re: 62% of Americans now cook at home

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I can make a shite ton of recipes (which include overpriced meat) that could feed 5 with leftovers for $10-12 bucks.

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I just bought the ingredients to make smoked sausage red beans and rice and the ingredients to make chili to eat on this coming week.

Now I definitely didn’t go bargain hunting for the sausage AND got Tasso. For the chili I’ve started buying fresh peppers (jalapeños, Anaheim, pasilla, and bell), roasting them and tomatoes on the grill, and blending them into a slurry which serves as my chili base.

I already had some spices at home, but let’s just say I would have to buy $20 in spices to start from scratch. All told, I spent $75 on ingredients for these 2 dishes. These recipes will produce at least 20 servings/meals for my family. That’s $3.75/meal.

Not bad, but to the poster that mentioned not wanting to eat the same thing over and over again, I won’t be cooking chili or red beans for at least the week after next.

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I always love these answers

You could also just get ground beef and eat only that

The American dream; splitting rotisserie chickens to have affordable at home family meals

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I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

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A rotisserie chicken at Sam's is $5 and will feed a family of 5 easily.

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Not when you have 2 teenage football players at the house every night. Hell I buy 2, just to make jumbalaya and gumbo and we can only get 2 nights out of either of those meals full of rice. Literal garbage disposals.

I pretty much have to always buy 2 even for other meals just to get through one night and neither wife and I are fat.

We cook at home much more now! Since COVID, the quality of wait staff sucks, the quality of food declined, etc., etc., etc. So, as it relates to most restaurants, why bother?

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Literal garbage disposals.

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My 14 year old ate a pound of salmon with rice. His appetizer was 1/4 pound of dirty rice. And he ate dessert, and he's skinny AF.

Four dinners planned a week, been doing it for more than a decade. I don't understand how even the rich people in my hood (600k+ homes) eat out for lunch (working from home) 5 days a week, eat out with the family at a sit down at least three days a week, etc.

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A rotisserie chicken at Sam's is $5 and will feed a family of 5 easily.

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A chicken is 2 thighs, drumsticks, wings and breasts. Basically 8 pieces but the wings are tiny.

How the hell you gonna feed 5 people with that?