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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand how people eat out so much.

Eating out 2-3x a month, ok. But getting takeout constantly? Just cook something simple at home. Make a lot. Eat leftovers.

The internet makes it seem like you need to eat a new/fun meal all the time, but you really don't. That shit is also terrible for your health, as well as your wallet. 
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When you and your spouse work 60+ hours a week, every minute not spent working is precious. And if you have a job where you're always on call, it can be really challenging to even make the weekly plan where you take inventory of what you have, build a shopping list, and procure the groceries.

I cook only 1-2 days per week. On Sunday, I do a big batch recipe that serves as lunches during the week. I also often cook on Friday night. The other nights are takeout or the healthy meal service I use.

Food prep is hard. Even simple, balanced meals require a good amount of labor. Making my own food is very low on my priority list when I have so much else going on. [/quote]

Making pasta with meat sauce takes not that much longer than entering a door dash order and throwing away the massive pile of packaging. Or something like baked potato and pork loin is even faster.

But more importantly that much takeout is really unhealthy. If my spouse and I both worked that much I would use the money to hire cook. [/quote]

a) Pasta with meat sauce isn't very healthy. 
b) They take a hell of a lot longer and require more planning than order DD. 
c) I will do some of these "quick cook" meals occasionally, but, often, premartinated meat isn't great health wise and still ends up requiring cooking a veggies, which often requires chopping, pots and pans, and sufficient advanced planning if you want to use fresh veggies. 
d) You can order healthy DoorDash? You can also cook crap at home. 
e) The 3x a week meal service is paying for cooking at home. We don't make private chef money (I priced it out), even with long hours, but we can swing this healthy meal service that's $25/meal. [/quote]

I'd be very interested to hear what you consider a healthy homecooked meal and a healthy DoorDash meal. I'm not being passive aggressive, to me its wild to think that pasta with meat sauce isn't healthy when compared to delivery. Interested in your perspective.[/quote]

Jarred pasta sauce, pasta, and ground beef aren’t great. They’re not the worst, but red meat is inflammatory and high in saturated fat. Jarred pasta sauce often (not always) has added sugar and high sodium content. Pasta is refined carb.

A hummus bowl with roasted eggplant and cauliflower is a lot healthier. Than a spaghetti with meat sauce meal. I get hummus bowls all the time.

To be clear, I eat pasta and jarred sauce from time to time because it’s an easy cheap meal. But it’s not a meal I feel awesome about and like to have more occasionally than as a weekly rotation. In contrast, one of my typical Sunday home cooked meals is a slow cooker lentil soup with kale, which is the type of home-cooked food I prefer to eat for health content. [/quote]

NP.  The jarred sauce I buy has zero added sugar. I specifically taste-tested like six different jars without sugar to find what I liked. I buy Goodles pasta or Barilla Protein Pasta. We use the chopped meat that's like 94% fat free from Trader Joe's. We add veggies to our meatsauce and pasta. So sure, there are way to eat this unhealthily, but don't assume everyone is. [/quote]

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