The Friday Five for 11 May 2018

[anais_pf]

1. Do you mostly prepare your meals at home or do you eat out more?

2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?

3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?

4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?

5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?

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Comments

[lusentoj]

Mine is:

1. Prepare 98% of meals at home, since I can't eat sugar and wheat + I'm poor anyway so I can't afford to eat pre-made stuff every day.

2. If I'm hungry when I go to the store it's super likely I'll buy pre-made food (usually sushi, rice balls or baked sweet potato), or if I didn't pack enough food for lunch.

3. Grocery store food for two people is around $91 USD a week but I could cut it down a little if I needed to. I tend to buy luxuries like cheese (400 yen for 100g or something), don't buy "only" stuff that's on sale, and we drink $2-3 a day in carbonated water, all of which raises the price. But our grocery bills tend to be half that or less than of other people's just because we eat almost no pre-made food (which costs 2-5x as much as making it yourself).

"Eating out" (usually meaning, grabbing something pre-made at a store when we're hungry downtown) for two people is an average of $13.50 a week apparently. Lower than I thought.

4. To prepare, pressure-cooked sweet potatoes... To eat, it's a tie between fried dried sweet potato, or spring rolls (meat, vegetables, miso, natto, egg, dried garlic flakes), or pulled chicken/pork (I usually mix pork and chicken since chicken is cheaper but pork is more fatty).

5. I can't order anything at most restaurants (especially not on my budget) but out of what I can and have tried, I'd say salt-flavored shish kabab.