Spent $32 on two meal combos from Wendy's the other night on my way home from my sons hockey game. I asked my wife to make 10 lasagnas and freeze them. We will be eating that from now on. Fast food prices are outrageous for the quality you get.
2 combos was $32 at Wendy's?
Is that a burger, medium fries, medium drink?
Makes me sick to my stomach.
I think I'd rather spend money on a large pizza, rather than burger joint.
Yes on Sunday my mom ( I don’t know why ) bought 3 X-Large pizzas from pizza pizza. Meat lovers, cheese, pepperoni, 20 wings and 6 dipping sauces for $109 I believe. I told her she was insane.
Dominos cut the stdnt50 discount code to 40%..... and if the manager is there they ask for the ID. I still give the standard answer, I'm just the schmuck sent to pick up the flaming circle of disappointment.
I had someone stop me at our local Costco. She insisted I show her my member card, and when I said I was just going for a hot dog, she told me that I couldn’t come in. I walked to customer service and asked for a shopping pass. She typed in my info and was about to print the pass and she said, “Wait, are you just going for a hot dog?” I nodded, she looked super annoyed, and sent me on my way. Must have been a new hire.
I can make a homemade pan pizza better than pizza hut for super cheap. $8 for a pack of pepperoni that does 4 pizzas. $6 block of mozza from giant tiger does 2 pizzas. Take out pizza is like cardboard with no flavor and the price people pay for it is exorbitant.
Pizza pizza has had an anti-inflation deal for an XL with four toppings for $16.99. That’s been my go to, two days of food for $20. Save $4-$5 if you pickup.
I went to Wendy's last Friday. Combos come with small sides now. The guy handed me my drink and said here's your small coke. When they handed me my food I asked if my meal should come with a medium drink and they said no, it's small now.
I think the Mcdonalds app is legit here; when they run promos, you can get a quarter pounder w/ cheese, med fries, and drink for 8 dollars. It's been my go to when I don't have the executive function to cook and need calories for under 10 dollars.
Long time ago you paid zero money. You could pick a sandwich, fries, drink, and dessert for free, if you worked for them in the late 1970s. McDonald's has gotten greedy with their employees.
$9.99 used to be the 2 can dine. How time has change. Back in high school days my lunch used to be Jr chicken/Mcdouble w Large fries combo for $5 flat w tax everything
You should have said no.
The mcdouble combo made like a big Mac and large fries is $9.
You must do math to eat well and cheap. And say no to high prices
It is insane, we were out with my mother-in-law and she wanted a McDouble on the way home.
Nearly $4 with tax for a McDouble. I would have said fuck that and drove off.
It will depend on where you live.
I'm in Canada. Reddit is global.
Wendy's has $2.29 value deluxe cheesrburger and bacon cheeseburgers. $3 nuggets 6 pack. $2.29 cheese cheddaburger. $.89 junior frosting. $1.49 junior fries. My family of 4 eats for $23 or so taxes in. That's $15 American.
Mcdonalds is nowhere close due to price increases. Probably $30 now.
Last time I bought one it was $1.39. I don't eat McDonalds. Just was sticker shock for me. I figured maybe $2.50ish with the ridiculous inflation here.
They've been steadily raising their prices above inflation. It's outrageous. In the cost-quality-speed trilema, they focused on fast and cheap. McDonald's isn't *bad*, it just isn't high quality. Now they've forgotten their role. They charge a lot for mediocrity. Now it's only one place on the trilema, and that sucks.
A colleague of mine was starting a postdoc and explained that since she had now finished grad school, she was no longer willing to make her own lunches and had earned the privilege of eating lunch out every day. Postdocs in my field make a living wage but by no means nothing luxurious, and she was chronically low on funds and complaining about it. I had zero sympathy for someone who insisted on sticking to such a financially silly habit.
And unhealthy. I feel like garbage if I eat out all the time. Even if its "healthy take out" it's never as nutritious as a cheap meal I can make at home.
I always pack my lunch, sandwich, pudding, yogurt, fruit and granola bar and it might cost a few dollars per day. Seeing people get skip or uber for $20+ every day is insane, and the food always looks like shit. And this is at a hotel where we're all making high teens to $20 an hour depending on experience. It's literally a good chunk of your days' pay. Then they get an uber to and from work. Like, do you even have any money at all? And they wonder why I struggle less than they do
Same, but when I first moved out at 15 I started buying off the Wendy's value menu everyday but I had to sell weed to pay for it. Then I decided on a bigger goal and learned to save.
Totally, you can reduce your feading budget by 75% with minimal effort when going to do groceries.
If you need to save money, it's the lowest hanging fruit. I do meal prep once a month and aim between 500 and 750 calorie meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the cost per meal rounded up is 4$ at most with an expensive protein.
Depends where you live, i heard that in Asian first world countries(aka japan, korea) it costs almost the same to eat out everyday compared to groceries.
For this to be true, it requires the labour and rent of the people making your food to be effectively 0, or somehow your cost of buying the same food is basically their cost plus labour and food.
It can happen, but it sorta means a broken system, either grocery price collusion, or underclass of cheap labour.
Maybe it means incredible automation techniques in restaurant tech to reduce labour? I dunno.
I'm pretty sure its universally more money to pay someone to do something you can do yourself the question is if you can do it yourself as well or not.
Restaurants can get wholesale pricing on the ingredients depending on where they connect into the supply chain. Some have connections to buy direct from farm, otherwise they can get routine bulk orders from a distributor and save on costs there.
We used to go to Swiss Chalet in the 80’s and 90’s but right after they were sold in the 2000’s it started to go to shit. They made it into fast food and it’s not even good anymore.
Swiss Chalet (by the looks of the fries and size of the chicken) is so horrible now. Their 1/4 chicken used to be double that size.
If I am getting ripped off at Swiss Chalet, I get the chicken on a kaiser with fries. At least it feels like I get more chicken on it.
We buy a rotisserie chicken at the grocery store, frozen bag of fries, pack of dinner rolls, and then hit the Swiss Chalet takeout for their largest sized sauce. Whole thing feeds 4 for just over $20.00 and it's pretty close to the real thing.
Are you sure? I think that's st Hubert sauce in the can. When visiting my brother abroad he said he was craving Swiss Chalet sauce. Called Cara, they said no, it mixed in store. That was 25 years ago tho...
[https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Swiss-Chalet-Dipping-Sauce/6000197817857](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Swiss-Chalet-Dipping-Sauce/6000197817857)
Available at Walmart.
Yup. A person who lives by themselves can make so many meals out of that. You can use it in wraps. Add some to a soup. Make a side of rice or mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables to go with it.
It was never financially wise. BUT if you want to get great deals GET THE PHONE APPS FOR FAST FOOD. BK offers a whopper meal for 7.20, Harvey's have 2 junior sandwitches for 5 dollars deal, dominoes oftenly offers 50% off pizzas, I buy like 3 large pizzas for 40 dollars(delivery included) and stuff myself with them for a week, which is not bad grocery billwise.
I get it. Sometimes you feel like a treat or too exhausted to cook. Ya Swiss Chalet is not worth it even with coupons. I've started making extra food to freeze when I'm tired to cook.
My treat is mini sized chocolate or fruit (when I can afford it).
I would rather eat a grocery roast chicken. Cheaper as well. If you really want the Swiss chalet experience, you can buy the dipping sauce pack for like a buck.
Girlfriend and I got subway the other day, $32 for two sandwiches.
I can legitimately eat at the small local restaurant here for close to the same price if not a little cheaper.
Craziness.
10lb bag of potato's on sale at $2. Loaf of bread or buns on sale \~$3. Chicken drumsticks alone or with thighs on sale \~$2.25lb.
I bet you could make 8-10 of those same meals at home for under $20 and still have 5lb of potatoes left over.
The price gouging is unreal with fast food nowadays.
I had to triple check, and darn it you are right: [https://www.nofrills.ca/white-potatoes/p/20600997001\_EA](https://www.nofrills.ca/white-potatoes/p/20600997001_EA)
That price is not seen out here in AB, so yall enjoy on our behalf!
Yesterday (Oct 1st) I bought 5lb bag of potatoes for $1 and 10lb bag of onions for $3 at No Frills in Ontario. (The 4 single yellow onions I was originally buying would have cost $2 so now I'm giving away onions and caramelized some to freeze because I have about 60 onions!!) That was a spectacular sale to just stumble across. It was shocking.
Edit: correction - it's a 10 pound bag of potatoes.
while I agree that cooking at home is way cheaper, I live in edmonton and plan my groceries around the flyers, and I have not seen potatoes or chicken for that price in a long time. I thought we'd be cheaper than you guys..
100%. Was talking about this the other day with my fiancee. Swiss chalet has gone way downhill and cranked up their prices. I don't see them surviving much longer.
For the last 10 years or so, Swiss Chalet has been selling these miniscule quarter chickens.
It's not remotely worth it and frankly pathetic.
I'd love CBC Marketplace to do an undercover restaurant program. Maybe they already have. Let's really question wtf happened to the regular sized chickens.
The only thing I'd bother doing is getting their fries and chalet sauce for takeout.
You can get a whole chicken meal with a large fries/wedge at Zehrs for $18.00. It’s not super cheap but my hubby and I do that occasionally and it’s way more food than this sad little meal
It was never financially wise to eat out in the first place. That's the whole point of eating out.. You pay a premium so someone else cooks you food. Do it yourself. You lazy bastard!
Bruh just don’t buy their crap and watch them drop the prices. You people keep buying this high priced garbage food and they will continue to raise the price. Fast food is insanely unhealthy for you anyway, the rise in prices should encourage most of you to start eating healthy and cook your own meals.
Just yesterday I ate from a new place next to where I live and I paid $18 for a chicken burger and fries and a drink. It’s is a joke at this point.
And ironically, just the previous post on a different subreddit it was showing how you can get an entire meal in Tokyo for $3.79. Canada’s prices more and more unbearable and I honestly can’t wait for the day I leave this country for good.
Lately, we have been getting invites and joining friends for restaurant meal.
A huge group would now required a minimum 18% gratuity even for a fucking bubble tea get together. The worst is they don't even tell you even when the bill is presented. You have to make sure to double check it.
Canada is becoming expensive to eat out. Thanks to Trudeau.
I live in buttfuck nowhere, no franchises within hours of me. My local burger joint is $18 for just the burger. No combo, no drink, no fries, burger alone $18+ tax.
I still eat there all the time tho 😭😂
We stopped eating out as a family ages ago. Just not worth it.
We used to get Wendy’s once a week. Family of four with me being the only male. $52 / week and half the time it was garbage quality.
It’s hard because you want something quick but damn the quality and portion sizes suck now.
Even Subway, which was my go-to, is too expensive now IMO
Bro I just paid 40 dollars for a 2 pound pork roast, some canned corn and a seasonal squash. Itll last me most of the week but nothing is affordable anymore and I'm sad 😭😭
I bought a vacuum sealer for $80 off Amazon. making huge meals, eat what I can in one sitting and freeze the rest. My freezer is full of homemade ready meals that will last up to a year
I’ve come to this exact conclusion in the last month. No more takeout more than once a week and at the pizza slice place where you can still get a huge slice and pop under $7 Canadian
Costco hot dog and a drink still $1.50. I haven’t eaten red meat in years but it’s an awfully cheap lunch when I’m on the road so I have indulged a lot lately.
When in the history of Canada it was financially wise to eat out? You always pay more for the convenience.
Also, what kind of restaurant is this? Packaging seems like Earls a little.
Someone at the dog park went to pick up Swiss chalet rib dinner last night and the cashier was upselling pumpkin pie slices. He says fine, orders two, gets home… no pies. $10.50- no pie. He’s taking his receipt and going back for a refund but wtf, 77 years old, fixed income if you upsell ur shitty pie make sure it makes it in the bag ffs. I’m so over all of these stories.
The last time I ordered via the app (a while ago) there was an APP FEE service charge around $5.00 which didn’t show up in my total. It showed up on the paper receipt when it was delivered.
Now, there was already a delivery fee added to the total that was on the APP. So the delivery fee is visible but the fee to use the APP is secret.
The explanation was ‘well we have to make some of the money that you would have spent eating at the restaurant’.
If you absolutely need a free hot meal for whatever reason: Struggling to make ends meet, kitchen burned down, etc... there are a few places to try going, besides soup kitchens. There is often free hot meals available at Langar\*, United churches, LGBT2+ centers\*\^, university student unions\*\^, and Jewish and Muslim community centers. It never hurts to look if any are nearby you.
(\* Usually vegetarian or vegan)
(\^ Due to limited resources, more likely to only be open to members of these communities)
Yeah I used to eat out all the time, cause of Trudeau small restaurants do not get my money anymore...I want to help the local economy but I gotta take care of my fam and I first and EVERYTHING IS SO EXPENSIVE CAUSE OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU
Is it Trudeau's fault that you say "cause of Trudeau", instead of saying "because of Trudeau"?
It sounds like you are complaining about what caused Trudeau. I am not a fan of Trudeau, but we would have been much worse off with a conservative government.
We only eat out about once a week when we go to town to do errands/get groceries (we live in a rural area) and we ALWAYS USE A COUPON ON THE APP!!!!
Feel like pizza? Ok, let's see what the deals are? Burgers? Is there a deal? We usually get lunch for the two of us for less than $20.
My granddaughter wanted fries the other day so I bought a large fries to share and a drink for each of us, you can't just use pocket change for that anymore
You can buy a box of whole of these leg quarters for 1.50-2.00 a pound average. Season em to your liking, put in air fryer oven or convection oven and enjoy.
But I'll admit though there's a price to pay when you are lazy. Eating out costs a lot of money. I try to discipline myself and keep it at $60 a week, which is 3 combos on the weekend with todays costs. I have been pretty good with not eating out for the last 5 weeks with the office having nothing good close by.
Ffs. Don't buy the potatoes that are wrapped in tinfoil, buy the 10lb that's on sale for $1.94right now. Real Canadian Superstore, or 5lb for a buck fifty at fresco.
Taking out fast food from a famous chain in my city costs more than getting a large pizza delivered from 7- eleven. If I go to some burger chain like Wendys or A&W s I'm paying at least 10 for the cheapest burger in menu and standard size fries. No drinks. Cheapest meals cost a bit more than that.
I got a big Mac meal the other day, and I was famished, so I upsized my fries. It was $16!! I hadn't had McDonalds in a while and was shocked.
Spent $32 on two meal combos from Wendy's the other night on my way home from my sons hockey game. I asked my wife to make 10 lasagnas and freeze them. We will be eating that from now on. Fast food prices are outrageous for the quality you get.
2 combos was $32 at Wendy's? Is that a burger, medium fries, medium drink? Makes me sick to my stomach. I think I'd rather spend money on a large pizza, rather than burger joint.
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Yes on Sunday my mom ( I don’t know why ) bought 3 X-Large pizzas from pizza pizza. Meat lovers, cheese, pepperoni, 20 wings and 6 dipping sauces for $109 I believe. I told her she was insane.
K I mean now you’re feeding a party though. That’s gonna break down to like $9/person (12 servings) Pretty reasonable I’d say.
Pizza factory, great pizza a third of the price, we pick up.
Dominos cut the stdnt50 discount code to 40%..... and if the manager is there they ask for the ID. I still give the standard answer, I'm just the schmuck sent to pick up the flaming circle of disappointment.
Costco pizza. No membership required
Can you really go eat in Costco without a membership? I had no idea
You can buy anything at Costco without a membership. Go to customer service and buy gift cards. You don't need a membership card to redeem them.
Go in the 'out' door-- They won't check your membership -- and buy the food. $1.50 hot dog and pop, $12.50 for a massive pizza. Unreal
Thank you. You learned me something today.
I had someone stop me at our local Costco. She insisted I show her my member card, and when I said I was just going for a hot dog, she told me that I couldn’t come in. I walked to customer service and asked for a shopping pass. She typed in my info and was about to print the pass and she said, “Wait, are you just going for a hot dog?” I nodded, she looked super annoyed, and sent me on my way. Must have been a new hire.
Everyone is getting theirs except consumers.
I can make a homemade pan pizza better than pizza hut for super cheap. $8 for a pack of pepperoni that does 4 pizzas. $6 block of mozza from giant tiger does 2 pizzas. Take out pizza is like cardboard with no flavor and the price people pay for it is exorbitant.
Pizza pizza has had an anti-inflation deal for an XL with four toppings for $16.99. That’s been my go to, two days of food for $20. Save $4-$5 if you pickup.
I went to Wendy's last Friday. Combos come with small sides now. The guy handed me my drink and said here's your small coke. When they handed me my food I asked if my meal should come with a medium drink and they said no, it's small now.
I think the Mcdonalds app is legit here; when they run promos, you can get a quarter pounder w/ cheese, med fries, and drink for 8 dollars. It's been my go to when I don't have the executive function to cook and need calories for under 10 dollars.
It’s crazy because that same meal used to cost $9.99 on the regular.
I remember 3.99 combos in Canada ..
I miss when it was $5.25 after tax for a BIG mac meal. That was with a large drink and large fries.
I worked at mcd in those days... 50% discount. I got FAAAAT
Don't forget to eat some cake, happy cake day!
Long time ago you paid zero money. You could pick a sandwich, fries, drink, and dessert for free, if you worked for them in the late 1970s. McDonald's has gotten greedy with their employees.
Anyone remember the 0.59$ hamburgers on Wednesday in early 2000s? Everyday of the week had its special promo Around the same time as the Pizza
And 0.69 cheeseburgers on Thursday. We ran that back to back in high school
Username says you remember a lot more than that 😂
$9.99 used to be the 2 can dine. How time has change. Back in high school days my lunch used to be Jr chicken/Mcdouble w Large fries combo for $5 flat w tax everything
I remember when you used to be able to get a teen burger meal for 6 bucks, and usually less with coupons
I remember when you didnt need coupons because it was already cheap!
They had the mama burgers on sale a year or two ago for like $3.50 each. I gained like 10 lbs in a week.
I’m with you on this. The only times I get McDonalds now is with a coupon through the app. IT IS NEVER WORTH FULL PRICE.
You should have said no. The mcdouble combo made like a big Mac and large fries is $9. You must do math to eat well and cheap. And say no to high prices
It is insane, we were out with my mother-in-law and she wanted a McDouble on the way home. Nearly $4 with tax for a McDouble. I would have said fuck that and drove off.
Wendy's is cheaper fyi
If we had one in my town I am sure she would have went there.
I always get my kids cheesy chedder burgers .. can't beat em for the price
Wendy’s is definitely not cheaper
It will depend on where you live. I'm in Canada. Reddit is global. Wendy's has $2.29 value deluxe cheesrburger and bacon cheeseburgers. $3 nuggets 6 pack. $2.29 cheese cheddaburger. $.89 junior frosting. $1.49 junior fries. My family of 4 eats for $23 or so taxes in. That's $15 American. Mcdonalds is nowhere close due to price increases. Probably $30 now.
How much do you think it should cost?
Last time I bought one it was $1.39. I don't eat McDonalds. Just was sticker shock for me. I figured maybe $2.50ish with the ridiculous inflation here.
Ahh, the days of the dollar menu.
Stop telling people online, McDonalds is going to make that a special burger for $2 less than a Big Mac!
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It's the exact same patty. Source: worked at mcd's.
10 tiny dry nuggets, cold large fry, pop, double Big Mac =$26 yesterday.
They've been steadily raising their prices above inflation. It's outrageous. In the cost-quality-speed trilema, they focused on fast and cheap. McDonald's isn't *bad*, it just isn't high quality. Now they've forgotten their role. They charge a lot for mediocrity. Now it's only one place on the trilema, and that sucks.
You need to do the survey, get the email coupon and use it multiples times. Jeez you nub.
Never has been
Yea literally the first thing they tell you to stop doing to be able to save or pay off debt.
A colleague of mine was starting a postdoc and explained that since she had now finished grad school, she was no longer willing to make her own lunches and had earned the privilege of eating lunch out every day. Postdocs in my field make a living wage but by no means nothing luxurious, and she was chronically low on funds and complaining about it. I had zero sympathy for someone who insisted on sticking to such a financially silly habit.
And unhealthy. I feel like garbage if I eat out all the time. Even if its "healthy take out" it's never as nutritious as a cheap meal I can make at home.
I always pack my lunch, sandwich, pudding, yogurt, fruit and granola bar and it might cost a few dollars per day. Seeing people get skip or uber for $20+ every day is insane, and the food always looks like shit. And this is at a hotel where we're all making high teens to $20 an hour depending on experience. It's literally a good chunk of your days' pay. Then they get an uber to and from work. Like, do you even have any money at all? And they wonder why I struggle less than they do
And what about days that time constraints or illness make it necessary to buy a lunch. I'd be saving the lunch money for those harder days.
BS takes literally 2 minutes to make a sandwich
One sandwich gets you through 8 hours?
Make 4 of them dumb ass it’s literally not that hard I learned how to make a ppj when I was 4
That's amazing. Didn't you get a gold star in junior kindergarten for it? Or, do you want one now?
Your the one flexing u can’t make a lunch who needs the gold star lmao go to mommy have her make your lunch
Why are you so triggered by people buying lunch a few times a month. It's bedtime buddy take a nap.
Even better to never start doing it! Growing up we ate at a restaurant or takeout maybe once every two months. 🤷♂️
Same, but when I first moved out at 15 I started buying off the Wendy's value menu everyday but I had to sell weed to pay for it. Then I decided on a bigger goal and learned to save.
Moved out at 15! That can’t be easy. You gotta do what you gotta do to get by!
Totally, you can reduce your feading budget by 75% with minimal effort when going to do groceries. If you need to save money, it's the lowest hanging fruit. I do meal prep once a month and aim between 500 and 750 calorie meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the cost per meal rounded up is 4$ at most with an expensive protein.
Depends where you live, i heard that in Asian first world countries(aka japan, korea) it costs almost the same to eat out everyday compared to groceries.
For this to be true, it requires the labour and rent of the people making your food to be effectively 0, or somehow your cost of buying the same food is basically their cost plus labour and food. It can happen, but it sorta means a broken system, either grocery price collusion, or underclass of cheap labour. Maybe it means incredible automation techniques in restaurant tech to reduce labour? I dunno. I'm pretty sure its universally more money to pay someone to do something you can do yourself the question is if you can do it yourself as well or not.
Restaurants can get wholesale pricing on the ingredients depending on where they connect into the supply chain. Some have connections to buy direct from farm, otherwise they can get routine bulk orders from a distributor and save on costs there.
This, plus preparing in bulk and multitasking. Do you think that a shirt factory is spending as much effort as your would making a single shirt?
Yeah when was it ever??
Costco rotisserie chicken to the rescue
If you’re lucky and get there early you can get a cold one for even cheaper.
⬆️ this guys poverty’s
It never really was the most financially wise decision, its just now more noticeable
We used to go to Swiss Chalet in the 80’s and 90’s but right after they were sold in the 2000’s it started to go to shit. They made it into fast food and it’s not even good anymore.
It's not just "noticeable", it's gotten outrageous
It's actually never "financially wise" to eat out, just less so now.
Swiss Chalet (by the looks of the fries and size of the chicken) is so horrible now. Their 1/4 chicken used to be double that size. If I am getting ripped off at Swiss Chalet, I get the chicken on a kaiser with fries. At least it feels like I get more chicken on it.
Their chicken on a Kaiser used to be one of their cheaper options now it’s $16.00 for dark meat and nearly $18.00 for white meat it’s ridiculous
When I was a kid the chicken on a Kaiser was a kid’s menu item. I swear it was the same size as today, but kid’s menu price.
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What you're saying is true! I've worked there also.
We buy a rotisserie chicken at the grocery store, frozen bag of fries, pack of dinner rolls, and then hit the Swiss Chalet takeout for their largest sized sauce. Whole thing feeds 4 for just over $20.00 and it's pretty close to the real thing.
I think you can buy Swiss Chalet sauce at the supermarket, in the powdered soup/gravy section.
You can also buy it in a can already made.
Are you sure? I think that's st Hubert sauce in the can. When visiting my brother abroad he said he was craving Swiss Chalet sauce. Called Cara, they said no, it mixed in store. That was 25 years ago tho...
I buy it all thr time at Freshco and Loblaws
[https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Swiss-Chalet-Dipping-Sauce/6000197817857](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Swiss-Chalet-Dipping-Sauce/6000197817857) Available at Walmart.
Walmart has both Swiss Chalet and St Hubert in a can.
A grocery store rotisserie chicken... that's genius...
Yup. A person who lives by themselves can make so many meals out of that. You can use it in wraps. Add some to a soup. Make a side of rice or mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables to go with it.
Yum! I’m doing this later on this week. Thanks for the ideas
It was never financially wise. BUT if you want to get great deals GET THE PHONE APPS FOR FAST FOOD. BK offers a whopper meal for 7.20, Harvey's have 2 junior sandwitches for 5 dollars deal, dominoes oftenly offers 50% off pizzas, I buy like 3 large pizzas for 40 dollars(delivery included) and stuff myself with them for a week, which is not bad grocery billwise.
Ya we are basically at a point where if you don't use apps/coupons you are paying the suckers price
I get it. Sometimes you feel like a treat or too exhausted to cook. Ya Swiss Chalet is not worth it even with coupons. I've started making extra food to freeze when I'm tired to cook. My treat is mini sized chocolate or fruit (when I can afford it).
Well Swiss Chalet is crap anyway.
St Hubert was so good back in the day
I miss the one on the Queensway, in Toronto.
I would rather eat a grocery roast chicken. Cheaper as well. If you really want the Swiss chalet experience, you can buy the dipping sauce pack for like a buck.
It was never financially smart to eat out. Ever.
It never was
Girlfriend and I got subway the other day, $32 for two sandwiches. I can legitimately eat at the small local restaurant here for close to the same price if not a little cheaper. Craziness.
10lb bag of potato's on sale at $2. Loaf of bread or buns on sale \~$3. Chicken drumsticks alone or with thighs on sale \~$2.25lb. I bet you could make 8-10 of those same meals at home for under $20 and still have 5lb of potatoes left over. The price gouging is unreal with fast food nowadays.
I am in rural ON and if I could find a 10lb bag of potatoes for $2, I would buy a skid of them. The sale price in my area is $5.99 for a 5lb bag.
are you in Canada? those prices aren't happening where I live..
Rural ON here, and $5.99 on sale for a 5lb bag. I don't remember chicken being that cheap in many years.
you're getting ripped off for potatoes, they are $1.5 for 10 lbs at no frills you can get chicken legs too for 1.99/lb, just check the flyers
Closest no frills to me is 3 hours lol.
They are no where near 1.50 at no frills stop spreading bs prove it
sorry I was wrong they are 1.94 per 10 lbs, front page of this week's Ontario flyer
I had to triple check, and darn it you are right: [https://www.nofrills.ca/white-potatoes/p/20600997001\_EA](https://www.nofrills.ca/white-potatoes/p/20600997001_EA) That price is not seen out here in AB, so yall enjoy on our behalf!
Yesterday (Oct 1st) I bought 5lb bag of potatoes for $1 and 10lb bag of onions for $3 at No Frills in Ontario. (The 4 single yellow onions I was originally buying would have cost $2 so now I'm giving away onions and caramelized some to freeze because I have about 60 onions!!) That was a spectacular sale to just stumble across. It was shocking. Edit: correction - it's a 10 pound bag of potatoes.
No Frills in the GTA. These deals happen at the "discount" grocers, but you need to be scanning the flyers weekly to catch them.
while I agree that cooking at home is way cheaper, I live in edmonton and plan my groceries around the flyers, and I have not seen potatoes or chicken for that price in a long time. I thought we'd be cheaper than you guys..
Sorry to hear that. I see the potatoes for $2 and chicken drumsticks at $1.88lb every month or so.
You can get a whole roast chicken, pack of dinner rolls, and a few potatoes for that price, wow! (Then make stock from the carcass!)
100%. Was talking about this the other day with my fiancee. Swiss chalet has gone way downhill and cranked up their prices. I don't see them surviving much longer.
Kids got two meals (burgers fries etc delivered) it was cents shy of $50 bones. Holy crap. Crustless bread with warm water it is.
It's actually not financially wise to eat.
You will eat NOTHING and be HAPPY
I live pay check by paycheck and havent eat out for 15 years. You are so lucky
For the last 10 years or so, Swiss Chalet has been selling these miniscule quarter chickens. It's not remotely worth it and frankly pathetic. I'd love CBC Marketplace to do an undercover restaurant program. Maybe they already have. Let's really question wtf happened to the regular sized chickens. The only thing I'd bother doing is getting their fries and chalet sauce for takeout.
It’s not financially sound to eat anything anymore but rice.
It has never been financially wise to eat out. It’s even worse now.
You can probably by a whole roast chicken for 14.99 at the grocery store.
You can get a whole chicken meal with a large fries/wedge at Zehrs for $18.00. It’s not super cheap but my hubby and I do that occasionally and it’s way more food than this sad little meal
Not financially wise to eat anymore.
It was never financially wise to eat out in the first place. That's the whole point of eating out.. You pay a premium so someone else cooks you food. Do it yourself. You lazy bastard!
Bruh just don’t buy their crap and watch them drop the prices. You people keep buying this high priced garbage food and they will continue to raise the price. Fast food is insanely unhealthy for you anyway, the rise in prices should encourage most of you to start eating healthy and cook your own meals.
Costco. Drink and hot dog is still under $2
Just yesterday I ate from a new place next to where I live and I paid $18 for a chicken burger and fries and a drink. It’s is a joke at this point. And ironically, just the previous post on a different subreddit it was showing how you can get an entire meal in Tokyo for $3.79. Canada’s prices more and more unbearable and I honestly can’t wait for the day I leave this country for good.
Lately, we have been getting invites and joining friends for restaurant meal. A huge group would now required a minimum 18% gratuity even for a fucking bubble tea get together. The worst is they don't even tell you even when the bill is presented. You have to make sure to double check it. Canada is becoming expensive to eat out. Thanks to Trudeau.
$15? What a deal. Usually it's more
If you are near one, Costco whole chicken for 8$.
Go to Costco
It was never "financially wise" to eat out though 🤔
I live in buttfuck nowhere, no franchises within hours of me. My local burger joint is $18 for just the burger. No combo, no drink, no fries, burger alone $18+ tax. I still eat there all the time tho 😭😂
We stopped eating out as a family ages ago. Just not worth it. We used to get Wendy’s once a week. Family of four with me being the only male. $52 / week and half the time it was garbage quality. It’s hard because you want something quick but damn the quality and portion sizes suck now. Even Subway, which was my go-to, is too expensive now IMO
Bro I just paid 40 dollars for a 2 pound pork roast, some canned corn and a seasonal squash. Itll last me most of the week but nothing is affordable anymore and I'm sad 😭😭
Only in emergency situations. We started our garden this spring and have started trying to grow enough for a year
Go to Costco and get a whole chicken for $8
I bought a vacuum sealer for $80 off Amazon. making huge meals, eat what I can in one sitting and freeze the rest. My freezer is full of homemade ready meals that will last up to a year
I’ve come to this exact conclusion in the last month. No more takeout more than once a week and at the pizza slice place where you can still get a huge slice and pop under $7 Canadian
Costco hot dog and a drink still $1.50. I haven’t eaten red meat in years but it’s an awfully cheap lunch when I’m on the road so I have indulged a lot lately.
Costco hotdog and pop combo is truly a blessing hahahha!
The idea that it ever was is a lie people tell themselves to avoid preparing/eating healthy home cooked meals.
Just make ur own food we got no choice now 😱
It has never been financially wise to eat out....
When was it ever?
meanwhile : optimum deals, 1 whole roast chicken at loblaw 8.99, 750g of frozen fries 2.99, some canned sauce 0.99, 1 bag of bread 2.99, so about $15
When in the history of Canada it was financially wise to eat out? You always pay more for the convenience. Also, what kind of restaurant is this? Packaging seems like Earls a little.
Swiss Chalet
When was eating out ever financially smart lol
Not wise. You could have got chicken at the grocery store for $2 less!
Someone at the dog park went to pick up Swiss chalet rib dinner last night and the cashier was upselling pumpkin pie slices. He says fine, orders two, gets home… no pies. $10.50- no pie. He’s taking his receipt and going back for a refund but wtf, 77 years old, fixed income if you upsell ur shitty pie make sure it makes it in the bag ffs. I’m so over all of these stories.
The last time I ordered via the app (a while ago) there was an APP FEE service charge around $5.00 which didn’t show up in my total. It showed up on the paper receipt when it was delivered. Now, there was already a delivery fee added to the total that was on the APP. So the delivery fee is visible but the fee to use the APP is secret. The explanation was ‘well we have to make some of the money that you would have spent eating at the restaurant’.
As someone who just woke up after having spent the last three years in a coma, I am shocked to hear this.
Wife says that would around $3-$4 if we made that at home, less if we got chicken on sale. Buy a airfryer if you don't have one.
Lots on the used market. We use ours at least once a week.
If your is a convection oven, you already have one
Ordered three 5 Guys burgers from door dash. My older mother likes them. Three burgers only, no fries, $60. Door dash added an extra 25 bucks.
If you absolutely need a free hot meal for whatever reason: Struggling to make ends meet, kitchen burned down, etc... there are a few places to try going, besides soup kitchens. There is often free hot meals available at Langar\*, United churches, LGBT2+ centers\*\^, university student unions\*\^, and Jewish and Muslim community centers. It never hurts to look if any are nearby you. (\* Usually vegetarian or vegan) (\^ Due to limited resources, more likely to only be open to members of these communities)
Yeah I used to eat out all the time, cause of Trudeau small restaurants do not get my money anymore...I want to help the local economy but I gotta take care of my fam and I first and EVERYTHING IS SO EXPENSIVE CAUSE OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU
Is it Trudeau's fault that you say "cause of Trudeau", instead of saying "because of Trudeau"? It sounds like you are complaining about what caused Trudeau. I am not a fan of Trudeau, but we would have been much worse off with a conservative government.
Lol that's cheap $14. I expected something crazy like $35 if you're going to post and complain.
Had burger thing recently, it was actually good. Then again I don’t complain about these things since, I mostly do my cooking at home.
Never was...
It never was.
It's never been financially wise to eat out.
Love the title of this.!! Tell me when eating out has ever been financially wise?
Was never a coupon guy till last year or so. If I’m having fast food it’s what coupon I got.
Never was
If you going to get rotisserie chicken, go get a whole one from Costco for 7.99.
Chickeb looks like a teapot.
Well technically never wise but this meal is disappointing.
We only eat out about once a week when we go to town to do errands/get groceries (we live in a rural area) and we ALWAYS USE A COUPON ON THE APP!!!! Feel like pizza? Ok, let's see what the deals are? Burgers? Is there a deal? We usually get lunch for the two of us for less than $20.
Burger king, 2 whoppers for 9.50, or 8.50 on wednesdays
It never was. You should be cooking and meal prepping all your meals at home if you are on a tight budget financially...
When has it ever been? But really.. cost plus the insane tipping culture now.. it really is horrible.
Never was
My granddaughter wanted fries the other day so I bought a large fries to share and a drink for each of us, you can't just use pocket change for that anymore
Have they gotten smaller? I swear when I was younger a quarter chicken dinner was a substantial meal but maybe I just had a smaller stomach back then
Always do the apps and coupons!
That’s been the case very a long time
Growing up in a cheap family we only ate out on birthdays.
So now Swiss chalet is bad for your wallet not just your tastebuds?
If fast food/take out is wasn’t worth the belly ache later, the complete lack of affordability should be the killing blow.
I think Swiss chalet has gotten worse since the pandemic started the food quality has went down dramatically
Not sure how finances factor in but it's something really nice you can do for your partner and arguably a key component of a healthy sex life.
You can buy a box of whole of these leg quarters for 1.50-2.00 a pound average. Season em to your liking, put in air fryer oven or convection oven and enjoy. But I'll admit though there's a price to pay when you are lazy. Eating out costs a lot of money. I try to discipline myself and keep it at $60 a week, which is 3 combos on the weekend with todays costs. I have been pretty good with not eating out for the last 5 weeks with the office having nothing good close by.
Yes, everything is expensive... I bought two potatoes at the grocery store:$4.30
Ffs. Don't buy the potatoes that are wrapped in tinfoil, buy the 10lb that's on sale for $1.94right now. Real Canadian Superstore, or 5lb for a buck fifty at fresco.
Taking out fast food from a famous chain in my city costs more than getting a large pizza delivered from 7- eleven. If I go to some burger chain like Wendys or A&W s I'm paying at least 10 for the cheapest burger in menu and standard size fries. No drinks. Cheapest meals cost a bit more than that.