it’s way cheaper to buy a bag of self rising flour, and active yeast, make your own bread. and grow your own potatoes endlessly from making seed potatoes from half of every potato you harvest.
but litterally that my point, your talking a $8 difference depending on your region between ingredients and prepared. – delivery fees vary wildly, I’ve gotten $40 worth of food with a $4 delivery fee… then a few months later ordered a single pizza to share that costed me $50 and a $18 delivery fee, because it had 3 toppings and was Sicilian style…
It’s fascinating to me how you managed to contradict your own argument with this comment, that it’s actually more expensive to order out than it is to buy groceries and even factoring in ‘labour costs’ to make your own dinner.
it’s way cheaper to buy a bag of self rising flour, and active yeast, make your own bread. and grow your own potatoes endlessly from making seed potatoes from half of every potato you harvest.
We literally do that. You can grow potatoes in dollar store plastic pots. You can make your own bread and just let it rise while you sit on your ass. There are so many small things anyone can do anywhere to save money. My partner and I drink every day and it’s expensive. So next week we’re starting a home brew to help cut alcohol expenses.
how? my time is 3x the going rate, because it would be a /second job/. like I said before, how much are you valueing yourself.
if I’m ordering a pasta that had a sauce that was slow cooked over 8h. if I’m going to do the same to make my own, it’s going to be astronomically more work.
if reducing sauce by maintaining a simmer for 8h sounds like easy work, you clearly live alone, have no pets and have LOTS of free time…
however, I think I know what you are implying. it’s cheaper if I just got a $1 jar of sauce, and cheap $4 pack of thin spaghetti and a clearance special for mince for $9. so the same size serving of pasta made this way costs $9(note: serving size), that costed me $11.50 (before delivery) for delivery service.
but these things are not the same… your comparing apples to oranges and going “they are both fruit. just eat the apple, it’s cheaper”. by that logic, yes. ofcourse it’s contradictory. but also by that logic just sell everything you own and live on ramen. fml if people don’t get “living” is not “surviving”.
also I should add, if you paid yourself the $13 for the 15~ minutes of prep+cook time, it’s still bloody expensive unless your paying rediculous delivery fees that you shouldn’t order anyways.
The entire point of this thread is that you have to live within your means. If you are going into debt to pay for delivery then either get another job or do ordering delivery. Generally in these types of instances you have more time than money. Especially in times of uncertainty you should be spending under your means so that you can save money on the event something happens.
It’s still way cheaper to buy groceries and make food rather than order door dash
it’s way cheaper to buy a bag of self rising flour, and active yeast, make your own bread. and grow your own potatoes endlessly from making seed potatoes from half of every potato you harvest.
but litterally that my point, your talking a $8 difference depending on your region between ingredients and prepared. – delivery fees vary wildly, I’ve gotten $40 worth of food with a $4 delivery fee… then a few months later ordered a single pizza to share that costed me $50 and a $18 delivery fee, because it had 3 toppings and was Sicilian style…
It’s fascinating to me how you managed to contradict your own argument with this comment, that it’s actually more expensive to order out than it is to buy groceries and even factoring in ‘labour costs’ to make your own dinner.
We literally do that. You can grow potatoes in dollar store plastic pots. You can make your own bread and just let it rise while you sit on your ass. There are so many small things anyone can do anywhere to save money. My partner and I drink every day and it’s expensive. So next week we’re starting a home brew to help cut alcohol expenses.
how? my time is 3x the going rate, because it would be a /second job/. like I said before, how much are you valueing yourself.
if I’m ordering a pasta that had a sauce that was slow cooked over 8h. if I’m going to do the same to make my own, it’s going to be astronomically more work.
if reducing sauce by maintaining a simmer for 8h sounds like easy work, you clearly live alone, have no pets and have LOTS of free time…
however, I think I know what you are implying. it’s cheaper if I just got a $1 jar of sauce, and cheap $4 pack of thin spaghetti and a clearance special for mince for $9. so the same size serving of pasta made this way costs $9(note: serving size), that costed me $11.50 (before delivery) for delivery service.
but these things are not the same… your comparing apples to oranges and going “they are both fruit. just eat the apple, it’s cheaper”. by that logic, yes. ofcourse it’s contradictory. but also by that logic just sell everything you own and live on ramen. fml if people don’t get “living” is not “surviving”.
also I should add, if you paid yourself the $13 for the 15~ minutes of prep+cook time, it’s still bloody expensive unless your paying rediculous delivery fees that you shouldn’t order anyways.
The entire point of this thread is that you have to live within your means. If you are going into debt to pay for delivery then either get another job or do ordering delivery. Generally in these types of instances you have more time than money. Especially in times of uncertainty you should be spending under your means so that you can save money on the event something happens.