I was reading Leah’s latest post over at Struggle in a Bungalow Kitchen. She is talking about an article in Newsweek called “Takeout Nation”:
I definitely do not live in Take-Out Nation.� In fact, I laugh to think that I have pretty much cooked myself right into a corner; we almost never want to go out anymore because the food available in this town’s restaurants, fast food or otherwise, is simply not as good as what we can eat at home. [Leah Adams]
Gretchen and I have noticed the same thing. After my parents retired and moved to Florida, we used to really look forward to going down, not only because we would get to visit with them, but because we also got to eat out at so many good restaurants. For various health reasons, they can no longer go out to eat, but we have no complaints when we visit them. My Mother is an excellent cook and they both have excellent taste in wines.
Also, we used to budget eating out once a week. As we learned to make more things better, we cut that back to once a month. Now we almost never go out to eat. We feel that we can make better tasting food, with higher quality ingredients, for much less money, at home than we can find in any restaurant, and we have a great time doing it.