Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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Neil Jaye said:
If you want to fix the obesity problem, find a way to make eat cheaper to eat healthy foods than it is to go to McDonald's or Taco Bell.
Walker said:
It's already cheaper to eat healthy food at home. Just more time consuming when you have to make everything from scratch. ;)
Had a flashback to this conversation when I saw Lifeon2Wheels share this image on Facebook (click to enlarge):
leftovers
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What I usually notice is that they are mostly ordering dollar menu items...mcchicken, mccdoubles, etc. The dollar menu really is a lure for some people and their families.
It is cheap to eat at home if you prepare it and in the long run the way to go. Proper education seems to be the key. You really will pay in the long run for all those McDoubles and Jr Bacon Cheeseburgers.
GCrites80s
5xNW
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The more people that are being cooked for, the greater the cost savings by cooking at home generally. It's often tough for a single person to outpace the economies of scale of which fast food/fast casual/diner/pizza/sandwich joints/Chinese takeout restaurants get to take advantage. Especially if you don't drink pop with meals. People don't really think about how much it costs to fire up an oven and stove top to feed only one person, let alone running the water heater. You usually wind up with leftovers, so then you're forced to repeat the exact same meal again within a day or so to keep from having to throw it away. And, you wind up with massive quantities of an ingredient that you only use with one dish. I've thrown out so much bad food that I paid good money for that I often wonder if it's even worth it to cook at home when I can score a meal down the street for $4, not have to do dishes, not heat up the whole apartment in the summer, not have to throw away a bunch of food that I committed the mortal sin of forgetting about for two days and not having to fill the cupboards with a bunch of stuff I'll never come close to finishing.
Here's an example: I used the same pre-filled disposable salt shaker for 11 years; in fact I didn't even use all the salt because it got lumpy. So, I opened the other one that came in the 2-pack and started using it a few years back. I'm consuming 14-year-old salt that I purchased at a Big Bear Plus in 1998 because I can. I'd say that 75% of the food at my folks' place is inedible due to its age since they only cook for two. Or, how about the case of frozen pizzas? Yeah, there's the cheap ones, but a decent one will cost you $7 and will still suck pretty badly. Meanwhile, there's all kinds of badass pizzas available for $7-10 from the pros. And you won't have to make it, run the oven, cut it yourself or have it take up a bunch of space in your freezer.
Now, big families can see massive cost savings by cooking at home. Or, think about all those times when you've had people over and were able to feed 10 people with $19 worth of food from the grocery. Again, economies of scale. But for single people and even in the case of two pals or a couple, sometimes it just sucks too bad to "save" that $1.
tolemac5050
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Looks like another hibachi "japanese style" restaurant opening in this old Home Town Buffet space
tolemac5050
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KYO Hibachi Buffet is closed for 3 days already, due to repeat violations with the health department. A friend dined there awhile back and she said it was awful. I think this place opened in October.
tolemac5050
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FURTHER UPDATE:--
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/15/restaurant_still_closed.html
Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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im no stranger to shitty buffets but that place was a dump...
Red Sun Rising
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GCrites80s-
Consider simple whole foods. Consider raw foods.
You don't have to heat up water or fire up a stove to make a robust green smoothie or fruit smoothie for one. PB&J sandwiches are still simple and quick.
Try gaspacho soup or vichyssoise. You can make the soups and freeze them, and just let them thaw when you want to eat them later. There are lots of cold soup recipes out there.
If you need a snack: peel a banana, or eat apples, berries, melons, citrus fruits etc.
or
Chop up and snack on some vegetables (cucumbers, bell peppers, celery, carrots cruciferous veggies, whatever you like)
One of my favorite summer dishes is fruit salad:
Mango, pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, bananas, peaches.
Mix separately: the juice of 1 lemon, 2 TBSP maple syrup, 2TBSP orange or peach liquor (alcohol optional), 1/4 tsp cinnamon. Add to peeled, diced, sliced, chopped fruit (except I leave the berries whole) and if you like/are not allergic to nuts, add some walnuts or pecans- they add a nice texture and it is good to have some fat to help absorb many of the nutrients from the fruit.
Nuts. You can get a great variety of nuts for reasonable pricing at Trader Joe's. I make a custom trail mix of dried fruits and nuts.
If you are concerned about life of greens and produce, try something like this:
http://shop.cleanreport.com/Fresh_n_Crisp_Produce_Storage_Life_Extender_p/80902.htm
leftovers
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Wow...I am actually staring at a valpak coupon for an $8.79 dinner buffet at KYO that the darkside of my brain was trying to convince me to use. CU saved us! :)
We have been trying to eat healthier and exercise. Buffets used to be a treat for the variety of foods to try but we have cut them out and I am sure we are healthier for it.
I will share a little of my buffet knowledge. We went to the Hometown at Mill Run before it became KYO and then the one at Soldano on the Westside. The Soldano one really has some low standards. The bar is placed pretty low there. In the same parking lot is a Mark Pi's Feast of the Dragon. That is really good. My previous experience with Chinese buffets was the now closed China Buffet on High St next to Giant Eagle. The Feast of the Dragon is a million times better.
I still like the concept of buffets, but they are just too tempting for me as an excuse to overindulge. The fact they are being shutdown by the health department also helps.
mrmann
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The last time I went to a buffet (the one on Morse by Easton) the family ahead of us had the plague. They were coughing, wheezing, sneezing, and oozing. Please people, if you are dying of something contagious don't stop at the buffet on the way to the ER.
I can't help but think buffets contribute to the untimely demise of a lot of the older folks who seem to enjoy them.
Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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leftovers said:
Wow...I am actually staring at a valpak coupon for an $8.79 dinner buffet at KYO that the darkside of my brain was trying to convince me to use. CU saved us! :)We have been trying to eat healthier and exercise. Buffets used to be a treat for the variety of foods to try but we have cut them out and I am sure we are healthier for it.
I will share a little of my buffet knowledge. We went to the Hometown at Mill Run before it became KYO and then the one at Soldano on the Westside. The Soldano one really has some low standards. The bar is placed pretty low there. In the same parking lot is a Mark Pi's Feast of the Dragon. That is really good. My previous experience with Chinese buffets was the now closed China Buffet on High St next to Giant Eagle. The Feast of the Dragon is a million times better.
I still like the concept of buffets, but they are just too tempting for me as an excuse to overindulge. The fact they are being shutdown by the health department also helps.
I was drawn in by the "sushi selection". I thought to myself "you know chris this could actually be good, go drive 14 miles to Hilliard and check this place out." Every plate I filled I could only eat about a third, the waitress would ask "sir, is everything ok" as I responded with an uncertain but positive nod while chewing grisly fatty meat. Totally not surprised about the code violations. Feast of the dragon and honk kong on Henderson are by far the best (if that could be said) Asian buffets in town.
Nicholas Herum
Columbus
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What's with restaurant health code violations in that area? The Movie Tavern over there has had a lot of code violations as well.
GCrites80s
5xNW
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Chris Sherman said:
I was drawn in by the "sushi selection". I thought to myself "you know chris this could actually be good, go drive 14 miles to Hilliard and check this place out." Every plate I filled I could only eat about a third, the waitress would ask "sir, is everything ok" as I responded with an uncertain but positive nod while chewing grisly fatty meat. Totally not surprised about the code violations. Feast of the dragon and honk kong on Henderson are by far the best (if that could be said) Asian buffets in town.
Buffet food is like that; makes you feel full almost right away. Some kind of trick. I think the regulars just power their way through it.
0Angle
Home-Northwood Park, Breweries-43215
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The brew pub in Newark that I brewed at in the late 90's had a Sunday brunch buffet. The owner called those customers "boo-fay" people.
Aab has a buffet that I feel good about and Sher E Punjab's vegetarian buffet was worth planning my boy's night around.
Now I'm hungry for Indian. Dang it.
Mister Shifter
Lewis Center
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Sher E Punjab, Aab and Taj... the trinity of yum.
alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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Sher E Punjab
That's within easy walking distance, but I haven't checked it out yet.
I had an office job on East Broad Street, there was a cheap Chinese buffet and the people would stack the egg rolls on their plates like firelogs.
DocMedPot
Columbus, Crosswoods area
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Yeesh, Buffets, nothing like cafeteria food that you have to serve yourself at. I got to say for my restaurant dollar this is the bottom of the barrel when it come to eating out, I'd rather have a meal freshly cooked for me than scoring chow out of a steam table tray. Hopefully places like this will become a thing of the past.....
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