Not with how many uses you can get out of containers of things. If you count buying every ingredient individually or how much it costs to buy everything that has a lot of servings, sure. But that doesn’t make sense

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My take: Unless you are really efficient at cooking, and can make many tasty meals out of few ingredients it is. Especially if you value your own time. You have physical costs in buying ingredients (many of which go bad before you can use them all) and the time cost of getting ingredients, the time cost of cooking, and the time cost of cleaning. When you eat out you can just pay once for the food and you can normally get multiple meals out of one serving like you can if you cook for yourself

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i live in a medium cost of living area and spend about $40 on groceries each week. if cooking for yourself is costing you more than eating out, that’s a skill issue. you need to learn to shop and/or cook more efficiently.

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Peasant grindset. Breakfast: flour. Lunch: flour. Dinner: flour. Desert: sweet sticky rice

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Even with me eating out multiple times a week, my grocery bill is still a good bit more expensive than my eating out bill. Per meal though, the grocery store is still cheaper.

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If you try to make restaurant-quality food with a ton of ingredients, yeah. I just be eating beans and rice tho

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I’d say just about. Today I tried to budget for beef stew, and it ended up being $22 for ingredients which I could use just getting takeout for the two nights I planned on eating the stew

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It kinda depends what you’re making. You probably can’t grill proper burgers for much cheaper than mcdonalds anymore, sure. But one $3 box of pancake mix is enough for like 10 meals. Same idea with pasta or rice. PB&J is basically free for smaller lunches. None of those are really prep and eat later meals, but if you go that route, making one large batch of chili or soup or some kind of hotdish will also last a while for relatively cheap.

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