If you live alone, is eating out cheaper than cooking at home? (Page 2)
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I usually cook dishes that I can eat from more than once. Either the next day or freezing it for later. Then it is definitely cheaper to eat at home.
I cook different dishes every day and finish it once :O
That is a lot more workload though as well as you having possibly leftovers that go to waste.
When I lived with a roommate in college we each bought our own groceries. $50 could easily get me enough food for a month.
Eating out was $5-$20 a pop depending on the location.
That's $15-$60 a day if I were to eat out every meal.
I say it's cheaper to cook at home typically. Food and drinks get marked up at restaurants plus you may be paying to tip servers (not sure where you live).
I have always found that cooking is cheaper than eating out. Many times, the ingredients you buy when you go food shopping will last for multiple days or serve multiple portions, where eating out is generally consumed all at once.
Its way cheaper eating at home!
Buy in bulk, watch the expiration dates while watching how much refrigerator and storage space you have. Always look for food on sale.
You spend way to much on groceries. I highly doubt you make $15 meals. Thats about the average for me to go out. I can make 6 eggs with green and red peppers with cheese and onions for like 1.50 or less.
If you only consider junk food, you may be correct if you compare to your own cooking. If you go for healthy things, cooking at home is cheaper.
Cooking at home is cheaper if you buy in bulk. If you add up what you spend eating outside vs. buying food items in bulk you'd notice a massive difference in cost.
Really depends on what you're eating. You can eat out quite cheaply in some places, and you can make eating in rather expensive depending on where you shop and what you cook.
My personal experience is the opposite.
Eating at home is way cheaper.
Means that I shop for some unwanted groceries :/
Maybe not unwanted but possibly expensive.
Either that or you eat out on the cheap.
No, you shop only for the groceries you want.
Cook food that will last a few days or that you can alter into something else for another night.
Well cooking means burning things down for me so it's safer and less expensive for me to eat out. Or head over to my moms or my brothers and make them feed me. Lol
I think. eating at home would be cheaper. You can cook enough to food for the week.
If you eat everything you cook and don't keep more perishable food than you are expecting to eat before it goes bad then it is astronomically cheaper to eat at home
It's damn sure easier, and I've found it cheaper as I waste less.
Where I live eating out could easily cost you 4 times as much as cooking for yourself, on average.
I guess the trick is to find something you like that is economic and buy it when it is on sale.
if you are alone the eating out thing works quite well as long as you do not go exquisite
Actually eating at home is better and cheaper maybe you're buying too much groceries
Yeah, I make more than my daughter and I can eat, and have left overs later in the week.
I save way more money making my own meals. When I eat out I splurge