| g out to restaurants can become quite habitual after a | | | | have tainted my food, like a bug for example has been |
| while. You find your favorite restaurants and you go to | | | | removed and all food surrounding it. In a restaurant |
| them over and over again. You love their salad or their | | | | theyâre too busy to see that bug and it might |
| pasta primavera but there are just a few things you | | | | just become your added protein. Also, if you order their |
| would change or add to it if you were to make it | | | | spinach canonoli and their spinach is not up to par, |
| yourself. Unfortunately you canât figure out | | | | youâre probably not going to notice it. At home |
| that one ingredient in the recipe that makes the dish so | | | | you would. |
| amazingly good which is what keeps you going back | | | | Another thing I have seen is food being accidently |
| there. | | | | dropped on the dirty back room or kitchen floor and |
| There are actually books out there that have copycat | | | | put back on the plate. I have seen this first hand with |
| recipes for some major restaurants and fast food | | | | stuff thatâs being chopped or added into the |
| places. These recipes have been tested over and | | | | dish. Iâve also seen premade salads put back |
| over again until the dish tastes exactly as it does in the | | | | on the plates after being dropped. You may think I |
| restaurant. They are worth investing in if you | | | | worked at some pretty low class places but |
| canât figure it out on your own because eating | | | | youâre wrong. These were common |
| at home has so many advantages. | | | | restaurants that people go to every day. |
| The first, and what my fiancé and I think is most | | | | The third reason is waste. At home most of your food |
| important, is the âonly your hands on the | | | | becomes leftovers, composted, or food for the dog. |
| foodâ benefit. I have worked in many | | | | At a restaurant it becomes garbage and lots of it. |
| restaurants and I have seen some stuff that might | | | | Orders that get sent back, unfinished plates, unused |
| make you think twice about eating out. Like, people | | | | food for cooking, food thatâs gone bad |
| eating off of your plate before it goes out and those | | | | because they over stocked, food thatâs just |
| guys who go to the bathroom but donât wash | | | | gone bad, and (cross your fingers) food thatâs |
| their hands before they dish up your food. | | | | been dropped on the floor all goes in the garbage. |
| Donât get me wrong, Iâm not saying | | | | Even if you take your food home youâve |
| all restaurants are like this, but if they were all like this | | | | added one more styrofoam container to the garbage |
| where I worked, Iâm assuming there are more | | | | that didnât need to be there. |
| out there. So making your own food at home assures | | | | The last reason is of course money. Making five or |
| that only your hands will be on the food and if you | | | | more plates of your favorite pasta dish with sides as |
| choose not to wash them then thatâs your | | | | opposed to what two dishes would cost in a |
| problem. | | | | restaurant. If youâre looking for more for your |
| Second benefit, you know whatâs going in or | | | | money then cooking at home is it. |
| has been in your food, what it looks like, and where | | | | Once you start cooking at home regularly it becomes |
| itâs been. Iâm a vegetarian so I order | | | | harder and harder to justify going out to a restaurant. |
| all my food without meat, but sometimes | | | | Thereâs really no need for it except for |
| thereâs meat in it anywase. When I make it at | | | | convenience and if you have a high standard with |
| home whatever I donât want, like meat, has no | | | | food thatâs just not good enough. |
| chance of getting in there. Alternatively, if I want extra | | | | Find some copycat recipes of your favorite restaurant |
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