Yea, I don’t like lunchboxes either. If I somehow get them for free I need to eat about 2 of them with rice, 3 without.
One reason I’ve been eating Costco food is because it literally gives me the best filling power for the price. 110nt to be stuffed is a very good value.
Damn. I’m glad I can at least get full on just one. It’s only the frozen lunches at 7-11 that don’t fill me up.
This is one of those things you keep repeating again and again despite people having corrected you on it so many times. I must have done it at least two or three times myself, including once recently in your diet and exercise thread. Do you actually read any of this stuff or is it completely futile?
There are definitely things that will be cheaper outside than preparing oneself at home, if we’re talking about the lowest quality lunchboxes etc. available in Taiwan. I wouldn’t be able to make danbing cheaper at home for example (at least in the limited quantities I want to eat danbing).
There are also a lot of things that are definitely cheaper (and healthier) to prepare at home with just a little bit of organization. No point wasting energy going over them yet again here though.
Have you actually tried cooking anything? All I’ve seen from you here is that you wanted someone to teach you how to make scrambled eggs (which I tried to do, though I guess you didn’t bother), repeatedly complaining about how expensive cooking would be if you did it, and whinging about having to do the washing up.
So have you done anything besides asking a wholesaler to give you a quote for a chicken leg quarter? (These repeated digressions about buying industrial quantities of meat are unnecessary enough in themselves - it’s entirely possible to cook at home cheaply and eat healthier using meat from Costco, other large supermarkets, and wet markets, as has already been explained to you as well.)
It’s that I was eating lunchboxes without rice and that took away a lot of filling power.
Those frozen lunches at 7-11 is very small.
Right, so if US food costs are ~30% of customer pricing, there’s no reason to expect that it’d need to be 10% in Taiwan, right? Right.
Not so much in food service.
Not really. You have to provide health insurance under the ACA if you have 50+ full time employees, or equivalent. Assuming you’re staffing based on your need, should generally be about the same equivalents, eh?
OK, yea, like I said, lower overhead in Taiwan. So why do you think that Taiwan’s food costs need to be so low as a percentage, given the low overhead?
Yeah… that’s not anything resembling wholesale quantity where anyone, anywhere would give you a discount. I’m not even sure if there’s any hyperbole in that statement. I don’t even begin to imagine why you would pull up the prices from that inquiry as a point of comparison.
I found often imported to be cheaper and better quality than local.
You should share that with the people here who always complain about how much more expensive food in Taiwan is compared the the US/EU.
Groceries might be cheaper in the traditional markets, but comparing between Costco Taiwan vs. US and groceries in supermarkets, I find Taiwan to be more expensive than where I used to live in the US.
For example Kirkland Signature Greek Yogurt is 529 online price (don’t remember in the shop) for 1.8kg
Of course in US is cheaper. But high quality imported yogurt is way better deal of what you can’t get for local brands.
I find it very zen