Many restaurants make lovely and delicious food... but their food is also expensive compared to preparing something yourself. Convenience foods (microwave dinn

Many restaurants make lovely and delicious food... but their food is also expensive compared to preparing something yourself. Convenience foods (microwave dinners, fast food) tend to sit somewhere in the middle. Cheaper then restaurant food but also both likely deficient nutritionally and not tasting good unless it's absolutely loaded with carbs, fats, salt, etc. That cup of snot is most likely better for you then fast food and is a hell of a lot cheaper. Eating something like it could very well mean that you get to eat delicious restaurant food more often simply because you can afford to do so.