is food always worth it?

[michellee]

Sometimes it's worth it because you want to know how delicious the food. Cutting costs means reducing your expenses so you have more money. But sometimes, a hobby is something you can't give up and you'll still buy it if you get a rare thing related to your hobby.

Relating to food, that is normal if you want to buy expensive food and think you rarely buy it. But what you need to concern yourself with is your lifestyle because it will affect to cutting costs.

[Shadiq]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

If no one in the world needed food, then no one would ever earn. The main purpose of our income is food, then after the food requirement is met, you want to buy a house and buy a car. That is, the first priority of human basic needs should be food and it must depend on the needs of the body. It is not your responsibility to decide when to eat and what to eat, but your body. So when you are reducing your daily expenses, do not reduce your food budget. Yes, you can reduce your food budget when you are consuming more than necessary food or buying luxury food.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

Giving up good is different from cutting costs incurred from unnecessary expensive eating habits. I can agree with you that eating out all the time wastes lots of money since you can get better quality of food by making meals at home and it's a healthier approach to feeding.

I had self-evaluation some months ago about consistent eating out and decided to start making my meals on weekends and eating it throughout the week. Trust me, I've saved a lot of money doing that.

This doesn't undermine the fact that once in a while you can treat yourself out to a nice restaurant and have quantity time out.  Where it turns bad is making those a habit when you know you it's not a good financial and health decision for you.

[Silverstonez]

When cutting budgets, you don't do that on food, because you need it, except if there's a need for some minor adjustments to what you spend and how the money is being utilized on good items but it cannot be excluded for any reason z because we need to eat and keep alive.

From my opinion, I will first go to the living expenses on daily basis, make some cut where applicable especially on secondary needs, reschedule my budget and move on with life, it's worth spending more of food, but not all that you have in eating the food.

I really like your comment, because what you said is just the truth when it comes to food you don't need to cut your budget. food is something that you need to eat in other to keep living on this planet Earth if not you will die. and come to think of it OP, how do you expect a person to feel when the person skip a day without eating food? the person will definitely feel like dying, and that's the truth. although you can make some adjustment which is normal, but trying to cut the budget that you have already budgeted for food, let's say to add it to material things is very very wrong, very unhealthy, and I mean it. see food is something you can't do without so you need food just in the same way you need oxygen to live. So when making your budget, budget for food should be higher than any other budget. and there this saying from one physician who happens to be among the founders of medicine, although I can't really recall his name right now, but he said and I quote, "let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food"

[Oasisman]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

Giving up good is different from cutting costs incurred from unnecessary expensive eating habits. I can agree with you that eating out all the time wastes lots of money since you can get better quality of food by making meals at home and it's a healthier approach to feeding.

I had self-evaluation some months ago about consistent eating out and decided to start making my meals on weekends and eating it throughout the week. Trust me, I've saved a lot of money doing that.

I am with this 100%. You know what, making your own meals is the most expensive food you'll ever have in your life. This is because you can do whatever you want with your food, you can add whatever ingredients to make it fit your satisfaction and taste. So, in this kind of setup, you'll enjoy food and avoid wasting extra money to pay for your meal at a restaurant or fast food.
Therefore, when you're cutting costs doesn't mean you're not eating delicious food. Sometimes, we just don't realize that good food starts at our home, not in a fancy restaurant, and that extra money that is supposed to go to spending on eating out can be used to save up for something else.

[Dreadboost]

people often say food that they always want delicious food
it is not worth eating out all the time.

Your question is vague which is apparent from responds you received here too!

"delicious food" is not equal "food you eat at a restaurant" (ie. eating out). In fact it is almost always the opposite. Home cooked meals are much better and healthier as well. They cost less too since there is no overhead!

So yes, if you are cutting costs you should cut going out to restaurants to "eat out" and start getting more home cooked meals which is better for your health as well

That's is a very important point there, in addition to that home cooking and eating also plays a crucial role in bringing the family together creating a more powerful bond in the family, so regardless of cost and no cost, overall the best way of eating good meals is at home, with family, with good health and good memories.

[iamsange]

I am with this 100%. You know what, making your own meals is the most expensive food you'll ever have in your life. This is because you can do whatever you want with your food, you can add whatever ingredients to make it fit your satisfaction and taste. So, in this kind of setup, you'll enjoy food and avoid wasting extra money to pay for your meal at a restaurant or fast food.
Therefore, when you're cutting costs doesn't mean you're not eating delicious food. Sometimes, we just don't realize that good food starts at our home, not in a fancy restaurant, and that extra money that is supposed to go to spending on eating out can be used to save up for something else.

Yes, you've provided a pretty accurate answer, and I really like your comment stating that the most delicious and enjoyable food is home-cooked. Sometimes some people out there seem to force themselves to go to restaurants continuously, especially if their financial balance is unstable, because that's a greedy act. I've seen several people around me do the same thing, not only going to restaurants too often but also getting entangled in debt due to their forced glamorous lifestyle. Of course, we have no right to forbid or advise on such a sensitive matter, but it's just pitiful to see their lives no longer normal.

[Nuel0717]

If you think that you don't need food, it is not on you to make that decision, have you ask your body? Lol.

Your body will fail you if you don't give it food that is needed, it doesn't have to be expensive food because some expensive food are not even that healthy, eat in a healthy way and your body will always be in good shape.

You can't cheat your body, how will you even think straight when you are hungry? How will you work very well if you are hungry? Lack of food have turned many into rebels and thieves, many people believe that been able to eat two or three times daily is a blessing on its own.

Stop suffering yourself, you can't keep cheating your body for long periods of time, slowly your body will start missing good vitamins minerals, calcium and many more, stay strong and healthy before you chase money and success.

Lol, you’re right. You can’t make that decision without asking your body first. Many people need to understand the fact that food is always worth it for survival, but not every type of food is worth the money, stress, or regret. The price of food doesn’t determine the quality or healthiness of that food. There are so many local, natural foods with low cost that are healthier than many fast foods.

Food is always worth it for survival because it literally keeps a person alive in so many ways. It gives energy to the body, helps proper brain function, and, like “crypt0Gore” said, it supports so many essential processes in the body, true facts all of them.

So in short, food is like life's fuel, essential for humans. What really matters is not how much money you spend, but how well the food nourishes your body. Local, natural, and balanced foods can be healthier than expensive fast foods. Eat in a way that keeps you strong, energized, and healthy. Because without good food, all the money, success, or plans in the world won’t matter. Take care of your body first, and everything else will follow.

[slapper]

I believe that we have mixed pleasure and spending in manners that would have perplexed the past generations. My grandmother could cook wonders with nothing because cooking was an activity that you learned rather than a service you had to buy. Somewhere we decided that if we're not paying someone else, it doesn't count as "treating ourselves"

The high-cost food culture is interesting in that it is one of the few things where human beings openly rebel against optimization. They will debate till they die about saving 20 dollars on a phone plan but end up spending 50 on food without even considering it. Why? As food became emotional regulation. Bad day at work? Restaurant. Celebrating? Restaurant. Bored? Restaurant. We have externalized comfort to business dealings

Those who constantly insist that they need to spend a lot of money on food, usually are those who had never been trained to cook properly. It is not that they love restaurant quality. They simply do not know how to generate satisfaction in their own kitchen. That way they find themselves in dependency cycle, paying premiums since they do not have the knowledge base to leave

[iBaba]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

Ah! Food is a basic necessity of life but an expensive and luxury food is not a necessity but a choice. I have seen people complaining that money is difficult to get but yet they order takeaway of food every day like it is a necessity when it is actually not. That is not love for good food in my own opinion it is just habit or flex.

You can eat delicious food without necessarily spending big or buying from an expensive restaurant or buying chicken all the time, you can just simply cook your jellof rice with stew or soup at home or buy from a good local bukka you have are familiar with or based on a friend's recommendation and it will still taste nice if not better and cost way less than that restaurant prices.

[Accardo]

Therefore, when you're cutting costs doesn't mean you're not eating delicious food. Sometimes, we just don't realize that good food starts at our home, not in a fancy restaurant, and that extra money that is supposed to go to spending on eating out can be used to save up for something else.

Going out to eat in nice restaurants is a memorable experience once in a while, eating in our respective homes is excellent on regular basis. But the high emphasis on food is becoming extraordinary, people tend to be uncomfortable with no consistent feeding, when the body isn't even complaining the subconsciousness of most humans who think a lot about food get them to overfeed and commit gluttony. Food is great and all, yet having it as a 100% best thing in the world isn't always a thing quite very considerable.

[Jawhead999]

This question should be asked to women, not men, in this forum it's mainly men.

What I know most men always try to find the most worth it meals, so they will looking for a meal who serve in big size, cheap and the taste don't really matter as long as they can swallow it. There's always a way for us to enjoy tasty meals without spend too much money, either lower your desire or find cheap sellers.

For women, I doubt they're willing to not eat in restaurant because they even find a disgusting way like finding random man in online dating and then ask him to go out to eat.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

I don't support paying on high expensive meals in the highest expensive restaurant, it's not worth doing that, there is nothing wrong with using moderate amount of money to buy food items from the market and prepare the best meals that taste good in your home, you'll certainly cut cost by taking such action.

Saying this because I've been a victim of spending on high expensive meals while my finances was shorting and scattered, untill I shift my perspective to purchase food items and prepare the best taste of food I do eat in that expensive restaurant.

Doing that will save you a lot and keep you balance in your financial situation.

[Jewan420]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

Food is always valuable. We should not forget that "Good health is the root of all happiness". So if you desire good health then you must take necessary food. I will never compromise with the food we need for good health.

But in the present era food has become a means of luxury. I cannot agree with this luxury. We do not need very valuable food, it makes the body sicker instead of keeping it healthy. In order to reduce the budget, reduce other necessary expenses and give up luxurious living. All food outside the necessary food is a luxury. So you can exclude luxury from the budget.

[bitzizzix]

In my personal opinion, food is essential and priceless. When we're frugal, food shouldn't be sacrificed, as it's a basic need vital to our health and productivity. We desperately need nutrition and healthy food to stay healthy and strong, and I believe that shouldn't be sacrificed. I prefer to cut back on other expenses and avoid unnecessary purchases or repair items that are still in good condition, reduce air conditioning use or conserve electricity, cycle or walk everywhere, and only use a vehicle when absolutely necessary and for other things that cost money. And I will always prioritize the best food for my family, even if I have to cook at home, it still has to be the best.

[Cryptomultiplier]

Food is an important part of any budget, be it personal or government budget. You will always see the production and export of food materials and products as essential to the economy.
Soldiers won't fight on empty stomachs, politicians won't make good laws when there's hunger in the land.
The issue is over feeding. It is gluttony and it's a sin.

I always recommend having to eat various types of food to maintain health and balance not just one variety because it is cheap or sweeter than the rest. Junk food is the worst as it causes obesity and lazy citizens grow in the numbers who are unable to contribute meaningfully to the society.  

Food is worth it and the best medicine for the brain and body. Invest in good and highly nutritious food and you would enjoy the benefits more than eating junk or management of diet because of the laziness to cook or get someone to cook.

[bakasabo]

Expensive food worth and does not worth it. With that I want to say, that you have to reward yourself with something delicious from time to time. Receptors will send positive signals and can cheer up a person. It is impossible to live all the time eating cheap, tasteless and cheap food. If someone has opportunity to buy something tasty, he wont last long eating only cheap. Believe me, when talk is about good food, a person is ready to spend money do sacrifices. I have tried diets, I have tried cutting on food (quality and quantity), I have tried eating only healthy food, I have tried eating as bodybuilders who cut weight. Nothing good went from all that. If want to cut expenses, then cutting on food should not be very extremal and radical.

[Alone055]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

I agree, it is definitely not worth eating out all the time, especially if it's just a want and not a need, and those arguing that food is a necessity and that your body needs food or whatever, they need to understand that your body doesn't need you to buy expensive food or food that you generally love eating, your body only needs food, food that can give it energy and protiens, etc. You can eat normal food on a daily basis, or simply eat what you love once a week or something like that, so that you don't need to spend a lot of money on your cravings every day. Even if someone accepts it or not, one can actually save a lot of money if they do this.

A lot of people spend a lot of money on food only on a daily basis, and that's not only because their body needs it, it's because they want it. Your mom cooks food at home, but you don't want to eat that, instead, you want McDonalds, or KFC, or whatever it is that you generally like more than what your mom has cooked at home. Is that a necessity? Of course, not, but it's just what you want, and even if you don't buy food, you won't starve to death because you will still have something to eat, it's just that it might not be your favourite.

So, if you want to cut costs, you will have to compromise a little.

[Odohu]

when asked, what is something you can't give up even when cutting costs?, people often say food that they always want delicious food but is food always worth it? my answer is NO. it is not worth eating out all the time. do not use the justification that since it is a basic necessity you have to buy expensive food all the time. you can still eat delicious food even if we are cutting costs

We have basic needs as humans, they are basic because they are necessary to keep us safe and healthy. Food, shelter, medicine and utilities are some of those basic needs that you cannot cut budget for. If you decide to cut cost for food, you may suffer from malnutrition and eventually fall sick which will require you to use the money you saved to treat yourself. Therefore, food is worth it, it is necessary for life and constitute one of the major spending in most countries including mine.

[XOOMBOX]

In my personal opinion, food is essential and priceless. When we're frugal, food shouldn't be sacrificed, as it's a basic need vital to our health and productivity. We desperately need nutrition and healthy food to stay healthy and strong, and I believe that shouldn't be sacrificed. I prefer to cut back on other expenses and avoid unnecessary purchases or repair items that are still in good condition, reduce air conditioning use or conserve electricity, cycle or walk everywhere, and only use a vehicle when absolutely necessary and for other things that cost money. And I will always prioritize the best food for my family, even if I have to cook at home, it still has to be the best.

I also think like you that food is very important in our daily lives and many people forget about it. It is important to be frugal but for that we must also see that our body is not deprived of nutrition. I personally think that if the body is not healthy then we cannot focus on anything so investing in the quality of food is actually investing in our family and our future. Reducing other expenses like not buying unnecessary things or saving electricity are all reasonable but we must always take care that the food enters the body properly. Even what you said that even if you cook at home you should pay attention to the best and your words are very inspiring because the foundation of a healthy life is built from here.