+41 It's a waste of money to buy salads at restaurants when you can buy the individual ingredients for much cheaper and make much more at home, amirite?

by Anonymous 7 months ago

...that's the case with every food that's been made by people who get paid to make it.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

True, but in those cases you often pay for a better product than what you'd make at home, or it's a more complicated dish which you don't always know how to make. With salad, it's only gonna be so good that you're paying extra for not much more than what you'd get at home.

by rennerfreda 7 months ago

I disagree, the main place I will order a salad from has delicious house made tortillas, a nice selection of meats prepared in a variety of ways, and a fantastic dressing that I have not been able to find a really good copy cat recipe for.

by OkRespond6962 7 months ago

Yes, making food at home is cheaper than eating out. You have officially…..noticed something true.

by Conndaisha 7 months ago

This isn't unique to just salads

by Low_Barnacle 7 months ago

Maybe they meant, that salads are something that everyone can make. Unlike of baking, for example.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

That goes for everything. If I'm eating out it is for one, convenience and two, because a place makes a food I enjoy particularly well. This also applies to salad.

by OkRespond6962 7 months ago

Literally the truth for every food available at a restaurant!!

by alexabaumbach 7 months ago

The concept of eating out is a waste of money lol. We are breaking ground guys.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

I guess that may be true if you're calculating it down to how much you actually need but especially for those fancy salads I would have to buy 20 different ingredients, prepare all of them to end up using maybe 50g each and have a bunch of leftovers that I have to somehow use before they go bad. I'll stick to treating myself to a fancy salad every now and then.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

This is true for most things you will eat in a restaurant, and unless you don't cook really well or you don't do to really specialized and high end restaurants, the quality is also better at home. You go to restaurants because it's fun, and convenient.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

You don't do it for the price. You do it to flex on the people you're with that you are healthier and better than they are. Hold. The. Dressing.

by Anonymous 7 months ago

I mean yeah, it's a waste of money to go to restaurants at all. You can make literally all the food you get at restaurants at home.

by Living_Canary 7 months ago

You could say that about any menu item in a restaurant. The whole point of going to a restaurant is so you don't have to make yourself a meal!

by Anonymous 7 months ago

They're paying extra so they don't have to shop for ingredients, make it at home, store it until it's time to eat, then deal with cleaning up. It's how dining out works. You can cook/make a lot of things at home for cheaper than you can at a restaurant. You pay the restaurant because you want ordering it off the menu to be the extent of your involvement with prep.

by Aishabuckridge 7 months ago

But I live alone and if I buy salad ingredients, I will throw a lot of them away as they spoil faster than I can eat them.

by Original-Life8088 7 months ago