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Also I buy a whole rotassie chicken [grocery store deli] for $4.50 and it too will make 3 meals.
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I don't know why but I do not buy those chickens. If you think about it you are going to pay $4.50 for a raw chicken and then have to cook it tho. Seems like a good deal to me.
The o/p placed his/her comments in the frugal living category, not a health category.
The o/p did not say that this was done in his/her family every day, so I don't think one or two fast food meals are going to send an otherwise healthy person to the ER.
Why rain on a parade when somebody is trying to share a find?
I don't know why but I do not buy those chickens. If you think about it you are going to pay $4.50 for a raw chicken and then have to cook it tho. Seems like a good deal to me.
It's fast food and for the price it beats other chicken fast food.
I take it home and make sandwiches out of part of it.
Then when I heat the leftovers the next day, I add carrots or broccoli [which cook in less than 10 minutes] on the side.
I don't know many states join Ohio in this charade, but if you order your fast food 'to go', they don't charge any sales tax on the food. If you dine in, you get dinged for the sales tax, though. Consequently I always order my food to go, even if I intend on dining in. Those pennies have added up, I'm sure.
I don't know why but I do not buy those chickens. If you think about it you are going to pay $4.50 for a raw chicken and then have to cook it tho. Seems like a good deal to me.
Rotisserie chickens are a good deal, especially the ones from Costco. I can buy one, and I can eat it for a week. After I eat all the chicken I can get off of it, I can make chicken soup from the carcass.
Lately I have been massively busy and also just too lazy to go grocery shopping so I have been just eating 2 99 cent bean and cheese burritos from Del Taco. Also someone who worked there gave me a stack of buy one get one free coupons so $1.08 a night for dinner isn't that bad.
Otherwise I try to avoid eating out too much, unless it's a place that hosts free live music or something so I can do my part to support.
Rotisserie chickens are a good deal, especially the ones from Costco. I can buy one, and I can eat it for a week. After I eat all the chicken I can get off of it, I can make chicken soup from the carcass.
That is a good idea. I do buy a 10 piece dark fried chicken when it is on sale for $6 or under and i have some potatoes. That gives me 5 meals of a leg, thigh, and baked potato. Plus I give the bones to the dogs.
It works for me because the wife doesn't like dark meat!
I've smoked a lot of chickens and just do not care that much for them and that is probably why I do not buy the rotisserie ones.
Congratulations to the OP on getting what they, and not other posters, considered a great deal.
The OP did not ask for any advice or ask any questions - so all the Food Police posts are off topic, IMO.
We were pointing out that when you factor in the health care costs of eating such "food" it is not a good deal, and that is something most people who consume large quantities of fast/processed "food" are not considering.
Mass consumption of the stuff that passes for "food" in America is a major reason why 68% of Americans are overweight, 33% are obese, and also why our health care costs are approaching 20% of national income.
Sounds like fun to me! Hope you enjoyed it. Don't take the food police too seriously. I would bet they also have their guilty pleasures. It's all about moderation.
I get to have pizza once a month and I enjoy every bite.
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