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[quote=Anonymous]It's one thing to say "I make a tremendous salary so shopping and cooking and making food at home isn't worth it to me" but it's also totally false to say eating out is cheaper than eating at home.

A salad from Chop or a meal from ChikFilA is easily $15 per person. If you're ordering sushi or Thai or something it's easily $25-30 a person + delivery fees.

Let's say you eat Italian at home (store brand, nice ingredients): 
- 1/4 box of pasta is 40 cents. 
- 1/4 jar of Rao's is $2
- veggies for a small salad are about $2, but with dressing let's round up to $3
- $1 for 1/3 of a nice baguette
- throw a portion of meat and you're maybe close, but it would have to be steak or lobster on the daily to rival the $15 per portion price

Regular people food is more like $2 of a rotisserie chicken or chicken thighs, $2 worth of potato or rice/butter/cheese, $2 of veggies (half a bunch of asparagus, broccoli and lemon, bell pepper and spinach, whatever).

Figure that sometimes you eat a $5 Trader Joe's frozen butter chicken with some salad and sometimes you eat a steak, and you're breaking even.

I can see why you'd want to order food or pick it up and keep working. But honestly, it's not cheaper.

I do think if you are smart you can eat out relatively healthy with choices like sushi or salads with moderate dressing or home dressing, veggie-forward choices at fast casual places, fish, True Food Kitchen or Beefsteak instead of Five Guys or Chipotle. 
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