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LinkPizza posted...

Where the hell do you ship. Ive never been to a place where I could get ingredients at that price. Ever... Even double that price, I would have trouble...

Northeast of England.

The breakdown of the ingredients...

Sauce - 0.75 for 1 jar, which is enough to make 2 pizzas.
Toppings - Most common ones in my household are pepperoni and jalapeos, though different people like different toppings, and not everyone uses the same ones.

But in short, for 1 we can get a packet of pepperoni, which is enough for 4 pizzas, a jar of olives costs around 0.70 and that makes 10+ pizzas, jalapeos cost about 1 to make enough for 10 pizzas, etc.

But with prices like that, we're only adding in around 0.40 per pizza topping wise.

For the dough, the ingredients are pretty cheap, we can get a good bag of flour for 1.39 that is enough to make 2 and a half batches of dough, which in turn is enough to make 4 pizzas each, so that flour is enough for 10 overall.

Other ingredients for the dough itself is just salt, sugar, oil and some yeast, which doesn't need too much of any of them and ends up adding only a few pennies each to it, most expensive one is the yeast, which costs 1 for a 6 pack, so that ends up being 16.6p

Though we are getting a little off track with that.

The cheese itself, we can get a bag of shredded mozzarella for 1.29, and that's enough for 4 pizzas, making it 32.25p each.

So all of these prices put together are still a fraction of what places like Dominos or Pizza Hut charges, and you also get to decorate them yourself, which is something my girls love to do, such as making little smiley faces or designs on it.

LinkPizza posted...

Well, yeah. Its a little cheaper. But people are also paying for convenience. For example, I dont have time to go home and make a burger at lunch. And Id rather eat some somewhat fresher than 4-6 hours of sitting in my car or work fridge. And warmer, too, I guess... I also dont want to have to make dough and wait for it for 2 hours when Im already getting home super late. Haha.

If by "little cheaper" you mean half the price, then yes. =P

But the sheer difference in quality more than makes up for preparation time, since most of it can be done while you're doing other things, such as setting the table, cleaning any dishes you need to serve it, putting some laundry on, etc.

As for the burgers, you would put the dough on before you actually need it, and then when you're preparing it, the dough itself only needs 15 to 20 minutes to cook, which is around the same time you would need to prepare the burger, which can be done in various ways, such as frying the toppings so they taste better, or just preparing the toppings so people can pick and mix what they want.

We usually do that when we have tacos, so there's a separate bowl for rice, diced onions, tomato slices, the sour cream, etc.

In the centre of the table is the plate of cooked tortillas that people can just grab, and then make their tacos however they want.

Though I did mention in the pizza bit that quite a few people would be willing to pay extra to not have to cook it themselves, but another advantage is also that you don't have to clean any dishes after you're done.

Which is something that my wife would be willing to flat out pay someone else to do when it's her turn to wash up. xD

(Which my little ladies often use to get some extra pocket money. =P )

Edit: As for the timing, you are able to prepare it in advance.

For instance, I could prepare curry and rice, then put it in a tiffin so when it's time for lunch, I can just eat it straightaway and not have to worry about how long it takes to prepare.