Food Policy Sucks
Man, so Julie and I are trying to cut down on our spending overall, since she is now sans job and staying home with Stella. One place we saw for improvement was eating out. We used to eat out a lot. Like 4 to 5 meals a week. That’s probably the low end. In any case, for the past two weeks we’ve been eating in fairly religously. The disgusting thing is that our grocery bill has grown to match fairly closely our eating out bill. Eating out is cheaper than cooking. And I’ve been scaling back my gourmet-ness, and making sure to do lots of meals that have ingredients that can be used for more than one meal. And it’s still more expensive. How can we live in a world where it’s more expensive to cook a healthy dinner, than to go buy one? It makes no sense. We’ve got to do something about this.
Comments
Ashmita, surburban housebeyatch
2006-06-12T15:53:08.000Z
Dude man, I so totally feel ya. We eat organic foods and I cook everything from “scratch”…this has run our weekly grocery totals somewhere over 125. Per week! And I dont buy meat!!!Of course I could stop buying organic but really, its not THAT much more expensive. I think that unless you are serving variations on hamburger helper for every meal then you are going to spend lots of dough (teehee, im punny). Eat out? Does that mean like sitting in a restarant and someone else makes the food? Yeah we dont do that anymore. Except the occasional deep dish pizza from conans. :-)
Julie
2006-06-12T16:36:10.000Z
A lot of our meals were fast food, too. I think it’s usually cheaper to get fast food than tto eat at home, which is sad, but you can’t survive on fast food alone!
tarv
2006-06-12T19:14:37.000Z
Whaddaya mean “never eat out?” We went to Hill’s Cafe this weekend!
ashmita, mistaken housebeyatch
2006-06-12T21:37:53.000Z
I take it all back, we do sometimes eat out…
I also went to sun harvest today and shelled out 90 bucks for food that I hope will make it to next sunday. They have their Natural chicken tenders for 1.49 a pound and super lean natural ground beef sor 2.99. Not too shabby. Sometimes I wonder what in the world we spent my past income on cuz if we had that now it would seem like we were rollin in it! Beer all around!
