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I feel like this can only be true if you're trying to get real fancy with the home cooking. I don't see how eating out consistently could ever be cheaper or even close to as cheap as cooking yourself rice and beans at home. Dry rice and beans in bulk are pretty cheap
Fuck rice and beans I don't know of any situations where this is true.
Me and my partner haven't gone out to eat more than a couple times in the last year because the options are either pay $30/ person for dinner and drinks we could have cooked better at home for 1/3rd the price or paying $80/ person for a dinner we could have cooked as well for half the price.
Unless saving yourself 2 hours of cooking and 30 minutes of cleanup is worth nearly $200 with a tip were grilling at home and getting drunk on the porch.
But my gf is also strictly gluten free so the places we could go aren't exactly cheap (although neither are the ingredients)
It's still like 1/2 or 1/3 the price here if I buy vegan or non-vegan chicken nuggets and any sorts of fries and soda at the grocery store than it is to go to McDonalds (just getting a soda and a large frie(s) at McDonalds is like $10). And definitely cheaper than the even more expensive restaurants like A&W (it's $35-40 for two people to eat there now). And that's the expensive pre-made food. Making real food is even cheaper.
I priced it out once, because I got way into dry goods earlier this year. a massive serving of rice purchased by the bag is like 12 cents, a belly busting amount of dried black beans is around 25 cents. there's also kidney beans, and a world of lentils. I prefer red lately.
straight up unflavored beans and rice is kinda buttcheeks, but there are several routes to go with it: creole/cajun, meijicano, cuban, etc and it's all just a nickle and dime worth of seasoning and actually buying a fresh pepper, onion, etc, which to be sure is gonna be a few bucks.
it takes stability and an investment of time, effort, and money (spices, equipment) to build up the kitchen infrastructure to support making "beans and rice" from scratch a few different ways or to holster few basic lentil-based curries, but they'll stretch meals way out. and, I dunno, even when I eat too much beans and rice, it's never made me feel like shit afterwards, lol.