Fast food vs. Home Cooking

Over the years health has become an outspoken topic. Not just in politics, but also in everyday, ordinary lives. Each year it seems statics changes the guidelines on what we should eat and how much of it we should eat. That is why home cooking is a better choice over fast food. Home cooking can allow you to become healthier and also bring and keep the family together. Where as fast food, tends to allow everyone to pick their own food and more than likely causes them to go their separate ways. Fast food is fattening, costly, and bad for the overall health of the family.
After a typical day at work, a normal household wife may not find it easy or exactly exciting to just say, “well I guess I will go home and cook a delicious and healthy home cook meal for the family”, but easier to say, “well I guess I will stop at McDonald’s and get the kids something to eat.” Not once to stop and think about herself or her spouse. Once at home the kids get to enjoy their hot fries or good burger, while the parents are left to fend for themselves, which we probably lead to an unhealthy choice of food. Something fast and quick just like that McDonald’s that was just picked up for the kids. Fast food is quick and easy, so there is no time basically for the family to spend with each other. Actually, after eating the family is subject to go their own separate ways, which may be outside, on the computer, or just to their room.
Eating out every day or at least 4-5 days a week can be very costly on the family’s budget. Where with home cooked food it allows you to buy the minimum or what is actually needed for the family. On average a whole meal for one person cost between $5.00 and $7.00, now if you were to buy something for everybody it would probably run anywhere from to $20.00 to $25.00, depends on where you stop. Now think about that, eating out can cost anywhere from $1200.00 to $1680.00 for an individual yearly and $4800.00 to $6000.00 for a family yearly. That is ridiculous. No one actually thinks about how much it is actually costing them to eat out on the day to day bases, but it really is affecting the family’s budget, which will lead to undue stress in the future. It is better to just budget yourself and your family food cost to a minimum of $200.00 and a maximum of $300.00 monthly by buying groceries from the store, which may actually last longer than you think and have some good health benefits in the long run.
Every time you turn around Zaxby’s, Wendy’s, Krystal’s, etc. are adding different products to their menu that seems at first glance, healthy. They put out substitutions for their fries or drinks, such as salad, yogurt, juice, or milk. Sounds good, or maybe even looks good on the menu, but actually it is not. When you think about, those are the same products that could be given at home. Even though we see those choices, we still tend to go for the usual combo without the substitutions. Just because it what we like and what we are used to. So why not save the weight and go home and cook.
Fast Food may be convenient and easy at the time, but it can save you some money and heart aches, literally in the future. Why sacrifice what little time the family does get to spend together for and a meal that was not even prepared with love. Sit down, enjoy your family, and the home cooked meal that was either prepared by you, your spouse, or even the entire family, you will be surprised by the benefits that will come out of that. More time with the family, more money for the family, and a better health for the whole family is the many benefits of home cooking versus fast food.