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Cooking dinner for one?

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  • 10-12-2014 2:38am
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    WhiteWalls
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    I think when everything is taken into account, it is nearly as handy and cheap if one could get their dinner out everyday for say 8 or 9 squids?


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    Custardpi
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    If you had that amount of squid would you not just cook calamari instead of trying to find someone to barter them with?


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    dee_mc
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    Handy, yes.
    Cheap, not necessarily. You can eat well and cheaply and not have to cook every day by buying and cooking in bulk and freezing stuff in portions.
    I used to work in a restaurant where a lot of the local oul lads would come in for their lunch every day, but for most of them it was more to do with a lack of cooking skills (or lack of a wife to cook for them) than to save money.


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    Honey Monster
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    I don't know what kind of dinners you're cooking for 8 or 9 euro OP.

    2 chicken fillets 1.99
    400g of steak mince 2.99
    Pack of fresh veg 1.79
    Sauces 1.00

    All from ALDI at the moment. That's two dinners. Stop eating Kalahari it's expensive.


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    Custardpi
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    Yes, if you shop sensibly you can do great dinners for an average of about €3 or less per serving.


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    The Backwards Man
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    I never eat out unless on holidays, spend less than forty quid a week on all grub, cooking for one is mad cheap if you do it right


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    ProudDUB
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    I can make a rocking beef casserole for four, for well under a tenner. If it's not being eaten all in one go, the remainder goes into the freezer. It freezes really well, as do most stews and casseroles. If you are cooking for one, it is a very cost effective way to eat well and on the cheap

    That being said, I get the OP's point. When I lived in the US, I ate out all the time. I could eat a wide variety of proper healthy food, in a wide variety of restaurants, for under a tenner. There wasn't a massive difference in what it would cost to cook it at home. But there is no doing that here, as eating out in Ireland is is so bloody expensive. Unless you are eating lots of junk food, or overly processed food, or you only ever do early bird menus, you are going to be majorly out of pocket, compared to cooking your dinner at home.


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    monty_python
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    Honey Monster wrote: »
    Stop eating Kalahari it's expensive.

    it must be awful dry to :pac:


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    Honey Monster
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    monty_python wrote: »
    it must be awful dry to :pac:

    Predictive text: Making a fool out of me since 1999!!


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    The Moldy Gowl
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    Honey Monster wrote: »
    Predictive text: Making a fool out of me since 1999!!

    Hello honey monster. Want to play a game?


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    Tokyo
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    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    I think when everything is taken into account, it is nearly as handy and cheap if one could get their dinner out everyday for say 8 or 9 squids?


    Considering the number of people who posted in the recent eat healthily on 50 euros a week? thread, I'd say no, no it's not.


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    Graces7
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    I have been cooking for one for fifty years.. easy and cheap. Add that I am disabled and cooking a meal can leave me to exhausted to eat it ;)

    Slow cookers are great. And this week I cooked a great pan of potatoes so am frying them and making potato salad.. tesco have them on offer for under E4 for 10 k..

    For me it is the fuel costs that are more worrying.

    I eat well for far less than E50 a week but dont like meat so that helps. I haunt the reduced counters!

    I never eat out; like to know what I am eating. Hate the idea of eating out...


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