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Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by JobAndVacancies: 8:57pm On May 09, 2025
We4all:
Stop obsessing over a married woman. I am not Ahnie, dummy.
show evidence or keep deceiving yourself.
It's already obvious from your writing style that you're ahnie
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Ilekokonit: 1:01am On May 10, 2025
Eating out may or may not be cheaper but it is not healthier.

What makes takeaways and eating out appealing to our taste buds can actually shorten our lifespan on the LONG RUN because Takeaways are laden with too much salt and Mono sodium glutamate (Msg or Ajinomoto) to give them the appealing taste and the oils used in take away food can be unhealthy, particularly if they are high in omega-6 fatty acids and are heated to high temperatures.

These oils, like soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, and safflower oil, can become unstable and form harmful compounds when heated, and are often part of processed foods that may be high in other unhealthy ingredients.

Also, you can not always vouch for the hygiene standards of the workers at the takeaway joints or their source of water supply.

Cooking for yourself at home means you can always vouch for every ingredient you put in your food plus the water supply and hygiene standard.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Jeffy1206(m): 2:25am On May 10, 2025
inoki247:
Lol na u wan Lose appetite....


As for me my mind no go gri leave the food. If I wan go pee I go check am out, if I dey watch TV I go pause am to check if everything still dey intact along the line things will start missing in the pot sad shocked shocked
😂 grin cheesy
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by MrBroke(m): 6:01am On May 10, 2025
Eating outside will always be more expensive, na ona know wetin ona dey talk. No be because you buy plate of food 1500 you go come carry compare pot of food way you for eat 3 or more times
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by OnlyChris(m): 6:38am On May 10, 2025
Cooking at home cost me 18K weekly as a single guy, well feed.
But minimal feeding outside cost me ₦3,500 daily which sums up to ₦24,500 weekly.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by G0odharddick: 7:01am On May 10, 2025
jimmyolasun:
E concern you. Oya come cook for me
Dude I was once like you untill I learnt how to cook. I cook different kinds of food for my consumption. Girls no fit form trash for me as long as cooking is concern. They fear guys that knows how to cook. Stop giving women this mindset that without them coming over guys will not eat, that was in 1920s, not in 2025!

a man shouldn't be bragging in this century that he doesn't know how to cook
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by jimmyolasun: 7:47am On May 10, 2025
G0odharddick:
Dude I was once like you untill I learnt how to cook. I cook different kinds of food for my consumption. Girls no fit form trash for me as long as cooking is concern. They fear guys that knows how to cook. Stop giving women this mindset that without them coming over guys will not eat, that was in 1920s, not in 2025!

a man shouldn't be bragging in this century that he doesn't know how to cook
And where in my post did I say I don't know how to cook.. actually I can even make pounded yam. The problem is I don't know how to bargain at the market.. so why ask someone to help to stock up on food stuffs and not let them finish the cooking.. every other days, I cook myself..
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by G0odharddick: 7:52am On May 10, 2025
jimmyolasun:
And where in my post did I say I don't know how to cook.. actually I can even make pounded yam. The problem is I don't know how to bargain at the market.. so why ask someone to help to stock up on food stuffs and not let them finish the cooking.. every other days, I cook myself..
shocked

You don't know how to bargain in the market? How old are you?

Are you new in Nigeria? Is this pride or forming? How can a normal sane guy not know how to bargain and price things in the market?
Even dangote dey bargain for market. Dude, no let me wipe you oraimo cord
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Jeje247: 8:34am On May 10, 2025
Commentor:
Heard it's common in the Somali community.
It's common in Nigeria. Regularly eating out puts you at risk. It causes peptic ulcer. You are also highly prone to typhoid disease when you keep eating out
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by dododawa1: 9:50am On May 10, 2025
in BENUE and LAGOS STATE EATING OUTSIDE IS CHEAPER


WHILE



IN SOUTH EAST and SOUTH SOUTH,cooking at home cheaper.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by jimmyolasun: 10:35am On May 10, 2025
G0odharddick:
shocked

You don't know how to bargain in the market? How old are you?

Are you new in Nigeria? Is this pride or forming? How can a normal sane guy not know how to bargain and price things in the market?
Even dangote dey bargain for market. Dude, no let me wipe you oraimo cord
Wo!! Bobo fimile.. I no sabi..
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by We4all: 12:27pm On May 10, 2025
JobAndVacancies:
show evidence or keep deceiving yourself.
It's already obvious from your writing style that you're ahnie
Get a life and stop trolling. I am not Ahnie.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by JobAndVacancies: 1:16pm On May 10, 2025
We4all:
Get a life and stop trolling. I am not Ahnie.
keep deceiving yourself
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by TTPAAR(m): 8:59pm On May 10, 2025
bixton:
Except this person is staying somewhere in the middle belt to north.....
This meal is meagre managed and not averagely nice.
Yh
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Caaz:
We4all:
Get a life and stop trolling. I am not Ahnie.
For your peace of mind,please stop indulging him,you can just decide to block him.


Click on his profile and press the block button.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by We4all: 6:12am On May 11, 2025
Caaz:
For your peace of mind,please stop indulging him,you can just decide to block him.


Chirckens on his profile and press the block button.
Yeah..I should.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by JobAndVacancies: 9:48pm On May 14, 2025
We4all:
Yeah..I should.
this one that has been so obsessed about me will ever think of blocking me?
Keep deceiving yourself by quoting and responding to yourself with your two different monikers
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Myrrhis: 10:03pm On May 14, 2025
JobAndVacancies:
this one that has been so obsessed about me will ever think of blocking me?
Keep deceiving yourself by quoting and responding to yourself with your two different monikers
That is what you do with your numerous monikers, right?
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by We4all: 3:09pm On May 15, 2025
JobAndVacancies:
this one that has been so obsessed about me will ever think of blocking me?
Keep deceiving yourself by quoting and responding to yourself with your two different monikers
Lol... This kid again. Why the obsession with a married woman?
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by JobAndVacancies: 7:23pm On May 15, 2025
We4all:
Lol... This kid again. Why the obsession with a married woman?
I'm not obsessed with you, rather you're the one obsessed with me Ahnie.
How are you doing by the way?
My regards to your husband and the kids grin
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by We4all: 7:46pm On May 15, 2025
JobAndVacancies:
I'm not obsessed with you, rather you're the one obsessed with me Ahnie.
How are you doing by the way?
My regards to your husband and the kids grin
Are you bisexual? Why are you asking after her husband?
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Konquest: 7:31am On May 16, 2025
Caaz:
Cooking is better than eating out.

#1500 prepared this chicken egusi soup this afternoon.
If you want to eat this food outside it will cost nothing less than #500
And i still have remainder in the pot.
Interesting takes.
Re: Cooking Alone Vs Eating Out, Which Is More Expensive? by Konquest: 7:40am On May 16, 2025
jimmyolasun:
So if you spend 5k to cook at home, you finish the food at a go? I am not understanding this..

Because I know whenever I eat out, I spend nothing less than 3500 to 4k eating Amala and ogunfe but whenever I have someone come cook for me, I spend at least 6-10k to get the dishes ready and it takes me nothing less than 3-5 days before I finish it.

So tell me how...
This thread has a lot of contradictory comments. It would have been BETTER for each poster to state his or her location. Location determines how expensive or cheap food is.

Someone mention right on Page 1 about eating cheaper outside in Jos and that makes sense because of location. But eating out in the big Southern cities such as Lagos, PH, etc, would be more expensive. Even in Lagos State, the cost of eating out on Lagos Mainland is relatively cheaper than eating on Ikoyi Island, Victoria Island or the Lekki Peninsula areas of Lekki phase 1 where groceries and more are expensive because of the silly perception that the locations are upscale.
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