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helIy posted...

lmao

if you're getting the ingredients to make four actual pizzas for 3 pounds 60, you are making four very shitty pizza

for reference, that's only $4.58

yeah

The overall ingredients cost more than that, however you don't use all of them to make the single meal.

If we were to look at the costs of all the ingredients as being a single meal, then it looks to be far more expensive than it actually is.

This is how businesses are able to make profits, by making something, and then selling it for a higher price.

Though the actual way it's made varies greatly from place to place, but there are quite a few smaller shops that sell full sized pizzas for around 3.50 apiece with a small one for 2, and quite a few of them are genuinely good.

Part of this is also knowing where and how to get ingredients.

For instance, if I want to have hotdogs, then Greggs have outstanding hotdog buns, which is 6 for 1, but they taste about a thousand times better than the cheap ones you would find at places like Tesco or Asda, and are still better than the more expensive ones that cost over 2 for a pack of 6.

However, Greggs only makes some a day, and when they're gone, they're gone.

So if you want them, you have to go down as soon as they open, or you have next to no chance of actually getting them.

Other ingredients also cost wildly different amounts, such as flour, if we were to get it from Marks and Spencers, then we're looking at around 4 for a single bag, and that flour is actually very good.

However, if we're getting flour from other supermarkets, then it tends to be around 1.50 to 2.50, and the quality is very iffy, however, Waitrose has a store brand that is very high quality for 1.39.

As for the pepperoni, there's quite a few places to get it from, but Tesco is actually the cheapest for the quality, and they sell a pack of 36 slices for 1, and that's enough to have 9 per pizza which is a fair amount if you spread it out and have other toppings on it as well.

Tesco also sells spicy pepperoni slices, which is 30 slices for 1.70, and you can get literally the same thing just by mixing in some chilli flakes or powder into the sauce itself if you want it to be spicy, and you can buy an entire 500g bag of it for 1.79 from oriental stores such as Tsangs or Hi You, which is enough to last for a few months.

A big part of knowing how to cook is knowing where to get different ingredients, otherwise yeah, you end up with pretty questionable dishes that could cost tremendously more.

For instance, the cheapest pizza toppings at Waitrose cost 2.59, which makes it vastly more expensive.

Though I can't make any specific examples for where you live, since I don't know what you have readily available, but the ones I make were better than pizza take out in multiple taste tests.