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dude...relax a little. It is a conversion in an online forum. Don't have a heart attack about it. Obviously you can eat unhealthy cooking from scratch. You were the one who accused me of having poor health for eating out all the time. By saying that you implied that eating at home is healthier.
Stop being argumentative, especially when you blatantly contradict yourself like this.
Reading skills are your friend.
Cooking at home is about controlling the ingredients. Scratch is part of it, but it's not the whole story.
Alright tiger, lets go a little slower. You replied to me claiming this:
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Originally Posted by stan4
Your crappy health will be more expensive in the long run.
which is an outright lie, given how healthy many modern restaurants are.
And my time is much better spent on things other than cooking. Why the hell would I waste my time cooking when someone could do that for me? I assume you think anyone who uses a dishwasher instead of washing by hand is lazy too? My god the stupidity.
which is an outright lie, given how healthy many modern restaurants are.
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its definitely not accurate and doesnt belong in this discussion. one can eat healthy even if they go out a lot and one can eat unhealthy even if they make every meal. its all about their own self control and choices. also, the fat/salt ingested can be managed with reducing your portion (# of calories is the primary health issue). there are no guarantees your health will suffer and expenses will go up simply by the fact that you eat out/take out a lot, the point doesnt belong in this discussion.
its definitely not accurate and doesnt belong in this discussion. one can eat healthy even if they go out a lot and one can eat unhealthy even if they make every meal. its all about their own self control and choices. also, the fat/salt ingested can be managed with reducing your portion (# of calories is the primary health issue). there are no guarantees your health will suffer and expenses will go up simply by the fact that you eat out/take out a lot, the point doesnt belong in this discussion.
I completely agree, which is why I specified earlier that I almost solely eat in smaller, locally owned restaurants where I know how the food is prepared. Fortunately I have the ability to do that given how many options I have living in a city.
I was simply countering stan's accusation that I MUST be unhealthy given how often I eat out. Sorry for the conversation going off point, I started by responding to his post accusing me of poor health, and I should have ignored what most likely was a troll trying to get a rise out of someone.
I know my example isnt the target demographic you were asking about, but I feel compelled to chime in here. When the wife and I were dating, we would go out mainly on the weekends, we were pretty flexible on what type of meal we got, from the cheap McDonalds type fast food to something mid scale like Chilis/Fridays/etc. Occasionally we would go to something upscale like the Texas De Brazil...we would spend between 50-100 per weekend which would be between 200-400 a month.
Fast forward several years, now we are married with three kids. The oldest has to pay for meals so when we go out it can cost minimum 50 at a Chilis type restaurant for one meal, and we go out at least two/three times a week (again, mainly on weekends), plus random meal pickups when we dont feel like cooking so we spend anywhere from 250-500.
Needless to say, this eating out has had a negative effect on both my gut and wallet, so in a bid to lose weight, I started cooking healthy at home, minimizing eating out. And it has had a great effect so far. I've lost weight and kept my spending down. The problem is going to be how to formulate a plan for the long term, as totalling abstaining from eating out is probably not going to happen...it's been tough for me as I love Indian/Chinese buffets, a great local Dallas restaurant called Babes, and this really nice Brazilian buffet place as well. I would like to reintroduce eating out maybe once a week, but worry that it would be too easy to fall back into the old habits...food for thought.
Used to eat out all of the time at sit down places, 5 days a week minimum.
Now that we have a 2 year old and 4 month old, we avoid eating out at sit down places! If we do eat out, it's grabbing Wendy's or some McD's via the drive thru. We spend around $100 a month eating out, mostly fast food.
My wife and I used to roll up $500-$700/month in the way of restaurant/bar tabs but cut that in half in the last two years. You'd be surprised how much more money you have and how much better you feel after being off high-cal restaurant food.
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