>tfw home cooked food isn't substantially cheaper than fast food unless you literally only eat rice / ramen / pasta and nothing else

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Anonymous Tue May 22 12:41:54 2018 No.10640578 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw home cooked food isn't substantially cheaper than fast food unless you literally only eat rice / ramen / pasta and nothing else

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:43:36 2018 No.10640585 >>10640578 >$10 for mcd's combo meal >$3 for same amount made with groceries you must suck at food shopping, op.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:45:10 2018 No.10640592 >>10640578 But it is. You're retarded.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:45:17 2018 No.10640593 >>10640585 MccyDees doesn't cost the much

Anonymous Tue May 22 12:47:59 2018 No.10640605

>>10640585
>triple melt with beans at taco bell is $1.50
>500 calories with rice, beans, and beef for $1.50
>mcdouble is $1.50
>mcchicken biscuit is $1.00
>pizza from little caesars is $6.00 for 2500 calories
>all of these taste good and are effortless
>$.77 for a 2 liter of grocery store coke

how the fuck can you compete with the value when factoring cost, calories, and effort (cooking, dishes, trash etc.)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:52:10 2018 No.10640622 >>10640593 It does if you live in a shitty nannystate with taxes out the ass and a worthless dollar. t. leaf

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:54:29 2018 No.10640631 File: 86 KB, 1742x444, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640593 it most certainly does. >>10640605 a sandwich made at home costs less than a quarter. >2500 calories nope.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:56:15 2018 No.10640642 It is if you stay away from fancy exotic stuff. IF you are absolutely poor you can even substitute with the shittiest quality ingredients. You just have to make sure you actually eat the stuff you buy and don't throw away half.

Anonymous Tue May 22 12:59:44 2018 No.10640656

>>10640631
Those calories are per slice retard

>cheapest grocery store brand bread
>cheapest grocery store brand sliced meat
>cheapest grocery store brand sliced cheese
>still around $1.00 per sandwich with substantially less flavor than fast food and more effort

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:00:53 2018 No.10640661 >>10640656 >per slice nope. had to click the arrow to the left for each slice. get your shit together, jackass.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:01:00 2018 No.10640663 meat is getting insanely expensive, for a decent cut at least.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:05:53 2018 No.10640683 lol i cook my own food wasting my time AND money i'm so high class XD

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:05:54 2018 No.10640685 File: 11 KB, 594x257, little caesars.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640661 Kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:06:08 2018 No.10640687 >>10640578 frog poster gtfo

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:13:00 2018 No.10640701 Fast food is poverty food. Poor people are fat because they don't know better than mcdies.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:13:51 2018 No.10640704 >>10640661 How retarded are you that you think a whole pizza could possibly be only around 300 calories?

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:14:35 2018 No.10640706

I spend roughly $20-25 on a week's worth of food at walmart (and that usually includes something a bit frivolous, like a frozen pizza). To make that budget work for fast food, I'd have to eat like a single value menu item for every meal...gonna have to pass on that

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:17:16 2018 No.10640720 >>10640578 Health is expensive, has always been.

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:22:23 2018 No.10640742

>>10640656
This is your problem here,

>Cheapest grocery store sliced meat

Sandwiches are going to be more expensive due to being a mixture of processed goods. The restaurants get their moneys' worth by buying in bulk, which is more money and food than you can afford and use respectively.

What you can do:
Buy meat, cook carefully and slice thinly for your own sandwiches.

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:24:33 2018 No.10640747 [DELETED]

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>>10640701
>Poor people are fat because they don't know better than mcdies.

This meme has been proven to be wrong so many times already.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:24:51 2018 No.10640748 >>10640578 Not for one serving, but you can usually get 2 or more servings out of spending the same amount of money at a grocery store instead of at a fast food place

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:26:23 2018 No.10640751 >>10640747 >rich automatically means smart lmao

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:27:51 2018 No.10640757

>>10640578
If you buy your food in bulk and cook for large numbers of people, then cooking for yourself is far cheaper than eating out every night.

If you just make a new dish each night then yeah you have a point, especially if you have a a high hourly wage.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:30:00 2018 No.10640763 >>10640751 Who are you quoting?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:30:47 2018 No.10640765 >>10640747 It's true for women. Also I'd like to see a similar study in Europe.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:35:10 2018 No.10640781 File: 442 KB, 432x767, 1519927260150.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640747 Imagine being poor AND having your only options for women be hippos

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:35:27 2018 No.10640783

>>10640631
>a sandwich made at home costs less than a quarter.
On what planet?

You could buy the cheapest version of every ingredient (white bread, lunch "roll", american cheese, mayo, lettuce) and that's about $10. So even if you could make 15 sandwiches out of all those ingredients, you're looking at about $.66 for each sandwich. And it's going to be the wimpiest, most mediocre sandwich that you had to spend extra time/effort shopping for and constructing. You can get a double cheeseburger, something hot and less meh, for practically the same price.

You're just wrong. In America, it's literally more cost effective and efficient to eat fast food. That's why home cooking, especially good and healthy cooking at home, is a privilege. Not everyone wants to live on mystery meat sandwiches just because they're technically less expensive per slice or whatever retarded math you're using.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:36:16 2018 No.10640787 you need to learn to cook for multiple meals at a time OP. it's definitely cheaper, I've done the math many times

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:37:21 2018 No.10640789 >>10640763 >he posts on /jp/ You've got to go back, weeb.

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:41:04 2018 No.10640800

>>10640787
Do you factor in the time and effort you spend buying, preparing, cooking, and storing the food? basically anything you wouldn't have to do if you had purchased at a restaurant.

Because I guarantee that once you've factored in all of that, at best you're breaking even.

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:46:17 2018 No.10640818

>>10640656
What?
At my Aldi's I can get
>white bread 80c a loaf or $2 for potato or whole wheat which have like 16 slices a bag
>a 1lb block of cheddar for $4.50 which can me 16 good slices
>a 1lb container of ham for $3.75 with like 16 slices
With two loaves of bread and a slice of cheese and ham on each sandwich I could make 16 sandwiches for like 61c each

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:47:12 2018 No.10640822

>>10640578
If you live outside of America many vegetables are really inexpensive (like ognions ad carrots). If you have a freezer you can pick your meat in sufficient quanties so it come around 1$/ piece Add to that rice / ramen / pasta you mentionned in the post and you can pretty much make everything.
But yes eating processed fast-food garbage isn't absurdly more expensive (that's because its bad for you).
Also Fruit juice are way more expensive at Mc/do (i consider pressed orange juice home cooked food).

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:49:08 2018 No.10640824 why are americans so obsessed with fast food

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:49:29 2018 No.10640825

>>10640800
I don't factor in the time I spend buying, preparing, cooking, and storing the food, because the only sense of "cheapness" that's relevant is in terms of monetary expenditure. And my monetary expenditure during my free time at home is 0. The value of the gas I use when driving to the grocery store a single time is also basically negligible.

What exactly are you asking? Do you have some kind of time/effort vs. money conversion factor going on in your head that I'm supposed to know about?

Anonymous Tue May 22 13:52:33 2018 No.10640832

>>10640578
I'd say it has to do a lot with scale. If you buy in bulk (like any food outlet) you are making the same thing over and over for cheap, but cooking a different meal for yourself person every day can be challenging and expensive when you're using ingredients that don't have a long shelf/fridge life.
you could get closer to food chain prices if you buy in bulk and freeze a weeks worth of meals. depends on your country as well

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 13:53:13 2018 No.10640834 >>10640824 jealous?

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:01:08 2018 No.10640867

>>10640825
>Do you have some kind of time/effort vs. money conversion factor going on in your head that I'm supposed to know about?
Well... yes.

Also, if you're putting in effort to save money during your "free time" to make up for expenses that aren't being covered by your actual job, then that's not free time. You're still working for your employer, trying to compensate for money they're not giving you.

If you spend an extra hour every week trying to save money because you're not being paid enough, why not just work an extra hour? Alternately, if you make $14/hour at your job, why spend 30 minutes of your own time preparing food when you could pay someone $7/hour to do the same thing while you do something else more productive or interesting?

We live in a service economy. Doing things on your own when you have the option to pay people to do them for you is a luxury and doesn't actually save you any time or money.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:01:28 2018 No.10640868

>>10640578
My lunch right now
>1can garbanzo beans $.90 after tax
>half cup brown rice from a 15lb $25 sack. call it $.60 after tax
>1 cup frozen mixed vegetables from $10 5lb sack. call it $1.80 after tax
>a few squits of sirracha $.25
thats $4.15 for a fully nutritional 855 calorie meal
plus i wont need a big dinner after it

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:04:35 2018 No.10640886 >>10640867 I'm not "trying to save money", I'm doing what I prefer, and what I prefer happens to be cheaper. Consider making less assumptions if you're going to bother engaging in a dispute about an issue

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:05:08 2018 No.10640888 >>10640884 the ironing is delicious

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:05:41 2018 No.10640892 File: 82 KB, 624x624, 1392930993873.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640578 >tfw you're too fucking stupid to shop and spend more than you would if you're buying fast food

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:06:28 2018 No.10640898

>>10640886
>what I prefer happens to be cheaper.
Right, except it's not. As long as you're aware it's just something you do because you prefer and not because you're a master lifehacker who saves hundreds of dollars a year by not going to McDonald's, that's fair enough

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:12:24 2018 No.10640922 >>10640867 Conclusion: Kill yourself to stop working for the man Its the only way to win if you have this shit of an attitude

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:15:09 2018 No.10640927

>>10640867
>Doing things on your own when you have the option to pay people to do them for you is a luxury
You can litteraly cut/mince everything and trow it in an oven , or throw it in a pan , we'r talking 30 min cooking time while you could do anything else....
And cooking your own meal allow you to control exactly your food intake quantity and type.

Suggest you should not cook when you can affort to have someone do it for you...
Why are you on /ck/ ? is this the 'bait' thing i'v heard about ?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:15:13 2018 No.10640928 >>10640898 I'm not the guy you're replying to, but its not even remotely difficult to prepare food for yourself that costs less than fast food.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:17:54 2018 No.10640939

>>10640922
It doesn't really have anything to do with an attitude, it's just true.

If you get paid $500 in a week and you want to buy a car that costs $600, you can't buy it that week. But if there's the same car being sold for $500 but it needs work, so you spend your own time fixing it up, now you have that car for $500 plus whatever time and energy you put into fixing it.

Where did that extra $100 come from? If your employer paid you $600 in a week, you would have been able to simply buy the car without spending any extra time or effort outside of your job to get it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:18:00 2018 No.10640940 >>10640928 Sure, but if all you want to eat is total garbage and make your experience the same as 'fast food' it will be more expensive. OP just prefers to eat shit

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:18:50 2018 No.10640941

>>10640867
>why spend 30 minutes of your own time preparing food when you could pay someone $7/hour to do the same thing while you do something else more productive or interesting?
Because I'm not working 24/hrs a day? I have time off in the day where I'm not working or sleeping. Why not spend that time learning a useful skill like cooking my own meals, something I enjoy?
If you're a soulless weirdo who wants to eat exactly the same unhealthy garbage every day then be my guest.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:18:56 2018 No.10640942 >>10640928 i'm not the guy you're replying to either but please prove it

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:19:18 2018 No.10640943

>>10640939
>It doesn't really have anything to do with an attitude

I enjoy cooking, and it is totally worth my time to learn and improve my skills from what to buy to preparation and cooking
Hence I spend lots of time on a cooking image board.

you sound like you have no enjoyment in life
Again, the solution is to kill yourself.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:22:30 2018 No.10640957

>>10640939
>plus whatever time and energy you put into fixing it.
But if I'm working 10 hours a day, what should I be doing during the 6 hours a day I'm not sleeping? You aren't working 24hr/day, you have free time where you're not "spending time" to do things like "save $100 on a car" because what else are you gonna do during that time? Play video games or watch YouTube?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:25:51 2018 No.10640965 >>10640957 >what else are you gonna do during that time? Don't ask me, it's your time mate. But preferably you wouldn't be using that time to save money, that's no way to live.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:26:01 2018 No.10640967 >>10640578 Stop being a broke ass bitch.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:27:17 2018 No.10640969 >>10640867 you're wasting time on 4chan right now time you'll never get back is 4chan more important than eating healthy and enjoying yourself? KYS

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>>10640867
>Also, if you're putting in effort to save money during your "free time" to make up for expenses that aren't being covered by your actual job, then that's not free time. You're still working for your employer, trying to compensate for money they're not giving you.
Imagine actually being this much of a wageslave

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:28:23 2018 No.10640974 >>10640585 Where do you live where hambuger meat, cheese, buns and condiments can all be bought for 3$? Obiouvly made up fantasy land.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:28:27 2018 No.10640975 >>10640969 >is 4chan more important than eating healthy and enjoying yourself? I'm not eating anything at all right now and I am enjoying myself. So what's the issue, bitch?

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:30:11 2018 No.10640982

>>10640975
My point is

it is no more a waste of time than buying food and cooking
unless you hate both of those things, which then bring us to the irony of you posting on a board about cooking.

you're fucked in the head. a perfect example of what is wrong with america today.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:30:32 2018 No.10640984 >>10640965 It's doing things I enjoy to also save money. I like working on cars. I like cooking. I like my body being healthy because I eat stuff besides a double cheeseburger every meal.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:32:35 2018 No.10640992 >>10640982 I don't even live in america lmao So that's on you, amigo

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:34:08 2018 No.10641005

>>10640942
Sure. Any meal or type of food you'd like me to give examples of?

I've made all of the following for $2 per serving or less:
beef, pork, or chicken stew cooked with homemade stock, wine, and vegetables. cheeseburgers w/ fries. fried chicken, mashed taters & greens. Chicken teriyaki w/ rice, pulled pork sandwich, fried chicken sandwich, charro beans w/ pork, roast chicken w/ veggies & gravy, beer butt chicken w/ cornbread, pho, ramen (not instant), country style ribs & beans, baked potato soup w/ grilled sausage, veg soup w/ pork chop, chicken fajitas (beef is only slighly over the $2 mark), etc.

Cooking from scratch is incredibly cheap even if you don't skimp on ingredients.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:34:13 2018 No.10641006 >>10640992 >can't be stupid because not american wow, you're dumb

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:37:52 2018 No.10641015 >>10641005 >$2 per serving or less Great, I can get a double cheeseburger for $1 Thanks for playing

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:38:34 2018 No.10641017 >>10641006 This is true though

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:39:41 2018 No.10641024 >>10641017 you've proven otherwise and keep eating shit, it'll only make you dumber

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:41:03 2018 No.10641032 >>10641015 Except that anon ate a full meal for less than $2 per serving, you got one measley value menu cheeseburger that will make you feel like shit after.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:41:50 2018 No.10641036

>>10641015
Is your "double cheeseburger" 1/3 lb, cooked to order with exceptional quality meat?

Or is it some McShit reheated in a microwave? Because if you want to lower standards to $1 fast food tier then we can go well under that.

Restaurants, even fast food, run about 30% food cost. If you pay $1 for that burger it cost 30 cents worth of ingredients to make, and there's no reason you can't get that same price.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:41:51 2018 No.10641037 >>10641024 I'm a different guy, bruh >>10641017 >>10640992

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:42:02 2018 No.10641038 this thread is why you dont live on your own food cost less per person in bigger batches

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:45:05 2018 No.10641054 >>10641036 >Is your "double cheeseburger" 1/3 lb, cooked to order with exceptional quality meat? Is yours? lol

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:46:09 2018 No.10641057 Food stuffs with more than a single serving increases in value the longer you spread it out. Buying fast food all the time is a net loss.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:46:11 2018 No.10641058 >>10641032 So I can eat two double cheeseburgers and get all of my caloric needs for the whole day met for just $2. Without having to put in any effort or extra time of my own. It's un-romantic and boring, but you can't deny that it's more efficient.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:47:34 2018 No.10641065 >>10641036 If a restaurant is running a 30% food cost they should fire the chef. 20% is ideal, 30% is insane.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:47:54 2018 No.10641068
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>>10641038
>tfw introvert and everything is just so fucking expensive

Sometimes I wish I had a Player 2. Not for the company. I like rolling around in my own filth and jacking off. Just having someone else around getting some income to ease the bills would be nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:48:28 2018 No.10641069 >>10641036 >there's no reason you can't get that same price. do you buy mcdonalds stock quantities of food at a time?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:48:43 2018 No.10641070 >>10641065 Don't worry, the person you're replying to has no clue what he's talking about.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:48:52 2018 No.10641071

>eat fast food 24/7
>become a malnourished fatass
>get health problems that give you expensive prescriptions that cost more than eating healthy homecooked meals
>die early because of obesity and malnutrition, all preventable by paying a bit more upfront to cook food yourself
Allow me to say that the cheapest healthy route is to cook homemade (green leafy salads, beans, rice) and water fast.
>t. 20 BMI poorfag who knows how to get by
>>10640605
There is no reason to drink anything but water, which is included in your housing fees.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:49:29 2018 No.10641079 >>10641058 Yes I will concede you get your caloric needs taken care of, but then you are gonna be hungry the rest of the day after you digest those two burgers. You’re sacrificing health, and comfort for effciency.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:49:30 2018 No.10641077 >>10641068 >Just having someone else around getting some income to ease the bills would be nice. You need more money, not someone else

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:49:56 2018 No.10641081 >>10641069 Apparently we should all be able to pay at the same rate as a company that buys tons and tons of a product at a time. Yup, that's totally the same price per pound you'd pay for buying the bulk pack at Walmart, you're right anon!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:51:20 2018 No.10641086 >>10641068 Nobody's going to pay to live in a filthy home. You want a P2? Learn to pick up after yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:51:59 2018 No.10641087 File: 94 KB, 648x802, B84D9D77-283F-426E-9CE8-F67C66A351DB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10641070 Thanks anon :)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:52:28 2018 No.10641088 >>10641086 >You want a P2? No.

Anonymous Tue May 22 14:56:33 2018 No.10641106

>Cooking isnt cheaper than eating out when compared to a company that has a vertical conglomerate on every aspect of getting that burger to you so as to profit $.0001 per order and still come out making millions
>Therefore it isnt actually cheaper
Maybe if you set your sights a little higher than the absolute rock bottom you wouldnt be the kind of disapointment that makes this thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 14:57:24 2018 No.10641111 >>10641106 /thread

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:01:32 2018 No.10641125

>>10641036
Sure their food cost is only a fraction of the cost you pay, but they're also buying wholesale and in huge bulk compared to an individual person- especially at places like McDonald's. I'm not arguing that their food isn't shit or that homecooked isn't leagues better but if you think you're competing with them on ingredient cost you have no idea what's going on. You don't have whole farms around the country specificslly to supply you, nor do you buy hundreds of tons of potatoes and onions at a time.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:01:50 2018 No.10641127 >>10640578 No, but my health is something im willing to pay more for

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:09:45 2018 No.10641177 >>10641111 >>10641125 >>10641127 I SAID /thread !! help help I need a janitor! Retard OP will never be convinced of his retardation (because he isn't smart enough) so this conversation is OVER

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:10:07 2018 No.10641180 >>10641071 >There is no reason to drink anything but water Exept the delicious taste of fresh-pressed orange juice ? I'm not mad tho you got the overall idea.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:11:01 2018 No.10641186 >>10640605 You didn't include the price of insulin. >>10640578 Get a job nigger.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:12:32 2018 No.10641194 >>10641186 >You didn't include the price of insulin. BASED

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:12:44 2018 No.10641196

>>10641125
People seem to love to parrot "muh food cost" but it's usually a load of crap. Yes, fast food places do save money by buying in bulk, but those discounts are nowhere near as large as most people seem to think they are. At a previous job I had I was involved with wholesale quantity food manufacturing. I'm talking a massive factory producing hundreds of thousands of packaged meals a day. The plant would use mutiple whole semi trucks of meat, veggies, etc. a day. Their cost compared to what you or I would pay at a big supermarket chain? About 20% less on average. Up to 25% on some things, worse on others.

They don't save anywhere near as much money as most people seem to think.

And most restaurants that aren't fuckhuge are paying very similar to what the average joe pays.

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:15:48 2018 No.10641206 >>10641199 this is how some people think but they are generally unemployable anyway

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:18:33 2018 No.10641218
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>>10640578
>Potato's are not even a dollar
>Frozen hamburger patties are like 5 bucks
>Buns are 2 bucks
>Cokes are 5 pack for 10 bucks
Plus kill yourself for the sake of humanity.

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:37:54 2018 No.10641302

>>10640974
He means to say that it would come out to 3 dollars per serving after all ingredients were bought.
Assuming you buy enough product for 8 burgers, the price per burger would be roughly 3 dollars if you were to eat them all. Of course you would have to spend 24 dollars or less for this to make sense.

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:45:29 2018 No.10641342

and not a single shopping list was posted
sad times for /ck/ my friends
good thing this is kept on front page tho

>If you spend an extra hour every week trying to save money because you're not being paid enough, why not just work an extra hour
literally the mutt dream: work 24/7 and eat fast food

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:52:06 2018 No.10641370 >>10641342 >and not a single shopping list was posted OP doesn't want help he wants to justify his bad life choices

Anonymous Tue May 22 15:59:02 2018 No.10641398

>>10641342
>and not a single shopping list was posted
OP wanted cheaper food than McDonalds, Im not a penny pinching poorfag so Im actually eating good food. If OPs food budget is restricted all the way down to 2 mcdoubles a day then my input isnt really going to help him as much as mocking him

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 16:00:16 2018 No.10641405 >>10640867 this is your brain on capitalism everything is a commodity, even your recreational time

Anonymous Tue May 22 16:12:55 2018 No.10641449

ok let's keep cancer bumped up then shall we, since people don't know what sage is

>>10641405
how the fuck did you equate what the retard said with capitalism? what, your spare time would be publicly owned in communism or some shit?
I think you mean consumerism / being american

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 16:23:24 2018 No.10641513 >>10641449 >>10641405 >Any money I dont spend is money my employer saves because he didnt buy it for me I dont think this is a capitalist or a communist thing, I think its just someone being stone cold retarded.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 16:33:02 2018 No.10641561 >>10640578 >posts frogs >is imbecile no way...

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 16:34:41 2018 No.10641575 >>10641513 but anon if we just agree that some is plain dumb how are we supposed to project our political beliefs onto them? muh c-capitalism is ebil man! haha you m-must be a buttm-mad capitalist wageslav ahah

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 16:57:53 2018 No.10641670 >>10641186 >insulin >no sugars Pick one and only one. Enjoy your "medicinal" fruits with your "medicinal" sugar, Pliny the Elder.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 17:30:49 2018 No.10641815 >>10640578 What are you on about? Make more bulk foods. Fast food is only designed to be good for one meal really, and makes your body crave.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 17:36:55 2018 No.10641835 >>10641670 >rice >white bread >potatoes >pizza crust These all fuck with your blood sugar levels dude. Why do you think diabetes is so prevalent. It's not just candy and soda.

Anonymous Tue May 22 17:39:53 2018 No.10641851
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>>10641835
>>rice
>>white bread
>>potatoes
IT'S EVERYTHING EVERYTHING HAS SUGAR AND ANY AMOUNT OF SUGAR IS BADREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 17:42:45 2018 No.10641865 >>10641835 >refined sugars and fructose are digested the same way as carbs because Atkins told me so >Atkins is always right, even when he's wrong (about the Inuit studies) >Never question St Atkins!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 17:47:28 2018 No.10641881 >who are you quoting

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:05:27 2018 No.10641960 >>10641071 You can't fool me, everyone who has ever died has come into contact with water. I'll stick to my rum and coke.

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:14:17 2018 No.10642010

>>10641199
>>10641206
it's funny knowing people will share or quote this scene and say "loolll that's totally meeee." While not realizing that these characters are extremely neurotic and immoral sociopaths and it's obvious their behavior or mindsets should not be emulated

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:25:21 2018 No.10642059

>>10642010
I dunno; besides the narcissism, I'm kinda feeling that way. A lot of my experience comes from personal interests and hobbies, but people hiring want to see that you got paid for it. I've been programming for years, but only for fun, so it doesn't count. I helped open a restaurant with a celebrity chef, and learned to cook beside him; but I worked as the general manager, so they say it doesn't count. It can be frustrating.

Not blaming "the system," though. When you live life to be a jack of all trades, you set yourself up for failure applying to specialist jobs.

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:28:20 2018 No.10642070

>>10642059
Yeah I probably shouldn't say they have no point. There are aspects about the rat race of life that could suck less. But idk man every time people post "literally me" content on social media from messed up characters, I feel like it's a celebration and encouragement of damaging behavior.

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:30:49 2018 No.10642078
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>>10642059
>live life to be a jack of all trades, you set yourself up for failure
this desu but you should try to focus on one of them
at least I did and it still is frustrating sometimes to see people be immensely good at one thing, it most definitely is the more appreciated style in society
nobody gives a fuck if you can't cook, can't keep your own damn place clean, have no clue what music is or what a book looks like, as long as you bring in dem rolls of cash and have some fancy job title
but w/e I like what I do

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:34:17 2018 No.10642091

I take a pound of leftover steak to work for lunch every day.
My coworkers ask me how I can afford to eat $4.95 worth of steak every day, and then they go pay $11.05 for a burger, fries and sugar water at chik-fil-a.

>Ramen
Ramen isn't even fucking cost efficient.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:40:40 2018 No.10642115 File: 101 KB, 1300x876, 2000 healthy vs unhealthy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Healthy food is pretty cheap, retards.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:42:20 2018 No.10642123 >>10642115 >fewer calories eating at mcdonalds than eating "healthy"

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:43:02 2018 No.10642128
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>>10642115
>healthy
>48oz of milk
>1 serving of vegetables
>no fruit

I'm not arguing that healthy can be inexpensive but what a god awful example. That "meal plan" has nutritional gaps you could drive a bus through. I'm guessing it's something /fit/ cooked up.

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:43:02 2018 No.10642129

>>10640578
I made 2 gallons of chili today. I used two onions, 3 pounds of meat for around eight dollars, garlic, three cans of beans for dollar each, and three cans of tomatoes for seventy cents each. The whole thing cost a little over ten dollars and will provide at least five dinners for my girlfriend and I.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:44:42 2018 No.10642135 File: 1.57 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20180522_184351.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10642129 Here is a Pic of said chili

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:45:21 2018 No.10642138 >>10642123 >32 calories what is your point?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:45:24 2018 No.10642139 >>10642091 How fat are you?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:52:44 2018 No.10642176 >>10642138 My point is why bother :)

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:53:25 2018 No.10642180

>>10640578
It depends.

If you're cooking for one, it's not much cheaper when you factor in the time (shopping, preparing, cooking), the ingredients, and the gas/electricity.

You can offset this by cooking batches, but eating things more than once in a row is proper depressing, and reheating defrosted food is even more depressing.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:54:13 2018 No.10642186 >>10642176 Because fast food is unhealthy. Enjoy your mounting health issues as a result of your nutritional deficiencies because you didn't want to put more effort into dindin that a McChicken.

Anonymous Tue May 22 18:54:47 2018 No.10642189
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>>10642128
>adds fruit
REEEE SUGAR REEEEEEEEEEE
>no fruit
REEEEEEEE NO FRUIT

srsly tho I haven't had fruit in literally years and nothing's happened

>he doesn't eat rice with eggs and milk
>he doesn't drink half his bodyweight in milk every month
www.comeon.now

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:54:48 2018 No.10642190 >>10642176 Better nutrition, more filling, half the price.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 18:56:08 2018 No.10642200 >>10642128 It's meant as an example, you turboautist. Obviously it can be improved but I didn't feel like comparison shopping 20 food items for an image on a Pekingese flyfishing MUD.

Anonymous Tue May 22 19:01:35 2018 No.10642230

>>10642189
"I'm 24 and haven't eaten fruit in years! I'm totally fine." It's almost like some people have no notion of the cascading effects of their habits over time. You can binge drink for 15 or 20 years too but you're going to be miserable in your 40s.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:02:37 2018 No.10642235 >>10642200 >I only had time to create an ineffective shitty example Then maybe you shouldn't have wasted your time.

Anonymous Tue May 22 19:03:02 2018 No.10642236

>>10642123
McDonald's provides what some call "empty calories." Yes, it provides energy to survive, but it's lacking in nutrients in said calories. It'll keep you going, but it doesn't keep you as healthy. I seem to recall an article reluctantly stating the McDouble is the best dollar per calorie buy, even over fresh food. But it has a hidden cost over the long term.

Anonymous Tue May 22 19:05:19 2018 No.10642245

>>10642230
>anon will teach me the importance of fruit
please do tell anon; for reference, I'm 28, have a balanced diet (except for fruit), have plenty of vitamins and enough exercise to stay fit, BMI of 22.2
I'm assuming here that tomatoes don't count as fruits

so tell me, why should I eat fruit and which fruit specifically, in what rough quantities

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:07:09 2018 No.10642257 >>10642235 Nah, it works fine as an example. You're just autistic. There are already 4 servings of veggies there, but you can add more with the extra $6/day you save by not eating fast food.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:08:13 2018 No.10642260 >>10642128 >thinks 48oz of milk is a lot Let me guess, manlet?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:08:45 2018 No.10642264 >>10640605 >how the fuck can you compete with the value when they use grade F meat and extremely processed dairy products with ultra-preserved veggies you absolutely can't!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:12:14 2018 No.10642276 >>10642245 >>10642257 >>10642260 Look at all that samefagging.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:15:24 2018 No.10642284 >>10642230 >>10642128 >fruit meme What do you think you get from fruit that you can't get from better sources, like vegetables, without the sugar bomb?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:36:20 2018 No.10642382 I want to know the truth about fruit NOW so I can go to sleep desu

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:43:11 2018 No.10642417 >>10641865 Who are you writing, retard? Fructose is worse since it stains your liver as well

Anonymous Tue May 22 19:57:13 2018 No.10642510
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IM SO TRIGGERED
this thread is so full of fucking kids/manchildren that it makes me ill.
you bitches behave like grocery shopping is a grand journey and preparing a meal a herculean task. well, maybe that's true when you have to do it for a big family. or when you're 12y.o. and have no fucking idea how to take care of basics, but then you're SUPPOSED to grow up and get some damn practice. then it's an afterthought.
you kids want some basic pointers? know the layout of the store where you go and have a (mental) shopping list ready, spend 15-30 mins shopping tops. know what you want to cook and FUCKING ORGANIZE. learn multitasking. you can make a salad while potatoes are boiling. you can wash most of the dishes while the meat sits in the oven. you don't have to cook daily. you can buy a cheap-ass bluetooth headset and spend entire time in the kitchen talking with a friend from another country.
also can't comment on prices in ameriland but in EU it's so obvious that cooking yourself is cheaper that I can't even imagine having a discussion about it with anyone who's already out of primary school

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:57:23 2018 No.10642512 >>10642417 >fructose stains your liver ???

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 19:58:35 2018 No.10642517 >>10642512 Strains

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 22:36:56 2018 No.10643252 >>10641960 I got a little secret the globalists have been hiding from you: they put the gay water into both coke and rum.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 22:39:56 2018 No.10643266 File: 1.43 MB, 320x232, 1526954912500.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640683

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 22:46:57 2018 No.10643289 >>10642176 Why the fuck would you pay more for less calories??? Are you clinically retarded?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 23:05:33 2018 No.10643380 >>10640685 man what the fuck, I went to try one of these and they only had the $9 stuffed version fucking pissed me off the fag behind the counter tried his best to convince me there was no such thing as a $6 extramostbestest

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 00:12:26 2018 No.10643628 File: 9 KB, 220x250, strategic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640631 >a sandwich made at home costs less than a quarter. yeah an open faced air sandwich

Anonymous Wed May 23 00:22:24 2018 No.10643674

>>10643628
>get store brand ham/turkey/roast beef
>store bread
>lettuce tomato onion some sauce
>~10 bucks
>all can be used to make multiple meals
>divide total cost by amount of meals had
>probably under 75c per sandwhich

doubt it would be .25c like that anon said but easily under a buck

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 00:24:15 2018 No.10643681 >>10640631 How do you even survive being this mentally impaired?

Anonymous Wed May 23 00:38:36 2018 No.10643737

>go to walmart
>get pack of 32 frozen beef patties for 20 bucks
>get LTO ~5 bucks
>get 99c loaf of bread
>get cheese 18 slices 1.50
>get ramen packets 12-20c a pop
>get more veggies ~10 bucks
>99c seasoning bottles of lemon pepper, garlic, etc
>cheap beef or chicken slices 10-12 bucks
>eating well for 2 weeks on about 50 bucks

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 01:11:21 2018 No.10643820 >>10640585 This. Usually three servings only sets me back $3-5 to make. The only fast food joint you can get a feed for under $10 is the $6 foot longs at Subway.

Anonymous Wed May 23 01:12:45 2018 No.10643824

I just made some fried potatoes with bologna and an egg. Add some basic seasonings and it tastes better than fast food and in burgerland, where fast food is both cheapest and most prevalent, will cost you about 50 cents a serving. Potatoes are about 50 cents a pound and 1/3 pound is more than enough for one person (about 17 cents), bologna is like 1.50 a pound and you really only need a little bit of that, I'd say 1/8 of a pound, if that (about 19 cents) and you can get a dozen eggs for a buck in most places, but let's err on the expensive side and say $1.20, so one of those is 10 cents. So grand total, 46 cents, with some left over to cover the small amount of salt, pepper, and cooking oil you use in prepping. You could probably make it even cheaper if you went to bargain and surplus stores. Throw in some garlic powder and onion powder if you have them for more flavor, top with mayo or ketchup if even more flavor is desired. It's not even hard to make, and only takes one pan, so setup and cleanup are also minimal.

Cheap food is more about choosing the right ingredients and knowing how to get the most out of them. And also just taking a look around your local shop in spite of the stereotypes. When I started cooking for myself, I always thought that vegetables were expensive, and some of them are, but others like carrots, potatoes, and broccoli are very cheap and relatively easy to prepare. Meat also seems expensive at first, but minced meats and sausage are both much cheaper, and when used to augment other dishes like pasta, rice, and potatoes, can stretch much further than they would if you made a more meat-centric dish. And never forget eggs, they're cheap, flexible, and delicious.

Do the math yourself and you might be surprised.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 01:15:43 2018 No.10643835 >>10640593 imo, it's one of the more expensive fast food joints

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 03:13:26 2018 No.10644141 >cancer thread going strong >go to sleep >wake up >cancer thread is still there YIS le bump xD

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 03:17:12 2018 No.10644154 >>10640824 it's just here

Anonymous Wed May 23 03:33:50 2018 No.10644183

>Friend goes on about how I should stop eating fast food and make home food instead because it's cheaper and better for my health
>Despite the fact that he's much fatter than I am
>And is spending more on groceries
>And the food he makes tastes like utter shit compared to fast food, even though he raves on about how he's better
Every single person I have met who's bragged about home cooked food being better has been a shitter.

Anonymous Wed May 23 06:29:24 2018 No.10644580

>>10643674
doing this and at least toasting the bread and maybe melting some cheese on it, (even american cheese since you're comparing it to literal dollar menu stuff) makes it 10x better than any shitty dollar menu item desu. anyone who says otherwise has only had plain bologna sandwiches made by their alcoholic mother

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 06:33:54 2018 No.10644597 It's filled with your wife's love.

Anonymous Wed May 23 10:27:06 2018 No.10645112

Home cooking traditions are lost or dying in certain western countries. Home cooking emphasises getting the best flavours from the cheapest ingredients. Dishes made with vegetables, cheap cuts of meat, etc. Health scares about fat have contributed towards this. You can take any vegetable you want, fry it in oil, add salt, and it's delicious. Yet that is considered blasphemy to loads of people for no good reason. Stews can be so good if you just get over being afraid of fat and oil. The fact visible oil and fat on a dish is considered 'gross' is the biggest evidence of the problem. If it's hidden in a burger or processed item ,that's no problem. But if you can see it, fuck no I'm not eating that.

Anonymous Wed May 23 10:44:18 2018 No.10645169

>>10640578
Try buying items that are only one ingredient, and shop around. I get my groceries from nine different places:

Two asian supermarkets and aldi on the same street,
general supermarket and trader joe's on another trip,
costco with mom's membership,
sometimes kwik trip for 40 pound boxes of bananas,
amazon and target for some dry goods

budget is $6/day but I usually spend less.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 10:49:31 2018 No.10645188 >>10642135 Looks really good, what do you eat it with? Hotdogs or Something? Or just a chili man by it's self?

Anonymous Wed May 23 11:49:04 2018 No.10645435
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where's the faggot screeching about his fucking fruit I want to know why I NEED fruit in my diet
come out you piece of shit and tell me about your magical fruit
the cancer must continue

>>10645112
>Home cooking traditions are lost or dying in certain western countries
no they're not
>Home cooking emphasises getting the best flavours from the cheapest ingredients
no it doesn't
>Health scares about fat have contributed towards this
no they didn't
>take any vegetable you want, fry it in oil, add salt, and it's delicious
no it isn't
>Yet that is considered blasphemy to loads of people
no it isn't
>The fact visible oil and fat on a dish is considered 'gross'
no it isn't

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 11:51:37 2018 No.10645447 >>10644183 >tastes like utter shit compared to fast food Lmao you've just outed yourself as a tastelet

Anonymous Wed May 23 12:07:55 2018 No.10645491

>>10640605
Ground Beef $2/lb 1/4 pound patty = 50¢
Buns $1/8 1 bun = 12¢
Lettuce $1/Head a bit of lettuce 10¢
Tomato $1/1 a slice of tomato 10¢
Onion $0.88/lb 8¢
Mayonnaise $3/Jar about 6¢ worth
Ketchup $1.50/ Bottle about 3¢ worth

Congratulations that Hamburger cost you a whole 99¢ and is much larger, more Nutritious, and more filling than anything you mentioned.

After you make enough burgers to get rid of the 8 buns you will still have enough stuff left over to make a salad with a simple Ketchup mayo dressing.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:09:52 2018 No.10645504 >>10645491 How is that more nutritious when it's the same exact ingredients minus cheese

Anonymous Wed May 23 12:09:56 2018 No.10645506

>>10645447
I drink lots of vodka. That cleans out my system, and even cleans my teeth (I haven’t brushed in years, and haven’t had a cavity since).

I also eat a liverwurst sandwich pretty much every day – to counterbalance the effects the vodka has on my liver. I make my sandwiches on seeded rye (because it’s the healthiest bread), with mayo (because eggs are the best protein; I use kewpie, because the msg makes it taste better), coarse mustard (good for the white blood cells), zucchini pickles (because they taste good), and a bunch of baby spinach (just for filler; it could honestly be left out).

I also eat a lot of canned fish (mostly sardines, but also the occasional fancy smoked oysters) on saltines. They give you all your essential amino acids, and provide a nice opportunity to try out various hot sauces, which are generally very low in calories, while high in flavor and immensely prodigious to healthiness.

Aside from that, I drink large amounts of water (anywhere between ice-cold to slightly chilled) every day, always through a straw, and sometimes with a lemon wedge.

To each their own, I say, but I’m just shy of 30 and am doing better than most of you.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:12:13 2018 No.10645513 >>10645504 Larger Portion more nutrients. 1/4 pound patty instead of a tiny thin crap one made from beef penis.

Anonymous Wed May 23 12:20:34 2018 No.10645542

>>10645513
>trip to the grocery store
>cooking the food (don't fuck up or you just wasted everything)
>dishes and cleaning
>all to pay the same amount just to have a little more beef on the burger and no cheese while spending significantly more time and effort than just going through the drive-through

If you're going to cook your own food it should be an actually healthy, varied, nutritious diet (chicken, fish, beans, rice, oats, potatoes, bell peppers, onions, carrots, broccoli, spinach, kale, asparagus, mushrooms, nuts, eggs, milk, apples, bananas, berries, yogurt etc.) and actually have a nutritious diet is insanely more expensive than fast food despite what the privileged idiots in this thread will tell you (just buy a 50 pound bag of rice at costco bro)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:22:30 2018 No.10645551 >>10640578 >tfw you dont know how to cook or shop wyd man just kys already

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:29:09 2018 No.10645581 >>10640578 absolutely untrue, youre just retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:35:17 2018 No.10645600 >>10640578 OOOOH SAYYY CAN YOU SEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 12:53:33 2018 No.10645672 >>10640867 You didn't waste that time if you enjoyed it, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 13:00:40 2018 No.10645697 >>10640578 Dude, even eating hot pockets and canned soda is like $1 per meal. And that's TRYING to be wasteful

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 13:30:08 2018 No.10645807 File: 62 KB, 634x732, 1526401854596.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640578 Your pic is spot on. If you want the cheapest meal possible, you can get a bullet for less than a quarter.

Anonymous Wed May 23 13:38:10 2018 No.10645839

>>10640605
i eat fruit, vegs, meat, pasta/rice/bulgur/potatoes and get around 500kcal / 1 $.
The only thing i can beat this with is absolute trash like chips, flips and roast peanuts, any "cheap" convenience food is between 2 and 5 times more expensive.
whatever though. If you like throwing away north of 200$ / month on food that's ok.

Anonymous Wed May 23 14:34:06 2018 No.10646062
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Oh look its the clean eating anorexic tards at it again

Pic is anyone thinking food is cheaper at the store than McDonalds. I am 500lbs so know a thing or two about this stuff.

Today I have eaten:

4 candy bars
A McDonalds Big Mac Meal with a Shake
A big bag of chips
A frozen microwave lasagna
A frozen microwave tomato soup

This cost me about $20.

Now imagine if I wanted to make the same stuff at home?

Ingredients for candy bars:
Cocoa Powder $2, sugar $1, Butter $2, ground almonds $2. Cook and prep time at least 5 hours, cost of energy at least $5

Ingredients for Mac and Shake
Buns $1, Ground beef $5, Milk $1, Ice cream $5, Potatoes for the fries $2, deep fryer $400, oil $2

Ingredients for chips
Oil $2 (have to use different oil to the fries as I would use olive oil for them and don't want olive potato chips thank you very much), Potato $1

Ingredients for frozen lasagna
Plastic container $3, Lasagna sheets $1, tomato soup $1, ground beef leftover from burgers, herbs $2, spices $2, lasagna tray for baking $10

Ingredients for frozen soup
Tomato $10 out of season, bacon $4

yeah bro so cheap. sorry I dont want to waste my life eating lentils.

Anonymous Wed May 23 14:45:46 2018 No.10646143

>>10640578
>3.50 for 4lbs of chicken legs
>1.00 for large 1.25lb onion
>5.00 for 2lbs cherry tomato medley
>10.00 for 5lbs of rice

Now, I used half the chicken legs, so 1.75 and half the tomatoes and half the onion so 3 dollars, and 1 cup of rice so .50. This lasts me for 2 meals. So 1.75+3.50=5.25. This lasts me 2 meals so 2.62~3?

Pretty cheap.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:47:22 2018 No.10646152 I eat 3000kcal/150g protein of healthy, high quality food for ~£25/week Loathe lazy fat cunts and lefty pundits that claim healthy food is expensive

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:49:21 2018 No.10646158 >>10640757 Very few people could choose to work that additional half hour it takes to cook a meal....irrelevant.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:51:09 2018 No.10646171 >>10646062 At 500lbs? You don't have much life to waste. You are gross to look at and probably not very good at keeping yourself clean. You should feel bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:52:52 2018 No.10646178 >>10641302 The problem is who the fuck wants to eat 8 hamburgers

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:54:45 2018 No.10646186 >>10646171 >>responding seriously to an obvious shitpost

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 14:56:53 2018 No.10646194 >>10646186 no... It is for the reading pleasure of actually fatties. It makes them moo. Thanks for your moo.

Anonymous Wed May 23 14:57:33 2018 No.10646195

>>10646178
That's not a problem at all. You can freeze the extras so you don't have to eat it all at once. You could also use some of your ingredients for burgers while using the remainder for other things. If you have ground beef, for example, you can make taco or burrito filling, meatballs, meat loaf, a stir-fry, chili, shepherd's pie, pasties, stroganoff.....and all sorts of other things.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 15:03:06 2018 No.10646221 >>10646062 The problem is not that you're fat. It's that you're a moron. Know that fact when people completely abandon you.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 15:29:51 2018 No.10646364 >>10641058 Yeah but your nutritional needs are not met.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 15:55:54 2018 No.10646496 >>10645506 This is /ck/ the post. But I eat very similarly. I don't know if I should be ashamed or proud, honestly.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 15:59:43 2018 No.10646527 >>10646062 I spend 20 dollars a week eating food that wont send me to an early grave

Anonymous Wed May 23 16:07:16 2018 No.10646560

>>10640656
>Sliced meat
>Sliced cheese
>$1
You must be shitting me, if you were trying to be economic you'd roast an entire chicken for sandwich meat and buy a block of cheese. If you want mayo, make it yourself, it takes two minutes. Some spices on top of that and you have something tasty and filling.

>Loaf of bread $2.50
>Pound of cheese $5
>Pound of chicken $1.50
>Prices taken from some random site online

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 16:14:26 2018 No.10646592 >>10645506 >is an alcoholic >thinks hes doing better than anyone i bet you're the trampy guy i walk past on the street who has pissed his trousers.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 16:15:58 2018 No.10646597 >>10646178 You make hamburgers one day, then lasagna, which is excellent for freezing and reheating, the day after.

Anonymous Wed May 23 16:37:22 2018 No.10646697

Businesses buy wholesale of everything just about, so obviously they will get cheaper prices than an individual will. The downside to that being that it is usually of lesser quality. Another reason is because when you go shopping and buy hamburger buns, you aren't buying one or two buns, you're buying an 8-sack. You can't buy a quarter of a pound of ground beef, you have to get the full pound, etc. If you use all of the ingredients wisely without waste, you WILL end up with more food than what you can get at a restaurant. Chicken leg quarters are $6 for 10 lbs. 8 lbs of potatoes for $5. Seasonal vegetables are super cheap usually.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 16:55:44 2018 No.10646768 >>10646062 lmao bro i buy food for a week with 30€ fat brainlet end yourslef, oh wait, youre doing it with the shit you eat!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 17:14:12 2018 No.10646845 >>10645188 I had it by itself with a little cheese, sour crème, and diced onion. My girlfriend had the same but she had it over white rice. I didn't need the extra carbs.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 17:22:54 2018 No.10646885 >>10640578 >$8 handle of vodka >3500 calories What's a hobo supposed to do?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 17:31:13 2018 No.10646927 Pizza in Skandinavia. From a pizzaria: total 10,72 The same home made, with 1/4 more cheese and meat than pizzaria: mushroom 1,12 meat 1,6 gorgonzola 1,2 tomato sause 0,4 yeast 0,08 flour 0,32 total 4,72

Anonymous Wed May 23 17:39:40 2018 No.10646975

>>10642139
Not very?

I've always kind of wondered why two pounds of steak a day isn't standard bulking diet since it's cheap, will hit the macros of 99% of people, and is actually easy to eat rather than stuffing a tub of greek yogurt down your throat, or trying to eat a pound of oats, or making a whey protein milkshake.

Anonymous Wed May 23 17:57:38 2018 No.10647071

>>10640720
You can eat healthy at a ridiculously cheap price by eating rice/beans(cook them yourself faggot)/eggs/veggies (frozen are just as good and very cheap too)

People in the west have got used to eat expensive junk food and spend money on shit like soda and cereal.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:10:41 2018 No.10647127 >>10646927 BUT WHERE'S THE FRUIT ANON YOU NEED FRUIT IN YOUR DIET THAT'S WHY DIE IS IN DIET

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:12:09 2018 No.10647134 >>10646592 Drunks don't actually do that kind of thing

Anonymous Wed May 23 18:13:53 2018 No.10647140

>>10646062
You could have at least made your own soup.
I mean really. Its even faster then the microwave.
The microwave was busy warming your lasagna.
Grab a pot, canned tomatos and heat on a stove top with some spices or dump in some suger. Unless cleaning one pan is a deal breaker.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:20:09 2018 No.10647162 >>10647127 Vegies you need fruit is nice if fresh. But its not a core need.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:21:33 2018 No.10647171 >>10640578 Yes it is because its FOOD.

Anonymous Wed May 23 18:21:59 2018 No.10647174

>>10645491
Anytime I see people try to defend only home cooking they always use these out of whack prices like you do. None of that shit is as inexpensive as you say except maybe for the onion and tomato. A McDouble costs the same everywhere in america.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:25:08 2018 No.10647187 File: 159 KB, 509x911, 1477948178800.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10647162 but anon look >>10642230 and >>10642128 say that fruit is essential how can we possibly live without fruit? >mfw cancer thread is up for 2 days now

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:34:10 2018 No.10647233 >>10640578 you're doing it wrong, I just bought 1lb of ground beef for $4.49

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 18:41:50 2018 No.10647272 >>10647233 >ground """""beef""""" sure thing m80

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 19:56:23 2018 No.10647576 The problem is that a lot of ingredients you're forced to buy in bulk and thus you now have to use them in most dishes the entire week unless you're feeding a family. Thats a lot of monotony.

Anonymous Wed May 23 20:04:49 2018 No.10647611

>>10640578
im going to disagree with you, if only on a mathmetacis basis.

homebought food pays out on the long run, seeing as you can cook a dinner from your pantry for easily less than $2. $2 in that youre only using a portion of what you bought. $1 worth of chicken hear, $0.50 worth of veggies there, dimes worth of oil and seaosnings.

eating out is guarenteed to be at least $5, and thats if youre eating shittily, which is the second basis for home-made food, in fact it can be substantially less unhealthy.

inb4 - but muh tendies, my kfc fill up box, muh blablabla

as a dude thats lived on the edge for years, you save the most money cookign at home. eating out frequently is either mad expensive, or a literall hell as your colon slowly cretes up, and your shits become the single worst part of your day.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:05:56 2018 No.10647615 >>10647611 your writing has been the worst part of my day.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:06:00 2018 No.10647616 >>10647174 hey look everyone, its either a europoor or a leaf. i only know this because the poster is in awe of the prices, and clearly doesnt have access to a dollar store.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:07:09 2018 No.10647618 >>10647576 How so? Nobody said you had to prepare those ingredients the very same way.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:07:14 2018 No.10647619 >>10647615 good for you. go pick up your kids from soccer practice. its been over an hour since it ended, and youre wine drunk.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:08:50 2018 No.10647631 >>10647618 here on ck, nobody is capable of abstract or critical thinking. and those that are capable, you wont find in these sorts of threads.

Anonymous Wed May 23 20:10:15 2018 No.10647641
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Just went shopping for the next 2 weeks

>10x frozen meals Banquet MEGA, stoffers frozen fish dinners, etc
>18 eggs
>12 85/15 1/4 pound frozen beef patties
>5 lb of frozen chicken
>18 slices cheese
>gallon of milk
>veggies for toppings on the burgers and with chicken
>large box of frosted wheats store bran
>loaf of wheat bread
>seasoning bottles of garlic, onion pouder

~51 bucks for at least 2 weeks of food

Need some veggies and some ramen packets to throw in the chicken to make soem tastey ramen, but should still be cutting it under 60 bucks for 2 weeks. After all said and done should be hitting at about 3.75-4ish dollars a day for a nutritious 3 meal a day plan

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:11:35 2018 No.10647646 >>10647619 you must be some sort of retarded Jedi. guess how many fingers I am holding up?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:35:47 2018 No.10647760 >>10647646 none, youre too busy fisting your ass

Anonymous Wed May 23 20:37:32 2018 No.10647767

>>10644580
Yeah totally. Got me through some rough patches in college and life

>toast bread
>put a slight bit of butter on it
>warm up the cheese a tad
>get from the bargin big packs of turkey/ham/roast beef/bologna
>add a slice or two of each or something
>add LTO, maybe a pickle or two, slice of green pepper
>little bit of mayo and some honey mustard
>meal in total probably cost less than a dollar

getting all that probably costs about 10 dollars and the shit like mayo/mustard usually lasts multiple weeks. If you live by a store and can swing by daily those manager meat specials go a long way if you cook that day or the next

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:41:05 2018 No.10647787 >>10647618 I dont want to eat 5 meals in a row using ground beef.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:43:15 2018 No.10647804 >>10647787 >buy ground beef >by frozen chicken >buy frozen fish >buy pork Not saying you have to buy them all but holy shit if you can't figure out how to buy less of X and spend money towards Y and Z, then I have to wonder do you dress yourself?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:43:34 2018 No.10647806 >>10647787 >tfw youre so retarded you dont even think of varying your meals are you intentionally playing retard?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:46:09 2018 No.10647820 >>10647787 Neither do I. Thankfully nobody is limiting my purchase to just ground beef. Buy multple different ingredients. Alternate which ones you use and how you prepare them.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:49:38 2018 No.10647842 >>10643737 2 weeks is 14 days you can just eat a mcchicken everyday for a total of 14 dollars as opposed to 50

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:51:18 2018 No.10647846 >>10647842 >1 mc chicken every day >under 400 calories and 14g of protien >lacking most vitamins and minerals Yeah I don't feel like getting malnutrition issues or running out of energy 4 hours into the day

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:51:31 2018 No.10647847 >>10647804 >Frozen ingredients When I can get a FRESH MEAL from Wendy's? Hot and juicy ready to go?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:54:53 2018 No.10647859 >>10647847 Frozen is just a cheaper way, you could easily get any of those not frozen. Chicken would probably be about the same non frozen, fish is pretty iffy; then just add your veggies on and tada

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 20:57:15 2018 No.10647866 Lots of lazy fatass COPE in this thread Just die already so you can stop being a blight on society.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:00:01 2018 No.10647874 >>10647866 Fast food=/=fat. You can just count calories.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:03:50 2018 No.10647895 >>10647874 t. >>10646062

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:03:50 2018 No.10647896 >>10646697 Split them into freezer bags/containers and use when needed. Doesn't work with buns though. Bread goes awful once frozen.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:10:59 2018 No.10647923 >>10646152 Are they varied or do you eat same things multiple times. I spend more and eat like trash. How do I stop being brainlet,?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:15:13 2018 No.10647936 >>10640578 Just make more money

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:19:07 2018 No.10647954 >>10647895 If he had counted calories he wouldnt be fat.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:21:23 2018 No.10647962 File: 108 KB, 877x828, porkbrains.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10642091 Chick-Fil-A doesn't have burgers. Checkmate faggot!

Anonymous Wed May 23 21:24:04 2018 No.10647973

>>10641302
Thats bullshit unless you buy the super value burger pattys that arent even 100% beef and pressed really thin so you get 50 patties out of what would be 20 quarter pounders. Also the cost of the buns would make costs way higher unless you bake them from scratch

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:28:44 2018 No.10648002 >>10643674 Only if you're putting one or two slices of ham like a total retard. That's basically a bread sandwich. Put an actual filling amount of meat and you're getting at best 5 sandwiches out of $10 of ham. Doesnt even compare to the McChicken

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:33:36 2018 No.10648028 >>10648002 What? that's three slices of meat anon, also get the sub cut versions, do two of each for decent amounts talking about shit like these https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Honey-Ham-32-oz/10315619

Anonymous Wed May 23 21:41:34 2018 No.10648072

>>10642135
>>10642129
>2 gallons of chili
>Five dinners for you and your girlfriend

This is a shit thread, but this is why people balk at the bullshit from the "cook at home for every meal" people. I can barely eat chili two days in a row, much less five fucking dinners. Especially much less ten meals if you have just yourself to feed. Unless I was a total poorfag and had no choice.

Cooking on the cheap as a single person is a huge pain in the ass, and bland as all hell. If you have a family and you want to do this with a night's dinner and maybe lunch the next day, or a snack for people to pick at if they're hungry? Cool. Otherwise this shit is stupid.

But yeah, a fast food diet is shit. As a single guy, I make a trip to the store once or twice to cook at home, and otherwise eat out, order in, or pop something in the microwave. The workday and everything else is too stressful to come back and invest an hour in cooking, or knowing that I'm stuck on the fifth day of chili unless I want to throw it away.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:43:14 2018 No.10648081 File: 30 KB, 369x349, 1494602653358.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10647071 >carbs >healthy fats and protein cost money, carbs are garbage that come for almost free.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:45:48 2018 No.10648101 >>10648072 See >>10647641

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 21:46:05 2018 No.10648104 >>10648072 Even if you want to be an uppety ass about eating the same food twice in a row, you can cook in batches and then freeze. Still better than pretty much anything store bought or fast food.

Anonymous Wed May 23 21:47:44 2018 No.10648118

>>10648072
Don't you have a fridge? Make multple different dishes. Alternate leftovers.

You can also rework leftovers in many different ways. Say you make that chili. You can have a bowl one day. A few days later make chili dogs. Then a while after that frito pie. Perhaps another bowl the next week. Still have some left? Use it as a filling for a meat pie, or buy (or make) some puff pastry for a DIY "hot pocket".

Anonymous Wed May 23 21:49:48 2018 No.10648131

>>10648072
Those are just people using ONE method of cooking, a slow cooker. That is ultimate budget way of doing things. Besides Tupperware is a thing, you could say. Make chili eat it one night left overs in the fridge, make shredded chicken another night again left overs in the fridge, make beef stew or something and left overs in the fridge, then eat the left overs in any order you like

Anonymous Wed May 23 21:59:16 2018 No.10648167

>>10648101
I don't count "cooking at home" as 10x Banquet frozen dinners. You may as well be eating at McDonalds when you're eating low grade frozen chicken in something that can barely be described as gravy. I don't particularly have an issue with what that guy does though.

>>10648104
Twice in a row isn't that big a deal. But "cook in batches and freeze?" No man, it's not that good. It's why meal preppers are fucking depressing. That's a lot of freezer space anyways, for something that is going to come out either tasting worse than when it was fresh cooked, or require an hour in the oven at the very least. It's really not that much better. I know you all want to convince yourselves that you're master chefs, but your week old unfrozen chili isn't even Guy Fieri tier.

>>10648118
One person. How fast do you think I can eat two gallons of chili? To make those chili dogs, I need hot dogs. To make Frito Pie, bags of cheetos. You know what I'm still eating as the overwhelming centerpiece of those dishes? The same goddamned chili. It's like eating at Taco Bell. Everything essentially tastes the same, because it's all just dolled up in a slightly different presentation.

My point to all of this is that I make over $40 an hour and it just isn't worth blowing an hour of time to cook or force down leftovers instead of spending $15 on delivery.

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:01:39 2018 No.10648176

>>10648131
Dude, that's still basically 3 different kinds of stew.

Like I said, I cook, but I stop by on a night where I have some time, buy a couple of things, and make what sounds good and will be fun to make. The rest of the time? Someone else can handle it in the form of fast food, delivery, premade, or frozen food.

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:05:49 2018 No.10648186

>>10648176
Again, one method. Use of a stove top or the like opens up a lot of other options, same with a toaster oven or just a plain oven. Stop moving the goal posts and realize your kitchen has a few ways of cooking food.

>>10648167
>You may as well be eating at McDonalds when you're eating low grade frozen chicken in something that can barely be described as gravy.

still cheaper for more food

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:16:55 2018 No.10648234

>>10648186
The opportunity cost of making food is a big deal though. When I value an hour of my time to my company at $40, and then I come home and spend an hour in the toaster oven, or an hour prepping and cooking a dish in the oven, I have to essentially consider that my time is worth some percentage of that hourly value. An hour of work at home after a 10 hour day is like losing $40 to do more work for no reason but to save a few bucks on the cost of a meal made by someone else.

>Cheaper for more food
Again, marginally. And I'm not arguing to eat at McDonald's every day. But a dollar or two in food cost a day isn't going to make or break you unless you're on minimum wage.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 22:23:58 2018 No.10648257 >>10640789 Every board belongs to /jp/

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 22:28:05 2018 No.10648275 >>10640825 >Do you have some kind of time/effort vs. money conversion factor going on in your head that I'm supposed to know about? No. He's trying to justify why he's a fat slob that wants to eat flavored cardboard for the rest of his life.

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:30:24 2018 No.10648278

>>10648234
No one is saying you shouldn't ever eat out but the thread is about being cheaper to eat out than eat in, which has been proven wrong. I do a good amount of IT work, I'll often get a lunch meal but want to cut back, on spending 5-10 dollars daily on lunch meals. By all means do what you like spend money how you want, I just like putting the extra 15-20 dollars I would spend eating out per day into something more worth while. I'll put that towards my next minivacation, trip to korea/japan, and even some to paying off my house quicker

>An hour of work at home after a 10 hour day is like losing $40 to do more work for no reason but to save a few bucks on the cost of a meal made by someone else.

You're currently doing jack shit but posting on 4chan, is 4chan worth 40 dollars an hour? Cooking shouldn't take that long unless your going to be doing a meal for a few days. I know how to value time, doing a basic human task like cooking for ones self isn't that hard.

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:36:08 2018 No.10648296

>>10648234
>An hour of work at home after a 10 hour day is like losing $40

Unless you are constantly eating fast food then any decent eating out is going to take 20-30 minutes at least to finish, so you already 'wasted' 20 dollars on top of the 20 dollars + tip, you spent. Not to mention including drive time to and from said place to eat out, thus wasting more time also did you account for gas? how about wear on your car? Adds up!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 22:41:05 2018 No.10648315 >>10640867 >Talks about wasting time prepping, and cooking home meals >Is on /ck/, arguing about stupid shit The irony is real.

Anonymous Wed May 23 22:53:12 2018 No.10648363

>>10640867
This is all under the assumption that you can choose to work that extra half hour that you would have spent cooking. Many companies like to keep employees on a tight leash in terms of hours worked. Cooking, changing your own oil, doing your own home repairs, etc are therefore often the most frugal option available short of getting a second job. And it's good for you, too -- you don't want to eventually be a 50-year-old man who's never had to do anything for himself.

Anonymous Wed May 23 23:00:56 2018 No.10648394

>>10648167
>One person. How fast do you think I can eat two gallons of chili? To make those chili dogs, I need hot dogs. To make Frito Pie, bags of cheetos. You know what I'm still eating as the overwhelming centerpiece of those dishes? The same goddamned chili.

Do you not understand how to portion size? holy shit man, of fucking course you'll spend way too much if you assume you have to go big or go home.

>It's like eating at Taco Bell. Everything essentially tastes the same, because it's all just dolled up in a slightly different presentation.

holy shit this is great, you understand the amount of filler shit there is and the amount of lowest possible grade food goes into those things right?

Anonymous Wed May 23 23:59:37 2018 No.10648675

>>10648278
Posting on 4chan is relaxing to me. This is fun, this is what I do to enjoy myself. I enjoy slice of life stories, I enjoy some stupid cooking shit... hell, at the end of the day, it just reminds me of when I was in college, and that's worth it to me. I honestly feel bad that you're likely eating your microwaved meal in the break room and headed back to your desk than taking your allotted break and getting out of the office into the sunshine, but that's another thread.

>>10648296
Eating out means I'm sitting there relaxing. I'm watching the game, I haven't put any effort in. I'm with a friend, having a beer, or just reading or shitposting, not stressing over needing to get something done. It's leisure time, not more work. Sure it "adds up," but my assumption is that I'm just going to keep rising up in my organization, offsetting the money I spent on a decent meal made by someone else, instead of stressing about needing to cook, or eating three day old food.

>>10648394
I'm just going off the ten bucks of ingredients that poster mentioned. A whole onion, 3 lbs of meat, etc. Regardless of portion size, I still need to buy these ingredients in bulk to save the money we're talking about. No matter what I do, my meal is going to be some variation of onion, meat, beans, etc. Or it's going to go bad and I need to throw it away.

If you want the absolute CHEAPEST meal, yeah, buy in bulk, eat the same thing pretty consistently, it'll get boring. But if you're considering flavor, time spent, and cost, that changes.

Anonymous Thu May 24 00:28:52 2018 No.10648755

>>10648675
You're missing the entire point of this thread dude, and it's hilarious how you keep missing it. The point is literally some dude stating it isn't cheaper to eat out, see the op, and yes it is. There isn't any debating this, it's been shown throughout the thread. I love eating out with my friends too, relaxing at the bar after some datacenter work is fun shit also fun to blow off some steam, but not every fucking day. Going home cooking for the girl and myself can be fun as well, and cooking just for myself can be even more fun since I can really customize my dish. Cooking can be fun for various people, you know some people on ck actually do enjoy what this board is about right? You're looking at this from a very narrow angle, and projecting about it from that narrow viewpoint.

>If you want the absolute CHEAPEST meal, yeah, buy in bulk, eat the same thing pretty consistently, it'll get boring. But if you're considering flavor, time spent, and cost, that changes.

You literally need to learn to cook more than 3 things, if you don't understand how to cook that's fine and all just admit it. If you know how to cook using base materials, or follow a fucking cook book, to make something is fairly simple and by no means takes "an hour".

It's great you see the "value" as you call it not cooking for yourself and having someone else do it, but generally you'll still come out ahead a few tens of dollars at least by cooking at home. If you care so much about the value of your time per hour, then every dollar should count and every dollar saved even more. There is literally nothing wrong with learning to save, even if it only amounts to 100 a week or so.

Anonymous Thu May 24 01:24:57 2018 No.10648923

>>10648755
The point of this thread is shit, I can accept that, because it's mostly about fast food. But I've said - I like cooking, and there are too many people in this thread recommending an extreme - never have a fast food cheeseburger so you can eat ALL OF THIS FOOD for only cents worth of ingredients. Cooking can be great, but let's stop pretending everyone has the time or wherewithal to set up a truly economic meal plan if they have a job, kids, other activities, or simply are cooking for one and don't want to hammer themselves over the head with the same shit.

A college student or stay at home mom has the time to set out for ingredients, portion this out, and minimize food waste - or someone well ingrained into the concept for years, whereas most people don't have that benefit. My parents worked irregular schedules, and frankly, we rarely sat down for a meal together, which is the big issue here... it's just not easy to make happen these days.

>Cookbook/Base materials

It's cooking, cleaning, storing, that takes almost an hour. Take that time out of your shopping, and I'm sure it nets out at an hour. I'll accept that this this is probably a city vs. town thing - but getting my ass to the store on the way home involves parking, walking to the store, fighting through the crowd, trying to not get frustrated while price comparing, standing in line, dragging my shit out to the car, getting out of the crowded parking lot, and then getting home to put it all away. A trip to the store for beer is at least 15-20 minutes.

It's not easy to save when you're not at your leisure in a grocery.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 01:26:23 2018 No.10648932 >>10640605 >4 crunchy tacos from Taco Bell costs almost $6 >a dozen crunchy tacos made at home costs about $5

Anonymous Thu May 24 01:47:27 2018 No.10648993

>>10648923
Hey man if you like spending more money for no real reason fine with me. Cooking shouldn't take an hour unless you're really cooking something weird every day, you know left overs are a thing right? It doesn't have to last the week but a day or so is fine. Cooking meals take about 30 minutes to put shit together throw it in <cooking method> wash any of the prep tools during, pop a plate out eat, put rest away with some foil or shit over it, rinse dish, put away. That may take an hour total but that includes eating usually.

> to set up a truly economic meal plan if they have a job, kids, other activities, or simply are cooking for one and don't want to hammer themselves over the head with the same shit.

If you have kids, you should be cooking and eating a majority of things at home, you're pissing away money not doing so.

>I'll accept that this this is probably a city vs. town thing - but getting my ass to the store on the way home involves parking, walking to the store, fighting through the crowd, trying to not get frustrated while price comparing, standing in line, dragging my shit out to the car, getting out of the crowded parking lot, and then getting home to put it all away.

Do you not understand what a refrigerator, canned goods, or freezer is? You can buy food on one day and then get it out when you want throughout the week holy shit. You can buy multiple items to use over a week or so. You know what I take it back, you clearly do not have the ability to plan for a few days in advance so saving money throughout the year must be alien to you.

> A trip to the store for beer is at least 15-20 minutes.

I hope this means you driving, getting out and getting back, if you live that far from a store and you DON'T know how to buy bulk/stock up, and cook over time you are a fucking clueless person.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 03:22:06 2018 No.10649279 >>10640783 stop being poor then lol

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 03:36:08 2018 No.10649308 >>10649279 Judging from his math, he probably can't help it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 03:41:43 2018 No.10649321 >>10641015 how fucking poor are you holy shit, the fuck is with this board? does everyone make like 25k a year or something? jesus

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 03:51:41 2018 No.10649335 >>10640867 This is the poorest post I’ve ever seen

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 03:52:14 2018 No.10649338 >>10648081 Beans are protein and eggs are top quality protein and very versatile. I do bean omelettes and they come out amazing, cheap af and very nutritious.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 05:00:39 2018 No.10649466 >>10645506 >haven't brushed in years yeah I stopped reading at this point, not interested in thoughts of subhumans

Anonymous Thu May 24 05:08:01 2018 No.10649482

>>10646062
>I eat like a pig and made myself into an image of one therefore I have considerable knowledge of food
nah mate, you're just a self-handicapped manchild that will fortunately erase himself from the face of the planet, Soon(tm)
your opinions is irrelevant to adults but might impress those who are still in their fries&tendies phase

Anonymous Thu May 24 11:31:30 2018 No.10650415

>>10648993
I had gone to bed when you posted this but maybe you'll come back.

>Leftovers are a thing
Sure. But I have to make sure to cook enough for the next day. And realistically, I need to eat it the next day or it's going to taste like shit, so I lose all opportunity to go out or be spontaneous if suddenly tacos sound good. In addition, you seemed like a well-oiled cook. In reality, most people are awkwardly following a recipe, the prep tools get tossed aside while dirty, multiple pots and pans are dirtied, the food gets put on a plate, the food gets eaten immediately so it doesn't get cold, and then you throw shit into a tupperware or whatever and have a sink full of dirty dishes you'll get to later because now you're full. It's not as simple a process to get everything done as you mention without burning your food or forgetting something.

>Kids
Great to tell yourself that, but when you've just worked a 10 hour day and picked your kids up from daycare and they're screeching about how they want a happy meal, tell me that you're always going to have the gumption to go home, cook a healthy meal from scratch, and then force your kids to eat it.

>Canned goods, fridge, or freezer
I get it, but that shit is still clogging up your storage space. I have a roommate I need to share the fridge with. I have some shit in the freezer that will last the whole year, I have some shit that won't last more than a few days. Storing this shit if only to keep for a few days still means I have to plan out my meals and be stuck to zero variety unless I decide to just trash the food I purchased. Which is the biggest waste. If I buy a a head of cauliflower and only eat half, it's just the same as spending a few cents more on Taco Bell on the way home.

>Trip to the store for beer
15-20 minutes is pretty much just parking, getting in there, selecting your beer, waiting in line, and walking to your car. Not even the drive time over there. I live two blocks from my grocery store.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 11:37:54 2018 No.10650446 >>10650415 This is the most millennial post I've read

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 11:39:51 2018 No.10650453 >>10640578 Move to OZ.

Anonymous Thu May 24 11:46:22 2018 No.10650472

>>10650415
>Sure. But I have to make sure to cook enough for the next day.
You act like that's a big deal. It's not. It takes the same effort to cook 4 servings as it does to cook 1. You just have more ingredient in the pan/pot/oven/whatever.

>> I need to eat it the next day or it's going to taste like shit
Nope. Several days, up to a week, is no problem. And if you have even basic cooking skills you can always re-purpose leftovers instead of eating the same thing reheated.

>>so I lose all opportunity to go out or be spontaneous
Welcome to being an adult and having real-world responsibilities and limitations. I admit it would be nice to be able to have whatever you want, whenever you want, but that costs a fuckload of money. Unless you're rich you're shooting yourself in the foot to do that. (Though I understand I'm talking to an entitled fuck)

>>most people are awkwardly following a recipe
So practice. That's as retarded as saying that you don't want to walk because babies suck at it and are always falling down.

>>picked your kids up from daycare and they're screeching about how they want a happy meal
1) you done fucked up if your kids even know what a happy meal is
2) welcome to the responsibility of adulthood. If you can't raise your kids properly then why did you have them in the first place?

>> that shit is still clogging up your storage space.
Please. I shared a fridge with 4 people and still had no problem cooking for myself nearly every meal while I was in college & work thereafter. Now you're just making silly excuses.

>>I live two blocks from my grocery store
Now you're really piling on the silly excuses.

Anonymous Thu May 24 11:57:57 2018 No.10650503

>>10650415
> picked your kids up from daycare and they're screeching about how they want a happy meal
You're a fucking shit parent raising your kids if you give them literally everything they ask for, they will grow up being entitled littler shits who complain all the time about minor stupid shit things. Seems to be reminding me of someone right now.

> If I buy a a head of cauliflower and only eat half, it's just the same as spending a few cents more on Taco Bell on the way home.
Except that cauliflower provided much more food, and when used right provided more dishes than your beefy five layer did

>dirty dishes
Are you an actual manchild?

>beer takes 15 minutes
Get some beer when you get other groceries, and then when you want a beer tada you have it in the fridge!

You remind me of people I know who went through their 20's doing this shit because they got a semi decent job, refused to save anything. Turned mid 30's, went OH SHIT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN SAVINGS, then gets a cold slap in the face of reality when wanting to buy a house, pay for kids needs, and other shit. Sure you may potentially continue to work up the ladder at your job, you'll just continue to piss away money you could have saved up because "I can afford better eating out now!".

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:01:17 2018 No.10650519 i spend 35 bucks on food every week and i have a good varied diet Mackerel,lamb,chicken,beef,salmon,mussels,prawn im blessed with cheap produce

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:19:07 2018 No.10650609 >>10640578 Fast food is overpriced but frozen pizza is way more price efficient than home cooking t. fat poorfag

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:21:21 2018 No.10650620 >>10650609 I agree, i usually just buy cheap as fuck aldi pizza and whack some extra mozz and toppings on.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:37:51 2018 No.10650699 File: 407 KB, 4535x3780, 1526473129007 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >276 assblasted replies OP is correct

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:39:32 2018 No.10650709 >>10640867 Most anons time is worthless because they're subhuman NEETs.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:45:35 2018 No.10650729 >>10640631 >he actually thought a whole pizza was only 280 calories there was no need to further discuss after this point, genuine retard

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:50:46 2018 No.10650745 >>10645491 >Ground beef 2$ horse shit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 13:08:26 2018 No.10650800 >>10642115 >Purdue >healthy I live in Maryland, asshole. Nice try, but that is not healthy chicken

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 13:27:28 2018 No.10650878 >>10640578 You aren't factoring in the cost efficiency of having leftovers.

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:03:52 2018 No.10651047

>>10650699
I'm op. One thing everyone seems to have conveniently ignored is the part where I said SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper.

I know you can make home cooked food cheaper than fast food if you cook in bulk, but that ignores:

>you have to eat the same thing many times in a row or you waste food
>or you have to freeze tons of food and then eat reheated frozen food for most meals
>completely ignores how much time and effort goes into going to the grocery store, cooking the food, and cleaning the mess
>if your order is messed up at fast food you instantly get a replacement for free with no issue
>if you mess up your meal you have to throw the whole batch out and you've wasted a ton of time and money

I'm not trying to say that fast food is better than home-cooked food. I'm lamenting the fact that home-cooked food isn't substantially more economical than fast food, because I want it to be.

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:12:04 2018 No.10651085

>>10651047

It is cheaper if you what to buy though.

It's also substantially healthier to make your own foods, you can survive on MaccyDs but your health will go to shit; considering most fast food is so cheap because it loads up its food with high amounts of additives/salt/fat.

you talk about having to eat leftovers, but you can just make enough for one sitting?

You can make a pasta sauce and refrigerate it for a few days, boiling pasta takes like 7-8 minutes.

You can prep the majority of meals in less than 5-10 minutes of actual work, cooking time doesnt count considering you don't have to present (unless you're using stovetop to cook) even then you can multi-task.

Even if it wasnt cheaper, you should care about your health; you can survive on fast food, but a diet high in saturated fat/salt/sugar will lead to health issues later in life.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:13:42 2018 No.10651098 >>10651085 as long as you exercise and have good genetics food being 'healthy' is a complete meme

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:14:31 2018 No.10651105

>>10651047
>>you have to eat the same thing many times in a row
No you don't. You can save food for later, or you can cook different things with the same ingredients. Just because you have ground beef doesn't mean you have to eat hamburgers exclusively.

>>eat reheated frozen food for most meals
Welcome to restaurants, anon.

>>how much time and effort
It takes me less than an hour to drive out, do my shopping for two weeks, and drive home again. Cooking the food takes time, but it easily competes with driving out to get food. Cleaning the mess takes no additional time since I use a dishwasher and I also clean things while I'm cooking. Waiting for a pot to heat up? Wash a dish.

>>instantly get a replacement for free
I've always had to wait for my fast food replacements. I'm not sure why you're even making this point though. Are you expecting to make cooking mistakes?

>>if you messup your meal you have to throw it out
That's assuming you made a really bad fuckup, which is a very rare thing.

>>I'm lamenting the fact that home-cooked food isn't substantially more economical than fast food, because I want it to be.
It sounds to me like you're making a big heap of excuses. It really is substantially more economical. Notice that all of your greentext mentions nothing about price.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:15:09 2018 No.10651109 >>10651085 I do care about my health, that's why I made this thread. Eating a healthy varied diet is fucking annoying expensive Why do all the retards in here think I'm advocating or praising fast food

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:15:34 2018 No.10651113 >>10651098 >as long as you exercise and have good genetics Well, that excludes 99% of the population so I'm not really sure what your point is. Most people don't get enough exercise and certainly don't have exceptional genetics.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:19:08 2018 No.10651129 >>10646592 >not recognizing this classic pasta summerfags please go

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:20:27 2018 No.10651132

>>10651047

It's substantually cheaper when you factor in nutritional substance per meal, it is also substantually cheaper just all around unless you only shop at whole foods or some shit. I got all my food for two weeks at 50 bucks, cooking ramen with veggies, meats, and such. Even do omlettes and stuff in the am

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:21:41 2018 No.10651135 >>10651098 You are uninformed likely due to youth. You think right now that your "genetics" are keeping you safe, but know that every harmful thing you do now you will pay for later. Experience will certainly teach you this. Be ready.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:22:17 2018 No.10651136 >>10651132 >fast food is bad >that's why you should eat ramen what in the fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:22:57 2018 No.10651138 File: 52 KB, 856x485, Aldi's Ad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10650745 You're right, I was wrong I can get ground beef for $1.99 per pound. Bitch.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:23:07 2018 No.10651139 >>10651135 t. man with shit genetics and whose time is worthless

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:24:04 2018 No.10651142 >>10651136 You know there is such a thing as ramen made from scratch, right? Not every mention of "ramen" means a 10 cent instant packet.

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:24:13 2018 No.10651143

>>10651136
Ramen can be full of veggies, meats and other things. I add tomatoes, green peppers, red peppers, carrots, cucumbers, various other goods, add in some steak strips or chicken strips and have a damn good meal

If you're just eating the packets of ramen lol

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:24:32 2018 No.10651144 >>10640867 Fuck you jew shill. Literally unironically kys

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:24:48 2018 No.10651146 >>10651143 Why not just eat the actual food and skip the ramen altogether

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:25:53 2018 No.10651154 >>10651139 I am in my 40s and could whip your ass. I am healthy as could be and very fit. My time is billed at about $175 an hour, but I sometimes make exceptions for ignorant charity fucks like you.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:26:46 2018 No.10651156 >>10647787 You don't have a freezer? Just portion the stuff you get into pound and half pound sizes and if you can freeze it freeze or make a meal or meal parts and freeze those.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:28:14 2018 No.10651164 >>10651146 Because it can be tasty and fun to make? Also how is what I posted not "real food", seems to have pretty much all food groups in there, hell put an egg in there for cheap

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:29:16 2018 No.10651167 >>10651154 >tfw vmware engineer >tfw he was braggin about 40 dollars an hour made me chuckle

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:29:19 2018 No.10651170 >>10647859 I'd recommend getting fresh chicken and freezing it. Pre-frozen chicken is often injected with saline to brine it while it thaws but it tend to make it watery when cooking and shrink terribly.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:29:42 2018 No.10651172 >>10651144 stop using the term irony. You do not know what it means. It is not the same as saying "hey, I am not being a sarcastic cock, but a real cock!"

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:30:03 2018 No.10651174 File: 26 KB, 480x360, 1527064538788.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640578 Yeah food prices have gone up by a shittonne globally. What's going on fellow cu/ck/s?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:32:03 2018 No.10651182 File: 27 KB, 380x349, 1526217097160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10651154 >decrepit boomer wasting his time on 4chan Holy shit I pity you. What would your children think?

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:35:46 2018 No.10651191

>>10651109
>Eating a healthy varied diet is fucking annoying expensive
No, you just have a serious mental block.

>Why do all the retards in here think I'm advocating or praising fast food
Because you seem to have all sorts of mistaken ideas about cooking for yourself.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:38:21 2018 No.10651206 >>10651191 I cook for myself every fucking day and rarely eat fast food

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:42:54 2018 No.10651223

Eating out is only cheaper if you are wanting a very unique dish, or absolutely fucking SUCK at cooking. I mean suck as in you can't follow basic directions, try to cut corners on things, or 'expirement'.

I eat out and like to go out, but mostly I eat at home, because it is cheaper. Seriously spending 50~60 bucks that can easily last me 1.5-2 weeks is way cheaper than

>grab breakfast at mcdicks
2 breakfast burritos, 2.00
>grab lunch special from chinese deal
5-6 bucks, assuming you don't tip
>grab supper on the way home
7-10 bucks

wowie 18 dollars a day about, low end 15-16. That's if we want to keep an amount of diverse food not "eating the same shit constantly", and to match probably portion sizes to hit ~1800-2000 calories a day

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:42:58 2018 No.10651224 >>10651206 Then how is it that you're failing to recoup the cost benefit? Are you throwing away a lot of what you buy? Are you exclusively buying high-end ingredients? Are you buying a lot of premade stuff, box mixes and whatnot?

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:44:46 2018 No.10651235

>>10651224
>Then how is it that you're failing to recoup the cost benefit?
Because the cost benefit you're talking about doesn't exist unless you eat nothing but shitty pasta or ramen, massive batches of slow cooker chili or plain rice and beans bought in bulk every meal, every day of your life

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:49:26 2018 No.10651258

>>10651235
Nah, you're just doing something very wrong.

I spend about $2 a meal on average and rarely eat the same thing more than once in a given month. That's enough to have expensive steaks every once in a while. I make sauces with $20/bottle wine, I buy premium spices, etc. So something is very very wrong with your situation.

I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm trying to help. But unless you actually answer the questions posed it's hard to help. so let's try again:

Are you throwing away a lot of what you buy? Are you exclusively buying high-end ingredients? Are you buying a lot of premade stuff, box mixes and whatnot? Do you live somewhere that has extraordinarily high food costs?

Anonymous Thu May 24 14:49:39 2018 No.10651260

>>10651235
>Because the cost benefit you're talking about doesn't exist unless you eat nothing but shitty pasta or ramen, massive batches of slow cooker chili or plain rice and beans bought in bulk every meal, every day of your life

Can you just fucking admit you don't know shit about cooking? if you have a slow cooker with rice and beans, you can make literally any mexican dish out there, if you know how to season rice you can make a shit ton of asian dishes, if you know how to use meat properly any dish is doable for the most part. If you have an oven making a roast is fucking easy and cheap as shit, stove top? you can make bunch of other shit.

Stop latching onto what one anon says and assuming that's the ONLY thing that you can make, because that just shows you're incompetent. If you took the ramen out of what that anon posted, guess what you could make Fajitas.

Anonymous Thu May 24 15:20:40 2018 No.10651424
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>>10651260
>>10651258
Listen up you fucking retards. This is what I cooked two nights ago. Rice and beans with chorizo.

Ingredients (virtually every item was store brand)
>mexican beef chorizo $1.70 - 1015 calories
>cup of shredded cheese $2.00 (total cost of bag was $4.00) - 440 calories
>can of black beans $0.80 - 385 calories
>can of chicken broth $0.80
>half container of hot salsa $0.60 - 50 calories
>1 cup of rice ~$0.25 - 640 calories
>sweet potato $0.80 - 115 calories
>tbsp olive oil $who knows - 120 calories

Total cost of meal ~$7.00 - 2765 calories

Little Caesars Pizza $6.00 - 2500 calories

I bought double of everything except for salsa, cheese, rice so I could make the recipe twice in a row for the purpose of not letting anything go to waste. Yes I know I could have saved a few cents (maybe even a whole dollar!) if I shredded the cheese myself, or bought a massive bag of beans / rice at costco or something, I don't fucking care. My point is that HOME COOKED FOOD IS NOT SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER THAN FAST FOOD and this completely ignores all the other factors. If I knew that fat niggers were going to hold up the line at kroger I would have not went out that day to get the ingredients. If I knew that a mentally ill homeless guy was going to ask me for money in the parking lot and spit in front of me when I said I don't carry change, I would have not fucking gone to the grocery store that day.

Your ramen noodles with sliced bell pepper, chicken strips, mushrooms or whatever the fuck etc. is not fucking SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper than fast food.

Anonymous Thu May 24 15:25:05 2018 No.10651440
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>>10651260
Hell, you don't even need to rely on only bulk slow cooker recipes or beans. You can cook a massive variety of things and still eat on the cheap. Keys are:
1) Buy food in the closest-to-natural way you can. I am not talking about a hippie organicfag. I mean buy things as whole as possible: whole fish instead of fillets. whole chickens instead of cuts. primal cuts of beef instead of steaks. first off, the ingredients are cheaper this way because the more work the market has to do the more the price will get jacked up. Second, you get bones, veggie tops, etc, that you can use to make stock from. Stock saves you money, is super nutritious, and super delicious.

2)Reduce waste. Trimmings can be used to make stock. Stock is why restaurant dishes are god tier and yours suck. Make stock.

3) Spend most of your money on pic related. Avoid box mixes, premade sauces, whenever possible. Buy ingredients and make those yourself.

Anonymous Thu May 24 15:30:27 2018 No.10651467

>>10651424
>Little Caesars Pizza $6.00 - 2500 calories

holy shit just lol if you even think this is close to the nutritional overall substance of the burrito you made. Also did you not understand all the things you bought could easily refrigerate for a few days?

>I bought double of everything

So your burrito was actually 3.50... Because since you got 2 of pretty much everything you could make another one or say another dish of something?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:33:42 2018 No.10651486 >>10651467 The price was the cost of making it once. It was 14 to make it twice you fucking moron Please point out the post where I said that fast food has more nutritional value than home-cooked food

Anonymous Thu May 24 15:37:18 2018 No.10651498

>>10651424
Yeah, you just fail hard at cooking. Let's go down the list:
>mexican beef chorizo $1.70 - 1015 calories
Good choice.
>cup of shredded cheese $2.00 (total cost of bag was $4.00) - 440 calories
Cheese of any sort is rarely good value for money if you are going by calories. Leave it out, or use less.
>can of black beans $0.80 - 385 calories
using dried black beans would cost about 10 cents.
>can of chicken broth $0.80
you should have that for free, homemade from the last time you cooked chicken. and much better tasting too (perhaps meaning you can skip the cheese). If you don't have homemade then use a bouillon cube instead. It's just as good as canned broth unless you're talking about a premium brand--which you're clearly not for 80c.
>half container of hot salsa $0.60 - 50 calories
Reasonable. But cheaper if you DIY the salsa.
>1 cup of rice ~$0.25 - 640 calories
reasonable
>sweet potato $0.80 - 115 calories
reasonable
>tbsp olive oil $who knows - 120 calories
You don't need this. Chorizo is greasy and renders out its own cooking fat.

If you made the changes I suggested you're at $3.45 for that same meal. That's roughly half the price of Ceasar's and a fuck of a lot healthier. Roughly equal calories. If you need more cals up the beans, they're cheap.

Also, this meal would best be made using a leftover ham bone, or other pork leftovers, instead of the chicken flavor.

Anonymous Thu May 24 15:43:36 2018 No.10651534

>>10651486
>The price was the cost of making it once. It was 14 to make it twice you fucking moron

You're literally doing it wrong as you're not buying in a substantial amount in one go, then cooking over time and saving food in the freezer/fridge. Obviously if you go buy ingredients for ONE specific meal the costs tend to be about average. It will be about the same since get this, the fast food places buy in a ample amount/quantity to lower the overall costs per meal. A lot of what you posted also can be reused with the left overs, if you store them properly, for days to come.

>Please point out the post where I said that fast food has more nutritional value than home-cooked food

Yeah doctor visits are free man, eating just to hit a caloric mark is fine, totally won't fuck you down the road or add any costs to life. Just Dew it! up to hit 1200 calories for a buck, then get 2 beefy five layers at t bell and bam 2500 calories!

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:48:25 2018 No.10651552 >>10651498 >. If you need more cals up the beans, they're cheap. this beans and rice should be the focus of the meal, not an afterthought. mexican chorizo is very flavorful. That much of it would easily flavor a lot more beans and rice than you used.

Anonymous Thu May 24 16:07:43 2018 No.10651643

>>10651498
>you just fail hard at cooking
>Good choice.
>Reasonable.
>reasonable
>reasonable
At least be consistent

>dried beans (requires rinsing, soaking, and changing water if you don't want to have shit farts the next day)
>homemade broth (requires making other recipes, saving ingredients, making broth, storing and saving it)
>diy salsa (requires additional purchase of tomatoes, pepper, onion garlic etc. adding more cooking time)
Do you not consider time part of the cost?

>you don't need cheese
I like cheese so I'm going to eat it
>you don't need olive oil
It was for the sweet potato

>bouillon cube
This is actually cheaper but is significantly higher in salt than canned broth and doesn't taste as good. Obviously homemade broth is better than both.

Anonymous Thu May 24 16:16:57 2018 No.10651683

>>10647787
You cant think of 5 sufficiently different meals involving ground beef?

>Pasta bolognese
>Meatballs with gravy and potatoes
>Chili con carne, with beans for maximum triggering
>Tacos
>Whatever version of meat pie you prefer
Some do better with freezing and some take longer than others. But you can make simple tacos in the time it takes to fry the ground beef, and you can keep some bolognese in the freezer and have tasty leftovers in the time it takes to boil the pasta.

Anonymous Thu May 24 16:17:22 2018 No.10651686

>>10651643
>At least be consistent
Why? You did some things right and other things wrong.
>Do you not consider time part of the cost?
You didn't, so I followed suit.
>beans
Dry beans do take time, but it's hands-off time. They can be soaking and cooking while you are doing other things.
>>broth requires making other recipes
well...yes. You do have to eat on multiple days, don't you? I'm sure at some point you will have bone-containing leftovers from something you made. Or the next time you buy meat specifically seek out a bone-in cut (usually cheaper anyway) so that you can use the bone for broth later.
>Salsa cooking time
You don't have to cook salsa, bro. Fresh salsa is a great thing. Or if you prefer a cooked flavor just make your salsa with canned veggies.
>>but you have to buy things to make salsa from
Yes, you do. But the constituent ingredients are cheaper than buying salsa premade.

>I like cheese so I'm going to eat it
Fair enough, but now you're introducing more variables into the equation than cost alone.

>>It was for the sweet potato
Use the chorizo grease.

>>This is actually cheaper but is significantly higher in salt than canned broth and doesn't taste as good
Why aren't you triggered by the sodium content in the little caesar's? that blows a bouillon cube out of the water.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 16:40:17 2018 No.10651789 File: 87 KB, 1265x847, 2000 healthy vs unhealthy 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Updated for the autismos. >2.5x the protein >3x the food mass >costs 46% less >much better micronutrients >muh fruit

Anonymous Thu May 24 16:43:57 2018 No.10651809

>>10640825
Opportunity cost. You could've went to McDonalds then with the time saved on preparing you could've worked getting paid a wage and come out fed and with a profit.

Think of extreme couponers. If they spent the time they used couponing on getting a degree instead, they could've gotten a job that paid more than the money they saved couponing.

Though once you bring that up you now have to justify why you're on 4chan in the first place.

Anonymous Thu May 24 17:07:50 2018 No.10651947

>>10651809
>You could've went to McDonalds then with the time saved on preparing
Depends on where you live. I easily spend less time cooking a meal than I would spend driving to a restaurant, waiting, and driving home again. I would assert that is true for most situations.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 17:32:29 2018 No.10652041 File: 102 KB, 746x500, 1522064423919.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10651789 >not using the dollar menu because it BTFO's his shit calculations

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 17:43:01 2018 No.10652093 >>10651789 >not including the cost of a large soda with every meal you just know the fat fucks are going to get one anyways

Anonymous Thu May 24 18:06:22 2018 No.10652181
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>>10652041
The best you could do would be to get 6 cheeseburgers/mcchickens/sausage burritos (about 300 kcal each) per day plus 1 soda (150kcal) for a total of 1996 kcal.

This would cost $7+tax. So you'd still spend more.

Anonymous Thu May 24 18:13:24 2018 No.10652216

>>10652181
Compared to the healthy option it:
>is more expensive
>more carbs
>less protein
>more saturated fat
>less fiber
>5x the sodium (hello high blood pressure)
>more sugar
>less Vitamin A
>less Vitamin C
>less Calcium
>less Iron
>less of most other micronutrients

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 19:30:23 2018 No.10652544 File: 100 KB, 540x405, 1497579307879.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10640706 What things do you buy?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 20:03:40 2018 No.10652694 >>10642129 >two pounds of meat >ten dollars Little over ten dollars plus the cost of meat, unless you used roadkill.

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