It is a lot cheaper to prepare your own meals then it is to eat out.  One meal of eating out can pay for almost 1 week of home cooked meals.  And when you prepare your own foods you know what is in them, not so when you eat out.

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I have been preparing about 95% of my food from scratch at home for many years.  Since I use organic produce and grass fed only or wild meat and macadamia nut oil and coconut oil plus organic extra virgin olive oil,  I find I need smaller quantities at meals to get large benefits nutritionally.   By using the healthiest, highest quality foods, simple meals satisfy me much more than elaborately prepared unhealthy meals.  It does, indeed, require planning but I am so worth the extra effort.

Through Dr. Mercola's most comprehensive and most excellent Metabolic Typing Test, I recently discovered I am a high oxidative protein type.  Knowing what I need to eat for optimum nutrition for me has simplified my shoppng list and made it so much easier to prepare my meals AND fuel my body properly.

With all of this said, I must make one more comment that is VITALLY important to my health and well-being.   My husband of 36 years passed away June, 2005.  We shared the identical desire for nutritional health.  We had no children and neither of us had any family.  Isolation is very deadly.  I recognized this and set about giving myself permission to eat out once/week.  I make the best choices possible foodwise & choose establishments where I know I will receive the healthiest offerings.  I take my Probiotic Plus and receive the food & eat it with gracious thankfulness.  There just isn't anything more healing than sharing a meal and a wonderful conversation.   I had become obsessive about the strictness of my meal plans.  Therefore, it became necessary to accept resiliency and remember to nurture my heart and soul, too.  It can be done and very well, too!

Thank you,

Karen

Enumclaw, WA

I eat out at least once a day, and vitually never cook.  Not that I can't, I'm quite good at it, but I'm just to lazy to do it and clean up afterwards.

I think the question is - If one eats out what does one eat.

First of all, I never eat fast food, the closest I come is Subway and there I stick to salads and 6" subs sometimes with Chicken, Turkey or Roast beef with the majority of the time being just veggies.

I was able to get the ingredient list from Subway showing Exactly whats
in each product, and there are somethings you just wouldn't want to eat.

When I eat out, I always take my own salid dressing along with me which is Braggs Sesame Dressing made with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  Most fancier Restaurants e.g Applebees and Chilles offer a Raspberry Vinaigrette which I'll have on my salid instead.

I'll start each day out with a green smoothie after my workout which contains fresh greens and berries.  I also include protein powder and Chia Seeds.

For a snack in between I'll eat Gogi Berries with raw Almonds and Walnuts. I keep a dish on my dining room table, and grab some whenever I walk by.

However, I am considering buying a Wok to do some stir frying.  I figure, since I buy all these greens I could just as well chop some up, and through them into a Wok with some skinless chicken breast.

Sunday is my cheat day, and  I'll spend the day with some friends eating whatever I want.  I think if you stick to eating most "not so healthy foods" Moderately, you should be fine.  Every once an awhile you have to go off the wagon, and just eat what you enjoyed as a kid to keep your motivation going to eat healthy.

I think I'm doing more things right than wrong in  my lifestyle, but I always wonder in the back of my mind if I'm doing enough, and if there truly the right things or do I just think they are.