3. Saves Time
Most common excuse among people for not cooking at home is they don’t have time. But with proper planning and execution, you can reduce the cooking time and enjoy healthy home cooked food.
First of all, no one is asking you to become a gourmet chef and put up some extraordinary dish. Just grab a few ingredients and put up a simple quick recipe which takes you less than 30 minutes. This way you don’t have to wait for your food to be delivered and can come up with something healthy quickly.
Secondly, who told you to cook your food just before you eat it. If you have time in the morning cook 1 or 2 things then and you can eat it during the day or if you have early morning work hours you can cook something at night and refrigerate it.
A little time and effort is nothing compared to the kind of benefits this simple habit will reap.
4. Healthy Ingredients
When you order from a restaurant you are unaware of what you are eating? What is the quality of the ingredients used? What kind of oils were used? Were the vegetables used fresh? By cooking at home you can control all these factors and may end up making the same dish at home with fewer ingredients and at a cheaper price.
I love french fries, McDonald’s fries have some 18 to 20 ingredients and that stuff is frozen. Think about it do you really need 20 ingredients to make fries at home. Hardly 5-6 ingredients are enough to get that same taste and how cheap and healthy would it be then?