Posted: Mar 14, 2018 3:21 am
Macdoc wrote:Homecooked
Prepackaged,
Frozen
Order in....
Eating out .......??[Reveal] Spoiler: hideI enjoy good food and will eat out on occasion at upper end places.
For fast food....sucker for a Teen Burger and onion rings....love A&W rootbeer. I've found it very expensive .....$12 or so for a that combo
Upper end eat out with my partner once in a while in Australia, often when travelling tho we do prefer to have a small kitchen for Air BnB. Eggs, bread, cheese carries us.
Daily tho ....a mix of frozen dinners Stouffers mostly and frozen fruit and veggies are my main sustenance. $1.99 -$2.50 gives me a variety of meals reasonably balanced ( too much pasta ) of 300 cal and then add some vegetables to some of them.
Shop once every two weeks to catch the 1/2 price deals. Hearty soups, yogurt ....a bit of Ace bread ..like my toast and jam.
Lots of from the espresso and a mix of Breton crackers, smoked salmon, cheese .....old cheddar - crumbly and sharp rounds out the feed trough.
*-Seems to work okay, weight down a bit and BP good. Love my dairy, butter and whole milk,
Evey once in a while tempted to cook but just can't get into it.
Working from home I avoid the temptation of eating out a lot. One of my long term clients took pity and sent by a holiday feast I got three meals from.
What's your mix? Home and out.....
As Fallible said, I buy food at the market and cook it, but I grow it also. In the last year I've eaten out twice at a franchise restaurant. Both times at Olive Garden because we were invited for family occasions, a birthday and a graduation party. I agree with Marcella Hazan in that Olive Garden has some good stuff to eat but I fail to see what it has to do with Italian cooking.
My rule is simple: No franchises and no drive up windows; that and no blue or square food, it's just not natural.
I enjoy my local farmers' markets but refuse to buy inferior produce or other products just because some knuckle head thinks that they can get top dollar for ugly blemished buggy food just because they grew it in just dirt and watered it.
Buying local is great if you're buying local for quality and freshness, but not if you're buying local just to buy local. With my restaurants in my area it makes good sense to buy local corn, squash, certain fruit, tomatoes ect... at certain times a year, for freshness, quality, and cost. But not edibile orchids or oranges.
The only things out of the box or can worth eating are Kraft Mac & Cheese and Nalley Chili.