Eating out vs cooking at home prices.

[aquariuscsm]

Groceries are getting crazy high!! All our fave restaurants have stayed about the same price. After buying all the necessary ingredients to cook a high quality meal, price-wise it makes me wonder if you're better off getting carry out, especially if it's just *us*.

 

[RazorsEdge]

Look up more recipes, seriously.

Going out to eat is much more expensive.Plus with the COVID,it's not worth it.

Good luck

 

[vavavroom]

It simply depends on the types of food you eat. One could survive cheaply on beans, eggs, and cabbage. Probably should get a gas mask.

 

[atikovi]

Lots of variables. Breakfast lunch and dinner? Personally couldn't imagine getting dressed just to eat breakfast unless on vacation. 7 days a week? Again, unless on vacation, that's going to get expensive. Just yourself or a family. Again, cost factor.

 

[Zee09]

I always found it cheaper to eat a seafood dinner out instead of cooking it yourself.

 

[GSCJR]

It simply depends on the types of food you eat. One could survive cheaply on beans, eggs, and cabbage.

This plus pasta. You can stil eat healthy on a budget and it doesn't have to be junk food.

 

[atikovi]

I always found it cheaper to eat a seafood dinner out instead of cooking it yourself.

Especially if you're not a very good cook or don't particularly enjoy cooking. (like me)

 

[vavavroom]

This plus pasta. You can stil eat healthy on a budget and it doesn't have to be junk food.

I'd get rather chubby on rice, pasta, potatoes. Right now I'm just a bit fluffy for the cold season.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Lots of variables. Breakfast lunch and dinner? Personally couldn't imagine getting dressed just to eat breakfast unless on vacation. 7 days a week? Again, unless on vacation, that's going to get expensive. Just yourself or a family. Again, cost factor.

For us, dinner. She never eats breakfast or lunch, maybe just a snack, and I usually only eat an egg, coffee, and glass of milk for breakfast. I'm not a big lunch eater either. Just usually something small.

 

[vavavroom]

Especially if you're not a very good cook or don't particularly enjoy cooking. (like me)

Craigslist wanted ad: Looking for a relationship with a svelte lady who likes to cook and is good at it.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Especially if you're not a very good cook or don't particularly enjoy cooking. (like me)

2nd here!! I cant cook and don't particularly enjoy it either.

 

[AutoMechanic]

We were at a Mexican restaurant tonight and it had a note taped to all the menus saying anything on the menu that is food will automatically be price increased by 5% due to shortages and other stuff. Heck the prices at stores don’t help. It’s probably about the same either way.

 

[GSCJR]

For us, dinner. She never eats breakfast or lunch, maybe just a snack, and I usually only eat an egg, coffee, and glass of milk for breakfast. I'm not a big lunch eater either. Just usually something small.

Can't be that expensive if you're essentially eating OMAD, unless it's steak and shrimp.

 

[RazorsEdge]

2nd here!! I cant cook and don't particularly enjoy it either.

Yet you go to the gym? Seriously, that's a red flag your probably not getting the nutrition you need either. Again,take some effort and learn to cook,you'll be better off without all the additives restaurants add to the food.

With all the modern conveniences we have today, cooking is easy. No excuse man!

 

[bbhero]

Way way cheaper man. . To cook at home.

I can buy 2 large porterhouse steaks for $18 on a very good sale at Harris Teeter and make other side items for another $12.... $30- $35 dollars.

At a decent restaurant that would be $60- and a $120 at a high end steak restaurant not counting a tip.

Chicken is even well cheaper than that.

Pasta meals.... Even if I get the $8.99 really good bottle of Michael's of Brooklyn Puttanesca sauce and the high end pasta it is well cheaper than at a very good Italian restaurant.

 

[atikovi]

Craigslist wanted ad: Looking for a relationship with a svelte lady who likes to cook and is good at it.

Let me fix that for you. Looking for a relationship with a svelte lady who likes to change oil and is good at it.

 

[mightymousetech]

ALWAYS cheaper to cook. If cooking a meal costs more than ordering in, then what you are ordering in is not real food.

 

[GSCJR]

You can prepare a meal in 20-30 minutes, my wife does it all the time. Today, we had fresh home made pasta (previously frozen) with crumbled sausage and rapini (broccoli rabe) sauteed in EVOO for lunch. In a restaurant it's $20 a person minimum plus plus plus. We spent $12 for four.

 

[bbhero]

Let me fix that for you. Looking for a relationship with a svelte lady who likes to change oil and is good at it.

Post of the month winner here ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[vavavroom]

Let me fix that for you. Looking for a relationship with a svelte lady who likes to change oil and is good at it.

Then you can invest time into learning how to cook!