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

We go in on a cow with a group. Then we eat like when I was growing up. Spaghetti / other pastas, grilled cheese / soup, and we’ll shred a rotisserie chicken for a variety of options with veggies.

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These were not prime steaks.

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pretty sure you just wanted to do a little skyscreaming (nttisawwt) and this thread is an exaggeration at best but more likely a complete fabrication

but, is the food quality the same?

ALDIs for the win.

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If you add up all the cost, deer is the most expensive meat in my freezer

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that's the case for upper middle class suburban/urban people.

the PWT I grew up with can and do kill them for next to nothing and depend on it for food.

Could have bought a 5 lb chuck roast for 20$ and ate on it for 2-3 days. Or go to Sam’s/Costco and paid half of what you did

I bought a big arse bag of leg quarters for 8.50 yesterday and smoked them, had to freeze about a 1/3 of bag because it was too much

Kroger also had t-bones on sale for like 5$ a pound yesterday

Have to shop smarter if you want to save money

Rouses has pork chops for 97 cents/pound right now. You can definitely eat cheaper at home than a restaurant.

eating out is usually cost effective it if it's some sort of thai, indian, etc. dish that I wouldn't even know how to begin to make

a steak is the absolute last thing this applies to

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We had steaks tonight, and I paid $20 each for 12 oz ribeyes at our grocery store. The 12 oz ribeye at Texas Roadhouse is $22.49 and comes with two sides. It's fricking bull shite.

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Give me a $20 ribeye from the grocery store and it will be exponentially better than a Roadhouse ribeye.

We went to our local (in the country) Texican (it’s actually sorta authentic) joint the other night, and it was just under $70 with tip. I had seafood soup (actually pretty good when sick), wife [pics omitted] had some “cheap” taco combo, boys split a basic taco combo. I had tea they had water. Wife [pics to follow] had one small house margarita (which annoys me because what’s the purpose?). Small queso. We used to get out of there for about $40 for similar meal before subsidizing the Ukraine money laundering scheme and paying for COVID bucks.

I have our grocery shopping down to a science and with deep freezer and just stocking up when shite is on sale at Costco/Sam’s, it’s way way cheaper to eat at home. And actually faster and less headache given where we live and ages of our kids.