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>tfw you finally learn that it's cheaper and healthier to buy groceries and cook for yourself than going out and eating fast foods

>> No.10525963

a thread died for this shitposting...

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>>10525958
>tfw not OP

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>>10525958
Yes, but... soooo laaaaazy.

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>forced to work doubles almost every single day
>live 40 minutes from work
>have to have a clean uniform for everything
"Lol why don't you spend an hour cooking each day?"

>> No.10526849

I've found that it's rarely cheaper and only healthier if you make sacrifices on flavour. Which I won't make because I'm not fat.

Perhaps when cooking for a family there is a better value proposition.

>> No.10526870

>>10526292
I wonder what the Earth would taste like. Probably just a hot ball made up of iron and nickel. You wouldn't even really taste the oceans and crust, just like how you don't taste the skin on an apple.

>> No.10526874

>>10526849
I have no idea where you live, but for me, cooking your own food costs a fraction of eating out. The health thing I can see but that's because restaraunts have virtually no goal besides good tasting food.

>> No.10526900

>>10525958
money vs time/energy/sunk cost of equipment

if you have all of the latter, you should obviously be cooking. not that I can't cook but most the time me making a conscious decision to decide what I want to cook, buy groceries, cook it, clean it up, after having a full time job that sometimes goes late, and then those groceries inevitably go bad because I didn't use them all. THAT'S the real fucking question that people need to solve to get people cooking

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>>10526874
Australia. Food prices are high because we don't subsidise and there is no competition between supermarkets.
Also I'm single so I don't bulk buy.

Image Feb 2015 Safeway.

>> No.10526912

>>10526902
Christ, single here as well but I'm in England. After a get my Supermarket license, I can get pork shoulder for abouts £2.50 a kilo, pork is dirt cheap here.

>> No.10526914

>>10526902
mate eating out where I live (WA) costs nowhere under 10$ (a meal so thats ten for lunch and ten for dinner), more if you want anything edible and much more if you want a drink.
for 20$ I can buy groceries for three or four days.

I understand if you dont want to cook, thats a valid argument but it sure is cheaper.

>> No.10526937

>>10526914
Sure I can eat porridge, a Vegemite sandwich and meat + frozen vegies every day for cheaper.
But that's not really what I'm going for. Rather, say I have $20 per day to spend on food, what's the best I can do with that?
My attempts at reproducing restaurant food almost always cost more even with when cutting out hard to source ingredients. Some (many?) restaurant pricing isn't too far above cost.
Again, assuming you don't buy bulk.

>> No.10526949

>>10526937
right I see what your misconceptions are.
first of all I dont understand your refusal to buy bulk, even if youre single you can at least buy items that last forever in bulk and buy your meat etc as you need it.
second you dont try to reproduce restaurant food at home, you cook completely different recipes that are usually designed, as opposed to restaurant meals, to be fast and easy to make from *things you can bulk buy* and that are on sale that day.

I concede the point that if eating anything below restaurant food quality every single day is below your standards you have no choice but to eat out every day though. but then dont cry about expensive food.

>> No.10527041

>>10526949
>at home, you cook completely different recipes that are usually designed, as opposed to restaurant meals, to be fast and easy to make from *things you can bulk buy*
Any resources to that end? mum is dead.

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>>10526870
>he cant taste the skin of an apple

>> No.10527057

>>10527041
people actually write entire books about that mate how do you expect me to teach you in a 4chan post? cooking with cheap shit is something my dad taught me over my entire childhood, I wouldnt even know where to start telling you about it.
now that I type this I suppose it is a reasonable argument against home cooking, that it takes some practice to be actually worth it.

>> No.10527068

>>10527057
a book name man

>> No.10527075

>>10526912
Americans and English spend by a pretty comfortable margin the least amount of their income on food.

It's one of a million reasons I laugh when some know-nothing starts giving out holier than thou one size fits all momscience/pseudoeconomic advice without knowing any of the person's details including where they are from.