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How much should one meal cost?
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I am actually in a good position to answer your question RoJoHen. I recently tried planning out my meals for an entire month and then adding up what it cost for all of the ingredients I needed. I assumed a month was 30 days and alotted five meals out per month. Some of the meals were shared by a second person, but most of them I prepared and ate myself. I literally wrote out a list of 30 breakfasts, 30 lunches, and 25 dinners, taking into account how many leftovers I would have. After adding it all up, and excluding the five times I ate out, my meals cost on average $3.30 each. Most of that was concentrated in dinner and lunch, as for breakfast I usually just have a bagel, cereal, or PopTart.
You live in Massachusetts. He lives in Oklahoma (I think). That's the difference.
Reason number 6.02E23 I'm glad I'm moving to Oregon in 5 months.
Holy hell it's expensive around here. I went to a memorial dinner last weekend in a suburb of NY. The bill with dinner, drinks, appetizers, antipasto, and dessert was under $500.
We had our company Christmas lunch yesterday. A dozen people, similar setup, and it was $750.
We occasionally go out to lunch on a rainy weekend day and you can't escape for under $35 for two.
Well, keep in mind that I don't eat as healthy as you probably do. Meaning, I cook what I like, not what would make up a balanced meal. But if you saw what kind of foods I ate throughout my child, you would see this list as a huge improvement.
I become more diet-conscious over time.These dishes are not necessarily in the order I prepared or ate them, that depended entirely on my mood that day. And as I mentioned before, breakfast was mostly bagels, PopTarts, frozen waffles, Hot Pockets, and cereal. Usually when I prepared a dish, it would last me for three meals.
Dinners:
- Fajitas
- Homemade macaroni and cheese
- Tuna casserole
- Tuna casserole leftovers
- Meatball and rice dish
- Meatball and rice leftovers
- Mexican bean casserole
- Mexican bean casserole leftovers
- Meatloaf burgers
- Meatloaf burgers
- Grilled chicken
- Minestrone tortellini
- Chili
- Chili
- Chicken and rice
- Chicken and rice
- Steak and potatoes
- Mexican rice casserole
- Mexican rice casserole leftovers
- Ground beef/Bisquick pie thing
- Ground beef/Bisquick pie thing leftovers
- Spaghetti
- Spaghetti
- Pot roast
- Beef stew
Lunches:
- Beef stew leftovers
- Pot roast leftovers
- Homemade mac and cheese
- Homemade mac and cheese
- Chili
- Chili
- Chicken and rice leftovers
- Minestrone tortellini
- Pre-packaged meal
- Grilled chicken
- Mexican rice casserole leftovers
- Mexican bean casserole leftovers
- Meatball and rice leftovers
- Spaghetti leftovers
- Tuna casserole leftovers
- Fajitas
- Chicken and rice leftovers
- Pre-packaged meal
- Ground beef/Bisquick pie thing leftovers
- Pre-packaged meal
- Steak and potatoes leftovers
- Minestrone tortellini leftovers
- Mexican rice casserole leftovers
- Mexican bean casserole leftovers
- Frozen burrito
- Frozen burrito
- Beef stew leftovers
- Grilled chicken
- Meatball and rice leftovers
- Spaghetti leftovers
The whole notion of “detoxifying” or “clearing out one’s system of crap” is pure balderdash. As long as your liver and kidneys are functioning normally, your body does a perfectly good job of that all by itself.
And no doctor I know of would recommend consuming only vegetable juices and fruit, even just for a week.
When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
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When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
Our meals end up costing £5-£7 each, on average. This is because we go with organic/halal/kosher meat for health reasons, and that doesn't come cheap, same with the vegetables. We tend to have lots of meat and veg and less carbs, again, not the cheapest way to eat. We also cook with olive oil wherever possible. I usually eat one meal a day only, might as well make it a good one. It balances out in the end. I tend to prioritise quality over quantity.
When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
Ok, I have to ask, where is that from?
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When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
Ok, I have to ask, where is that from?
Saturday Night Live, 1989. The late (lamented and great) Phil Hartman did several of these commercials, and they were hilarious.
It's not on Youtube, but Metacafe has it: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-4616971/saturday_night_live_colon_blow_season_15/
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Yep. Same people. SNL.
Not true.When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
Not true.When I clear out my system, I tend to focus on the colon. Your colon can hang on to a lot of extra crap.
I'm not talking about detoxifying my body or getting rid of bacteria. I'm talking about getting rid of, well, poop. Extra poop that never made it out the first time. This is the result of a diet without enough fiber (like mine). A good diet with the proper amount of fiber will not be affected by any of this stuff.
I have done it before, simply by increasing my fiber intake for a few days, and believe me, it works. I dropped about 10 pounds over a weekend (and spent most of that weekend sitting on the toilet). I don't invest in detox programs or crazy supplements. It's more just a way for me to get my body back to where it's supposed to be. It's amazing what gets backed up in there if you're not eating right!
All I know is that I was bloated for many years (I thought it was normal), did a "colon cleansing" thing, and then I was not bloated anymore.
It's not a miracle cure or anything. It's doing what you should have been doing all along. Most people just don't realize how big of an impact fiber can have on their digestive system.
It's not a miracle cure or anything. It's doing what you should have been doing all along. Most people just don't realize how big of an impact fiber can have on their digestive system.
An average luch (where I don't eat out) costs:
$7.99 for the lunch meat
$.75 for the bread (get it at a discount store in my neighborhood)
$4.49 for the cheese
$3.99 for the V-8 juice (have this for lunch EVERY day regardless of what else I eat)
Which makes a grand total of $17.22 for my daily meal. And that's only lunch.
Shit. it IS cheaper to eat McDonald's......
As for what one meal should cost? If we're voting, I say free, but realistically? $5.00 is reasonable.
$7.99 for the lunch meat
$.75 for the bread (get it at a discount store in my neighborhood)
$4.49 for the cheese
$3.99 for the V-8 juice (have this for lunch EVERY day regardless of what else I eat)
Which makes a grand total of $17.22 for my daily meal. And that's only lunch.
Shit. it IS cheaper to eat McDonald's......
As for what one meal should cost? If we're voting, I say free, but realistically? $5.00 is reasonable.
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