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Cooking is only cheaper when you have almost all the ingredients at home..that is, when you buy your foodstuffs in bulk and keep at home, its makes cooking cheaper and easier esp when you have full house but when you buy almost all the foodstuff whenever you wants to cook, Mehn! you go spend tire, it's almost same price as buying food, just a little diff

Omo buying food na wahala, you no go belle full at all. Buh cooking you fit chop 2 times or 3.

Numerouno94:
Cooking is cheaper for me. My Kitchen is always filled up

F.ergie001 how fr na?

I nearly break my head because of this question some weeks ago.... So I simply buy food biko

If it's the normal I cook, anything soup I buy

Just stock your house with food stuffs and you're good to keep visiting the pot anytime you like. Imagine if you're to eat three square meal outside how much it will cost? Even if no meat make bele full abeg

When you get typhoid as a result of eating outside, and you add the money you use in treating yourself to the one you use in eating outside; nobody will tell you eating outside is more expensive.

The correct question is how valuable is your time.

If your time is money then it is definitely cheaper to buy food.

Buy the food and your done.

Cooking means you buy the food, prepare it, cook it eat it, store it and clean up afterwards. This can take up to 3 hours or more.

Meanwhile you order the food eat it and throw away the pack in 10 minutes and get back to work.

If however you have plenty of time and no way to use it, cooking is more economical.

This thing is relative. To some is cheaper, to some its expensive, base on their lifestyle!

Apus:
It depends.

If you are cooking for yourself alone, it can be expensive. Cheaper when cooking for a family size, we call it economies of scale. You go even chop belleful and visit pot again.

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You guys just love to play with semantics lol. Can you explain the emboldened? Unless you're financially capable, eating out will always be more expensive than cooking.

Say I'm a mid level guy staying alone. I go to the Market, buy the things I need for the weekend, cook let's say egusi soup with plenty meat, eat to my satisfaction and then the return the rest to my dear freezer.

What amount of food will I eat in a standard or even a local buka that'll really satisfy me.

I no even wanna talk about married people with families. I do both, my wife cook, I cook too, even my first daughter can cook as well. We buy food too. My wife has bought food directly from work too. Ive done same multiple times. So we do all of the above.

With all that said, cooking is always cheaper but to each, their own 😉

Cooking is more cheaper depending on your varieties.

Cooking is much cheaper and very healthy.... especially if u live in my area type where there's no local food canteen's(very tasty meals) 😹....

Untop pastries wey no even good
like that for two people and soft drinks, almost 12k gone like that just this evening.... imagine if I carry the 12k go cook better small vegetables and rice or Eba😋

Chilipepper:
Cooking vs buying food: Nigerians weigh in on which is really cheaper. What’s your take?

If you're cool with eating food without knowing who cooked it or how it was made—just because you think you're saving a few kobos—no wahala. Kwantinu. Na Naija you dey, body go tell you. 😏

You never hear say some of these kitchens get more rats and cockroaches customers ba? Some even add "special ingredient"—like paracetamol and piss inside soup. Bon appétit o!

Cooking is cheaper except the person lazy human being

For the quality of food I/we eat, cooking is cheaper. Any week I don't cook, Chowdeck bills no be here. You done transfer 150k to Chowdeck wallet before?

Apus:
It depends.

If you are cooking for yourself alone, it can be expensive. Cheaper when cooking for a family size, we call it economies of scale. You go even chop belleful and visit pot again.

You mean *Economics* of scale

If u won chop belleful cook ur food

For this Ijebu ode, I have some spots for locally made food and ko ni ga ju ara lo.

And sometimes I do cook at home.

Sometimes my choice depends on what I want to eat.

I don't usually buy rice like that outside, bread and beans are outside, fufu and Amala, and other swallow are outside.

Anguldi:
Depends on your location , I still eat a plate with meat for 600-700 in Jos Plateau State 🤷.

You must not be eating a balanced diet. You think that thing Nigerians do, eating one meat that is as small as paracetamol is good nutrition?

Why do you think people abroad look plumpy, they have access to enough protein.

Aguogba:

You mean *Economics* of scale

It's called "Economies of scale" not "Economics of scale". It's a term used in elementary economics to explain the advantage of large scale production and how it can lead to efficiency.

Aguogba:

You mean *Economics* of scale

😂😂 The corrector don carry the correctee enter express. Egungu! Wahala wear sneakers today! E be like say your body dey do shoki this evening, abi? Body dey sweet you! The werey say *Economics* of scale. LWKMD!

Cooking. It goes beyond saving money on cost of food. One needs to consider the dangers of contracting infections as well.

The truth is that cooking is more cheaper. Eg let us take for instance a plate of rice with an average chicken cost 3-3500K ok let's do the maths: one cup of rice is 200 on an average since 8 cups makes one measure here in the north. Charcoal or equivalent 200, tomato 200, magi 100, salt 50, pepper 100, spices 200, grandnut oil or equivalent 300, with your 1000 cooked chicken meat everything sum up together will give you 2,350 conclusively there are things you will not exhaust among the mentioned items bought eg tomato, magi, spices etc This metrics is based on real time cost effect.

OneCandleAway:


You must not be eating a balanced diet. You think that thing Nigerians do, eating one meat that is as small as paracetamol is good nutrition?

Why do you think people abroad look plumpy, they have access to enough protein.

Omo, laugh done kill me.

I think a lot of you buy from super markets that’s why the cooking maths is not mathing

Cooking is always far cheaper than restaurant food

If you buy your cooking materials from a supermarket in the middle of a big city you’re on your own as per pricing cos you’re just paying for location and not the actual price

Cooking is still cheaper, with 3k you can cook small soup that will last you 2 days. Na you wan follow YouTube chef. Ask ya mama to teach you.
Since I started cooking my food, I eat to my satisfaction, and I observe the positive changes on myself. People even testified I look good now.

Cooking

Apus:
It depends.

If you are cooking for yourself alone, it can be expensive. Cheaper when cooking for a family size, we call it economies of scale. You go even chop belleful and visit pot again.

Bro the cost effect will remain constant if the quality of the food is constant. Economies scale mostly or especially works when ingredients for production are bought in bulk and the seller reduces the price effect.

Aguogba:

You mean *Economics* of scale

Lol Economies oga

pocohantas:
For the quality of food I/we eat, cooking is cheaper. Any week I don't cook, Chowdeck bills no be here. You done transfer 150k to Chowdeck wallet before?

I think is beta to cook but go to eatry for celebration. But it depends on mood cos sometimes u are tired to cook

Apus:
It depends.

If you are cooking for yourself alone, it can be expensive. Cheaper when cooking for a family size, we call it economies of scale. You go even chop belleful and visit pot again.

Exactly the comment i want to drop.

When my wife born I try to buy akara outside am shock akara 1500 neva make us belleful is waste to buy food outside

Buying in bulk

Apus:
It depends.

If you are cooking for yourself alone, it can be expensive. Cheaper when cooking for a family size, we call it economies of scale. You go even chop belleful and visit pot again.

Buying food.