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Originally Posted by curves2000
I have a lot of friends of mine who do the exact thing you describe and I find it somewhat perplexing. I am a single guy as well, go out but also enjoy cooking.
I would think it would make it a lot more economical, healthier and smarter to try and do some very basic meal planning without really doing any cooking.
It's amazing to me when my friends who eat out daily never think of their next meal, which 99% of the time, is eating out. They don't get the logic of ordering a larger pizza for leftovers for the few days.
To each their own I guess but eating that much restaurant food all the time catches up with you in a lot of ways. It's just way too much salt, sugar, fat, low quality oils and killing of nutrients that isn't very good. It does cost a lot of money as well when you sometimes can make the easiest version of what you just ordered in literally minutes.
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I get enough pizza for left overs when I get pizza.
The restaurant food I get is not unhealthier than what I'd eat at home. Ethiopian, greek, thai, Vietnamese, burrito bowls etc. I dont eat fast food or drink alcohol or pop. I don't own a car and run/bike every single place I go. I do yoga and work out at the gym several times a week. At age 40, I've never felt healthier in my life (I was a varsity athlete in university).
I cooked for a lot of years but am just bored as hell with it. I'm bored with bringing sandwiches to work.
I get a lot of enjoyment from take out food. Financially, I'm still saving and investing about 66% of my take home pay each month (in addition to my work DB pension). Could I bump that up to 70% or higher if I cooked all my meals at home? Sure, but to me, it's an unnecessary sacrifice. This is an area of life I get enjoyment out of. Eating ham sandwiches' for lunch or meal prepping removes one of the few things I look forward to every day.