I wish I could up vote your comment more!
have been on off diets for many years and I recognize this pattern. though I do not need to reach bf 10% in order to get the appetite :(
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and I'm soooo happy the society allows me to be so.
I guess this is what feminism is about
hard to believe it is happening for real, this is some form of horror surrealism
how many are people needed to be killed at once to stop this madness with gun ownership?
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my boyfriend immediately said that for this guy, having a girl staying over would be problematic
right to the point!
And this is one of the main reasons to buy your own food - you have a choice of what to buy! While eating out, your choice is much smaller.
You pay for some extras you may not like but you cannot remove it from the menu. Even if you can - would it affect the price? I doubt so.
Composing my own meal gives me the flexibility of choosing only the things I like + saving money.
On the top of that, the nice extras like tea/coffee/dessert/fruits come with increased margins.
Especially fruits due to their short shelf life in cut form.
Let's look at the following example; though it does not involve the restaurant prices, I still think it is representative.
In IGA (a Canadian grocery chain) a fruit salad comes for $1.30 / 100 G. A mini watermelon is $5 each, and its weight is ~2.72 kg (6lb) with 70% of it being edible. This gives us the cost of $0.26 / 100 g.
The fruit salad margin is like 500% ??? Isn't it crazy. Of course, there are other fruits in the salad but the one can easily satisfy their sweet tooth with eating one fruit instead of eating many.
(the prices are in Canadian dollars)
>> Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige.
so, men made the computer programming prestigious and better paid? How about construction, why is it not prestigious (or not as prestigious as programming) despite the fact it is clearly dominated by men? how about plumbing? taxi?
edit: if you were a business that works with poisons and you did not provide adequate security measures, you would be so fined if someone steals the poisons. Then why you as individual wouldn't be responsible for the same thing.
Isn't the same thing true for the grocery stores? They are located in the same areas as restaurants and have to pay pretty much the same expensive rent, no? meanwhile, their expenses may be lower than the ones of a restaurant.
anyway, could you tell more info about what your neighborhood pub - for example, what neighborhood is it? what meal did you eat?
I can share my numbers - and sorry I did not tell in advance I went with my BF, so there were two of us eating cooked food.
So, I ate at Cafe Aroma in Manhatten and I paid about $17 for a plate with rice + fish + some salad.
the same day I went to a grocery store on Myrtle Ave in Brooklyn to buy supper for 2. I paid about $27 for tortellini, some chicken ham, a small watermelon, and some beer. It was enough for us for supper + some leftovers for breakfast (beer haha ;). The day after I found an even cheaper store where I bought supper for the other two days at once.
$17 for a cafe meal seemed too expensive for me, so the next days I tried to eat cheaper cafe lunches. So I ate sandwiches for ~ $10-12; however, they contained a much smaller amount of proteins so I felt hungry much faster after.
I did not mention I was not alone, I went with my boyfriend, so it makes 2 of us. But I am still pretty confident if I were alone, it would still be cheaper for me to cook rather than eat out.