#DailyBloggingChallenge (138/200)
Over the past two days, I was living off of 5min quick make foods meaning one just needs to add hot water, stir, and wait.
Each meal/cup had a dry weight of about 60g and ca 250g wet weight. And it would take about 3 cups to be satiated.
Considering that the price per cup ranged from 0.80-3.50€ and the convenience factor, it can be quite an expensive luxury, depending on what price tag one puts on one’s own working time.
If one’s working time cost is 0.00€, then one is looking at 10.50€ per meal. Now considering one would buy the raw ingredients, which would on average cost only a fraction of the price, then one quickly realizes the luxury of such quick convenience foods.
@barefootstache meal prepping can help get the convienence of the storebought instant food for the price/health of the ingredients, but you tend to lose on shelf life without the commercial preservatives. I need to learn about making dehydrated meals.
@Neblib also one needs to have the storage capacity
#DailyBloggingChallenge (139/200)
Let
p
be price of cup andw
be hourly work cost. Then the costC
of preparation per cup isfor time
t
in hours.If we take a look at the three cup example for satiation of a meal
M
.Let’s take a look at various price points
p = {0.8, 1.5, 3.5}
and various hourly wagesw = {20, 50, 100}
. Then this gives us the tableWP
.Now considering that whole food costs a fraction
p_f
of the price of convenience food, though in return needs more prep timet_f
.This gives us the new equation of
and
We will look at
p_f = {0.5, 0.8}
andt_f = {5, 10}
; only on the last two columns of the previous tableWP
.First we will multiply
p_f * p
andt * t_f
, so that we can use the equationM
.Let table
P
bep_f\p
and table
T
bet_f\t
This give us the equation
and the table
WTF
w\t_f
with this we can finally calculate the table
WPF
w*t_f\p_f
since 41.5 and 42 are close, we omitted the prior one.
The table
WPF
shows that considering one’s own wage price for food prep, then a meal becomes quite expensive.So next time one complains how expensive a meal is at the #restaurant, one can compare how expensive it would be if one prepped it oneself.
#maths #cooking