Originally Posted by stud u like:
“I prefer to know what is in my food. I also enjoy cooking my own recipes and really don't want to waste money to pay someone else to do it when I can do it more than adequately.
If more people cooked at home, the world would be a better place.”
I don't think it's necessarily all about that. I love cooking and I like to think I'm good at it. I buy as much local produce as I can and ethically sourced ingredients but we do go out quite a bit because sometimes it's nice to just enjoy the experience.
My husband and I can just down tools and concentrate on a nice evening out where neither of us is cooking / cleaning up and we can just concentrate on chatting and catching up with our lives. We go to all sorts of places - Nandos, gastropubs, Italian chain restaurants, fine French dining restaurants depending on how we feel and yeah, we know that a lot of the time I probably could cook the meal we are going to have a lot better at home and cheaper but for us it's not about that. It's for going out together / with friends and not having to do anything for an evening -having a good talk, people watching, relaxing, breaking routine and being social.