Estimate what home-cooked family dinners cost weekly and annually.
Multiplying the number of home dinners each week by the per-meal grocery cost gives a weekly total, which scales to a month and a year. Dividing by the people at the table reveals the per-person cost that undercuts most takeout. Home cooking typically costs a fraction of restaurant meals per person, and knowing that number makes the nightly trade-off between cooking and ordering concrete.
Family Dinner Cost
Weekly = dinners per week x cost per dinner; per person = cost per meal / diners
Weekly = dinners per week x cost per dinner; per person = cost per meal / diners Multiplying the number of home dinners each week by the per-meal grocery cost gives a weekly total, which scales to a month and a year. Dividing by the people at the table reveals the per-person cost that undercuts most takeout.
Home cooking typically costs a fraction of restaurant meals per person, and knowing that number makes the nightly trade-off between cooking and ordering concrete.
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Home dinners per week, Cost per meal, People at the table. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.