Was dead set against meal prep services until I did the math on my grocery receipts

My partner kept pushing Factor meals and I laughed it off for months. I was convinced it was just lazy people throwing money away. Then I sat down and added up three months of my grocery runs where I'd buy stuff, forget about it, and toss half of it. It came out to about $180 a month in wasted food alone. At $11 a meal that's basically the same cost when you factor in zero waste. I still feel weird about it but the numbers don't lie. Has anyone else had their opinion flipped by actually crunching the numbers on something?

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nguyen.angela8d ago

Started doing the same thing with my Amazon subscriptions after realizing I was paying for protein bars I never actually ate (they're still sitting in my pantry, taunting me). Found out my "lazy tax" was way higher than I'd ever admit out loud.

reese_lee98d ago

Lazy tax adds up way faster than anyone wants to admit.

the_piper8d ago

Setting up a Sunday afternoon to meal prep the basics changed my grocery game completely. Now I only buy what I'll actually cook that week and my trash can stopped looking like a vegetable graveyard.