Warning: This is a non-halal post, even though my parents are Muslim. Haha.
We have been going every weekend to the TTDI market since we received our new helper. No more eating out. It is really wonderful eating home cooked food and knowing that there is always food on the table at HOME……which is really where the hearth is.
What we usually get is an array of fish, chicken, pork, vegetables and fruit. Our beef is usually obtained from the supermarket because I don’t like the smell of local beef. Many have warned us the dangers of chicken from the market but seriously, how do you know that the organic chicken that you buy from the supermarket is really organic? This is Malaysia…..anything is possible. Like have you seen bottled water being sold in the shops that actually came from water that was collected from a leaking pipe? I have!
We usually spend RM150-200 each weekend at the market to feed 3 adults and 1 child. Fish is usually the most expensive accounting for a good RM50 for fish for 2-3 meals only. A beautiful pomfret alone could cost RM35. Next is fruit accounting for RM30-50 depending or not whether it is expensive fruit season (like Indian mangoes!). I usually mix and match my fruit. For example, if we have papaya, apples and oranges this week, we’ll have kiwi, grapes and peaches next week. Vegetables for the week always stand at around RM30-35. I would get 3 leafy vegetables and the rest would be longer lasting root vegetables or broccoli and such. We usually spend about RM30-40 on chicken as I buy only the thigh meat, some fillets and maybe some bones for soup. Pork would be RM40 also comprising pork bones for soup, minced pork (as Tee loves minced pork), pork chops, and some other bits and bobs here and there for stir frying and whatever else I feel like eating. What’s your marketing bill like? Do share.
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although cooking at home, i notice the bill is just as high as we dine out. And for us, we only have fish for expensive fillet for the young ones, while we prefer taking chicken and pork. err…Islam, but pork? *confuse*
JB is so much more expensive.
Yup – cooking at home can be equally expensive. We buy lots of chicken as everyone is a chicken fan, plus am not good at fish.