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Tell us why! Newsletter Sign Up. She can go for VP and I can continue working on my tech startup while working at a FAANG. Wow are you out of touch. Maybe spending so much time at work impairs your ability to spend time with them, see reason 1, 2, and 3.

You also attempt to draw a causal link between cooking at home and obesity, with a total lack of evidence.

But what has happened to the amount of people eating at home while obesity has increased? Is it possible there are other factors e. the types of processed foods sold in the grocery store that have led to obesity in the same timeframe? Are there other correlated variables e. The rest of your arguments, generally, sound like the kind of drivel dreamed up in an idle hour.

Not surprising you only spend 2 hours on an article. Sam, thank you for the article quite thought provoking. The discussion of hiring out help vs DIY is a great talking point. Your points about working a side hustle, working out, reading, etc are all valid.

My wife and I cook two times a week, Sunday and weds. We eat out once a week with family or friends on Saturday. I do most of the cooking and have zero resentment toward my spouse bc of it bc I love to cook and she loves eating our meal together.

We shop at Costco, Walmart and some farm stands. Walmart has grocery pickup so it eliminates shopping time. Admittedly it would be nice to not have to grocery shop at all.

Eating out for every meal is expensive and wasteful in my opinion. Furthermore one has no idea what restaurants put in all their meals for whatever one orders. Cooking at home one does.

Increased consumption of sugar and lack of regular exercise have a major role in this among other reasons as well genetics, gut flora health, lack of healthy sun exposure, yo-yo dieting, etc.

All in all great article and thought provoking. Thank you. What IS problamatic is that you seem to equate spending money on food to correlate with Obesity in america.

So, people without sufficient resources to spend lots of money on high nutritional content expensive food like sushi or private chefs preparing Quina will default to the most bang for their buck. Unfortunately, those foods tend to be high in saturated fats and carbohydrates, so not as healthy.

Is there not an argument that for profit food organizations would better enact portion control to save their profit margins versus the Typical American cooking at home and cooking in bulk, who cannot stop overeating? My anecdotal experience says otherwise. The cheaper the restaurant, the more food I get on my plate.

I think rent, utilities, and labor are probably the bulk of their expenses. I would say that the more likely argument is that for-profit food organizations would use cheaper, processed, ingredients instead of fresh produce to save on profit margins.

Think of the Applebees, Olive Gardens, TGIFs, Panera Breads, and god forbid the Hometown Buffets of our country that cater to the average American.

Stuff that tastes good but not good for you. I would make an argument that Americans cook dishes at home that reflect their tastes when they are able to go out. And I have to say this article is a bit out of touch. Saving time and reducing strain on a marriage and spending more time with the kids are really good alternatives to cooking at home, but only for those that have the luxury to do so.

To lose weight, there needs to be a caloric deficit. Someone can eat donut 1, calories of donuts a day and still lose weight if he needs to eat 2, calories a day to maintain body weight. Do you think, possibly, that Americans cooking from home may be hamburger helper or similar products?

Maybe snacking? Ice Scream? All the other junk you can find in grocery stores that spike insulin and cause overeating? Contrary to your article, most people enjoy making family meals together. Just look at the financial and physical health of the average American today.

The middle class is falling behind partly because we are not saving and investing enough. People are free to do whatever they want with their money and bodies.

The healthcare is collapsing because of private profit and public expense. State actors, bought and paid, stealing thru taxes and giving to their cronies. Then once you start cooking, you have to have all the right tools which means running a load in the dishwasher and unloading and then you have to clean up and load all the dishes back in.

Or I could spend five minutes or less ordering online, stay home, and have my meal delivered to my doorstep. One can feed two people because they are meant to dump calories into people fighting a war.

Cheap, quick, clean up takes literally seconds, instant access for the busy professional, no refrigeration or cooking required. Interesting article. However, I prefer eating in than out mostly because I prefer the process of me or a family member lovingly cooking and then we sit together and eat.

My son actually mentioned that I am a better cook than any other out there — he said this at a top notch restaurant.

I am not as good a cook as my husband, but the love with which the meals are made is the best. Americans are fat and broke. Listening to Americans about food advice is like listening to Americans about how to fix the healthcare system.

But I have to admit that reading all the comments have been quite entertaining! It would be fun to see what all these angry and judgmental people look like. paella, pallow.. The only con I have is that you cant see the raw ingredients they use at restaurants… did they drop that before they plated?

Did he sneeze on it..? Otherwise bravo, great article and agree with your logic! Sam, with your luck, your kid is going to be like me, a picky eater and will insist on home food. That said, if you can afford to buy prepared meals instead of making it at home, I say go ahead.

The only caveat is you have to watch the calories with prepared meals and your weight unless you choose to buy healthy prepared meals prepared by professional.

All I get from this article is the idea that you suck at cooking, and you resent those who actually can cook. Will they taste the same? Will it probably have fewer calories? Almost certainly. I portion smaller at home because I get the choice on how much to make.

I plan to hire a personal chef to come to my home to cook several dishes once a week. We will plan menus together and use top quality, organic, in-season healthy ingredients.

She will do the shopping, cooking, and cleaning up. Sounds like heaven to me! Congrats, Sam. Wait until these people commenting read that! To not be would be inconsistent in thought.

I just cannot find anything positive to say about this article! I remember watching my mom or my dad cooking and how much they enjoyed it.

I always asked if I could help or I just watched. I did the same for my kids. every once in awhile we would go out to dinner or have delivery. this generation does not know what family life is because they are so tied up in their phones and computers.

Learn to cook and you might like it or just be a lazy ass an order in! Are you high? Cooking as a family is such a valuable way to build your relationships. Teaching kids about healthy eating habits, passing on your family recipes, spending time chatting with your spouse while cooking instead of vegging in front of the TV.

How can you put an hourly rate on that? Remember the scene from Crazy Rich Asians where everybody is sitting around making dumplings together? I have complete control over the freshness and quality of my food. I enjoyed that dumpling making scene very much. And I do agree making food together is one way of bringing people together.

I do wonder if most people have that type of privilege to spend so much time making food though. So many of us are just trying to keep our head above water, exhausted and out of time. I forgot to add that I saw an article once where a guy prepared a home made version of a Panera sandwich while he tracked the calories.

When the info was available, he used the same portion size. Elon Musk lived on a dollar a day when he was young. Turned out alright. I visited a friend of a friend who had no cuttlery or dishes at his place. All he ate was restaurant food. Notice how poor people who beg for money are always eating fast food?

We eat out occasionally, but I cook at home mainly. I have pastured cow in the freezer, along with pastured chicken too. Both local At times I buy organic.

I spend a lot more for 2 of us than many others do. I try to eat healthy while keeping my cooking streamlined. Most meals that take a long time do not take long because of actual hands on cooking.

Most of my super delicious meals take less then 30 minutes, and some of that is spent doing non-cooking things. Going out to eat is actually a big time suck. But you have to factor in transportation time, waiting to order, waiting for the food, and coming back home.

I earn a decent salary, have more than K saved for retirement, clip coupons, eat ramen occasionally , and find your reasons unconvincing.

But do what you want, recognizing it as a splurge! I resent my lazy and fat as hell husband for making me cook every day.

He makes me feel like a failure for cooking because he is so out of shape. At least if he was in shape, I would feel good knowing that my food was helping him be healthy.

But this happens over and over again. Man, if your girlfriends or wives are going to cook for you, the very least you can do is stay in shape. Tell him to do 60 pushups, situps, and walk two miles a day for the next 6 months.

He will get fitter. Hi Sam, I actually laughed out loud many times throughout reading this article — you crack me up. And I have injured myself many times cut finger that hurt like nothing else, a burn on my left wrist from touching the oven door etc.

I think the injuries were because I was rushing to finish cooking so I could feed my family and get out of the kitchen. I think that home cooking can taste better than take out and can teach my son about appreciating the effort it takes to make a meal. In fact, I do let him help me choose produce, bake and flip pancakes.

Thanks for keeping it real! Funny how that is. Being in a rush is definitely because of so many injuries and do overs. I wish we were all slow down just a little bit. Other parts of the world where eating out is much more rare have less obesity rates.

You can literally control everything that you cook at home. Your arguments for not cooking at home are almost comical. Thanks for spending the time to write your thoughts. Anyway, my husband and I love to cook together.

It works for us! We just plan our purchases well. Location matters a lot in regards to what the author is talking on— Food delivery in the South is largely a joke. Obesity is definitely liked to fast food more than home cooking. We are not all neglecting our families when we cook for them.

Cooking for people is basically the highest form of flattery in my culture. Perhaps genetics? Your financial savviness makes it feasible for you.

Have you heard of this thing called culture? As a US American you might not be familiar with this but in Europe the experience of designing, preparing and consuming meals is pretty central to our identity particularly in the South.

There are also quite a lot of weird logical jumps in your article that are perhaps a little more surprising coming from a finance guy. For example, I seriously would not dare to eat your Thanksgiving Turkey knowing about your non- cooking habits.

As with most things in life, you get better at cooking the more you do it. Either you cook often or you cook shit.

Then what is it with your obsession with valuing and measuring things? Your advice like much on this page is really only for people whose aim of growing their financial wealth trumps all other goals in life.

That they have to work hard in life and invest time, care and thought into their goals? Also the marriage reference is a funny one.

No wonder people cook shit when they do. This is certainly not gonna get better by telling your kids to avoid cooking as much as possible.

Forget the lack of an invite, I found it funnier to think of sophisticated and turkey in the same sentence. There is minimal sophistication in cooking a Turkey.

Its literally a little oil and spice rub down, an oven and a thermometer. And regarding your judgmental relatives; honestly, the funniest and most memorable holidays food-wise for us have been when someone screws up. That one time my aunt made the most starchy and pasty gravy of all time?

Still the most memorable, and we all laugh about it pretty much every year. Sam I think this article is running into is a large income gap between your readers and your peers. This post somehow got picked up by Google Android news feed or something, that drove like 50, new first time visitors in two days.

Congratulations on all the new visits! Weight is gained by consuming more calories than you spend each day, and the truth is that, even if the portions are small, restaurant food is, in general, extremely calorie dense.

I love to cook. Give me a glass of wine, some music and good conversation with my husband any day of the week! Of course I cook and he does the dishes. We are together with our 11 and 14 year old most nights with no electronics at the table and we converse about school, world events or just fun stuff!

I think these are wonderful life lessons to give the boys a foundation for their lives ahead. Yes we do convenience and eating out but I like to think the basics are still good to learn.

although I can mend a shirt but could never sew one!! The logic of taking your hourly rate and multiplying it by the time it takes you to cook and saying that is the cost of the meal is flawed. Time does equal money. But only if that time could be spent earning money. If someone has one job and they are salaried, they come home and spend time making dinner.

They would not be earning any money during that time anyway. So putting the time in to save money on eating out is actually money earned. Thank you so much for this article. Uhmmmmmm no, just no. I live in a very rural area. I grocery shop twice a month at the Walmart that is 20 miles away.

I cook food for the week on Saturday, or throw dried beans in a crockpot with spices and let it cook while I am at work. Ditto with baked potatoes or baked sweet potatoes.

It literally takes me less than two minutes to prep and do that and it the meal is ready when I come home. I eat it with a salad. You can buy salad premade kits if you are too tired or lazy.

So, it is usually on the table in under three minutes. I would say this is the same in an urban area but again, I live rural, so I am only guessing. I just found your website so I hope your other financial advice is a little bit better???? Thank you!

I was thinking that the advice contained in this particular article was beyond nonsensical. Thank you for the confirmation. Not even April Fools.

For a typical family. Multiply that by 18 yrs. Way too much to leave on the restaurant table. Eating out carries abundantly more calories with it- which you know.

That facts can be twisted? Arguments go both ways? My husband and I shop and cook similarly, although we live in an urban area.

At most we are cooking dinner x a week, regularly use a Crock-Pot, cook in large batches, and have done so long enough that prep is a breeze. Shopping is a little different, there are things we get weekly but we stick to a list.

Thank you for writing this article from a financial standpoint. Ordering and eating out tends to get a bad reputation when it comes to saving money. I have been using delivery services for my groceries 2x a month through Prime Now and Doordash for my weekend meals.

I noticed I have a better quality of life, I can choose the type of food to get and there is no cleaning nor planning involved. I tried to make home cooked meals with the intent to save money and I found out that cooking at home as a single person does not always mean savings.

You will end up with more ingredients sometimes will expire due to its size and you will lose time after work and on weekends due to food prep.

Be mindful of the cost per order, 2. Plan how many servings you can get per order, 3. Minimize your cooking ingredients to 3 or 4 the most, and 4.

Set a budget per order or per meal. This guy is advocating for delivery from restaurants. I deliver food for one of those services and it is downright outrageous how much it costs for food delivery.

Hard to watch a baby, and now toddler while also cooking at the same time sometimes. Have you considered meal prepping in this equation? This involves making a large amount of food in a few hours for the rest of the week. I find meal prep allows me to save time and maintain better focus throughout the weekday rather than trying to figure out where to order food, what type, etc.

Or maybe Sam will end up endorsing a Democratic candidate because of course, their policies of mass migration from the Third World for cheap labor are so great for American wages and workers they claim to care about, right?

I love Trump. And eating out. But I got married a year before I started Financial Samurai in This post brought to you by Uber eats and GrubHub. What kind of idiots do they think read this and believe it. Cooking your own meals not only saves you an abundance of money but also allows you to live a healthier lifestyle if you so choose.

Of course eating out makes for a nice time but it would drive the average person into poverty if they did that every meal. You have to realize that UberEats and DoorDash and GrubHub are actually perpetual loss makers. How is this possible you say? What does this mean to you?

It means that food delivery is actually available to Americans at LESS THAN ITS ACTUAL COST. I wish I could have gotten sponsored by them.

He quotes actual obesity statistics, then implies a relationship to home cooking based on the push-back COMMENTS people have made to his previous articles???

This is beyond embarrassing. Finances are your thing. Leave nutrition science to those more qualified — or at least those more interested. People are mostly eating at home. And the overwhelming feedback from all my income posts and this post is that most people eat at home.

It is loaded with calories, sodium, no fiber etc. If people actually MADE their own food, it would help the obesity epidemic a lot. As a financial consultant this article puts the industry to shame. The author is trying to justice the value of time vs.

The importance of cost reduction and total savings. For the vast majority of Americans the luxury to dine out all the time isnt there, the problem is people still do it. Could you imagine saving and additional 2 to 3 thousand a year, compound that over a 40 year time period on top of the ability to invest that money.

Ots staggering what those savings can be, all in the name of eating healthier at home rather than for convenience. I see these articles come up from time to time and whoever allows for these puff pieces needs to take a look at their responsibility to their readers.

The important factor is time value of money. Sure there is nothing wrong for enjoying the little things, in moderation.

There should be a stronger focus on the importance of long term saving over convenience. This is why the vast majority of upcoming retirees dont have nearly enough for retirement.

This puff peice needs to present a better understanding of financial literacy rather than pandering to a readers wants and giving a green light to wasteful spending. Just a different perspective you need to understand.

Unless you are cooking instead of working, the value of cooking time makes 0 sense. The relationship, injury risk, etc is all emperical and individual and represents shockingly bad advice. You just contradicted yourself. As you said, relationship, etc are based on the individual.

My non-working time is actually priceless when spending it with my family. I turn down interviews for higher paying jobs at least until my kid goes to high school due to the fact that I value my family time. I do agree with a lot of the comments here though. Our food budget is still a concern though and while we cannot afford to eat out or get food delivered every night, we do tend to mix it up a little and make it a point to cook during weekends and at least a few times on the weekdays.

There is no one size fits all financial strategy. It could very well be all rubbish to you, but it may make sense to others. As with any other financial advice, I believe that you should take whatever works for you and disregard what does not.

Hey Sam, Thanks for this post!! It is a great reminder to not play small. It is unfortunate to see how many negative comments this post received. I have to say that there are several different kinds of people that read this..

Those that believe they will save their way to a comfortable retirement and then there are those who believe in raising their income to provide for the lifestyle that they want with enough savings for active investing, knowing that over time the income from their investments will be more than their active income and their lifestyle bills.

So for those that want to clip coupons and eat raimen noodles at home this post is disgusting. For those that are looking to enjoy their life to the best of their ability and believe in their ability to earn as much income as they want..

this post is a great way to show how eating out or having a chef prepare meals is a better use of time. Not to mention the networking phase as you mentioned. Look at the health and wealth data for Americans. The numbers are terrible. Folks gotta do better.

I have known people over the years who ate out most of the time! Eating out, among other bad habits, supersized him! Eating out, the majority of the time, for most people, is unhealthy!

How does a lb. He would probably need a crane to take him to the restaurant, no? Wrong, wrong, wrong! Eating in is healthier, cheaper and for me, more time efficient! I literally do not have time to go out to eat, wait for delivery, wait for grocery delivery!

That would be way more expensive for me and waste way more time! I also am an accomplished cook and like to know exactly what is in my food! There is no way I would ever rely on eating out for the reasons I stated!

By the way, I am not one of the obese people cause I eat my own home cooked, healthier food…. He clearly stated in the article that being an accomplished cook or enjoying cooking was an exception, and that if that is the case you should cook at home. I wonder if I should put my end in the beginning as well.

If you leave at AM, and your toddlers leave at …. how are they getting there? Are they driving themselves? Good to work as a team to take care of the kids.

How do you guys take care of your children? I almost always agree with your analyses Sam, but not this time. And, of course, if you have access to high quality ingredients, then you can whip up a great and healthy dinner for much much less than it costs to buy 4 people a salty, oversized restaurant dinner.

But most other times, the combination of healthier, cheaper, and creating family meal memories wins out. Your health is stake here and for my money cooking at home offers way more quality and bang for the buck.

My fondest memories were going out to these amazing Chinese and Malaysian banquets with my parents and trying new foods. Fast food or Uber Eats is generally not healthy and costs a pretty penny. It costs about 60 bucks a week with the meal kits for two people, even cheaper with Butcher Box.

All have high quality meats and seafood to cook and prepare around 10 — 12 dollars a meal for two people. Cooking takes, on average, 20 minutes, another 10 — 15 to clean up. Where can you eat grass fed and grass raised meat for 12 dollars a person? Do a balance between cooking and eating out.

Do make informed decisions. Prioritize your time. This is ludachris, we do eat out some,but we cook healthy and meal time is family time. Just like when I taught my kids to cook starting when they were 8. You obviously are not educated on cooking or are very lazy. We can have a healthy meal ready in a half hour.

Also there are things like crockpot and airfryers to help. Go eat some fast food or go to some restaurant that will over charge you. Did you fall on your head when you were little or are just too lazy to cook a healthy diet? I want to comment on this post!

The main post is an insult to humanity! Idiots are pushing an agenda to keep families away from the dinner table! Wait… what? Are you saying that when your family eats out or gets food delivered, you guys do it individually? This is such a load of BS. Where should I start … maybe I like the food I cook better than the overpriced stuff on sale, produced under unhygienic circumstances.

I totally agree with you, I love to cook and I make healthy meals, sometimes I freeze them for later or I make chicken, roast beef, or meatloaf and that is the meat fir my lunch next day!

I know my hands are washed and clean when preparing food. I was an Operating scrub nurse for 16 yrs. I still work a 40 hr week job as a RN and it only takes me 30 minutes to whip up a healthy meal, the entire family helps from setting the table to rinsing dishes and putting them in dishwasher.

My grandson since the time he was crawling and sitting on floor was in my kitchen playing with can goods and pots and pans. My daughter when little would tell others my mommy is a good cooker!

By the way, I can out cook any chef and I also was a single parent. I had time to teach my child to read at 3 yrs old. My 3 yrs old grandson helped me dig a garden and I grew his favorite veggies and fruit and we went seed shopping together.

I made part of it into a butterfly garden planted flowers and plants that attracted butterflies. I had time to teach him tee ball and soccer in the back yard! Life is about slowing down and smelling the roses and by the way I have a rose garden too! Enjoy life and keep God close by and everything falls into place!

I mean, there are some decent reasons but almost none of them are financial. This article is only for those with high expendable income.

How would you suggest to play with your kid while cooking? Not playing with your kids is the opportunity of cooking. The tipping is really expensive in this country.

The tipping gets out of control and adds almost a side dish to the meal for not much gain. From a purely financial standpoint, it might or might not be wise, depending on how much your time is worth….

But from a lifestyle standpoint, I prefer to cook at home more often than not. In other words, home cooked food is tied up with how I relate to myself, my family and the broader community. No worries. I have to disagree. I live in Walnut Creek CA a nice suburb of the Bay Area with great dinning options.

My single 24 year old son lives in San Francisco. That food budget makes most Americans mad. I would tell your 24 year old son to go out there and eat with clients and colleagues as much as he eats alone at home.

Build that network. Ever heard of meal preps? Then all you do every night is heat it up and have minimal dishes. I even make all my lunches- a simple deli meat sandwich, chips, and yogurt that I throw together in less than 10 minutes before leaving for work in the morning.

If you wanted variety, finding different recipes and cooking new recipes each week could get annoying. This is an absolute joke. Buy in bulk. So if you wanna do the math for a weekly budget..

Whoever wrote this is a obviously a nutjob. Let me see if I have this right. Not only is this terrible financial advice. It actually makes a lot of sense.

I had someone who worked for the SBA tell me something similar with a contractor who owned his own business. The logic is sound, but the question is, will the contractor go out and get the extra work? Or will behavior get in the way? The author is saying save time, and have more flexibility.

Like have a shorter commute and have more time to go to the gym. All the other is doing is offering an alternative viewpoint. Devils advocate that simplifying daily tasks, decisions, and workload gives you the opportunity and possibility of a better quality of life.

If there is just a chance of a better life. We should all encourage alternative viewpoints. That math only works if the time you spend cooking or accounting would otherwise be spent on paid work.

But the author is specifically recommending substituting unpaid activities. Disclaimer: I like to judge other people without offering any nuggets of wisdom or information about myself.

That is the most elitist attitude I have ever heard. Also if you are retired and making your own dinner, then you are cooking for a living.

Just eat less? Rather than pay someone else to give you less? See above. How many people do you know who have cut off their hands when making a croc-pot meal? No wait. This is the most elitist attitude I have ever heard.

Would you like a bedpan and catheter to go with that? Also One of the best things a family can do is sit around their own table and take things slow and have a nice family conversation. If a family can afford to go out to eat 7 days a week, they can afford a dishwasher. This objection does not pertain top middle class households in the least.

I think your entire article is BS. Eating out or ordering delivery is way more expensive. At home food prep can be family affair.

I live in SF and do fairly well. And this is so much more expensive than making it yourself. You can always just eat a little and freeze the rest for variety. If I could eat out for 5.

Also the statement that eating out is portioned better, or implied is crazy. Maybe in large cities where they have healthier choices but the potions I see at restaurants are huge.

I mostly eat lunch out at work. And keeping good bread fresh or needing to be toasted at work…. We spend much too much time on cooking a cleaning up. My wife cooks and I clean.

Sometimes it takes me an hour to clean, though usually less and yes we have a dishwasher. She often takes much longer to cook… It seems to be Chinese culture to make complicated things and take a long tiem doing it… We have discussed this, but nothing seems to change.

So one parent looks after the children 4 years and under 1 year while the other cooks or cleans. Only once have we ever ordered food delivery, when we were on vacation in Singapore. It is definitely less good than going to a restaurant but even more expensive. But going out to eat takes a lot of time as well.

We did more of that prior to the baby coming along. We are getting more delivery of food from supermarkets actually. Though I quite like food shopping but hate most other sorts of shopping especially for clothes. Eating definitely takes less time than cooking and on bad days less time than cleaning for sure.

FINANCIAL — on the average, eating out will cost minimally 3X the foods you cooked at home. It is the minimal markup for profitability in Food and Beverage Industry. Most places will cater their foods to certain tier of clients, 30K, 40K, 50K…K, K, 1MIL.

The 3X multiples is calculated based on quality of food, services and ambient. Unless you are making 3X the income of the clients at the particular food joint, you should not frequent the place on a regular basis. We have been catching, preparing and eating food in a family structure for thousands of years.

It is part of our intimate social architecture. For the 27 years of our marriage, the foods that prepared from the hands of my wife beat hands down the foods that came out from 5 stars hotels that I often experienced when traveled on projects — it made with care down to the grain of salt just for me!

My daughter who often came home on the weekend drooled on the foods her mom prepared from simple ingredients. It is what keeping her coming back! HEALTH — Recently I am moonlighting one day a week as a bartender as a memory lane walk of college years. A customer ordered a salad, I walked in the kitchen and looked for a glove to prepare the salad.

There is not a single glove to be found in the back kitchen. Everyone was using bare hands to transfer the pre-cut salad bin into the small bowl. Should you eat out? Absolutely, eating out is a must life experience especially when you are traveling. MY income as a female in a male dominated industry was substantial…..

not on the stars, but still up there. We could eat out as much as we wanted, but did not,. I am not bragging…its simply the truth,.

I prepare meals as an expression of love to my family. We still eat at the family table…. not plugged into,our phones, computer or other electronic device.

I agree that sharing meals together brings the family together and that savoring recipes handed down through the family is a great way to remember and honor our departed loved ones. Children learn to expand their palate and enjoy vegetables that other children turn the nose up at by first having them at family meals.

As a child my son learned to love the dreaded brussel sprout and just about any other vegetable I would serve him. Rosie — the fact that you are kicking ass in the male dominated industry and still coming home and put up a nutritious meals for your family, YOU ARE A WONDER WOMAN!

I am so glad you did not call me a male chauvinist because I love my wife cooking. The opinion is written from a male point a view, but the cooking responsibility does not have to be just for women. It is all about team work.

I happened to make a lot more money than my wife and she can whip up an awesome meal from nothing. The key take away is that foods cooked at home have more values than physical measurement in money! This article was an interesting look into a very different world, in which ordering food delivered or going out to eat are plausible solutions to the dinner dilemma.

Love the pizza making! It is for me. Doing so may be a suboptimal decision for person-specific reasons related to time, energy, mental well being, happiness, etc.

The small handful of people who will can generate income likely in unique ways that put themselves well outside the box of most Americans, the target audience.

Nearly every single restaurant meal can be replicated or reproduced at a higher quality and healthier level at home for less money—the optimal financial decision for most Americans. We find cooking fun. We find that it tastes better than eating out in almost all cases.

The key was finding the right stuff from the right locations. Good butcher for certain meats, a certain grocery store for other meats and basics, and yet another grocery store for a few other hard to find items. And when you come home, you usually have Battery Low.

To then have to play with enthusiasm and then cook, or vice versa takes a lot out of even the fittest person. Of course one advantage of ordering using the apps is portion control. If I cook I tend to eat more since there are leftovers. Outside of major cities, prepared food and restaurants generally take a steep dive in terms of choice, quality and healthiness.

Overall, that seems to strike the best balance of time invested, quality of food and cost. And my wife does other chores like laundry that i hate doing. Fully realize that we could buy everything at Costco and spend less than half that. This is correct. We miss Munchery.

All freshly prepped and just have to heat. Subscription service, rotating meals. Number 5 is the biggest bullshit ever written. Another great article Sam. I have become very efficient at cooking large quantities of food in a timely manner.

The one thing that is glossed over is your health. Since all these restaurants add unhealthy oils and sugars to their food, your only bet to get real healthy food is to cook it yourself. The benefits of being extremely healthy far outweigh any costs of trying to attain it. Are you in a good mood after a hard day of work?

If you are this healthy then you are always the best version of yourself! Agreed Ryan! It seems unlike him. Feel free to share what your food consumption habits and who you provide for. None of your comments have provided anything meaningful to this topic yet.

Ahh the good old food budget. My wife and I have been doing monthly budgets ever since we graduated college ~15 years of budgeting. This has been the hardest budget reduce.

We eat out once or twice a week, I eat out for lunch during the weekdays 3 or so times a week and pack lunch the other days and the rest of meals are cooked. We mostly buy organic food and all that stuff. You can have the crock pot going, while you cook something in the oven and the stove at the same time.

The both of us are usually in the kitchen bumping into each other. Not sure I agree with your obesity argument though.

Europe might be ahead of us though. My guess no data behind this would have been that home cook food is healthier than restaurant food. At least for us, we use only a handful of ingredients.

Whereas, a restaurant likely throws stuff in there to make it taste better Got to get those customers. But I dread it lol. It takes too much out of me after a long day and never tastes that great ha. I really enjoyed getting Munchery deliveries when they were in business.

Their Thanksgiving meal delivery was my favorite lol because that truly saved hours of cooking. The food was fresh, ready to heat not frozen , and there were a lot of healthy choices. But alas they closed down.

Fortunately SF has a lot of healthy delivery options from places that source local and organic ingredients and even raw foods and cold pressed juices. May just go order one now! I usually can agree with most points in your article, but saying that cooking your own food is not a good way to save money is silly.

I do not cook and neither does my wife, but I am not going to pretend that it is not because of laziness and the fact we can afford not to have to cook our own meals that we can get away with it. I think the point is that if you are making k a year and barely making it in a HCOL area, does saving k a month on food make it worth it?

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