/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5306761
>at least 24 bottles of wine a month

Alcoholism?

I spend probably $200 a week for 2 people at grocery stores, granted that includes things like toilet paper and other household items. I make pretty much all our meals, and while I am very cheap (relatively) I try to eat as well as possible which is why I don't mind buying items that are a little more expensive like cheese.

>>5306763
i cook every day, so why wouldn´t i drink too?

>>5306772
That's some back asswards logic there, buddy. Eating is a necessity, of course you do that every day. Drinking alcohol is not.

>>5306774
I don´t "eat" just to sustain myself. If I did, I would hardly be on a cooking board after all.

My point was that eating and drinking are the same kind of pleasure to me.

I tend to spend frugally on meats and buy them in bulk, and spend more on fresh vegetables and other such ingredients.

>What do you spend your money on?
I spent today on a single card enough to buy myself a quality steak and good beer. Instead, I had porridge for dinner.

>>5306772
That's almost one bottle per day. People say that one glass a day is acceptable and even healthy, but a bottle... You seem to have a problem.

Seriously, I cook almost everyday as well. It's no excuse.

>>5306776
Of course we all like to eat dishes we find enjoyable and delicious. I agree, we wouldn't visit this board if we only ate what was necessary to survive.

Food isn't a drug though. Yeah, I suppose you can use the same argument for things you drink, but alcohol is a whole different beast than food. But hey, to each his own. Just saying you can save a whole lot of money if you cut down.

>>5306778
oh man, I used to be addicted to this shit when i was a teen, got a set of bazaar of baghdads, a mox emerald and shit. But never enough to play T1 competetively.

>>5306779
I don´t really care that my alcohol consumption is higher than healthy. Most people kill themselves with too much sugar, bad fats, smoking, overworking, being too stressed about relationships etc.

I don´t need to excuse my habits, I merely observed that it´s getting quite expensive.

>>5306784
Magic has really evolved evolved since then. You should give the game a look, the competitive scene is thriving.
>bazaar of baghdads, a mox emerald
If you still have them they're worth hundreds.

>>5306789
nah... and i hardly got any value for the rest of my cards, but at least i didn´t have to put in any effort to sell them :...)

I´m playing hearthstone atm, have neither the time nor money to get back into magic to the degree i would want to.

>>5306794
>hearthstone
Yikes. At least it's not YGO, I guess.

>>5306797
For it´s simplicity, HS has a lot of complexety. Especially considering that it´s still in beta on one expansion.

Just imagine MTG in alpha.

Although that´s not an entirely fair comparisonm i realize.

>>5306761
My wine budget is about the same as yours, OP. Your food budget seems to be higher than mine, though. Food for me and my wife runs about $50/week, and that's most meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) at home, since both of us mostly work from home. This gives us the time to cook everything from scratch. (It probably helps that we eat mostly vegan, because beans are sure as hell cheaper than meat).

>>5306807
I was about to ask how the fuck 50 bucks would work. But sure, dried stuff is easy to buy in bulk.

Without going into the whole vegan appeal debate, I wouldn´t want to abbandon animal products, let alone meat itself entirely, that said, I don´t pay particular attention to the times I DO eat vegetarian or vegan.

>>5306813
>I wouldn´t want to abbandon animal products, let alone meat itself entirely
Me neither. I have it when I go out. But at home I don't bother with it. My pressure cooker sees lots of use with dry beans, which are cheap and plenty nutritious.

I spend about $100 on groceries a week (one person), not including eating out which comes to another $100-200 depending on the week.

I've cut back some on the drinking but last year I was doing about 8 wine bottles a month, averaging about $20 a bottle. I'm down to about 3 bottles a month now.

24 bottles of wine a month seems a little excessive. Regardless of quantity, if the idea of a week without drinking causes you anxiety, that's a sign you may have a problem.

Where do you live, OP?

>>5309085
I sometimes do 3 to 5 days without any alcohol. It just feels more boring. In the same way that going without good food would make me miss something in my day.

I don´t really label myself as an alcoholic, since none of the symptoms of alcoholism apply to me, apart from the amounts i am drinking.

When i feel down or in a bad mood i generally drink less, if any alcohol.

>>5309095
Berlin
>>5309095

Averaging about $300 a week at the grocery for just two people. I like to eat well and am fond of the drink as well, OP.

>>5309464
>Drinking approx. a bottle of wine per day
>not an alcoholic
Don't lie to yourself, OP. You should get help.
Anyways, I spend about 125 dollarydoos for food for myself, plus a couple meals shared with a friend.

>>5309483
What is the arbitrary number of bottles of wine one can consume per month and not be an alcoholic?

>>5309488
6

I don't spend much on groceries. Raw milk is my big ticket item at $9/gal.

I mostly eat out, because I'm a food writer/restaurant critic in my city. I mostly pay for it, unless its quite expensive because goddamn.

>>5309488
standard wine bottle has ~5 glasses/servings. Heavy drinking is more than 2 per day, or 14 per week. OP is doing about 4 per day, or about 28 per week. That's not being normal, that's called an alcoholic. Especially if he says life is boring without alcohol/doesn't like not drinking.

>>5306761
brew your own wine, it's easy

>>5309525
Life is boring without sex and I don't like not having sex.
Do I have a problem?

>>5309547
apparantly you are a sexaholic, by that logic.

Get help, faggot!

They´ll cure you of not doing everything everybody else is doing.

>>5309547
>>5309584
Gratuitous amounts of sex doesn't drain your wallet, kill your brain, poison your liver, you you spotty skin, nervous system problems, etc.

>>5309625
only a virgin could say something like that...

In real life it tends to be exactly the opposite.

>>5309625
Nope, just AIDS and other std's

>>5309625
>Gratuitous amounts of sex doesn't drain your wallet
u wot m8