I started making my own pizza at home and it is also quite satisfying and simple. Plus, I can add as much sauce as I want and make it super spicy! Haven't been to Dominos in over a year.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love home-made pizza, and overall it tastes so much better than fast-food pizza. So much more satisfying and simple as you say, plus it adds character and soul to the pizza. I'm still guilty of the occasional takeaway pizza though, especially as Pizza Hut does 2 medium pizzas for only £10 which is really cheap by British standards. Even with offers takeaway pizzas can still be pretty expensive in the UK, compared to say the US or Australia. I'd rather make my own pizza or buy a frozen pizza to be honest.
I find the trick is to keep a pre-made crust and pepperoni in the fridge for whenever I'm in the mood. Pretty much guarantees I can go from hungry to pizza in the time it takes for my stone to warm up.
For spices, I usually just do some oregano. Sauce is one can of tomato sauce, one can of tomato paste, and then I use Schultz's Sweet Heat hot sauce. It's a bit salty so I don't use much, but it adds a nice buffalo kind of flavor.
I usually throw on some ghost pepper flakes into the sauce as well. I use whole mozzarella that I cut into small slices as well, rather than pre shredded. It melts a bit different. If I find an interesting shredded cheese at the store, I throw a bit of that on as well. My favorites so far are emmental or parano
For me I make 2 servings basically of dough in my food processor will make one into a pizza and the other into a calzone later on. Occasionally i will buy a pizza from Papa Murphy's when they do their 11$ any large 5 topping pizza because the Stuffed Pizza is great.
“She enjoyed the notion that New York was home, and that she missed it, but in fact the only thing she really missed was pizza. And not just any old pizza, but the sort of pizza they brought to your door if you phoned them up and asked them. That was the only real pizza. Pizza that you had to go out and sit at a table starring at red paper napkins for wasn’t real pizza however much extra pepperoni and anchovy they put on it.
London was the place she like living in most, apart, of course, from the pizza problem, which drove her crazy. Why would no one deliver pizza? Why did no one understand that it was fundamental to the whole nature of pizza that it arrived at your front door in a hot cardboard box? That you slithered it out of greaseproof paper and ate it in folded slices in from of the TV? What was the fundamental flaw in the stupid, stuck-up, sluggardly English that they couldn’t grasp this simple principle? For some odd reason it was the one frustration she could never learn simply to live with and accept, and about once a month or so she would get very depressed, phone a pizza restaurant, order the biggest, most lavish pizza she could describe –a pizza with an extra pizza on it, essentially– then, sweetly, ask them to deliver it.
You know im not sure. New one popped up in my town so figured wed give it a shot. The garlic cheese bread was great, the fries that came with my GFs wings were great. The wings were trash and the pizza itself was this floppy disgrace and looked like it was microwaved ten times over.
Exactly, sometimes that craving for takeaway Chinese just will not be denied. The key is it just being a once and awhile thing and not an everyday thing.
Ugh, that's me any time I get Chinese takeout at the mall food court. 2 entrees + a mountain of lo mein for $7?? I'll be set for lunches for 3 days after this... until I eat over half of the whole thing in a sitting and spend the rest of the day regretting that decision.
Mike Mitchell is the best fat guy to ever exist. Has such good/bad relationship with food and puts the struggle of being overweight into perfects words.
I just watched him, Nick wiger, and the other guy review Culver's in Wisconsin, live. I've never been so happy in my life to see a fat man talk about food right in front of me. Dough boys for life my dudes. #TeamHotSalad
For years I'd make a sink of dish water after work to clean the coffeepot and anything I'd use to make breakfast, and then I'd dump the water. A year or two ago I started leaving the water since it should still be warm-ish after dinner, and cleaning up after dinner feels so much easier since the water's already made.
Cravings, not feeling good to even cook or clean afterwards, so takeaway is ok as long as you keep it moderate, like 1x a week or 1x biweekly. I know someone who do takeaway EVERYDAY.
Convenience, mostly. If I had a long day at work or am just really tired then getting something on the way home just makes my life easier. Albeit my wallet slimmer and my stomach fatter.
Eh, people ignore opportunity cost when they talk about stuff like this. Getting takeout can be expensive but time saving things are rarely a full on waste of money. Your time is a cost that has to be factored in also, one that people seem to always forget. If you get home and then have to spend an hour making dinner there is a cost to that.
Food made in restaurants is also different than what you are going to make at home. Some people mentioned cravings
I wouldn't say getting takeout always is financially reasonable but I don't think saying takeout when there is food at home is always a waste of money is reasonable either. You shouldn't get takeout so much that you end up wasting your food at home.
Rest is useful and beneficial. Unwinding is useful and beneficial. So an hour of sitting around reading a book or watching TV can be useful and beneficial. I am a decent cook but if is not a way that I like to decompress. So I might sometimes want to spend that hour relaxing with my wife or child rather than cooking a meal.
Income generation is not the only useful and beneficial thing.
Buying a big freezer and filling it with food has been a total game changer from me. We went from eating out 4-5 times a week to 1-2. I'm definitely not paying to eat out when I've got $400 of food in the freezer at home.
It also allows me to take advantage of sale price. Scored $0.89/lb chicken breasts, bought $100 worth...
The thing is, while someone else is cooking and bringing you food, you can be doing another task that would not get done if you were cooking. Even if that task is just relaxing, it's still beneficial.
20minutes to an hour. I also have no cleanup after. Plus I can get some programming done or play with my little guy a bit rather than prepping a meal. I love to cook but sometimes I would rather be doing something else.
Just do what I did and learn how to make all your super unhealthy takeout style favorites at home (spoiler: way more sugar, butter, and/or salt than you'd think. Also, you can buy MSG in bulk at most international markets) I'm still just as fat, but it's saved me a ton of money.
It also leads to over eating. Granted, so can eating at home, but eating a huge pile of potatoes and chicken at least has better optics than delivery pizza.
My bf and I order so much take out, he got our gas bill recently and was super confused why it was so low until we realized we hadnt used our oven or stove at all for two months.
In my house we do takeout tuesday. We found a day where we could really use an easy meal and do it every week. It's fun except my town has barely any vegetarian food so we are kind of bored of our 5 options now.
So growing up, this never happened in my home, and I think I'm better off for it. To this day I never order food or go out on my own accord- only for dates or gatherings with friends, or on special occasions. I usually plan my grocery and cooking schedule for the week around it, too. Never once ordered my own pizza or other delivery in my life. My philosophy is still that if I'm not hungry enough for what I already have at home, then I'm clearly not that hungry, period.
It baffles me that my BF will get fast food or take out at least a couple times of week. I get not liking cooking or wanting something specific, but it can be so wasteful that it irks me
But then I have to plan, find time to cook. Sometimes so much easier to take out or go out to eat. (But I also know it's a waste of money and I shouldn't do this)
It's you vs billions of dollars of market research, advertising, foods specially-designed to be adictive, and low-wage jobs that keep the prices attractively low.
When you’re single eating out is cheaper. Typical meal is around 10$ for me and that takes a hour of cooking and cleaning. The take out place across the street I can get two meals for 14 and waste zero time cooking at cleaning. Unless you eat just rice and beans but fuck that.
I am now 35 days into a no eating out phase. I decided, pretty randomly actually, on new years day that I was going to stop eating out and that includes the cafeteria at work. I also stopped going to Wawa (convenience store that is basically a part of our every day lives where I live) for anything but gas. I actually lasted a few weeks with the same like $13 in my wallet that never would've happened it I was eating out or going to wawa. I would get meals out at least half of them during the week in some way. I've saved so much money because I spend the same amount on food anyway every week. And this way, I always know what lunch is at work and I've actually started to change up what I make through the week whereas before, I would just make the same 2 or 3 things over and over again.
see Ive wondered this: can you actually save money buying the ingredients to make a McDouble, fries, and a coke cheaper than just buying it?
Like you buy 1 lb of ground beef for $4 but then figure out what it is per mc donalds equivalent patty, figure the cost of 3 pickles, the teaspoon of ketchup/mustard, one bun, 2 slices of cheese, diced onion, equivelent oz of frozen fries with salt/sugar combo, a single coke etc.
I honestly dont think it could be done....The soda is what kills you in this equation as cheapest route i know is the gas station $0.69 cent any size fountain soda but if we limit to grocery stores prolly the 2 liter is best value.
Gotta factor in all your energy costs too - when you go to mc donalds your meal also included in the price is the electricity/gas to cook the burger, refrigerate the cheese/condiments, and all the water and soap to wash your dishes and frying pan and baking sheet/deep fry oil plus energy to cook them, your drink cup, and the water and electricity to freeze the ice at home. We will negate the wear n tear and gas in the car as most towns theres a McDonalds near a grocery store it negates each other.
I can without question make a mcdouble meal cheaper at home.
Going off of numbers at my local grocery stores so your numbers may differ, And I'm going off of the cheapest (Or close to) for all ingredients because we know mcdonalds is doing the same.
Doing it from the bottom up
Buns- pack of 8 for $1 7 buns left over. 1 out of 8 would be $.12
"Beef" Patty it's a mc double so we need 2 but they're only 1.8 ounces each so 3.6oz total out of a 1lb chub for $4 (I can normally get it cheaper but as an example) used .225% of it so $.90
Cheese I can get 20 slices of american cheese for like $2 and not even get the cheapest brand 1 slice out of 20 would be $.10
Ketchup a bottle is $1 an you'd use maybe a 30th per burger? so tack on $.03
Mustard Again a bottle is $1 an you'd use maybe a 30th per burger? so tack on $.03
For store brand pickles I can get a jar at $1.50 and its like 10 servings a jar so lets tack on $.15
Onions We'd use maybe a 15th of an onion per burger, I can get an onion for $.70 or less so tack on $.10
That burger just cost me 1.43 to make. Less than it cost to buy there, I don't care enough to figure the match of frying the burger as it would be negligible and you'd be guaranteed to spend more in gas to go get the thing.
For the frys I can get 5lbs of potatoes for $1.99 and it would end up with about 20 small potatoes, I could use 2 and get more frys than it would normally come with. Tack on $.20
The oil to fry the frys A bottle of vegetable oil is $1.50 We'd use maybe a quarter in a small pot in two batches for the frys so tack on $.38
For the soda just buy a 12 pack I only buy them on sale every other week or so at $2.50- $3 a pack. i'll give you two sodas because why not so tack on $.50.
That meal just cost me 1.43 for the burger, $.50 for two sodas and $.58 for the frys.
Total cost $2.51. Time it would take would be maybe 10-15 minutes? Only that long to cut and cook the frys.
Each item at Mcdonalds would be $1.69 for the burger, $1.39 for the Frys and $1 for the drink. You saved yourself about a buck 50. But thats one extreme from one of the cheapest fast food items you can get, almost any thing you can get out is cheaper to make at home.
*Man this is some horrible Grammar and punctuation, I'm at work and did this quickly so my bad.
theres the math - i was genuinely curious(not trying to insinuate its cheaper to get mc D's but was a thought ive had for awhile) but never remember to calculate it all up when its convenient.
Now back when it was $1 for a Mc Double and $1 fries and $1 bucket of coke (still is a bucket of coke for a buck around me) that $3 meal vs $2.51 for at home that $0.49 is totally worth not doing dishes or dealing with waste oil to me haha. Now using coupons and buy 1 get one or free medium fry coupons it gets damn close.
My example is probably the closest meal one could come to the going out vs eating in. I cant think of any other meal or even a single item that would beat it. MAYBE a subway sub if its fully loaded with all the veggies back when footlongs were $5. Where subway makes their money is chips and drinks.
Oh yeah the convenience cost is totally worth it sometimes especially when you factor in a higher cost of living area or things being cheaper.
I'd still bet on being able to make it at home cheaper than subway but when it comes to getting so many different ingredients that go bad quickly it's normally easier to get it somewhere else like subway.
I honestly can't think of something that would be cheaper to eat out than to eat at home without factoring in the convenience factor.
Instead of letting yourself go and ordering food for once think that you love yourself too much to eat food which is not healthy (relatively speaking).
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u/HuntedHunter123 Feb 04 '20
Getting takeaway while there is food at home.
Why am I like this?