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The author leaves out one advantage of not eating out so much, cost. It is difficult to spend more on ingredients for a home cooked meal than a nice restaurant
by marze 16y ago
The author leaves out one advantage of not eating out so much, cost.
It is difficult to spend more on ingredients for a home cooked meal than a nice restaurant meal would cost, and not hard to spend a lot less.
The downside is time, but the upside of is a fun cooking hobby.
- tptacek 16y agoIt is definitely not harder to spend more cooking at home than eating out. You just have to geek out, just a little bit, and not shop at supermarkets. Note also that if you eat meat but won't eat Tyson chicken or Swift pork, your meal cost is automatically higher than most midrange restaurant meals --- but then again, those restaurants are probably serving you wholesale chicken & pork from the same crappy sources.
- marze 16y agoIf you consider a "nice restaurant meal" to cost $25 or more, I assert it is hard to spend $25 on ingredients for one home cooked meal. It is fairly easy to spend more than a "dollar menu fast food meal".
- marquis 16y agoI often spend far more on a home-cooked dinner than eating out, due to finding amazing ingredients I want to try, such as an expensive imported cheese that goes well with an artisan chutney and then you need a good wine with that.. I wouldn't try these foods outside of an expensive restaurant, which I only go to rarely in anycase. The best cuts of fish or red meat will put you back a little also, though it's worth it certainly when you have guests, for the flavour quality. But certainly, I would say it's less expensive to eat well at home.