Do you consider pizza and chinese food to be inexpensive?

[Anonymous]

I get when people say ramen is cheap but I never found pizza and Chinese food to be inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what pizza and chinese food you are ordering. Cici's pizza? Little Caesers? Dominoes? All potentially very cheap.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I lump it in with other fast food.

[Anonymous]

It's inexpensive compared to nearly anything that isn't made at home. It's not inexpensive compared to home cooking.

[Anonymous]

I always get a two large pizzas deal for $25 (including delivery). I make a salad. This is dinner for three people, and TWO lunches for the same three people. So, one dinner and two lunches for about $32? Yes, I consider that inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

Yes for sure!

[Anonymous]

We only get pizza from Two Amy's which is not inexpensive. Chinese take out from our neighborhood restaurant tends to be less expensive, as long as we don't overorder. But as a PP pointed out, the leftovers cover lunch for a couple people later in the week so the cost gets spread out. Personally I like takeout from Nando's and Cava Grill for reasonably priced but more interesting takeout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always get a two large pizzas deal for $25 (including delivery). I make a salad. This is dinner for three people, and TWO lunches for the same three people. So, one dinner and two lunches for about $32? Yes, I consider that inexpensive.

You can make an entire tray of baked ziti for under $10 and would easily serve 3 dinners and 2 lunches. Pizza is not cheap, just cheap compared to going out to eat elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

When I was growing up (in the Midwest, in a lower middle class family), going out for pizza or having Chinese food was something that we could really only do for special occasions. Three kids and two adults adds up. Ramen, on the other hand, is like 50 cents a package.

[Anonymous]

No. I consider all fast food expensive. I feed my family home cooked meals most every meal, including packed lunches and I spend approx $125/week at the grocery store. That is about $17 a day on food for a family of 4. I could not feed all 4 of us for $17 a day if we ate any sort of fast food.

I don't get it when people declare that junk food/fast food is cheap. It's not.

[Anonymous]

We consider pizza we really like to be expensive - a large can be $25, eat-in with salads and drinks and it's a $55 dinner.

Takeout like Domino's or Papa John's can be $15 or so, which isn't cheap when you add in your own salad ingredients. My DH may get leftovers for lunch. Or it'll provide two lunches for our son.

We are not big meat eaters, so $15 of pizza + salad fixings is more expensive than our usual meals, which are things like beans & rice w/guac and salsa and tortillas and corn on the cob, or 4-cheese mac and cheese with a big salad, or spicy eggplant, or just a really big salad with grilled chicken (TJs frozen breasts) and bread.

So, no. I don't consider it to be inexpensive. We watch our takeout expenses carefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We consider pizza we really like to be expensive - a large can be $25, eat-in with salads and drinks and it's a $55 dinner.

Takeout like Domino's or Papa John's can be $15 or so, which isn't cheap when you add in your own salad ingredients. My DH may get leftovers for lunch. Or it'll provide two lunches for our son.

We are not big meat eaters, so $15 of pizza + salad fixings is more expensive than our usual meals, which are things like beans & rice w/guac and salsa and tortillas and corn on the cob, or 4-cheese mac and cheese with a big salad, or spicy eggplant, or just a really big salad with grilled chicken (TJs frozen breasts) and bread.

So, no. I don't consider it to be inexpensive. We watch our takeout expenses carefully.

PP here. Chinese for our family of three is about $30. $40 when we get everything we want. It can sometimes provide another dinner (throw in steamed edamame and make new rice for the leftovers). It at least provides me lunch for two days. It's >$ than pizza.

[Anonymous]

Pizza yes - for our family we pay around $30

Chinese food, not so much - runs around $50-$70 for us

[Anonymous]

Not really. With delivery, pizza tends to run $25-$30. Chinese is even more - can easily be $35-$40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always get a two large pizzas deal for $25 (including delivery). I make a salad. This is dinner for three people, and TWO lunches for the same three people. So, one dinner and two lunches for about $32? Yes, I consider that inexpensive.

You can make an entire tray of baked ziti for under $10 and would easily serve 3 dinners and 2 lunches. Pizza is not cheap, just cheap compared to going out to eat elsewhere.

Three things:
1. You could, but then you'd have to eat "baked ziti". Gag.
1. You're not factoring in the cost of vegetables. Produce is the biggest part of my food budget. You wouldn't feed your family jarred tomato sauce on pasta and call that a whole meal, would you?
3. My time is worth money.

OP's question was, do you consider it inexpensive. Yes, I do. If the question was "would you eat pizza and chinese if you were having trouble coming up with rent money" the answer would be different.