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post 1617846811 09-28-2020, 03:43 PM
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Make the chicken bowl or buy the chicken bowl?

Misc, help bros. I don't mind meal prepping. I dont mind stepping out to pick up foods. But I eat the same chit almost everyday, and I like it. Everyday M-F I eat a chicken bowl with rice and green onions. Not to say I never eat anything else, sometimes I will take some of my crew out to eat, what im trying to say is, I have no interest in changing what im eating, just deciding on how I get there..

I go to Flame Broiler each day during lunch. I get a regular chicken bowl. Thats approx. 600 cal, 45g protein, 68g carbs, 14g fat. This costs me about $8. I am paying for someone else too cook rice and chicken for me so it's nice and hot.

My other choice is to meal prep and i'd be eating my rice bowl cold. Which i dont really care about.

Im torn bros. is $40 worth lunchtime warm food and laziness? Help me get some perspective.
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post 1617847011 09-28-2020, 03:45 PM
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buy the bowl. your time and ingredients and convenience and pleasure is worth something. cut some other dumb expense from your budget - like paying for music, cable, phone data, etc. that you don't use.
post 1617847861 09-28-2020, 03:57 PM
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Buy it every time if you're making big bucks. Who cares if it's -$3000 a year. There's more to life than scraping up every penny and investing it.
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post 1617847911 09-28-2020, 03:57 PM
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Worth it to me, I did this for a while with Chipotle. How much is your time worth to you? Are you trying to save money for anything? How much are you spending on other meals?

If you're in a good place financially, don't sweat the small stuff. At best, you'll save $20 a week if you meal prepped. A few hours of meal prepping every week to save $20 isn't worth it to me unless the macros were substantially better.
post 1617847981 09-28-2020, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted By ritualdecay⏩
Misc, help bros. I don't mind meal prepping. I dont mind stepping out to pick up foods. But I eat the same chit almost everyday, and I like it. Everyday M-F I eat a chicken bowl with rice and green onions. Not to say I never eat anything else, sometimes I will take some of my crew out to eat, what im trying to say is, I have no interest in changing what im eating, just deciding on how I get there..

I go to Flame Broiler each day during lunch. I get a regular chicken bowl. Thats approx. 600 cal, 45g protein, 68g carbs, 14g fat. This costs me about $8. I am paying for someone else too cook rice and chicken for me so it's nice and hot.

My other choice is to meal prep and i'd be eating my rice bowl cold. Which i dont really care about.

Im torn bros. is $40 worth lunchtime warm food and laziness? Help me get some perspective.
Meal prep enough for half the week's meals and buy the other half. Hit that sweet compromise.

Unless you're ceo 10k/day, then fak meal prep.
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post 1617848181 09-28-2020, 04:01 PM
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You're focusing on the wrong things in life. It's not about the money but the relationships you've form at the Flame Broiler and the chicken store
post 1617848191 09-28-2020, 04:01 PM
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i don't think eating something simple like that for lunch is that big of a deal, especially if you don't need that money for something more important. if you're pay check to pay check that's a good place to shave expenses but otherwise fuk it, enjoy your meal
post 1617848251 09-28-2020, 04:02 PM
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Thanks for the responses folks. I make enough disposable income to afford this, I'm not necessarily saving for anything, but i do always like to maximize the savings for my family. I thought maybe I was being really lazy, glad to hear some other perspectives.
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post 1617848321 09-28-2020, 04:02 PM
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I've tried meal prepping or making fast food at home and its never quite as good. The rice part is a rip off, maybe see if you can order just the chicken and steam your own rice?
post 1617848361 09-28-2020, 04:03 PM
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"The chicken store."

Careful buddeh, I may steal that and open my own chicken bowl shack.
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post 1617848731 09-28-2020, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted By ritualdecay⏩
Thanks for the responses folks. I make enough disposable income to afford this, I'm not necessarily saving for anything, but i do always like to maximize the savings for my family. I thought maybe I was being really lazy, glad to hear some other perspectives.
the disposable income is kinda the crux of it to me, if it doesn't hurt financially, fuk it. i used to work with some tards that would buy huge fast food meals for lunch and dinner every single day, i'm assuming same on the weekends and they were constantly bitching about being broke. those are the people that should feel guilty about it imo, not you
post 1617848911 09-28-2020, 04:10 PM
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Is it a continental bowl, though? With family pack rice?
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