• Perspectivist@feddit.ukEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    There’s a bit more nuance to it than home cooked meals being healthy and eating out being unhealthy.

    • Ashwo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      There’s a bit more nuance to it than home cooked meals being healthy and eating out being unhealthy.

      There is a reason why restaurant chains are cheap. Their food comes from industrial factories.

      McDonalds isn’t going to have professional cooks make bread, fries, sauce… in each restaurant. That would be too expensive. They bring the frozen food in trucks. The employees do the last part. That’s how all corporate chains operate. Anything that comes from a factory is ultra-processed.

      Really rich people employ real cooks and butlers. Or they go to expensive restaurants.

      • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 hours ago

        Just because it’s frozen and made in a factory doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s unhealthy.

        Vitamin C is pretty much the only nutrient that gets degraded by freezing and storage. Usually the problem is that the nutrients weren’t in there to begin with.

        Having a look at the ingredients is really worth it. Of course that is a lot more difficult in a restaurant compared to a grocery store. Thanks to regulations.

    • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Sure, but going to a proper restaurant tends to cost a bit more than doing it yourself.

      Like, making some roasted pork with steamed veggies, sauce, and potatoes takes some 10+40 minutes of preparation and about 10 minutes of cleanup, and it costs me about 25$ (and is, of course, not including any deals). That’s for 4 grownups, plus some leftovers for lunch next day.

      Obviously food and restaurant prices differ wildly depending on where you live, but I’m not sure I could get a decent and healthy takeout/restaurant meal for less than 60$ for 4 people in my area (assuming that 4 kebabs can be considered “decent and healthy”).

      That’d leave me with a hourly “food-wage” of roughly 35$ (or 75$ if we’d assume 100$ for takeout), which I think is acceptable. I’d not make more than that after taxes either way.