cooking those mealsand cleaning up, the gas to go get those groceries and I can't imagine the price is that far off.
I'm NOT saying you're wrong, I'm just using the mindset of someone who doesn't have a family to feed and is admittedly lazy.

[Anonymous No.17973458]

>>17973449
Pork is typically of a low price but people don't fuck with it. I usually don't but my grandfather doesn't do kosher shit and dude, pork fat is fucking magic.

It's such a severe easy-mode in cooking. Southerners can go fuck themselves I could basically make every mistake in the book and my dish would still be good.

[Anonymous No.17973459]

>>17973385
I get that, but you're poisoning your body by eating like that.

[Anonymous No.17973467]

>>17971154
I spend almost nothing when making my own meals, but the tradeoff is after a couple months the nutritional deficiencies start to take hold and I switch over to a professionally made meal with a more rounded assortment of ingredients e.g. moons over my hammy from Denny's, or a pizza.
When I'm not eating out the food I put together is retatdedly simple things I can handle the preparation of, like vienna sausage with campbell's condensed tomato soup, or scrambled eggs with chicken flavor maruchan instant noodles.
Just assmebling stuff like that is tiring enough and actually making full blown restaurant style meals would be way over the amount of effort I can summon up for food.
McDonald's is a good compromise between putting together a meal at home vs. spending on something more expensive from a restaurant. It's still pretty dirt cheap if you just get the sausage egg and cheese items at breakfast time or regular cheeseburgers when their lunch menu is in effect.

[Anonymous No.17973471]

>>17973449
Then imagine you have say over 40 items in your cart if you shop monthly. Then multiple that extra 50 cents times that and that's about $20 less you have for gas or rent or even just money to go do something for fun.
>>17973459
I wouldn't do it but I have a physically demanding job so I'm relatively in shape and my weight hasn't really gone up since ive started that method. Still not the healthiest though I agree. Not really planning on living a log life anyway so I guess it's easier for me to not care about my long term health.

[Anonymous No.17973474]

>>17973404
>Unless you have all the ingredients on hand to make your own dough, you have to either buy said ingredients or buy premade crusts. Then you have to buy your toppings unless you also randomly keep fresh mozarella and salami on hand. Then you have to buy the pizza sauce or tomato to make the sauce.
>My argument is, you wasted the time and moneybuying ingredients at the store
How is the money "wasted"? The ingredients have been used to fuel you, and there should be enough left to make many more pizzas in the future. It might seem like a lot to buy if you're a complete noob that doesn't even own flour. But basic cooking ingredients are an investment that are much cheaper in the long-run.

[Anonymous No.17973483]

>>17973404
>all the ingredients on hand to make your own dough
flour, yeast, water, sugar
wow where will I find these exotic items?

[Anonymous No.17973482]

At the local Chinese take away, Chinese style curry chicken with onions and mixed vegetables costs $7 and comes with a side of fried rice. It's roughly two servings, so $3.50, though it comes with a single egg roll, canned soda or pint of soup. I'm leaving those out of my estimate.

Cooking it from scratch at home would cost me:
$1.50 for the half pound of breast meat
35c for the onion
25c for the mixed vegetables
10c for the chilli
5c for the ginger
10c for the curry powder
15c for the chinese chicken stock
10c for the rice
10c for the peas in the rice
10c for the onion in the rice
50c for the pork
10c for the sesame oil
Negligible costs of cooking oil, msg, sugar and cornstarch.

That's $3.40, meaning I can make two servings of take away chicken curry for [slightly] less than the cost of one.
Still, with all the prep and clean up after, you may want to get a take away every now and again. Further still, while this example seems like a "meh" result, tomato soup is a better one. Costs me about 65ish cents to make myself a bowl at home from scratch. The lunch counter at my corner sells bowls off the stuff $4 each. As I like mine better AND it's far cheaper (and practically no clean up, more on that in a sec), I will always make it myself.
After cooking, I'm not gonna pour it into a bowl. Fuck that. I eat it directIy from the saucepan I used to make if after blitzing it smooth with a stick blender, which is easy AF to clean.

[Anonymous No.17973494]

>>17973474
>How is the money "wasted"? The ingredients have been used to fuel you, and there should be enough left to make many more pizzas in the future. It might seem like a lot to buy if you're a complete noob that doesn't even own flour. But basic cooking ingredients are an investment that are much cheaper in the long-run.
I used to love cooking and do agree with you on the getting bulk basic ingredients part. I just hate cooking now because every time I see a dish it makes me think of my ex and then I'm not only sad but agitated by doing dishes. So I kinda hate cooking now though I love talking about food here.
I grill in the summer but that takes a lot of effort I just do it because god damn do I make some good ribs and steaks.

[Anonymous No.17973510]

>>17973482
That's what ive been saying but ouch much more eloquently and efficiently lol. If I have to spend an extra couple of bucks to not have to cook or clean I'll take that trade off.
HOWEVER, for a family that's a terrible idea and even I would admit that.

[Anonymous No.17973511]

Some companies/universities/schools/military barracks have long term contracts with suppliers to provide for their catering facilities with non-inflation adjusted fixed prices until they have to be renewed. Eating there can actually be cheaper than cooking yourself.

[Anonymous No.17973515]

>>17971154
yes, of course

[Anonymous No.17973516]

>>17973511
I only eat at the dairy queen on a 1950s era contract.

[Anonymous No.17973518]

>>17971154
I have a 50 pound bag of basmati rice. and i buy 5 pounds bags of pulses from indian store. i cook those up often with onion, tomato, spices and it taste great.

I'll eat a can or two of sardines on the side for protein/omega 3.

Quite cheap in the end and healthy (I also buy broccoli and other vegetables to eat)

[Anonymous No.17973519]

>>17971186
>can cook chef level meals in severe drunken stupors
>just do it and people think you're pretty great
Well lee cord on blue to you too.

[Anonymous No.17973522]

>>17973423
>I get where you're coming from and sometimes ordering out is perfectly acceptable but paying upwards of 5x the worth of the ingredients is just a scam.

The standard ratio is 6x. If a dish costs a restaurant $3 just for the ingredients, then they sell it for at least $18 to cover labor/overhead/rent/etc...

[Anonymous No.17973525]

>>17973404
Pizza is, like, $25 now. If you don't want to make dough, you can buy frozen balls of the stuff and keep them on hand when you want to make a pizza. Tomatoes for margherita pizza aren't cooked. They're just crushed and sieved. Vac-packed bricks of mozzarella keep in the freezer surprisingly well. I don't like salami or pepperoni on a pizza. Basil comes from the window sill. Olive oil is always on hand.
Making a pizza with storebought dough ($1.25 now, used to be a buck), half a tin of tomatoes (50c), a quarter pound of shredded mozz (75c) and a drizzle of oil (30c) costs near nothing ($2.80 x 2 = $5.60), two are equal in size to a single large from the take away/delivery joint and leaves me only with a half pound of mozzarella leftover, which is hardly difficult to use up. If I /wanted/ to add pepperoni, that'd be only another $2 total.$7.60 < $25, Anon.
Before you argue about using mozz bricks, do you honestly think Guido's Greasy Wop Pizza di Hackensack is using top grade, premium stuff?

[Anonymous No.17973551]

>>17973510
True. For a family, that $3.60 difference between homecooked and Chinese take away adds up. There are some things, like pizza, Indian food and burgers, which I will seldom to never get take away for but others, like char siu (too time consuming to make myself), American barbecue (if I want ribs now, I want them now, not in two hours) or Southern fried chicken (ngl, idk how to make Amerifried chicken and while the type I grew up with tastes great, it doesn't hit the same spot as Popeyes does), I don't mind grabbing some OMW home from work or somewhere. But I understand that convenience has a price.

[Anonymous No.17973567]

>>17973525
Well ya do got me there anon lol I guess I'm thinking more like meals and situations like >>17973482 said.
Perfect example. I could go for some tacos right now but I don't have anything other than some leftover seasonings for tacos (and of course cholula hot sauce)
Now the SMART thing would be going to the store and buying beef, the little taco shell packs that come with the sauce, lettuce, tomato and shredded cheese etc...but I might not want tacos for another couple weeks.
Then after i go to the store (which I loathe) I gotta brown the beef. Dice the veggies, bake the shells all that. Then i finally get to eat and now I got a bunch of dishes to do.
OR I could just spend a little bit more, go to this local taco joint near me and get my taco fix nice and easy and go back to playing my puter games completely hassle free.
So you're absolutely right that I could buy all those ingredients in bulk and still have some leftovers that I could freeze or save. I just don't care for the extra labor and have to worry about using those ingredients before they go bad.
I would NOT do that if I had more than 1 mouth to feed.

Yes, I am fully aware I'm just being lazy to your point though lol. It just works for me personally. If I ever got a girlfriend and we moved in together, I would buy groceries in bulk though.

[Anonymous No.17973578]

>>17973551
Thats actually my predicament right now lol. I really want tacos right now and instead of going to buy the ingredients and spending the time/effort cooking and cleaning, I'm just gonna spend the extra buck or two to go get some tacos from this place that makes killer hard shells for cheap. I can eat the hard shell tacos now and save the rice and beans sides for later. So I'm fed for a whole day, no hassle, and it didn't really cost me that much more for just one person.

You guys have actually been super nice to me and listening to my rationale even though it's NOT the money-wise smart thing to do. I appreciate you guys for that.

[Anonymous No.17973588]

>>17973578
I should mention the local place also has beer and on Sundays, tacos are 3 for $3.50 and they LOAD them up so I might even have a beer while I'm there. God bless small Mexican restaurants.

[Anonymous No.17973671]

>>17973444
>Tina's big burritos and cholula hot sauce
my man

[Anonymous No.17974037]

>>17971194
95% of this image is corn.
The other 5% is chicken breasts.