re: It's almost cheaper to eat at a restaurant than home nowadays

I watch CNN.
I don't understand what high prices you are referring to.

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It's almost cheaper to eat at a restaurant than home nowadays

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No it’s not.

I would guess on average, eating out is 3x more expensive.

How many hamburgers could you grill for the same price as a Quarter Pounder meal? For the price of a burger at sit down burger restaurants?

Chicken fajitas are like 15-20 dollars for one serving at just a random Mexican joint. 15-20 dollars worth of chicken and the fixings is enough for my family of 3 to eat twice.

I cooked two 12 oz filets, 3 baked potatoes, and a Caesar salad kit for about $40 on NYE. Filets that big with share size potatoes and large Caesar would be like 120-160 at nice restaurant (not roadhouse).

I can get 16-20 ounce prime ribeyes at the local grocery store for 22/lb… Same deal as the filets. Prime ribeyes that big at nice steak restaurants will be like 54-62?

And then pork… You can grill some elite bone in 12 oz pork chops for like 5 or 6 dollars each.

I found ribeyes for $13 dollars apiece at my local grocery store. The ingredients for salad were about 5 dollars.

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Certainly less than $20 a pound.

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You do know 12oz is less than a pound, right?

1. Get a freezer
2. Buy 1/2 a cow
3. profit

Takes planning to thaw the stuff but for functioning adults its pretty easy. If you wanted to go even cheaper get a deer to put in the freezer every year.

Fresh Market does $6.00 bistro meals every thursday and it's become part of our weekly dinner plans.

I know I can't cook dinner for $6/person

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Normally we get steaks from Sam's which I think might be cheaper.

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These were not prime steaks.

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I believe prime ribeye are $19.99/lb at Sam's

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Fresh Market does $6.00 bistro meals every thursday and it's become part of our weekly dinner plans.

I know I can't cook dinner for $6/person

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They almost always have their steaks on sale on Fridays too.

Between that and buying bulk at Costco, we save a ton on meat.

I'm a new Sam's member this year. I paid for my Sam's membership in steak savings in my first 2 trips this year.

And that's before even getting to discount/old meat (which is still good for 3-4 days past the sell by date).