Cheapest Meal Is the One You Actually Eat
That’s probably the biggest lesson I’ve taken from all of this.
A $30 grocery trip isn’t a bargain if half the food ends up in the trash.
A $12 restaurant meal isn’t automatically wasteful if it replaces a $30 grocery trip that would have produced the same amount of food.
And a $5 homemade meal isn’t actually $5 if you had to buy $30 worth of ingredients and use only a fraction of them.
The goal shouldn’t simply be to spend the
