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08-06-2024, 10:44 PM
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it's crazy how the real world doesn't realize how cheap cooking is
if you go to mcdonalds for breakfast, get a coffee during the day, a burger for lunch and order pizza for dinner. That's considered "normal" You could be spending $80 on food a day and people wouldn't even realize it
now let's say you are at home eating 6 or 7 home cooked meals a day. Those 6 meals would cost you the same price as one mcdonalds breakfast
But "normal" people will be like "oh my god, how do you afford so much food?" when you are literally spending half what they spend on food while eating twice as much
now let's say you are at home eating 6 or 7 home cooked meals a day. Those 6 meals would cost you the same price as one mcdonalds breakfast
But "normal" people will be like "oh my god, how do you afford so much food?" when you are literally spending half what they spend on food while eating twice as much
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08-06-2024, 10:45 PM
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no one wants to cook the rich dont cook why watse time cooking? You can if u try eat healthy with takeout
08-06-2024, 10:49 PM
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its true but even groceries are expensive as fuk now and you have to shop around and get sales.
but yeah can get raw pork for like 3 dollars a pound. you can eat for 10 bucks a day if you want to
but yeah can get raw pork for like 3 dollars a pound. you can eat for 10 bucks a day if you want to
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08-06-2024, 10:56 PM
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I disagree.
Most restaurants are not a good deal, now.
$3-4 on a coffee and food is not worse than grocery prices unless you’re buying extra cheap.
Ground beef you can trust is $5 per serving.
Most restaurants are not a good deal, now.
$3-4 on a coffee and food is not worse than grocery prices unless you’re buying extra cheap.
Ground beef you can trust is $5 per serving.
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08-06-2024, 11:13 PM
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Air fryer boyos
Before this god-tier invention, you had to thaw ur meat before throwing it on a pan to cook and it still comes out sus unless u perfect the thawing timing
You can throw that bitch straight from freezer to air fryer rock diamond fkn hard and it still cooks fairly evenly. Not as good as fresh but still pretty dam good.
Buy family packs of meat when on sale, divide em up, and toss em in the freezer
Dam i can't be givin away all mah secretz
Before this god-tier invention, you had to thaw ur meat before throwing it on a pan to cook and it still comes out sus unless u perfect the thawing timing
You can throw that bitch straight from freezer to air fryer rock diamond fkn hard and it still cooks fairly evenly. Not as good as fresh but still pretty dam good.
Buy family packs of meat when on sale, divide em up, and toss em in the freezer
Dam i can't be givin away all mah secretz
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08-06-2024, 11:13 PM
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i have never come close to spending $80
pizza: $10-16 for a large cheese (lasts at least 3 meals over 2 days)
fast food breakfast: $4-5 for bogo breakfast sandwich. one for breakfast one for lunch
i dont buy coffee outside so i dont know about that
pizza: $10-16 for a large cheese (lasts at least 3 meals over 2 days)
fast food breakfast: $4-5 for bogo breakfast sandwich. one for breakfast one for lunch
i dont buy coffee outside so i dont know about that
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08-06-2024, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted By havoc00⏩
What does "eating healthy with takeout" have to do with anything. All im saying is that it costs way less to cook your own food than people think it does
no one wants to cook the rich dont cook why watse time cooking? You can if u try eat healthy with takeout
08-06-2024, 11:22 PM
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Got pork tenderloin from costco at $2.99/lb, vital farms eggs, raw milk, and assorted portabella mushrooms/bell peppers/broccoli/carrots/brussels sprouts for about $60 for this week. For my carbs I usually just bake my own bread which is negligible cost at this point.
08-06-2024, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted By mrdot⏩
Saved time is way more important than saved money
What does "eating healthy with takeout" have to do with anything. All im saying is that it costs way less to cook your own food than people think it does
08-06-2024, 11:28 PM
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I have two pork legs, about ~5kg total @AUD$10kg slow roasting in my charcoal BBQ sitting on about 170C. Just added the second handful of cherry wood chips about a half hour ago, I plan on a total cook time of 3-4hrs. Soon I will boil a tray's worth of potatoes for a half hour while my oven preheats, add them to a tray, squash them (smashed), filling the gaps in the tray with some carrots before basting everything with butter/olive oil, adding salt/pepper and roasting for an hour or so at 200C.
While that is going I will make up a salad/dressing and make up the plates of food for my family with salad and some home made fermented veg e.g sauerkraut. Then I will pull my pork roasts, carve up enough meat, make a red wine and garlic gravy (I use a kettle, a large mug, chopped garlic, gravy powder, white pepper and red wine) and finish the plates with the potatoes and meat.
The rest of the meat will go in the fridge and I will live off it until it's finished. I usually buy and prepare my next meat during this time e.g. brine or marinade ahead of time if I am going to.
Such a cheap, time efficient and delicious way to live srs.
EDIT: I finished the $8kg/5kg of pork shoulder I cooked almost a week ago this morning for breakfast in toasted wraps and for my kids school lunches.
While that is going I will make up a salad/dressing and make up the plates of food for my family with salad and some home made fermented veg e.g sauerkraut. Then I will pull my pork roasts, carve up enough meat, make a red wine and garlic gravy (I use a kettle, a large mug, chopped garlic, gravy powder, white pepper and red wine) and finish the plates with the potatoes and meat.
The rest of the meat will go in the fridge and I will live off it until it's finished. I usually buy and prepare my next meat during this time e.g. brine or marinade ahead of time if I am going to.
Such a cheap, time efficient and delicious way to live srs.
EDIT: I finished the $8kg/5kg of pork shoulder I cooked almost a week ago this morning for breakfast in toasted wraps and for my kids school lunches.
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08-06-2024, 11:34 PM
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I wish the real world would just stop hassling me
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08-06-2024, 11:39 PM
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Cooking at home : way cheaper, delicious if you know what you’re doing, goyslop free, you control your macros intake, You get the pride of making something delicious and in Florida groceries aren’t taxed.
Eating out: expensive, taxed, chit tier ingredients cooked in disgusting seed oils and all sorts of nasty goyslop, prepared by nasty food worker who probably doesn’t wash hands or change gloves, served by entitled nasty hoars who expect a tip and will probably spit in your food if you don’t. And usually a pathetic < 4oz portion of meat so your high calorie pile of goyslop has hardly any protein.
Eating out: expensive, taxed, chit tier ingredients cooked in disgusting seed oils and all sorts of nasty goyslop, prepared by nasty food worker who probably doesn’t wash hands or change gloves, served by entitled nasty hoars who expect a tip and will probably spit in your food if you don’t. And usually a pathetic < 4oz portion of meat so your high calorie pile of goyslop has hardly any protein.
08-06-2024, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted By Sober13Days⏩
Damn I didn’t know you could cook frozen meats I may have to get one. Waiting for meat to thaw and timing it right is the worse part of cooking.
Air fryer boyos
Before this god-tier invention, you had to thaw ur meat before throwing it on a pan to cook and it still comes out sus unless u perfect the thawing timing
You can throw that bitch straight from freezer to air fryer rock diamond fkn hard and it still cooks fairly evenly. Not as good as fresh but still pretty dam good.
Buy family packs of meat when on sale, divide em up, and toss em in the freezer
Dam i can't be givin away all mah secretz
Before this god-tier invention, you had to thaw ur meat before throwing it on a pan to cook and it still comes out sus unless u perfect the thawing timing
You can throw that bitch straight from freezer to air fryer rock diamond fkn hard and it still cooks fairly evenly. Not as good as fresh but still pretty dam good.
Buy family packs of meat when on sale, divide em up, and toss em in the freezer
Dam i can't be givin away all mah secretz
08-06-2024, 11:49 PM
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Lol if you don't just slow cook 99% of your meals in a croc-pot or slow cooker. BRB dump all your ingredients in a pot, set a timer, come back when ready. BRB Perfect macros. BRB get fukt.
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08-06-2024, 11:56 PM
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Cheaper, healthier, and much more time-saving in the long run. The trick for grocery shopping is to make a list and stick to that list. Never buy anything which is not on the list.
For $80, I can buy more than enough for the week to make every single macro-controlled meal I need to. With some pleasure foods thrown in as well like ice-creams, cookies, chips etc. Never go to the grocery store hungry, either. Rookie error.
You can save even more money if you buy bulk meat at Costco. But since it's a bit tricky to make a meal exactly for one in the right amount, set aside time on Sunday to do your weeks meal prep instead. Cook it up in big batches, into containers and into the freezer or fridge.
It doesn't have to be bland food either- Remember my thread showing the fitness meals I make. There are prawn pasta dishes, chicken burgers, Chinese food dishes etc. It can all be done within a budget.
It's honestly pissening how many people cannot cook at all and never cook, and rely on takeout junk food. I've got a friend just like this, he couldn't cook anything even if his life depended on it. Literally, couldn't even boil an egg.
For $80, I can buy more than enough for the week to make every single macro-controlled meal I need to. With some pleasure foods thrown in as well like ice-creams, cookies, chips etc. Never go to the grocery store hungry, either. Rookie error.
You can save even more money if you buy bulk meat at Costco. But since it's a bit tricky to make a meal exactly for one in the right amount, set aside time on Sunday to do your weeks meal prep instead. Cook it up in big batches, into containers and into the freezer or fridge.
It doesn't have to be bland food either- Remember my thread showing the fitness meals I make. There are prawn pasta dishes, chicken burgers, Chinese food dishes etc. It can all be done within a budget.
It's honestly pissening how many people cannot cook at all and never cook, and rely on takeout junk food. I've got a friend just like this, he couldn't cook anything even if his life depended on it. Literally, couldn't even boil an egg.
Back off, Warchild.
Seriously.
08-06-2024, 11:57 PM
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If your an officecel there's no reason you shouldn't be meal prepping. Being a tradie if i'm on site and not at the shop, i don't always have access to a microwave. but it comes down to being lazy
Do you wash your hands when cooking, even if the food is just for you?
Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
Cheaper, healthier, and much more time-saving in the long run. The trick for grocery shopping is to make a list and stick to that list. Never buy anything which is not on the list.
For $80, I can buy more than enough for the week to make every single macro-controlled meal I need to. With some pleasure foods thrown in as well like ice-creams, cookies, chips etc. Never go to the grocery store hungry, either. Rookie error.
You can save even more money if you buy bulk meat at Costco. But since it's a bit tricky to make a meal exactly for one in the right amount, set aside time on Sunday to do your weeks meal prep instead. Cook it up in big batches, into containers and into the freezer or fridge.
It doesn't have to be bland food either- Remember my thread showing the fitness meals I make. There are prawn pasta dishes, chicken burgers, Chinese food dishes etc. It can all be done within a budget.
It's honestly pissening how many people cannot cook at all and never cook, and rely on takeout junk food. I've got a friend just like this, he couldn't cook anything even if his life depended on it. Literally, couldn't even boil an egg.
For $80, I can buy more than enough for the week to make every single macro-controlled meal I need to. With some pleasure foods thrown in as well like ice-creams, cookies, chips etc. Never go to the grocery store hungry, either. Rookie error.
You can save even more money if you buy bulk meat at Costco. But since it's a bit tricky to make a meal exactly for one in the right amount, set aside time on Sunday to do your weeks meal prep instead. Cook it up in big batches, into containers and into the freezer or fridge.
It doesn't have to be bland food either- Remember my thread showing the fitness meals I make. There are prawn pasta dishes, chicken burgers, Chinese food dishes etc. It can all be done within a budget.
It's honestly pissening how many people cannot cook at all and never cook, and rely on takeout junk food. I've got a friend just like this, he couldn't cook anything even if his life depended on it. Literally, couldn't even boil an egg.
Do you wash your hands when cooking, even if the food is just for you?
08-07-2024, 12:06 AM
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Meal prep/10. Save time and money
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08-07-2024, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted By Basedbaby⏩
yup
Damn I didn’t know you could cook frozen meats I may have to get one. Waiting for meat to thaw and timing it right is the worse part of cooking.
almost as good as fresh and super easy (depending on meat thiccness u might have to flip it an extra time)
way tastier than traditional meal prep where u cook then fridge/freeze
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08-07-2024, 01:40 AM
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08-07-2024, 01:48 AM
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I have a coworker that gets fast food for lunch 4-5 days of the week. That’s like 50$ a week. That’s a GOOD chunk of my weekly grocery bill.
“Shopping is just as expensive” is an excuse to be lazy.
“Shopping is just as expensive” is an excuse to be lazy.
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08-07-2024, 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted By p7nk⏩
If your an officecel there's no reason you shouldn't be meal prepping. Being a tradie if i'm on site and not at the shop, i don't always have access to a microwave. but it comes down to being lazy
Do you wash your hands when cooking, even if the food is just for you?
Do you wash your hands when cooking, even if the food is just for you?
Yeah, of course, especially if I handle raw meat. Wash hands before and after, and during if I have to handle any other non-raw meat item in between which goes into the food.
Back off, Warchild.
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08-07-2024, 02:14 AM
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Originally Posted By mrdot⏩
I realize it, but i hate cooking.
if you go to mcdonalds for breakfast, get a coffee during the day, a burger for lunch and order pizza for dinner. That's considered "normal" You could be spending $80 on food a day and people wouldn't even realize it
now let's say you are at home eating 6 or 7 home cooked meals a day. Those 6 meals would cost you the same price as one mcdonalds breakfast
But "normal" people will be like "oh my god, how do you afford so much food?" when you are literally spending half what they spend on food while eating twice as much
now let's say you are at home eating 6 or 7 home cooked meals a day. Those 6 meals would cost you the same price as one mcdonalds breakfast
But "normal" people will be like "oh my god, how do you afford so much food?" when you are literally spending half what they spend on food while eating twice as much
meal prep breakfast and lunch. Order dinner most nights
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08-07-2024, 02:18 AM
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Live off fried rice with frozen veggies and eggs. Add spam once in awhile, you can live off this, maybe
I work in a restaurant and eat for free everyday, but its makes you fat….I don't even buy groceries until my day off, I have zero food in my place.
I work in a restaurant and eat for free everyday, but its makes you fat….I don't even buy groceries until my day off, I have zero food in my place.
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08-07-2024, 02:25 AM
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BTW boyos, if you aren't using ChatGPT or some other similar program to generate recipes for your desired calorie and macro breakdowns, along with the necessary shopping list for when you go to buy it, you're just depriving yourself of a major life cheat code!
E.G: Tell me your favourite dish even if it's something typically unhealthy and junk food ish, I'll show you a fitness tailored recipe for that very dish to whatever calorie or macro breakdown you want.
E.G: Tell me your favourite dish even if it's something typically unhealthy and junk food ish, I'll show you a fitness tailored recipe for that very dish to whatever calorie or macro breakdown you want.
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08-07-2024, 02:52 AM
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red flag watching young people piss a ton of money away eating out weekly. usually just a low IQ mindset so let them be.
08-07-2024, 04:16 AM
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Originally Posted By havoc00⏩
Aren't you unemployed and on welfare?
Saved time is way more important than saved money
08-07-2024, 04:24 AM
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It's called delegation op
08-07-2024, 04:28 AM
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Takes too long
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08-07-2024, 04:30 AM
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Originally Posted By GuineaDago585⏩
Stop complaining that you spend a grand a month on food/takeout then. This is why you're broke.
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08-07-2024, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted By John L⏩
only a grand…sheesh. I don't complain though. It's worth it
Stop complaining that you spend a grand a month on food/takeout then. This is why you're broke.
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