/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10832353]

Is meal prep just a meme?

>go to taco bell
>$5 for a couple bean burritos or something
>1000-1200 cal

>make chicken rice and broccoli
>$15 for 6 chicken breasts at kroger
>Makes 5 ish servings
>$3-$4 a serving
>400-500 cal each

What the fuck, I'm barely saving any money

[Anonymous No.10832371]

Yeah but it's way better than eating beans and flour tortillas every day.

[Anonymous No.10832373]

>>10832353
$1-2 a meal x3 meals x365 days a year is $1k to $2k saved a year, plus eating healthier saves you on health care costs down the road.

I don't meal prep. I make dinner ever night and eat left overs the next day. I don't want to eat week old food to save like an hour a night or two a week.

[Anonymous No.10832382]

>>10832353
>go to store
>buy canola oil and flour for $6
>10000+ cal
Wwow i'm gonna spend the money i saved on an onahole.

[Anonymous No.10832400]

>>10832382
Throw in a multi vitamin and there's no problem with this

[Anonymous No.10832408]

>>10832400
that's literally what soylent is

[Anonymous No.10832409]

>>10832400
>>10832382
This is like 2 steps away from being soylent.
This sounds miserable.

[Anonymous No.10832411]

>>10832400
What about protein?

[Anonymous No.10832415]

>>10832373
>$1-$2 a meal x3 meals
I lift weights desu, how the hell do you subsist on 1500 calories a day
And is $1k to $2k really worth 365 hours spent cooking that you could do something else with?
>>10832382
I could extrapolate this to the meditteranean place down the street where I can get 2000+ calories worth of healthy bomb ass food for $20. This vs. an hour spent cooking for bland chicken and green beans at a small caloric surplus

[Anonymous No.10832423]

>>10832415
>I lift weights desu
For what? If you say "just to get big" and not to be better in a competitive sport you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.10832434]

>>10832415
If it takes you a hour of active time to cook you might have cerebral palsy

[Anonymous No.10832444]

>>10832423
For strength, health, and aesthetics. Also I take krav maga classes and want to supplement it with resistance training

Not everyone aspires to be a 1200kcal/day twink like you, Howard

[Anonymous No.10832452]

>>10832353
>is meal prep just a meme?
>go to fast food and buy cheap carbs stuffed with carbs
>1000-1200 carbs

>make balanced meal at home
>more expensive
What's it like being a rocket scientist?

[Anonymous No.10832478]

>>10832353
I thought the point was to save time during the week and to force yourself to eat healthy for X meals per week

[Anonymous No.10832492]

>>10832411
I eat my own cum.

[Anonymous No.10832495]

>>10832478
Maybe idk, I was expecting it to be cheaper also but it's much more expensive. Is this why poor people don't cook?

[Anonymous No.10832504]

>>10832444
>krav maga

[Anonymous No.10832509]

>>10832495
It's cheaper than going out to eat and picking the healthiest options, but more expensive than stuffing your face with maccas

[Anonymous No.10832523]

Fast food will always be cheaper than healthy food and why the fuck would I buy healthy food in stock, that's just retarded

[Anonymous No.10832525]

>>10832523
>>10832495
Nah, you just fail hard at cooking.

[Anonymous No.10832568]

>>10832525
You can get a cheeseburger for literally one dollar

[Anonymous No.10832576]

you could make like 30 burritos that are way better quaility than taco bells for cheaper.

[Anonymous No.10832585]

>>10832568
Yeah. And you can get the same nutrition as that microburger for just a few cents.

[Anonymous No.10832613]

>>10832415
Should've known it was a /fit/ poster. How can this one board be so inept at both finance and cooking? I wish I had a /fit/ roommate so I could cook fresh every night and not have to eat/repurpose as much leftovers.

Or not, and I'll just keep cooking for my family and invite friends instead of having to deal with the autism.

[Anonymous No.10832628]

>>10832353
Fritos burritos are 440 calories and cost a dollar.

[Anonymous No.10832654]

>>10832353
You're doing the math all fucked up.
If you paid $15 for 6 chicken breasts, they're over a pound each. A serving size for chicken is 3-4 ounces, and a pound is 16 ounces. $15 in chicken should get you 30 4-ounce servings of chicken, given that the chicken breast costs about $1.99/lb which is average. Even if you double the portion of chicken that would be 15 servings.

Also, regarding calories, you are not adding enough to your meals. Use healthy oils, sauces, or even just some butter or cheese to add fat and calories to your meal for cheap. However, I think your calorie counts are way off. Just one pound of raw chicken breast has about 500 calories, and a cup of white rice has about 200. Without the broccoli or any added fat that's almost double what you estimated.

tl;dr OP can't do basic math and should probably give up and eat Taco Bell bean burritos for every meal anyway so that he dies faster with less of a chance to reproduce.

[Anonymous No.10832661]

>>10832353
>>$15 for 6 chicken breasts at kroger
>>Makes 5 ish servings
eat less fatty

[Anonymous No.10832828]

5$ for only 1000-1200 calories is pretty poor. Can buy 5 mcchickens and get a full day's worth for the same price, plus it's better tasting and more filling.

[Anonymous No.10832830]

>>10832828
>plus it's better tasting
Only if your cooking skill is abysmal.

[Anonymous No.10832842]

>>10832830
Was talking as far as fast food goes. McChicken > Bean Burritos at Taco Bell. Of course a decent home cooked meal is better tasting than fast food.

[Anonymous No.10832982]

>>10832353
>people only care about calories
What's wrong with this board?

[Anonymous No.10832987]

>>10832353
>$15 for 6 chicken breasts at kroger
Around here we have wal-mart. It's $13 at the very most for 8 boneless skinless chicken breasts

[Anonymous No.10833020]

>>10832353
You buy the chicken on sale, asshole
Wait till the breasts are 2 bux a pound. Then six is like 6-8 dollars
Or just get thighs for a dollar a pound

[Anonymous No.10833041]

>>10832411
Make a glass of whey protein and metamucil.

[Anonymous No.10833189]

>>10832353
>$15 for 6 chicken breasts at kroger
I can get 1 lb (2 breasts) for $2 at Kroger where the fuck do you live

[Anonymous No.10834063]

>>10832353
>everything that costs more than eating taco bell every day is a meme

[Anonymous No.10834078]

>1000 cal for $5 is impressive
lolwut, buying straight tuna gets you that for $4. Eggs will get you 1200 cal for $1.

[Anonymous No.10834117]

Eating the same bland shit multiple days in a row is a meme. As is freezing and defrosting, leading to poor ass tasting food.

Meal prepping is depressing.

[Anonymous No.10834170]

>>10832423
Not him but I'm a former fatass who lost weight and then started lifting. There are so many C O P E -ing people out there when it comes to lifting, or even exercise in general. It makes your day to day life so much easier, and you don't realize until it changes. You shouldn't get short of breath bending over to tie your shoes, or sore knees from sitting and standing from the toilet, or lose balance and fall except under very extreme circumstances, or needing a shit ton of momentum and using your hands to get into/out of your bed or car or something.

[Anonymous No.10834255]

>>10832353
Chicken breast is more expensive than beans. Use chicken thighs or buy a whole chicken.

You could probably make 8-10 bean burritos for the same price if you made them at home from dry beans.

[Anonymous No.10834589]

>>10832504
Krav Maga is legit one of the few martial arts that isn't a meme

[Anonymous No.10834715]

>>10834170
I'm fat and a smoker and Im usually out of breath after I get out of bed and dress. It's a small price to pay for getting to eat the world's best foods. People born a century ago would kill to be able to eat like me and smoke the finest tabaccos

[Anonymous No.10834721]

>>10834715
>It's a small price to pay for getting to eat the world's best foods.
You can still do that, and smoke, without doing it so much that it makes you fat and destroys your lungs.

[Anonymous No.10834728]

>>10834715
What do u smoke? I've been smoking nigger sticks for the past three years and I want to try something different

[Anonymous No.10836353]

>>10832415
>he takes an hour to cook his fucking chicken breast

the absolute state of meatheads lmaooo

[Anonymous No.10837736]

For one, buy cheaper ingredients. It's not like Taco Bell is using top-grade, premium quality ingredients in what they sell at you so it's a bit of a false equivalence to compare it that way.
Secondly, you're comparing the price of beans to the price of the costlist whole segment of chicken, which is another false equivalence.
Next, you just implied that you eat nearly a pound of meat in a single meal (6 chx tits is roughly 4.67lbs and that's "5ish servings" for you, you say; that's about 15oz of meat per serving).
And finally, 15oz of chicken breast is about 425 calories on its own. A portion of rice is another 275 calories or so and the broccoli about another 40. That's not to mention whatever cooking oil you're using, which is 135 calories per tablespoon. Using 2tbsp oil to prepare your 15oz of chicken with rice and broccoli, your meal would be about 1000 calories.

[Anonymous No.10838004]

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