OT bachelors; how often do you cook?

Geographic bachelor and I cook several times per week. When you start buying ingredients and figuring out several meals from them you will find that it costs a lot less than dining out.

all the time

0-3 times per week.

It's pretty basic though. Breakfast for supper, hamburgers, pork chops, steak... Chicken Fajitas are my specialty.

I eat a lot, so meals don't usually last that long. Eating two tuna steaks, a bag of yellow rice, and a small can of green beans tonight.

It just seems retarded in the grand scheme of things


Most of my week is:
Breakfast - McDonald's big breakfast w/hot cakes or CC's blueberry muffin
Lunch - whole poboy from somewhere or large hamburger
Dinner - whatever I feel like ordering

1-2 times a week but in bulk. I'll cook several chicken breasts/pork chops/fish filets at a time along with enough rice/potatoes for the week and throw in some sautéed veggies or salad. Much more cost effective for me than eating out, although not too diverse. That's in addition to sandwiches and typical breakfast food.

I've crunched the numbers before just for the hell of it and it comes out to like $3 per meal for dinner/lunch which are pretty interchangeable for me and then obviously less than that for breakfast.

Twice a week.

I get the family size box dinners (or frozen entrees) and eat that for 3 days-3.5 days. Very boring but cost effective.

Edit: For breakfast, my job has a cafeteria. For $5 you can get Grits, egg, 2 strips of bacon, and an OJ.

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Usual dinners cost me $15-35, and this one cost me $15. I don't see how this is cost effective at all

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It isnt. It is much cheaper to go to the grocery and cook at home. Once you have a good amount of base ingredients in the kitchen, you can just go buy a protein/meat and some veggies as a side.

Eating out, even though I really enjoy doing it, is a huge damn waste of money.

5x a week. im an adult

Not me, but I probably eat as much as that dude. When I don't take Adderall, I usually eat 5000 calories per day give or take 1000. When I do, it's usually more like 3500. Went from 5'11 175 before engineering to 5'11 185 after I started within two months, but I don't work out so it is understandable

I was working in the woods for a while and eating around 10k per day. It was actually hard to eat that much