EXAMPLES IN VALUE VS. CONVINIENCE

By: Michael Buckosh

Bread can be brought forth and created by kneading, buying at the grocery store, or by buying at a resturaunt, ususally with other foods added with it.

The more time you sacrifice from doing yourself to convenience, the more money you save generally. This is a universal policy usually based on making most items; but then you have to include in the machinery you have to make the product.

Making a loaf of bread going out buying the yeast, flower, and using water; is the cheapest way to make bread. It costs about ten cents a loaf with just buying a standard size bag of flower, and a bag of yeast. 

You have to then factor in that a bread machine to make it more simple without having to sit and do the bread at manual is free and takes about an hour, that or a bread maker machine costs about one hundred and fifty dollars.

Buying bread over the counter costs about one dollar seventy five cents. This is a universal metaphor of how convinence compares to saving money by doing it yourself, basing it on different levels of how much you start from scatch. For instance, a biscuit package of ten biscuits costs about three dollars. You can then buy bisquick and make ten buscuits for about twenty cents by mixing the biscuit together and baking on your own. That or it is already manufactured, and is sold at a fast food restraunt for about seventy five cents a buscuit.

This is true with the process of sausage, bacon, luncheon sandwitches, steaks, and most any recipie you decide to cook, that there is generally always money saved depending on how much you start from scratch with.

You then have to take into account the technoligy you have for the make at home experience, and the cost of them and based on use. a spaghetti machine costs about one hundred dollars, but the spaghetti is fresher and alot less expensive.

A farmer can be a radical of cheap foods with making their own foods. A farmer making his own foods from his own grown crops is not common, and they ususally just shop like normal. If they were to make their own groceries, it would be the furthest from manufactured by people and would be the absolute lowest cost.

There is then mass production, which may make it cheaper than making at home taking into account that they have machines that make more of the product you are trying to save money by making at home at a cheaper, much faster rate for the food to be offered manufactured. This then means that it is more convenient to buy manufactured at a hiigher level, for the machines they have make too much food to benifit a family just trying to feed its own.

Eataing at a reusturaunt is generally alot more expensive then going grocery shopping and making what the resturaunt is selling. Sometimes they keep it similar or neutral by having certain equipment which makes the processing more efficient, and buy the food that you buy for a family to take home and cook at bulk.

It is then sometimes more convenient to cook at home, and not fight the hustle bustle of driving to a resturaunt for food. Then you just save a twenty minute drive to the store with stocked up groceries and make it without having to go anywhere and save a trip to the resturaunt and hustling through crowds to get your food.

Making alot of food at one time and then freezing it to have for later adds convinience to your foods. You just have one sit down to make the food and then have the food you made ready for the rest of the week.

Spontanious sales items save the most money with coupons and products they are trying to get off the shelf. This takes away from the specifics of recipies that you want to cook and specific foods that you want for occasions and just need, but are good items that you save on to eat for unimportant occasions that are a cheap meal to eat that you are not doing anything fancy for.

There is cheaper recipies that they generally do not sell at resuturaunts that save money by cooking it rather than foods offered at resturaunts. This is true with hamburger helper,  cereal, and other foods. It is cheaper, but is not usually an offered dish at recipes that has the same quality as resturaunts

 Shop carefully, balancing out your shopping with different levels of make from scratch to gormet resturaunt splurges, and everywhere in between taking the above into account. Try and save money, have convinience at home, save time at a fast food resturaunt, or save money with faster manufactured food resturaunts. Try it with a more advanced budget and taking more of your schedule into account.