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But last night, I made chili for 3 people for about $4.50 a plate. Thats because, you know, its mostly all canned shit where brands don't matter. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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Sass, did you buy the highest quality tomato paste? or the grocery store brand? Get all generic brands.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
Unless you're implying generic is like, more healthy or some shit. In which case, I would be tempted to argue with you on the principle in general. Most amazing jew boots |
Dont jump to conclusions so fast. No, im implying buy the cheapest shit you can find for all of that if your going to compare it to fast food. You say a .50 cents here or there isnt a big deal, but it adds up fast.
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$4.50 a plate compares fucking fine with a $5 value meal. I don't NEED to go cheaper. Not to mention that it HARDLY MATTERS in the scheme of this thread. Fact of the matter is that you can cook for cheaper than fast food, but it takes more effort. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
I would simply like healthy alternatives on all fast food places' dollar menus.
Since I started on a diet 3 months ago, I studied all the major fast food nutritional charts. Yup, I pretty much couldn't eat anything on the McDonald's or Burger King menu. HOWEVER, Wendy's and Taco Bell had good options. Wendy's had small chili (good protein, low cal, low fat), side salad with fat free dressing (veggies, low cal, no fat). Taco Bell had "fresco style" versions of their chicken/steak soft tacos and hard tacos (good protein, low cal, low fat). That's about all I can eat from fast food, though (and the taco bell one isn't as cheap as I'd like since the chicken and steak are 1.69 each as opposed to the "BIG BELL VALUE MENU" which has a 1/2 pound fatty burrito for a buck). I just want to be able to eat at McDonald's or Burger King again for cheap (and healthy). Jam it back in, in the dark. |
I honestly wasn't going to post since everyone's making good arguements against the original poster but this news post was too good to pass up. Addiction maybe?
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
You guys spend over $20 making a home-cooked meal for two people? WTF is that all about? There's three people living in my house, and altogether, a home-cooked meal can feed all three of us for like $10-$15 easily. Except for McDonald's, fast food is usually more expensive, especially Wendy's and Dairy Queen (where it costs us about $20-$25 total for all three of us to eat). So I dunno where you guys are getting your food or how much you're eating, but it's a bit too much I'd say! RacinReaver is absolutely right on this, it would never be more than $5/plate, if that, and it takes far less time (given how long it takes to drive and wait in the drive-thru). Oh, and let's not forget to factor in the cost of gas because President Bonehead is too damn busy funding his ridiculous war to put more money into investigating alternative fuel sources; imagine the advances we're missing out on because all that money is getting wasted. So yeah, by the time you factor in gas and driving and waiting, fast food takes longer and is more expensive, just as RacinReaver said. If you're spending so much on home-cooked meals, they must be pretty damn big meals.
Oh, and Sass, you say stupidity is picked on around here, but from the looks of it, it's the other way around. From the looks of it, stupidity is encouraged while thinking for yourself and intelligence are picked on. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
It's not that people are lazy alone. It's that while dinner CAN be prepared for cheaper, they aren't ALWAYS cheaper. Laziness has a hand in it, but not as much as cost. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
As for people attempting to sue fast food outlets, that drives me mad, they knew what they we're doing to themselves, fast food is nice but if people are too stupid to know when to stop its them who should be held accountable right? I mean to this day I still cant believe that cigarette companies are being sued by people who used it before warnings were displayed. they inhaled smoke into their lungs ffs there's no need for a damn warning. I hate cigarette companies but for gods sake its like saying people had no brains back then! Expect a warning on fast food over the next year or so, beside the warning that there may be traces of nut... FELIPE NO |
Do you eat these steak dinners every night? I sure as Hell don't eat steak every night. So sure, occasionally it will cost more, when you have a bigger dinner like that, but not most of the time.
Take my dinner tonight, for instance. I simply had a Healthy Choice frozen dinner. Has decent nutrition, faster to fix than fast food could ever be, and really pretty cheap for an entire dinner. I might eat more lavishly maybe once a week. Like I said, I don't freaking stuff myself. It's called self-control. It's also called moderation. Fast food companies aren't to blame for people getting fat, people eating too much are to blame! What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?
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what. so like, does a larger dinner for you mean a Hungry Man meal? Maybe a seperate side dish of frozen veggies? There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Healthy Choice, Lean Cuisine, and SmartOnes (bleh) are a lot healthier than normal TV dinners. Plus, they're cheap if you get them in bulk. It's silly to compare to Hungry Man, which is packed with sodium and fat.
I lost most of my weight due to a diet that included a lot of Lean Cuisine meals. How ya doing, buddy? |
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^ Yeah, basically. It's like saying you eat healthy when you buy a McSalad every day, or that when you say you're exercising every day, it's from taking a flight of stairs up to your classroom. Just doesn't quite ring true.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
You should do a more fair comparison. How many steak dinners could you get at a restaurant for the $20 your mom paid?
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Last edited by RacinReaver; Sep 1, 2006 at 11:51 PM.
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Say I make a casserole, $2 for cheese, $3 for meat, $1 for pasta, a few cents for an onion, a few cents for spices, a few cents for maybe some celery or peppers. Now, this feeds me for at least six meals. Let's say I make it for my family instead (which I've done a few times while at home). I eat more than my mom and about the same as my dad. It usually works out so my dad and I get two meals out of it and my mom will get three. Sure, it gets more expensive to feed everyone compared to if I was eating alone, but I'm also feeding three times as many people so you should expect it to get roughly three times more expensive (as you should expect the same thing at a fast food place). The only style of eating out where I can't see what I've been saying is true is with Chinese takeout since you get so much food one person can never eat all of it before it goes bad and they wind up throwing some of it out. FELIPE NO |
If you're just eating a big mac, you could easily make a slightly more healthy burger at home on your own. I paid $1 for a pound of beef at Irvine, so let's say I use a quarter pound, that's $0.25. Then there's the bun, I buy the cheap ones that are $0.75 for eight, so $0.10 for the bun. I personally only like ketchup and cheese on my burger, so maybe another $0.20. If you like other toppings on your burger, they're only a few cents each anyway.
You do realize that McDonald's isn't losing money on these dollar menu items, right? In order for them to turn a profit on them, they need to be able to sell them for more than they're paying, and since they're using less-than-grocery-store-quality ingredients usually, you're getting a better meal for at most the same amount of money. Also, if you want to actually make fast food a decent deal, you stay away from the combos and only eat the main menu item and get water. Sodas and fries are just empty calories and $2 you don't need to spend.
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
The reason why people buy fast food is because it's a combination of cheap and fast. If you want any variety at all in your diet, you'll be paying a lot more at McDonalds than you would be comparatively at the supermarket.
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Cooked At Home = Home Cooking You may have a different definition, but I'm usually a literal kind of person.
As for my Healthy Choice dinners, they are good for you. This was already mentioned by other people, so I need not elaborate. I don't eat frozen dinners every night, though, I was just describing what I had that night. RacinReaver is absolutely right about cost and such. Oh, and I'd like to add that eating healthy and being a health nut are two different things. You act as if McDonald's food is completely devoid of nutrition, and that simply is not true. It's not as healthy as meals you prepare personally, but they aren't killer. That's why comparing fast food companies to cigarette companies, like these lawyers are trying to do, is ignorant, dishonest, and irresponsible. Like has been stated several times, you can eat well enough at a fast food restaurant by cutting out the empty calories from garbage such a fries; news flash here, fries are unhealthy period, whether you buy them at a fast food restaurant or cook them at home in a Fry Daddy. Basically, it's like I said all along, it's about moderation. When I eat at McDonald's, I get just a Double Cheeseburger, that's it. I'm not a heavy eater, so that helps me keep the calories down. I intake a lot of protein and I love cheeseburgers and any other meaty item (including steaks), but I also work out heavily and drink protein shakes, as well as using creatine. So by getting up and working on myself, I stay in shape. If I can do it, anyone can, save for those with like those genetic gland problems that can cause severe weight gain; even then, it's not the fault of fast food companies if they get fat, it's because of their body chemistry. The bottom line that I'm trying to get across here is that people need to stop laying out blame and take responsibility for their own actions, plain and simple! There's nowhere I can't reach.
Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People.
Why are you arguing with WoW players? It's pronounced "Shut the fuck up and get a job. Raiding isn't a job." - Lukage |