Cheap food or expensive delicious one?

Money plays a very important role in everyone's life and in the current time inflation is very high and money is losing its value because of inflation. So the price of all necessary things increased a lot. According to my country, all the prices of things have increased more than 2.5X in the last 3 years. middle-class and poor people are struggling to cope up with situations because it's a huge blow for them.

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I do not belong to a rich family and my family is also affected by the inflation and struggle for it. In case of buying any products, I always consider about cost-effectiveness. From an early age, I learned how to save money and when to use the saved money. In the case of food, I was always concerned, and cost-effective theory applied there also. So I try to go for cheap food whenever it's possible but obviously the nutritional value matters and obviously I am not going to take any rotten food or that kind of food which is not healthy for me. Because health is my first priority and keeping the priority I try to go for ideal cheap food.

I try to avoid fast food as much as I can. The first reason behind it is not cost-effective and quite expensive. And the second reason is it's not healthy for us. I always prefer homemade food over fast food. But the cheapest food I have eaten in my life was fast food. I am now talking about it.
A few years ago when I was in a mess for my study purposes, One of my roommates used to do a part-time job in Foodpanda. So naturally he used to know about all kinds of offers, tips, and tricks of Food Panda. He used to share all the best offers with mess members. I think I was lucky to have that kind of messmate and several times I used to order some fast food at a cheap price. One day after he returned from job he told me to make an order for chicken chop. All of the mess members ordered chicken chop that day and we didn't make any dinner for us.
I think I got the chicken chop almost for free because it cost me only 1 cent 😱. Moreover, there was naan bread with chicken chop. Naturally, chicken chops with naan bread cost more than 1.5$-2.5$. But it was an offer of 1 cent and I was lucky enough to make an order online. Thanks to my roommate for early informing me about it. The quality of the food was good and it was like a surprise gift for me. Can you imagine it only cost me one cent and I got chicken chop and nun? I never imagined getting such kind of thing at so a cheap price which was almost free in my opinion. I think at the current time there is no scope to eat anything is so a cheap price.

Okay then now coming to the topic of expensive food. Whenever I hear something expensive I keep my feet ready to make a U-turn 😅. I have a specific reason behind it. You know that I love to have adventure and instead of going to the restaurant and wasting money I save it and try to make an adventure or tour using the same money because adventure is more important than delicious food for me. But sometimes it's not possible to ignore good food even if it's expensive. 2 years ago when I bought the current smartphone, one of my friends was with me. He wanted a treat from me and that day I gave him the treat. We went to a restaurant and that day I had money and I needed to accompany my friend. So I ordered my favorite item, Biriyani. And the biryani of the restaurant was a little bit expensive and it cost me approximately 3$. Naturally, I love Biriyani and the quality of the Biriyani I ordered was pretty much good. I didn't regret for the Biriyani. I can't remember if I have eaten any other expensive food which cost me more than 3$. In fact, I was able to remember about the expensive food after thinking approximately 15 minutes 🤔.