>>21744498This has to be bait, nobody can be this retarded about prices.
>Meat - 8 dollars, you get multiple meals out of it so you can now make spaghetti or something with the rest of the hamburger>7 dollars for buns? Use bread. You'll end up using bread for other things anyway, so it doesn't factor into the cost>You should already have onions, they're a staple food. You put 25 cents worth of them on your burgers>You should already have cheese>You should already have potatoes, but otherwise frozen fries are a couple bucks, and you don't eat the whole bag in one sitting>Mayo and ketchup - you use like 10 cents worth of each of these things>>21744478First of all, you only make more money from this if you have a job you can go to to get an extra 20 dollars from in this cooking time, or you have your own small business. For 90% of people they can't profit from this extra time because they can't just volunteer for more work like that, so their time is worth ZERO dollars. Time is only money if you're making money from it.
>5 dollars in meatMore like 3.
>2 dollars in sauceYou don't use the whole jar of sauce for one meal, it's 1 dollar.
Cut the price of ingredients in half, it cost you 4 dollars in ingredients.
>Oh wait, we have to go to a grocery storeYou go to the store and shop for 2 or 3 day's worth of food, so whatever inflated estimate you're doing gets cut into a third.
Now the most retarded part about this post
>I can go down to the local italian place with bla bla bla, pay 8 dollars for the same amount of food? a DRINK?You don't get the same amount of food for 8 dollars, you're paying double or a little more. Drinks aren't free either. I don't think you're finding a place that will give you a meal for 8 dollars, if you are that's extremely cheap compared to the average, which is probably 12 or 13.
None of these numbers work, they're built on a bunch of assumptions and you doing everything inefficiently at home like a retard.
