I have already noticed that the price of even a modest meal in local restaurants in NYC has risen. Can’t go to a restaurant for a shish kebab with vegetables over rice, or a grilled chicken sandwich, or a Chinese meal without spending nearly-to-over $20. So I rarely eat out. Good thing I like to cook! Today’s cooking will include turkey Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy, homemade whole wheat challah, spinach/mushroom quiche, and mashed potatoes with braised onions. It’s so much cheaper to cook it at home.
Cheaper to cook at home and almost always tastier!
Well, duh!
My wife and I rarely go out to eat. We're retired on fixed incomes so it is always cheaper for us to eat at home.
Even then, it's just the two of us and we seldom cook whole meals to sit down to at home either. More like grazing when we're hungry. We must get that habit from the cattle we raise on our farm. :-)
With our own beef in the freezer, fresh eggs from the chickens, fresh fruit from our orchard and fresh vegetables from our garden, our food budget is very low even though we eat well.
It just seems like a waste of time and good money to drive to the big city to eat at a restaurant. Home cookin' is so much better.
Last night, I made a boneless pork loin (sale $1.29/lb) with fresh mushroom balsamic gravy and zucchini. Cost <$1 per hearty serving. Yum, I could have bathed in the gravy so looking forward to making more tonight with maybe roasted carrots and/or a beet salad sides.
Lunch today is, also <$1, warm and comfy homemade winter squash soup.
Even if we don’t feel like cooking, our favorites are Costco soups and Papa Murphy’s pizzeria, both of which we fix at home. Come to think of it, I made chicken noodle soup yesterday with Walmart rotisserie chicken and fresh celery, noodles, canned mushrooms, corn, and water chestnuts. Yum.