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Do you cheap out when it comes to food?
#26825524 - 07/15/20 04:17 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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And if so, why?
I used to go for the cheapest item possible in the cheapest grocery store because I wanted to save money. I decided one day to treat myself for a week and buy good steak and salmon and other expensive items. Best decision I ever made. Sure it costs me an extra $100 a month but man is it worth it.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal] 1
#26825527 - 07/15/20 04:19 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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No. In fact I probably eat well above what I should considering my income.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Niffla]
#26825539 - 07/15/20 04:28 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here are some cheap masterclass food items the list goes on though:
Lentils, beans, natural peanut butter with the floating oil, eggs, potatoes
Theres a bunch of cheap healthy chit
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal]
#26825552 - 07/15/20 04:36 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Actually no. I probably eat more expensive food than I should given my income, but fuck it.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: nooneman] 1
#26825556 - 07/15/20 04:38 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: No. In fact I probably eat well above what I should considering my income.
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nooneman said: Actually no. I probably eat more expensive food than I should given my income, but fuck it.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal]
#26825568 - 07/15/20 04:43 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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It depends on my mood. Sometimes I'll just get something cheap but sometimes that's also the thing I want. Like if someone takes me to McDonalds I'm getting junior chkkns and stuff. Those little $1-2 burgers are virtually identical to most of their menu. So that's me being practical. Also, A&W double buddy burgs w/ chz = 👍👍, like 3 for $10 iirc. But if I'm really going out to eat, the thing is it doesn't make sense to be going out out and not really have money to do so. Some things are cheap like street food can be cheap and delicious with hefty portions. But an actual restaurant, if you're there then get something good. With other things though, as a recovering fat guy, it's easier to spend more and get less while benefitting with quality. An example is buying Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs instead of whatever else that comes in 2-4L tubs.
Most notable thing I've eaten lately is a royal hawaiian pizza from Boston Pizza. I think it was sweet chili thai base w/ Gouda, Parm, mozzarella, onions, smoked prosciutto, bacon, pineapple, and toasted sesame seeds. Shit was dank.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: larry.fisherman] 1
#26825583 - 07/15/20 04:51 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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if by cheap out you mean purchase fresh rather than packaged food then yes
if by cheap out you mean buy dollar store brand packaged food rather than name brand packaged food then no
i could live for 30 bucks a week on fresh produce and protein powder if I wanted to.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal] 1
#26825591 - 07/15/20 04:56 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I prefer 1 ‘good’ for $10 rather than 2 mediocre for $5.. in for a penny in for a pound, son..
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: larry.fisherman] 4
#26825598 - 07/15/20 04:59 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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We cant all be canadian slum lords pat.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: ichugwindex]
#26825611 - 07/15/20 05:06 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I eat everything cept chicken wings
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Spicemaster said: I eat everything cept chicken wings
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal]
#26825632 - 07/15/20 05:15 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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My wife and I really like to order grocery deliver from Aldi's, which by definition puts us in the cheap food category. That isn't to say that we only buy cheap food though. We do like good quality ingredients, especially meat and seafood. But a lot of time I will go to the local shipping district and buy high quality produce there, but it's generally dirt cheap compared to traditional retail. Theres also a few butchers in that shipping district, and I like to get sausages, especially hot sausage and Polish sausage there. I will pick up rabbit, pork belly, duck, and of course chicken wings there. While I'm on the trip I like to get sushi too, as perhaps the best sushi in the city is located in the fish market.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: christopera] 1
#26825647 - 07/15/20 05:21 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I go for quality, but cooking it myself makes it cheap. A bag of beans or rice, soup cubes to give it some flavor, frozen veggies because I'm too lazy to chop up/peel/prepare my own, decent milk for kefir, fresh fruit and I'm set for pretty damn cheap. When I eat out or buy snacks or expensive bread is when it gets expensive, but usually not unhealthy.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Amanita86] 1
#26825648 - 07/15/20 05:22 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I buy whatever fruit and veg are in season. They are always the cheapest and best quality. I avoid imported foods unless they are awesome stuff like cheeses and the like.
When buying meat I'll also always buy the higher quality one, though I rarely eat red meat, mostly chicken and fish. If I see sell by today 50-80% off quality meat I'll buy it all and freeze it.
I spend more for quality bread, cake bread is for fools.
I'll always binge buy specials of the things I like too. If the particular tin tomatoes or beans or whatever I like go on 50% sale I'll buy 2 or 3 cases of them.
I do cook for a family of 5 though, so getting good food without bankrupting myself is a bit of an art.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: christopera]
#26825664 - 07/15/20 05:31 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I got fat eating bread and fast food, and not the best bread and fast food either.
"eat shit and die" is as true as "you are what you eat"
In my house, no margarine. Either butter from grass fed cows, olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil, linseed oil or bust. Not just rice, premium Basmati rice. Kikkoman, Huy Fong Sriracha, Kalahari Desert Salt. Spice mixes from a restaurant supplier. A $200 chef's knife, not to boast.
I'm not rich, but when I cook I want the best of its kind for all things. It doesn't have to be TOO expensive but if all your ingredients are quality, a tasty result is almost guaranteed.
Likewise, if you use one or more crap ingedients, the whole dish suffers.
Fry some Angus beef in grass-fed butter, crunch some good coarse salt over that.. Even if you do nothing else, that's going to taste great - as basic as that, simply because you didnt use diet margarine or crap like that. Your teeth feel the coarse salt crunching, you wanna devour that
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: ichugwindex]
#26825690 - 07/15/20 05:44 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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ichugwindex said: We cant all be canadian slum lords pat.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Asante]
#26825692 - 07/15/20 05:46 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've never bought margarine. I have no idea what it's like. I grew up in the countryside amongst many dairy farms as well as a heavy Amish presence. You can buy real butter from the Amish for dirt cheap. I hate to say it, but it's not any different from standard store bought butter, asides from the price. When I got a job and moved to the city I lost some of those connections, but have slowly figured out ways to get some of them. There's a Mexican bodega in the shipping district that I like to frequent, and they carry Amish Maple Syrup and Amish butter. So that's nice. The butter comes in 1lbs. cakes, I have to chop it up and freeze most of it or it wont get used in time.
I like to make various meats, and I am guilty of shopping for deals. I like to use shoulder roasts for steaks, I use the reverse sear method. They come out incredible and are about half the cost of a true steak cut. We are single income (well I have a day job and operate a business, so technically two incomes, but my wife doesn't work as we have a 4 year old and she's a full time student) and aren't rich by any means, we are probably right at median income for a family of three. But I never regret spending a bit more on good food. Life is too short to be eating junk all the time. That said, I know if you are lower income you generally don't have much of a choice. It's not a great system.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Asante]
#26825695 - 07/15/20 05:48 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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My wife and I decided to splurge this year on a weekly meat CSA, local grassfed beef, pasture raised chicken/eggs, and varying amounts of pork, bacon, and turkey. Also got a fruit and vegetable CSA from a local farm.
It actually ended up being cheaper than what we usually spend, we only have to buy things like grains from the store now. The veg CSA also offers add-ons with all sorts of local gourmet mushrooms, beans and other stuff. Feels good to support small farms, the fruit/veg is all picked the morning we get it so it doesn't get much fresher. Definitely well worth the money.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Asante]
#26825745 - 07/15/20 06:33 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Asante said: I got fat eating bread and fast food, and not the best bread and fast food either.
"eat shit and die" is as true as "you are what you eat"
In my house, no margarine. Either butter from grass fed cows, olive oil, extra virgin coconut oil, linseed oil or bust. Not just rice, premium Basmati rice. Kikkoman, Huy Fong Sriracha, Kalahari Desert Salt. Spice mixes from a restaurant supplier. A $200 chef's knife, not to boast.
I'm not rich, but when I cook I want the best of its kind for all things. It doesn't have to be TOO expensive but if all your ingredients are quality, a tasty result is almost guaranteed.
Likewise, if you use one or more crap ingedients, the whole dish suffers.
Fry some Angus beef in grass-fed butter, crunch some good coarse salt over that.. Even if you do nothing else, that's going to taste great - as basic as that, simply because you didnt use diet margarine or crap like that. Your teeth feel the coarse salt crunching, you wanna devour that 
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: morrowasted]
#26825770 - 07/15/20 06:49 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: if by cheap out you mean purchase fresh rather than packaged food then yes
if by cheap out you mean buy dollar store brand packaged food rather than name brand packaged food then no
i could live for 30 bucks a week on fresh produce and protein powder if I wanted to.
^This
I do eat some "junk" and "packaged foods" but a lot of fruits/veggies whole/fresh foods.
I cheap out because I don't have any other choice. I eat what I can afford. About $20 to $40 a week for food...but I eat pretty alright. Probably better than a lot of people that have much more than I to spend. I can make some tasty meals on the super cheap. Just gets a bit old eating the same stuff month after month but I try to find ways to change things up. I had pizza for like my 2nd time in three years yesterday .
Noodles, rice, breads, lots of fruit, various veggies, various seasonings/spices/sauces, Tofu, & Eggs...are what make up most of my diet.
My orange tree saves me several hundred dollars worth of fruit during the winter/spring and the melons I grow during summer also save me a lot of money. The amount of oranges and melons I eat from my yard I absolutely could not afford to eat if I bought them from the store.
I feel I eat pretty alright though with my small budget , def would love to have another $20 or so a week to work with lol.
When I'm able to afford around $50 a week for food I feel like I'm eating like a king. I get some nice sea-weed ramen broth. Maybe treat myself to some sort of expensive/special fruit (like cherimoya). Some real tasty noodles. Maybe some sort of nice hot sauce. Some tasty chocolate. I'll get some sort of juice or tea or Kombucha (otherwise I drink nothing but water).
When I can afford it I do treat myself to some good foods. If budget wasn't an issue for me at all (or if I had like $100 a week to work with) I'd have all sorts of high dollar/quality spices/seasonings, a bunch of coconut butter always on hand along with other nut butters. I'd be using some better quality coconut & olive oils than I am now. I'd be eating more tropical/rare fruits and making tons of smoothies...Cherimoyas. Sapote. Jack fruit. Sour sop. Acai...Lots of high dollar/quality chocolate and coffee. I'd go out eating at some bomb local Japanese/Sushi & Thai & Indian & Italian restaurants once a week.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: openmind]
#26825793 - 07/15/20 07:10 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I find that the organic meats tend to taste better to me, and I feel like I'm doing the right thing by paying a bit more to show my support for better conditions, so I usually buy organic meat.
Used to be beef and seafood from the farmer's market but the lines on the one day a week they're open are crazy now that we have to socially distance. I go out of my way to a grocery store that carries organic chicken, and a seafood market I'd never been to before Covid but found is pretty good. When I don't feel like making the longer trip and go to the closer grocery store for meat I always regret it.
I also buy locally roasted coffee beans even though they're more expensive.
And organic flour and sugar and eggs and milk and rice and bread... so mostly organic come to think of it. Produce I don't care as much, and Goya beans are most common in my hood.
And hipster small batch alcohol? Fancy single malt scotch? Yes please.
You can still pay quite a bit extra for fancy organic groceries and still pay way less than restaurants or delivery every night (fast food is criminally hard to beat on price). I come to learn what I can eat for an entire week or make things in batches and freeze them to not waste food. These days I throw hardly any food away.
I cured salmon with pastrami seasoning last weekend and it was totally worth the $10 I paid for the pound of fresh (farm) salmon. It was so rich and salty I froze half of it for later.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: the strander]
#26826163 - 07/16/20 12:18 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was always taught to look for a deal and shop smart, but I've never been overly willing to buy low-quality stuff. I know a few people who are a-okay with living on food that's lacking freshness and quality, and I don't think they fully understand the ways that it effects them and their bodies.
Hard to feel ripped off if something's the real deal. I'd say quality is usually represented pretty fairly, more often than not. It's great to shop hard and get deal on a bunch of solid stuff, then use one's own skills to turn it into an awesome meal.
I do love wonderfully trashy fast food, but I haven't had it since the Covid hit. Kind of miss it, but not really. Ha.
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Patlal]
#26826309 - 07/16/20 03:38 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nah man
We spend an easy €800/month on food for 2 adults and 2 kids (who only eat pasta and cheese)
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26826474 - 07/16/20 08:01 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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my ideal would be to answer no but reality is i've always been very reluctant to spend money on ANYTHING! there are a few exceptions though.
so i buy the cheapest fruit and veg i can find. i hardly every but fish or meat. i do buy chicken from the supermarket (which i feel really bad about)
cheapest eggs and butter, sometimes milk sometimes soy milk (for porridge as i don't drink coffee), honey.
the only thing i value and spend more money than i'd like to is on bread! i used to make my own bread and i can't go back to any common bread so i spend quite a lot for a good loaf of bread once a week.
and recently i started eating oats so i do spend some money on stuff like coconut butter, cacao (pure), natural peanut butter, sesame seeds, linseed, almonds (local), some dried fruit sometimes, grated dried coconut... all this bulk where i also buy most of the spices, legumes and rice i eat.
in general i try to avoid processed foods but i do eat out a single slice of pizza twice a week or sometimes a shawarma wrap when i need to.
i think i have a pretty good diet all things considered but it is pretty boring.
the only things i'd change if i had the money is buying good chicken, fish and meat once in a while and eating some sushi once in a while as well...
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: Simisu] 1
#26826517 - 07/16/20 08:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nope! I love to cook, so fresh high quality ingredients are the butter to my bread yo - I have a veggie and herb garden and while I did plant it hella late and am only just starting to get my first harvest, it's nice to not have to buy herbs constantly and be able to pop outside and go grab a tomato if I want one. Very gratifying, cheaper - I also budget hunt like a fiend. Shopping for the best and freshest at Whole Foods would be ridiculously expensive, but there are things like Misfits Market that sells fresh perfectly good produce that happens to be kind of ugly for super cheap.
I get my meat from local farmers(not always, but I am having a harder time sticking my head in the sand with whatever the fuck happens with the meat I get at grocery stores - so I'm trying to switch to local farmers with small operations competely), and there is a restaurant around here that has shifted to selling ingredients as groceries during the pandemic, and they do sell some amazing filet mignon so once in a blue moon I'll grab some from them. I eat less meat, for health/environmental/ethical reasons(factory farming, specifically), but also because it is a bit more expensive to get the good stuff. I think it's worth it though .
I do like to shop smart though. But I did just buy a $12 box of frozen mac and cheese claiming to be the best in the world...so... I'm probably not as good at it as I think /
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Re: Do you cheap out when it comes to food? [Re: pirate-blues]
#26826538 - 07/16/20 08:58 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I do not cheap out. The difference between a low end steak and the best steak from the same supermarket is huge. I also am willing to pay for organic when I know the inorganic option is soaked in glyphosates as is the case with oats and kale.
On the other hand I have worked my way down to appropriate portion sizes, so while the maine farm raised salmon may cost more than the vacuum packed frozen ones from south america, I am only eating 4oz as opposed to the 6 or 8oz pieces in the vacuum packed frozen option. Buying a kitchen scale and weighing my portions has been huge in getting to a healthy 15% body fat me.
Edited by Sugabearcrisp (07/16/20 08:59 AM)
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