Families nowadays are going with the flow and following the food trend. More are eating out and eating fast as compared to dining in and cooking. People are too focused on achieving goals and improving themselves that they forget the basics on how food can help in their lives. Eating out would be fun for birthdays, anniversary, or other special occasion, but dining out should not be a part of a regular diet for everyone. Life for people has become busier, having no time to prepare and cook meals at home. In my point of view, I would prefer to dine at home at my own comfort would still be the best choice.
Eating at home would be the cheapest way because the cost reduction lowers cost in many ways. The travelling cost at which it takes to eat at one restaurant each day versus eating at home for throughout the week will reducing the gas price by a significant amount. Buying ingredients at the store would cost much cheaper for example: dinner would usually cost around ten to twenty dollars at a restaurant compared to seven to eleven dollars at home for the family to enjoy. Another would...
There has been controversy about whether fast food is easier on the pocket than eating home-cooked meals. Take McDonald’s for instance, they’re notorious for their convenient and affordable dollar-value menus. Since you can get a burger for just $1.19, feeding a family of four should be inexpensive, right? Mark Bittman, author of “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” argues otherwise. He claims that fast food is not at all cheaper than buying a few groceries and cooking at home.
American food culture is a contest with the purpose of determining who can have the best meal. This contest is apparent when we share our meals through social media, and treat culinary art as a profession to create beautiful plates. As a culture, we are very accepting of forgone foods, and prefer meals we don 't normally see in our household over something we are accustomed to eating. From personal experience, when I would go out and eat with friends, we would always go
Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks” because he declares that “if it weren’t so healthy, the people who follow it wouldn’t still be around” (Pollan). He emphasizes not only on what they eat, but how they eat, so aspects such as small portions and no seconds are significant. I comply with this rule because at home, we focus more on feeling full than taking pleasure in the taste of the food. Berkeley Wellness also refers to this in their “14 Keys to a Healthy Diet”. The author advises that we should check serving sizes especially when choosing to eat higher-calorie foods. When my parents prepare a meal, they always serve us in small or medium sized plates that way there is an illusion of enough food on the plate, when in reality it’s most likely less than we might think. Additionally, my parents’ home cooked meals are almost exactly enough for the entire family and rarely are there ever leftovers. This is because my parents consider the serving size for each of us and they nearly never allow seconds, unless it 's on special occasions such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, but even then they have to consider it. Keeping an eye on my food portion and serving size leads to a healthy and balanced diet. This is because it allows me to consider the portions for protein, vegetables, fruits, grains and dairy and consume all the possible nutritions I
Forty-eight percent of individuals who cooked dinner six to seven times a week consumed 2,164 calories, 81 grams of fat and 119 grams of sugar daily. They were also able to conclude that those who consumed home-cooked meals depend less on frozen foods and are less likely to choose fast foods. However, as explained in, “Tasting food, tasting freedom: excursions into eating, culture, and the past” Sidney Mintz explains in chapter eight that the majority of Americans often choose to eat out at fast food joints because of the convenience of these meals. Mintz states that these meals are usually diets, “high in animal protein, salts, fats, and processed sugars, low in fresh fruits and vegetables, drinking more soda than tap water.” This is where cultural, and social aspects create conflict when attempting to switch to this healthier lifestyle (although it is feasible). Depending on an individual’s schedule, it will either be an easier switch to make home-cooked meals, or just another difficult task to accomplish throughout the
So is going through the drive thru of your favorite fast restaurant really cheaper than making a meal at home for your family? In today’s time it has become more relevant to get what is more convenient and cheapest regarding to food. People are less concerned with the health benefits, whether that means going by McDonalds for dinner than making a home cooked meal or eating junk food than healthy alternative snack. People are doing what seems to be the most convenient and inexpensive route, but the problem is that Americans lack knowledge regarding junk food and real food which is interfering with their health. High amounts of processed foods are being consumed by Americans because they are tight budgeted
which costs $28, to a home prepared meal for a family of four or even six, which costs $14 or
Over the past 50 years, American diets have changed from leisurely family cooked meals that were usually prepared at home, using natural ingredients to today’s fast foods that are eaten on the run with little thought towards nutrition of content; at least one quarter of Americans eat fast food everyday (Harper 35). Eating out several times each week constitutes an important part of most Americans routines (Schlosser). The places as well as the foods consumed in eating out play an important role in fulfilling lifestyle aspirations. Compared to other foods
Imagine a traditional old school family. The family would sit down at the dinner table and share a meal together along with quality conversation over their day(s). The meal was prepared for a great sum of time and was well balanced comprised of portions every main food group followed by dessert all resulting in happy tummies and replenished bodies. Now think of meal time today. Today 's mealtime is centered around convenience and instant delivery, often fast food that is calorie packed and nutrient deficient thus leading to fullness only for a short period of time. Over the years in America obesity has been on the rise due to more busy lifestyles and less time available to prepare a well balanced meal. How times have changed! Unfortunately,the fast food industry has greatly contributed to a drastic rise in obesity
In today’s busy sociality that we live in it can easily become a habit to just buy food at a local fast food restaurant or order take out instead of cooking every day. An increasingly large amount of families today are finding it more difficult to make time to sit at the dinner table as a family and eat a healthy well-balanced meal together. Parents and caregivers play an important role when it comes to choosing healthy meals for children and teaching them how to make smart healthy choices for themselves when it comes to snacks. Developing good nutritional habits at a young age in order to promote optimal health and growth is something that could benefit children throughout their entire life. Therefore, by making time and planning healthy creative meals parents can help improve or maintain children’s nutritional diet just by making a few simple changes.
Fast pace life and time pressure leave no time to cook and leads people to eat on the go
Eating out is not always a convenient option, or even the best option. Cooking at home
According to some of my friends, their parents buy more unprocessed and local foods rather than the usual processed foods (Mei, Murray). There could also be children, or teens, whose parents simply don’t allow them to eat at a fast-food restaurant quite often. Unfortunately, according to the table below McDonald’s seems to be the fast-food chain restaurant that is targeting the youth the most (see table 1). Nowadays, many parents tend to take their kids to a fast-food restaurant simply because it’s easier and faster to order food then it is to cook an entire meal (Murray). Not only is eating out, or at least take out, efficient, but it’s also less stressful on the parents. Children can tend to be very picky eaters, well most of them at least. My younger cousin for one refuses to eat anything green, unless it’s a cucumber. As we progress more and more into our culture of industrialized eating, we need to consider what we are risking in the long run. There’s actually many different things that not only college students but the entire population could do to help reduce our risks in the long run. For one, it would be to stop eating so frequently at these fast-food restaurants. I know many of my peers, who I went to high school with, would often go to McDonald’s for breakfast before school started. Fortunately, at Denison, it’s not that common for us to go to McDonald’s for breakfast; probably because the closest one is in the next town
People think that the price of fast food is cheaper than a home-cooked meal. Although many people like to eat fast food because of it is inexpensive and tasty, the actual price of the fast food is not exactly same like the menu. The price of fast food sounds affordable, but actually it is quite expensive. This is because people are influenced by the fast food restaurant’s advertisement. It illustrates the price of a set of fast food is affordable compared to cooking at home. When people go to the fast food outlet, they realize the price at the bill is not as same as the advertisement stated. The price is even higher than the price stated at the advertisement. Although the fast food advertisement provides the information that the price of fast food is low, the price in the advertisement does not include the tax and tips. On the other hand, cooking at home is much cheaper than eating fast food. It is always affordable, healthier and more emotional fulfillment when eating at home and cooking ingredients compare to eating out (Warner, 2015). The people only need to buy the ingredients and cook it by our own.It is always affordable because people only need to pay ingredients and cook it at home. There are no tax and extra tips! If people prepare their food in large quantities at home, it is more economical than buy several sets of fast food. According to Yeager (2010), “A family that commits to eating at home can save $3000 in one year and eat just as well,” (p. 52). Save and
When a family eats at home they, will pay less than restaurants because when they buy food from the market they buy for better quality and a better price.
It is far more flattering and interesting to say the best place to eat is at five star expensive restaurants with a stunning view, but is that actually the best place to physically consume food? Is this attractive place actually making one enjoy their food more? Is it not logical to think a great place to eat is a place where most people actually eat daily? In the comfort of one’s home, more specifically in the comfort of one’s on bed has shown to be a place where people feel comfortable eating. Despite society labeling it as laziness, the action of being able eat lying down in bed with entertainment is appealing to individuals wanting relaxation because of the comfortable physical sedentary position compared to eating while standing, and