Tax Junk Food/Regulate Contents?

[Michael-5]

snyps said:

Augen said:

snyps said:

Michael-5 said:

This is completly false. A Big Mac Combo is about $7 and that barely feeds 1 person for 1 day. I live off $20 a week for food (I cook a lot), and I can tell you that you can feed a person for about $2 a day no problem. Eating healthy is cheaper then eating crap.

I feed my self AND  my gf for $30 a week and we eat better than a 5 star restaurant.  Everything from scratch.  Pancakes n stuff in the morning,  pizza from scratch, gas grilling, roasting, deep frying, I make my own ice cream!  The stuff I make is not enumurable.  But here's the kicker.  It doesnt take time or hardwork, it takes brains.  I can whip up the most amazing food faster than a trip through the drive through.  Ppl that think they have to read labels need to start reading the recipes on the web. Am I right?

Tone is hard to portray on internet so let me say I am being dead serious here.  I want to emulate this, I cook myself and $30 would be amazing goal for me and my fiancee to eat on.  Right now we vary between $40-60 depending on sales.  So, what are you eating?  How do you cut costs?

I eat all kinds of stuff: (please read 1st before looking at my bragging list).   I have an oven, stove, gas grill, cool daddy deep fryer,  kitchen aid stand mixer with ice cream attachment,  triple beam scale, and a bunch of little things I picked up like garlic press.  I started small with one book The William Sonoma Collection "Roasting".  I first made a meatloaf, then Cornish hens, then roast chicken... Etc.  the Roasting book is enough for someone to eat for an entire year with out getting bored.  It's very easy all you need is an oven.  Each meal will cost roughly $5 in ingredients, depending where you shop, and last a week for two ppl.  I then started the "breakfast" book, and so on.  It takes studying the recipe you want and moving over the hurdle of self doubt.  There's pictures of every meal so I flip to one that looks yummy and it will look difficult at first but the second glance will be like "oh that's actually not bad".  What else can I say, at first you start off with what you have but eventually you get more spices and tools as you go.  Now I use up everything perishable weekly and always keep oils, condiments, rice, pasta noodles, dry beans, sugar and flour fully stocked.  I shop at winco where i find non packaged products so i scoop however much i need in a baggie.  Each week I buy: a $1 fruit, a $1 vegetable,  $3/lb deli meat, $10 butcher meat, $3 milk, $3/lb cheese, $1 bread, and a $6 pack of red bull.  Every other week I buy:  garlic, onions, potatoes, sunflower seeds, and eggs.  So that's pretty much it.  Here is a list of everything I have every made.  I've been cooking for about 4 years now and I have way more recipes I still havent tried!

 

There is where your cost is coming from.

I mostly eat pasta's, rice, or potato dishes. Rice costs $10 for 10kg, so literally if I just ate rice it would cost me $0.50 a day since the average person eats 500g a day. Add in veggies, and make my own sauce, and I realistically pay $1.50-$2 a day on my food. That's <$14 a week. The other $6 comes from cheese and meat, but even then I buy in bulk and then freeze it.

Most of the sauces I make are milk or tomato based, so they aren't that expensive. I don't add too much cheese to the sauce.

Also I don't eat much meat, I get protein from mostly eggs and fish. I eat chicken and turkey ocassionally, and I almost never eat red beef.

Also $6 a week for red bull? just start drinking coffee/tea LOL.