Cooking is a massive waste of time. amirite?

You should spend less time lifting weights and more time checking your math—you're wrong.

by merritt95 11 hours ago

Maybe OP could lift up a book once in a while.

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

Dude... There is absolutely no way that you spend more on groceries than eating out. It's literally not possible unless you are the most wasteful person on the planet with ingredients.

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

especially with Uber eats. That's bar none the most expensive way to eat, short of fine dining every day.

by gleichnerverla 10 hours ago

Sounds like a roided freak

by Koeppmaximus 10 hours ago

> I eat a lot of protein and when I actually buy enough groceries to cover what I need, the bill ends up higher than just ordering off UberEats. I call shenanigans.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

False fact not unpopular opinion

by Akeemcassin 9 hours ago

What are you ordering that cheaper?

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

My guess, they are comparing the price of 1 Uber eats meal with 1 trip to the store.

by klingemmie 9 hours ago

I ordered one meal from ubereats and it's cheaper than a weeks worth of groceries so obviously ubereats is cheaper

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

This isn't an opinion your just wrong.

by AmbitionGuilty 8 hours ago

Groceries are cheaper than ordering food is not an opinion it is a mathematically provable fact. You just are wrong

by HopeWise 8 hours ago

Receipts. Literal receipts. Or maybe you don't know how to cook.

by Fidel38 8 hours ago

I don't think they know how to add either.

by Mortimerwelch 8 hours ago

Bro what are you buying that uber eats is cheaper??? For 200$ i get a week's worth of deliveries for 1 person vs enough food to feed 3 people for 2 weeks at the grocery store.

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

I'm sorry but you must be absurdly terrible at meal planning/ cooking for it to be more expensive than Uber Eats.

by Stokesannie 7 hours ago

I guarantee if you sat down and accounted for every dollar, any competent shopper can feed themselves cooking at home for much less money than uber eats calorie for calorie.

by Puzzled_Try 7 hours ago

I mean if we are being real if you're smart about it you could probably feed yourself for a week or two for the same amount as one hefty ubereats order

by Anonymous 7 hours ago

Your opinion is based off wrong assumptions. You think you can pay for the same ingredients at the same price, and somehow pay for preparation and delivery and save money? What are you smoking brother

by Sad-Assistance 7 hours ago

Cooking at home is most definitely cheaper than ordering food. This isn't even an unpopular opinion, it's objectively wrong.

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

I can spend 75$ at aldis for a weeks worth of food as someone who needs a lot of protein and goes to the gym everyday. This isnt even an opinion lol, its just wrong

by Longjumping-Ball 6 hours ago

Same I meal prep for the week and lift. 2 egg, bacon, and gouda omelet, cajun chicken Alfredo burritos for lunch, and a protein shake for dinner. I average 60 a week to eat. Cooking is my favorite hobby so making good high protein healthy.food is fun for me.

by ApprehensiveMail 6 hours ago

Are you accounting for the fact that you get multiple meals out of your groceries?

by Embarrassed_Cut 6 hours ago

Something is not adding up in your set up. One meal through Uber eats is going to be around $25. A grocery store trip for meat, veggies, bread etc. Should be $50-$60. Conservatively that gives you at least 3 meals averaging out to a cost of $16.67-$20 per meal. Again, I'm using real conservative estimates here. Either you're buying premium food brands from a premium food store at wild markups, or your math is poorly eyeballed.

by Embarrassed_Cut 5 hours ago

That's exactly my pont. my 'baseline' isn't the average person's grocery run. I'm not buying 1 lb of ground beef and stretching it into 8 burgers. I'm stocking up on like 6–7 different cuts of meat every week (steak, chicken, turkey, pork, fish, etc.) plus extras and once you add that variety it's way more expensive than people realize. That $50–$60 estimate is for someone who's super efficient and meal preps the same thing on repeat. For me, one Uber Eats order ends up close to what I'm already spending per meal with groceries, without the cooking time, dishes, or food waste. So yeah, the math makes sense for the way I eat. Also most of my meals through Uber Eats costs me $15-$17 not $25.

by Yesenia03 5 hours ago

Are you getting the same amount of protein from the restaurant? Because that math ain't mathin'.

by Disastrous_Shame 5 hours ago

Yeah if it's cheaper for you dude then do it. Issue is that I can get a 20 pound bag of potatoes for ten bucks. Chicken thighs and pork chops for the week for about fifty bucks. And then my spices, sauces,etc for another thirty. I'm at what, 90? Call it a hundred for a weeks worth of food. A single meal at any restaurant for me is minimum $20. Add delivery and tip on Ubereats...well, I get maybe four meals in for the cost of a weeks worth of meals at home. I get breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. I live in Canada. Price break down is this: Potato's are from Loblaws(haven't seen the cost of taters at Costco yet so don't chew me out for not getting taters there), meat is from Costco, spices and sauces as well. Glad it works for you my guy, but one meal off of Ubereats can net me quite a bit of food. I also meal prep. I cook once or twice a week and I'm set. Lemon pepper chicken and rice. Or bbq pork chops with scalloped taters.

by ProfessionalCup 5 hours ago

Cooking is apparently a massive waste of your time. Do what you want with your time.

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

Math isn't mathing. This is less an unpopular opinion than a confession.

by Fair_Accountant 4 hours ago

You're just terrible at meal planning, and don't clean as you cook

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

30 bucks for delivery for one day, or 60 bucks for food that can last you a week depending on what you buy

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

You are experiencing a skill issue.

by kozeyraquel 3 hours ago

Learn some basic math and try again.

by Holiday_Koala 3 hours ago

Big meater, small 🧠

by Known-Chemical 2 hours ago

I mean maybe for you, but the average person doesn't eat 10 different meats a day, so for the rest of us it is cheaper. For me it's way cheaper to make the food at home, plus it's also often healthier, at least compared to stuff like Mc D

by Tomascarroll 2 hours ago

Compared to everything tbh, restaurants use so many things to enhance flavor, you'll end up with a lot more unnecessary oils and stuff by eating out vs making it at home.

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

It really depends a lot on how you eat. People always act like cooking is this guaranteed money saver thing when it's not true for everyone. Since i am heavy on protein, my grocery bill shoots up fast. and when you factor in the time investment, its even less worth it. Ubereats doesnt always mean McD's lol. I can order a grilled chicken salad, fish, rice, veggies without spending an hour in the kitchen. For me its cheaper and I get my time back

by Yesenia03 2 hours ago

Prove it. Show us your Uber eats receipts

by gleichnerverla 1 hour ago

I can't say with 100% surtancy that it will be cheaper for you, as I don't know what you eat, or what you buy on ubereats, I don't even know what it costs on ubereats, as have never used it. But making your own food is for a very big procentage of people cheaper, like for me eating out is at least 50% more, and then there is the delivery, and if I collect it myself instead, then I definitely didn't save time, or money, as the trip would also cost. So maybe you are a rare case where this isn't the case, that or you are just buying some more expensive foods when you do it yourself, I don't know, but making your own food being cheaper, isn't a myth, even if we say you are the exception, that still doesn't mean it isn't true that it's cheaper for most.

by Tomascarroll 1 hour ago

i'd venture to say you're doing it wrong. load up on ground beef at costco.

by Bryan 1 hour ago

I agree with your premise I disagree with your conclusion

by Odd-Background757 1 hour ago

There is absolutely no way you are spending more at the grocery store for the same food than you are on Uber eats. A weeks worth of food from the grocery store is maybe 4 meals from any delivery service.

by klingemmie 1 hour ago

I enjoy cooking. Plus I can make tastier and healthier food at home for cheaper. What are you ordering to get delivered that's cheaper?l

by beerjude 42 minutes ago

yes, let's just put it all in blender and slam it.... seriously though I can cook a better steak at home than any restaurant. for lots cheaper so, yes, that is unpopular...well done

by Immediate_Welcome129 19 minutes ago

You can make the argument that spending extra time working is the better investment of time over cooking assuming you make more in that time than you would save cooking. That is not the argument being made here though, the one being made here is just wrong.

by klingemmie 11 minutes ago

I share this unpopular opinion. We are all different, but you and i see eye to eye on this.

by Anonymous 10 minutes ago