I doubt that cooking at home is cheaper than eating out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand these billing rates. When the OP says she’s earning $625/hour, is that actually $625 x 40 hours x 50 weeks = $1.25 million per year? Because if so, then obviously she should be outsourcing everything and living a great life.

If on the other hand, she spends a significant amount of time marketing herself, submitting proposals, doing other business nonsense, and only actually bills 15 hours a week, then the situation is quite different. She still makes a good living but can’t outsource everything to the same degree.

OP here. I don't need to spend any time on marketing and "business proposals", only on managing my two employees. However, I work part-time 9 am - 3 pm (minus lunch), with school vacations off.

[Anonymous]

Op spends much of her valuable $625 per hour life on DCUM. Now that’s funny.

[Anonymous]

Cooking at home is definitely cheaper than eating out if you’re not wealthy, which most people are not. Most people couldn’t be billing $625/hour. Get some perspective.

For YOU personally, yes it may be more cost effective to eat out than take the time to cook at home. But that’s not the case for the majority of people.

[Anonymous]

Cooking at home is cheaper, but only if you buy cheaper ingredients obviously. So no big steaks, expensive seafood, out of season organic veggies... With regular ingredients you can easily eat for under $15/family per meal with planning. At a restaurant that is $50+. As far as time, I work too and I never make weekday meals that take over 30 minutes of active time. Getting in the car and going out, waiting at restaurant would take much longer, and delivery services cost extra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op spends much of her valuable $625 per hour life on DCUM. Now that’s funny.

Why? A nice thing about earning a nice living is the freedom to mess around when you feel like it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many ways to prep ahead, clean as you go, and generally make it easier for yourself. But if you are committed to not learning any of those techniques or skills and are instead convinced that cooking = making a huge mess and doing it all in the moment, then what is there to say?

For *you,* it does sound better to eat at a restaurant. For people willing to learn some basic skills, techniques, tips, and tricks, and put in some practice, it's well worth it--rewarding, satisfying, even--to cook at home.

OP here. Actually I do know how to cook. My mother taught me in my childhood in Europe, mostly French and Austrian dishes. Because she was busy working, as a teenager it was me who would cook for our family of four on a daily basis. I dare even say that I am an excellent cook. But I just do not enjoy it, and now that I am older, I tire more easily than in my youth.

I kind of doubt this because an excellent cook who has cooked her whole life would know how to create simple healthy meals. We should be asking you for advice

OP here. The French and Austrian dishes that I learned in my childhood or neither simple nor particularly healthy.

So broaden your horizons and open a cookbook?

[Anonymous]

OP, just do what makes you happy. There are plenty of quick recipes and ways to make it enjoyable (I listen to podcasts while I make dinner after a long work day, for example, which is my wind-down), but it's clear that they are not appealing to you. Just go ahead and eat out! Is it cheaper? No. Is it more economical when you consider the time-value of money in your situation? Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. You raised a twat
2. You are lazy
3. Sodium in food out is insane
4. Your math skills suck

I make more than your hourly in half a day.

No one cares if you what to eat out

You can afford it. Still stupid

ooh you sound like lots of fun

[Anonymous]

I don't think it matters what anyone's "take on this" is - if it works for you then order delivery. There are likely some healthier options out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cooking at home is cheaper, but only if you buy cheaper ingredients obviously. So no big steaks, expensive seafood, out of season organic veggies... With regular ingredients you can easily eat for under $15/family per meal with planning. At a restaurant that is $50+. As far as time, I work too and I never make weekday meals that take over 30 minutes of active time. Getting in the car and going out, waiting at restaurant would take much longer, and delivery services cost extra.

Even if you cook "big steaks, expensive seafood" cooking the corresponding dish at home will be cheaper, and most likely you'll get better quality. I can make filet mignon at home for 1/2 the price of a good restaurant, it's often better and I know the meat quality is better. I can get the steak for $20 and the side ingredients for $5-10, so it's $25-30 vs $75-100 when eating out/getting takeout.

[Anonymous]

Would you really have been working during that time? I mean your restaurant meal takes time too.. Driving there and back ordering waiting paying. Most working people do not spend 1 full hour making dinner during the week. Personally, the last thing I want to do after getting home at the end of the day is leaving again.

In the end you do you...don't cook..

[Anonymous]

IMO the hardest part of cooking is chopping the vegetables. Can you buy pre-chopped vegetables? Alternatively, getting someone to come in for a few hours and chop up the vegetables for you and place them in tupperware containers for you to use during the week would be an option too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand these billing rates. When the OP says she’s earning $625/hour, is that actually $625 x 40 hours x 50 weeks = $1.25 million per year? Because if so, then obviously she should be outsourcing everything and living a great life.

If on the other hand, she spends a significant amount of time marketing herself, submitting proposals, doing other business nonsense, and only actually bills 15 hours a week, then the situation is quite different. She still makes a good living but can’t outsource everything to the same degree.

OP here. I don't need to spend any time on marketing and "business proposals", only on managing my two employees. However, I work part-time 9 am - 3 pm (minus lunch), with school vacations off.

So, assuming an hour off for lunch and that "school vacations off" includes summers, you're probably making in the neighborhood of $500K. Good money, but definitely not "cooking is only for the peasants" money. Get off your high horse and cook a meal, lady. Plus, you have 19 hours a day you're not working - you can't find time to make dinner a few times a week, lol?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand these billing rates. When the OP says she’s earning $625/hour, is that actually $625 x 40 hours x 50 weeks = $1.25 million per year? Because if so, then obviously she should be outsourcing everything and living a great life.

If on the other hand, she spends a significant amount of time marketing herself, submitting proposals, doing other business nonsense, and only actually bills 15 hours a week, then the situation is quite different. She still makes a good living but can’t outsource everything to the same degree.

OP here. I don't need to spend any time on marketing and "business proposals", only on managing my two employees. However, I work part-time 9 am - 3 pm (minus lunch), with school vacations off.

You work 9-3, are self employed and a solo practitioner, have too much work already and have clients who have to wait to hear from you? You don’t want to cook because you don’t want to cook. You aren’t bulking hours after 3, so losing billable hours is a false argument. And it’s ridiculous it takes 90 min to make a meal and clean it up…as well as you finding cooking dinner tiring after you’ve had several hours off in bw 3 (when you finish work) until dinner prep time.

[Anonymous]

Your sh!tposting on DCUM costs $0.25/min in opportunity cost. Mine costs $25/min. We are not the same.