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Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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Re: Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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I find it odd that the options he considered were restaurants, take out, and hiring a personal chef. Don't the pizza shops in his area deliver?

What I like about what he's doing is that he's able to get good, healthy food for relatively quite cheap- it's a great way to save time and still live well.

Re: Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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> 1. Cooking

Cooking dinner takes me about 20 minutes every day and I eat pretty healthy.

> 2. Washing dishes - especially pots, pans and knives that can’t go in the dishwasher

I must be doing it wrong because I put absolutely everything in the dishwasher. Seems to work well enough for me.

> 3. Shopping - especially for food!

I go shopping about every 5 days and that's about 1 hour round trip.

> 4. Driving out to get take out (just DRIVING!)

I almost never pick up take out. If I do it's to somewhere close and 20 minute round trip.

Re: Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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post #2

I find it odd that the options he considered were restaurants, take out, and hiring a personal chef. Don't the pizza shops in his area deliver?

What I like about what he's doing is that he's able to get good, healthy food for relatively quite cheap- it's a great way to save time and still live well.

It's not really that cheap. $60 PLUS ingredients. You're going to do as well as that with "by the pound" grocery store buffets, which can be quite healthy.

Re: Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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post #2

I find it odd that the options he considered were restaurants, take out, and hiring a personal chef. Don't the pizza shops in his area deliver?

It sounds like he values variety and healthfulness in his food.

He never says what he's getting. I would lay money Casey is a fat, typical, American mother and he's getting loads of starch, cheap meat, and a low variety of vegetables.

Re: Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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About half the time I wish I could outsource my job to someone on Craig's list for $15/hr so that I could spend more time cooking.

There was an hilarious dilbert strip which I can not find which had Dilbert washing his cubicle with a spray bottle and rag, dancing about having a great time, and then Alice shows up and says, "Okay, you've had the bottle long enough. It's my turn to pretend to be a janitor."

It's not funny till you've been there: Mundane labor in the office [1] is strangely delightful compared to typing.

[1] Not just janitorial work, but office moves, decorating, carrying stuff, etc.

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