$17 for 4 cheeseburgers. This is why I say it’s cheaper and easier to just eat out
$17 for 4 cheeseburgers. This is why I say it’s cheaper and easier to just eat out
by Tutor-Any
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one-eye-deer
The pre-made burger patties at my grocery story are around $8-$9 for four (16oz total). I recently bought 7lbs of hamburger on sale for $3/lb and made 22 5oz patties for $21 total.
When you buy already-processed meats like this, you pay a convenience fee on them. Same with pre-trimmed chicken thighs and breasts, pork, etc.
HateSpoke
lol
KungFuBucket
You’re using pre-cooked bacon and brioche buns. Can do same for about $2 with normal buns, block cheddar, bacon from the deli counter, and 85% lean ground beef and still have money left over for grilled onions, lettuce and a tomatoe slice.
necessarysmartassery
This is not budget food. Budget food is the 73/27 ground beef, Great Value buns, and Great Value sliced American cheese and no bacon. And even that’s stretching it because ground beef is high right now. The buns you have are $5 alone where I am.
MoulanRougeFae
Because you made it that expensive. Get regular ground hamburger and shape your own for a decent sum less than those preshaped ones. They don’t even add seasoning so you’ve literally spent money just for a shape. The buns you chose are the high price brioche. There’s cheaper options that taste just as good. You chose poorly and made it cost as much as it did.
RealisticBus4443
Yeah, no. Four QPs at McDonald’s will cost you more than $17 and be less filling.
Sm-chew-60
But $17 for only one burger eating out, right?
pillowcased
That’s $4.25 per burger then, right? Am I missing something? That’s great. I don’t know where you can get a fast food burger for 4.25 at this point.
itsvalenluna
I’m sure you can find something healthier than those burgers
EI_CEO_CFT
OP i love ya man but even at my least broke Ive never bought the premium items you have lol. Its interesting to see how some people don’t have the “grocery shopping gene” innately in them and don’t know to buy the generic, baser ingredients automatically.
Like others said, a pound or two of ground beef lets you crank out ten-twenty patties if not more. Bread is almost always on sale, needn’t be buns but if you really want em the generics arent that bad. Personally I find having two meats in one meal when budgeting to be a kind of unnecessary decadence, but if necessary I again echo others comments it wouldve been cheaper at the deli. Any vegetables youd want [tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions] should only be a buck or two aswell and go far for a few burgers.
Sorry youre getting dunked on brotherman but this just feels a bit outta touch for r/budgetfood
WAFLcurious
I get the idea that you shopped just so you could prove your point. But you did not succeed. Now try again and see how low you can keep the cost. Post that result and it will fit this sub better.
Houseleek1
You are surely making thicker hamburgers at home than what you get out here, right? You’re also slicing the onions thicker, putting in pickles that are larger than a beetles foot and thick tomatoes that you can’t see through.
Come on. If you’re not doing that you have paid attention to how commercial establishments cheat you.
CodenameBear
And you didn’t even get cheese?
Was this your first trip to the grocery store or something?
_bumpler
That’s just food. If you wanted it to be “budget”, you’d have to wait until it had some discount stickers.
MarsNeedsRabbits
Buy bread from a discount grocery store, or the discount rack in the regular grocery store. Be willing to use hot dog buns, regular bread, dinner rolls (which is how sliders are made), or no bread.
It’s almost always less expensive to buy fresh meat which hasn’t been shaped into patties. Pre-shaped frozen meat is sometimes less expensive. Always look at the discount meat shelf first.
Mix your meat with rolled oats, crackers, stale bread, etc., to stretch the amount and bind the meat to itself. You can mix hamburger with ground pork, chicken, or turkey if it’s less expensive. Meats with very little fat like chicken or turkey may require a binder to hold them together when you are making hamburgers. Add chopped onions, an egg if you have one, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, etc., to add flavour. I can get at least four meals for four people out of three pounds of 80/20 ground meat with binders, onions, etc.
Shredded or block cheese is usually less expensive than sliced, so consider that instead of sliced.
If hamburgers remain out of reach, budget-wise, think of planning to have them less often. This week we had grilled chicken-apple sausages instead of burgers because Costco has three packages of five sausages each for $9.99. That’s $3.33 for five large sausages, which is less than any ground meat I could find this week.
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The pre-made burger patties at my grocery story are around $8-$9 for four (16oz total). I recently bought 7lbs of hamburger on sale for $3/lb and made 22 5oz patties for $21 total.
When you buy already-processed meats like this, you pay a convenience fee on them. Same with pre-trimmed chicken thighs and breasts, pork, etc.
lol
You’re using pre-cooked bacon and brioche buns. Can do same for about $2 with normal buns, block cheddar, bacon from the deli counter, and 85% lean ground beef and still have money left over for grilled onions, lettuce and a tomatoe slice.
This is not budget food. Budget food is the 73/27 ground beef, Great Value buns, and Great Value sliced American cheese and no bacon. And even that’s stretching it because ground beef is high right now. The buns you have are $5 alone where I am.
Because you made it that expensive. Get regular ground hamburger and shape your own for a decent sum less than those preshaped ones. They don’t even add seasoning so you’ve literally spent money just for a shape. The buns you chose are the high price brioche. There’s cheaper options that taste just as good. You chose poorly and made it cost as much as it did.
Yeah, no. Four QPs at McDonald’s will cost you more than $17 and be less filling.
But $17 for only one burger eating out, right?
That’s $4.25 per burger then, right? Am I missing something? That’s great. I don’t know where you can get a fast food burger for 4.25 at this point.
I’m sure you can find something healthier than those burgers
OP i love ya man but even at my least broke Ive never bought the premium items you have lol. Its interesting to see how some people don’t have the “grocery shopping gene” innately in them and don’t know to buy the generic, baser ingredients automatically.
Like others said, a pound or two of ground beef lets you crank out ten-twenty patties if not more. Bread is almost always on sale, needn’t be buns but if you really want em the generics arent that bad. Personally I find having two meats in one meal when budgeting to be a kind of unnecessary decadence, but if necessary I again echo others comments it wouldve been cheaper at the deli. Any vegetables youd want [tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions] should only be a buck or two aswell and go far for a few burgers.
Sorry youre getting dunked on brotherman but this just feels a bit outta touch for r/budgetfood
I get the idea that you shopped just so you could prove your point. But you did not succeed. Now try again and see how low you can keep the cost. Post that result and it will fit this sub better.
You are surely making thicker hamburgers at home than what you get out here, right? You’re also slicing the onions thicker, putting in pickles that are larger than a beetles foot and thick tomatoes that you can’t see through.
Come on. If you’re not doing that you have paid attention to how commercial establishments cheat you.
And you didn’t even get cheese?
Was this your first trip to the grocery store or something?
That’s just food. If you wanted it to be “budget”, you’d have to wait until it had some discount stickers.
Buy bread from a discount grocery store, or the discount rack in the regular grocery store. Be willing to use hot dog buns, regular bread, dinner rolls (which is how sliders are made), or no bread.
It’s almost always less expensive to buy fresh meat which hasn’t been shaped into patties. Pre-shaped frozen meat is sometimes less expensive. Always look at the discount meat shelf first.
Mix your meat with rolled oats, crackers, stale bread, etc., to stretch the amount and bind the meat to itself. You can mix hamburger with ground pork, chicken, or turkey if it’s less expensive. Meats with very little fat like chicken or turkey may require a binder to hold them together when you are making hamburgers. Add chopped onions, an egg if you have one, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, etc., to add flavour. I can get at least four meals for four people out of three pounds of 80/20 ground meat with binders, onions, etc.
Shredded or block cheese is usually less expensive than sliced, so consider that instead of sliced.
If hamburgers remain out of reach, budget-wise, think of planning to have them less often. This week we had grilled chicken-apple sausages instead of burgers because Costco has three packages of five sausages each for $9.99. That’s $3.33 for five large sausages, which is less than any ground meat I could find this week.