Eating At Home

I made "Lad's Prime Rib Recipe" from Pioneer Woman with the mashed potatoes and the au jus this week. I added green peas, because we needed a vegetable, and I love to have peas with mashed potatoes. It was delicious! And we had meals with the leftovers. 

Dwayne pointed out that this prime rib actually costs less than what our favorite fast food restaurant costs when we all go out and order a combo. That seems insane. But it's true. 

We haven't eaten at a restaurant in weeks. The biggest reason we stopped eating at restaurants is because Norah and I can't eat anything with gluten, dairy, or sugar while we are treating our Lyme and co-infections, so that really limits menu options. 

And even the best restaurants add a lot of extras to their food, and after one bite now, we can all tell, since we have all grown more sensitive to sugar, butter, etc. 

We all begin to hesitate to eat anything at restaurants. So most of the temptation we once felt to go out to eat is basically entirely gone. 

Given our situation, we find it is usually easier to make what we crave at home, and we try and often succeed to make it better and fresher with less junk in it. 

We're eating well- making prime rib, pulled pork, pho, French fries- all the things we might have gone out to get before, because we didn't' know how to make them or weren't comfortable trying. 

We're all growing brave, knowledgable, and skilled in the kitchen, cooking and baking more and more- even with the limitations to our diet. 

And when we want "a break" from cooking, we just make simpler meals at home- chicken salad, homemade soups, egg sandwiches, etc. 

Eating more at home means we are buying more groceries, of course. 

We're also buying different and better groceries, too, so that adds to the expense in some cases. 

So we spend more on groceries than before, but we're not spending anything on restaurants, so the costs work out. 

By eating at home and cooking most things from scratch, we're controlling what we eat, we know exactly what's in our food, we're eating better, wholer, more nutritious foods, even when what we make isn't considered healthy food. We're all definitely feeling better, healing, and in general, having far nicer meals than anything we can get from most restaurants anyway!

In almost every way, in almost every case, we find that eating at home is better than eating at restaurants.