If you are buying groceries, you are spending more efficiently than half of America.
Groceries are 3x-4x cheaper than eating/ordering out.
Assuming you have the free time/appliances to cook and prepare the food, yeah
How rich are you that $20 in savings isn’t worth 30 minutes cooking time? That’s $40 per hour after tax, which if you work full time puts you in the top 20% richest Americans.
Even if you can’t share appliances with friends or neighbors, a stove, pan, microwave, and fridge combined cost only a couple months’ profit up front. Save up $400 one time and in five years you’ll have $5000 more than if you keep buying takeout.
(I’m assuming you cook for multiple meals at once and put the remainder in the fridge/freezer)
30mins of cook time actually equals
30 mins to prepare
30 mins to cook
30 mins to eat
30 mins to clean up
So now it’s a two hour thing when I just got home from work and I’m tired and just want to relax.
Why are you including eating time?
Also there’s no way it should be taking you 30 mins to clean up.
The extremely drawn out timetable feels like me unloading the dishwasher as a kid, a task which took 30-60 min.
See, the dishes were 6 min, and the rest was watching Dragon Ball Z. :p
