Rant: My sister swears her $8 frozen pizza is a 'budget meal' | Budget Friendly Meals

Uma Wood · 2026-03-09T17:55:06.493311+00:00

She buys the single-serving fancy ones from the freezer aisle, which works out to over $30 a week just for her lunches. I showed her my homemade pizza dough recipe that costs about 75 cents and feeds four people, but she says it's 'too much work'. How do you even argue with that logic?

patw857mo ago

Honestly though, after a long shift I just want to grab something and not clean up. @the_andrew's ten minutes plus the mess is still more effort than opening a box.

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the_andrew7mo ago

My homemade dough takes 10 minutes of actual work, and the savings are huge. What's her real reason for not trying it?

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emmaj337mo ago

Look, I get it. I'm the person who buys pre-cut fruit because washing a knife feels like a huge task sometimes. The mental energy of making dough after work is real, even if it's cheap. Maybe it's just me, but my brain sees a recipe and shuts down. The frozen pizza is the easy button, and sometimes that's worth the extra cost, even if it makes no sense on paper.

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