Canadians: Do you eat out or at home more often?
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I try to make as much at home as possible. I work on using spices instead of sodium and fat in order to increase the taste factor while maintaining highly nutritious and interesting food.
If ya want to scare yourself into eating at home, start to bookmark all of your favourite restaurants and their nutrition guides. It is like a journey into the abyss of fat, sodium, artery clogging, cholesterol building, heart attack producing, diabetic hell.
If ya want to scare yourself into eating at home, start to bookmark all of your favourite restaurants and their nutrition guides. It is like a journey into the abyss of fat, sodium, artery clogging, cholesterol building, heart attack producing, diabetic hell.
I am lucky to live near the old market uptown Saint John. Yes, that's uptown. I usually go 3-4 times aweek. So I eat my supper at home but tend to eat my dinner out.
We go for a pub lunch at least once a week. We try to go out to a restaurant for dinner once a month. I'm afraid most restaurants don't do meals the way I would like them but it is nice to get out and be served once in a while. I've done most of the cooking at our house for almost thirty years and I've become a bit of a snob. Still, sitting at a table and being waited on is a good break too.
I'm wth you 1000 % on this one.
Tasty home cooked meals are one of life's greatest pleasures. Once you learn how to cook for yourself, you will keep away from restaurants.
I used to eat out exclusively. The I had a heart attack. Am mon a low fat no salt added diet. Try get that in a restaurant. Now I eat exclusively at home. Turns out I have a knack for cooking. Hooedathunkit. Gotta stay away from prepared foods though. I read labels now. Holy crap the sodium in prepped foods is nuts.
I do agree about home cooked meals being one of life's greatest pleasures; the whole endeavour of preparing, cooking and eating a home cooked meal really does nourish the spirit too. But, why is it I always enjoy the cooking of others more than my own? -- and I am not a bad cook, really ! I tend to like my own cooking more if I have it a day later and pretend someone else made it.
I have somehow ended up amassing what could only be deemed a major cookbook collection -- I used to read my cookbooks like novels. And I do love to eat at home. That said, I live in such a rural area that I also love to dine out when I get to the city - it is a bit of a novelty...and no clean up...WOOT!
You got that right. I have been very selective about the restaurants I go to for years. Late last year there was a two week cooking class offered by Cordon Bleu for about $800.00. I would have loved to take that little course and the two week stay in Paris wouldn't have been hard to take either.................;-):smile:
There was aW5 or Marketplace segment last week on restaurant meals.
There's s reason most don't publish calories/fat/ sodium levels for their products - if they did they would lose a lot of business. When independent tests where done and presented to consumers the calorie counts on popular meals where often twice what the consumer guessed they would be.
In a couple cases, 'healthy' sounding selections actually contained the equivalent of a three day supply of sodium, and a whole days calorie requirement , or more, for women.
In one meal.
On the up side there was an article in the Globe this morning - a farm research station in Manitoba has designed feed for pigs that puts their omega-3 levels in the meat on a par with salmon.
If you can eat at home at least you have a better knowledge of what you are actually consuming. Learning how to prepare delicious and healthy meals is not so difficult and has many, many benefits.
There's s reason most don't publish calories/fat/ sodium levels for their products - if they did they would lose a lot of business. When independent tests where done and presented to consumers the calorie counts on popular meals where often twice what the consumer guessed they would be.
In a couple cases, 'healthy' sounding selections actually contained the equivalent of a three day supply of sodium, and a whole days calorie requirement , or more, for women.
In one meal.
On the up side there was an article in the Globe this morning - a farm research station in Manitoba has designed feed for pigs that puts their omega-3 levels in the meat on a par with salmon.
If you can eat at home at least you have a better knowledge of what you are actually consuming. Learning how to prepare delicious and healthy meals is not so difficult and has many, many benefits.
We used to eat out once a week on shopping day. Mama's Restaurant, a nice local family run place, not one of those cookie cutter chains. However this has changed. Now we order in about once a week. My wife is a great chef and I enjoy making my specialties so we have found we can make healthy meals at home and control the salt and fat.
If you are unsure, the cooking class route would pay off in spades. :smile:
If you are unsure, the cooking class route would pay off in spades. :smile:
yes, but you have yet to find the time when you make something that really tastes awesome and then you'll be hooked... especially when your significant other thinks so too... it's like an aphrodisiac. Use it! :lol: