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You may or may not know, if you cook for one person, it's actually cheaper to eat out than buying all ingredients and cook a dish at home, because all the ingredients needed.
I wonder if that phenomenon exists in cookies making, since it uses fewer ingredients?
It depends on the sort of cookies you're making. If you're sticking to basic sorts, you can do up a master dough, then divvy it out into the different types of cookies you want, portion the cookies, freeze the dough, then bake X amount as needed. Or if there's nothing in the world you want except a chocolate chip cookie, you can make double or triple batches and freeze the dough.
You may or may not know, if you cook for one person, it's actually cheaper to eat out than buying all ingredients and cook a dish at home, because all the ingredients needed.
Um, no. I have a refrigerator and eat leftovers. There's no way I could eat out for the same cost as eating IN, which I do for almost all meals.
You can plan how to use ingredients, you know, so they don't go to waste.
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Originally Posted by rhbj03
I wonder if that phenomenon exists in cookies making, since it uses fewer ingredients?
I don't have cookies in the house very often (too easy to eat too many!), but occasionally I will bake them. I don't do THAT very often either, though ... again, the too-easy-to-eat-too-many thing!
I should make dough and freeze it in small portions. (Thanks, Weezycom. I just never seem to think to do this.)
Fresh home made cookies are so superior to store bought that the difference in price shouldn’t matter
Good point! Alas, I only like CRISPY cookies (soft cookies make me gag). I still haven't been able to consistently make them very crisp (like Tate's, if you know that brand, or the crisp Pepperidge Farm cookies, even, or Famous Amos, although I haven't seen those around lately).
Baked goods like cookies have about the highest mark-ups of all grocery products. Flour, sugar, and oil/shortening are cheap and you pay a lot in a store for a small box of cookies. If you use butter (I do), that raises the price of the homemade cookies slightly, but not that much.
Make a big batch of cookies and freeze most of them (or freeze the dough) and enjoy the freshness and the savings.
It's never cheaper to eat out than to cook or bake at home unless you buy ingredients in such large quantities that you end up throwing most of them away. Learn to make use of the bulk section of the supermarket. You can get just one cup of flour or one teaspoon of an herb or spice if that's all you need, and the cost is pennies.
Fresh home made cookies are so superior to store bought that the difference in price shouldn’t matter
This. I don't even like most store-bought cookies. I find it is cheaper to make them myself, with the exception of brownies. I find I can't make them as well as from a mix. And I get the mix on sale.
Um, no. I have a refrigerator and eat leftovers. There's no way I could eat out for the same cost as eating IN, which I do for almost all meals.
You can plan how to use ingredients, you know, so they don't go to waste.
I don't have cookies in the house very often (too easy to eat too many!), but occasionally I will bake them. I don't do THAT very often either, though ... again, the too-easy-to-eat-too-many thing!
I should make dough and freeze it in small portions. (Thanks, Weezycom. I just never seem to think to do this.)
I agree, you can cook for one very cheaply. When I was single, I would buy the family packs of meat or chicken, & freeze them, & take out one chop or chicken piece for my dinner. Same with veg, buy a very small amount, fresh, or open a frozen bag & take out enough for one meal. There is no way that eating out is cheaper. It is more convenient, but it is not cheaper. Things like a bag of pasta or rice will keep, & you can get many meals out of it. As for cookies, I try not to eat them.
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