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Hi, that's me. I get an hour for lunch during the week, and there are a handful of fast food places minutes from my work. I drive through, and sit in the parking lot eating my lunch and playing games on my phone. It's my quiet time for the day.
There's a bit of a game for some of these fast food places. Most people just roll up and order a #1 or whatever was in the commercials. That's how they get ya!
Sometimes you need to download the app, or check the menu for a budget meal. A slightly smaller burger and less than a pound of fries is an adequate meal for around $5-7.
Honest question: Why not cook a bunch of meals once or twice a week and eat that instead? It can be cheaper and it's way less likely to get you sick in the long run.
Honest answer: Because that sounds terrible.
I'm not going to waste my time cooking food that I won't eat at it's prime, just so it can take up my fridge space until I inevitably ruin it with a microwave later in the week.
Also, storing and reheating good creates MUCH more potential for contamination and food borne illness.
I can pay for my lunch with the money I make in the first half hour of the day. It's not breaking the bank.
That’s 4.5hrs of your turn at work every week. 18hrs a month.
I am like you, I do what works best for me and sometimes I value the expense. But let’s not minimize how much it actually is!
And meal prepping is 2 hours of your week every week, plus however long you have to work to pay for the ingredients, which is probably another 2 hours
You do not need to hover around a kitchen cooking for 2hrs to prep for the week. Hell throw a bunch of stuff in a crockpot and let it cook all day. That’s like a 20-30min commitment of actual work.
You are missing the point, it's not "4.5 hours a week of work" vs "absolutely nothing", it's 4.5 hours of work vs however long to have to work to pay for the ingredients, plus the time to make the food. If I spend an hour meal prepping and it takes me an hour and a half to pay for the ingredients, eating out at lunch only costs me 2 additional hours of my time, not 4.5
I also don't know what meal you are preparing where chopping veggies, searing meat, packaging and cleaning up afterwards only takes 20 minutes. Even making chili, which is the prototypical "throw everything in a pot" recipe takes me north of an hour when all is said and done
1.5hrs of work for 5 days of ingredients isn’t economical?
I understand that the math on this is not as simple as a lot of people make it out to be, but you’re not going to convince me that eating out for lunch every single day is even remotely comparable in cost to half-decent meal prepping.
I'm trying to point out that the premise is flawed because you are assuming there is no opportunity cost associated with time spent meal prepping at home. If I make $50/hr at work and wish I had more free time at home, then it's a wash, and I'm just as well off getting subway every day
When did I ever say there was no opportunity cost? Show me.
$50/hr at work and eating fast food everyday? Is that what you think is happening? You think the average person doing this is pulling down almost 100k a year?
I was trying to say the cost savings of packing lunches is not absolute, and is dependent on the opportunity cost a person places on time spent at home cooking.
But I see now that you are just incapable of the critical thought necessary to deduce meaning beyond the concrete text placed in front of your eyes
Who said it was absolute? Who said anything like that? When did anyone disagree with that claim or say otherwise?
It’s not my fault you consider tilting at windmills a substitute for responding to people’s points. I try to keep on topic and give people the most generous interpretation of their arguments. You are just being myopic for sport.