Cook at home, not eat out

Worth it, barely

You come out $60 ahead.

• It stops being worth it once an hour of your time is worth more than $13.75. You put $10.00.
• For every $1 saved, it costs you $0.85.
• What it costs: extras $180, your time $160.

This is a worked example with illustrative figures, not data about any real person or company. Change any of them in the calculator and the answer changes with them.

How this answer was worked out

Every formula is written out on the formulas page.

What the calculator asks you

• What eating out would cost
• Groceries, and food that gets thrown away
• Hours shopping, cooking and cleaning up
• What an hour of your time is worth
• Chance you give up and order in anyway
• What that costs you

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