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> Take a blue apron recipe with you to a grocery store, and I bet you can buy all the ingredients for $2.5 a meal Where the hell are you shopping that you can
by spookthesunset 8y ago
> Take a blue apron recipe with you to a grocery store, and I bet you can buy all the ingredients for $2.5 a meal
Where the hell are you shopping that you can self-construct a blue apron meal for $2.50?
$2.50 will get you the basil to use in the recipe and that is about it. Then you need the chicken ($7 minimum) and produce ($5-$7). The starches ($2-$5). Any one-off spices (could be $1 or $15 depending).
Sorry, but people who brag about eating for $2.50/meal either live in places with a dirt cheap cost of living or don't know how to add.
- PeterisP 8y agoTo me, your prices seem unrealistic. You can get chicken for like $2 a pound, and you're not using a pound of chicken for a single serving of any meal, so it's something like a dollar or less per person. Starches are dirt cheap, $5 buys you enough pasta or rice or potatoes for at least a dozen servings. E.g. a five pound bag of rice is $3 in Walmart, and if it's a side to some chicken&produce dish, then that comes out to something like $0.20 for starches per person - an order of magnitude difference.