Top 10 Reasons why YOU should cook your meal

There are some necessities in life one of the major one is
eating a healthy meal daily. There are a lot of pros and cons to cook at
home. Start cooking real, whole foods from scratch and you'll be amazed
to see the pounds drop off. Not only because you're avoiding chemicals
but also because you're cutting out all that extra fat, sugar and salt.




Check out the many reasons why it is better to cook your meals at home

1. Firstly, it is cheaper to cook at home than to buy take-out or eat at restaurants
night after night, especially once you've gathered some basic
ingredients. If you find a few recipes that appeal to you, make a list,
and buy only what you need, you can make a week's worth of dinners for
about the same amount of money you'd spend in a mid-range restaurant for
two or three meals. At the same time, there are always leftovers when
you cook at home. You can use these meals for lunch the next day. That
will eventually same you tremendous amount money.


2. Secondly, cooking for yourself, is healthier. You control
the amounts of fat, sodium, carbohydrates, or any other substance. You
can buy fruits and vegetables in season and at their peak of flavor and
nutritional value rather than settling for browned lettuce or fruit that
tastes like cardboard. Portion control is as easy as deciding how much
food to put on your plate, eliminating the temptation to eat all those
fries that came with your restaurant burger. Restaurant food uses a lot
of butter and heavy cream that can be high in calories. That makes it
easier to stick to a diet plan.


3. Cooking for you allow you more flexibility than using prepared foods or ordering at a restaurant.
At home, if you don't like black olives in your pasta, don't use them.
If you like extra basil, add it. You can use olive oil instead of
butter, or soy milk instead of dairy. The choices are limitless,


4. Your meals are suited to your taste, every time. What
restaurant can do that for you? Some of us like spicy food while others
prefer less spice. same lies with salt and sugar. At home you get the
food suited to your taste every time.


5. You can adjust the servings: You may have noticed that in
most restaurants your favorite restaurant recipes come in adequate
servings which may sometimes lead you to crave for more. This means,
another serving main mean an add-on to the bills. When you cook your
favorite restaurant recipes at home you can have the freedom to adjust
the servings to your liking. Instead of just having one round of your
favorite dish, you can have as much as you want with your proper
proportion and estimate.


6. Cooking at home can be faster than going out. Add up the
time spent driving to a restaurant, waiting to be seated, waiting to be
served, eating, paying, then driving home again. You could have fixed
something simple and tasty much faster and been more comfortable in the
process - shoes off, favorite music on the stereo, relaxing in your own
home.





7. Avoid intake of unwanted chemicals & additives: All the
techniques used to process food - canning, dehydrating and freezing -
virtually destroy the flavor of food, so chemicals under the guise of
"natural flavors" have been added to enhance the flavor, while color
additives are added to make the foods look fresh. It might make the food
look and taste better, but it's not doing much for our bodies.
Monosodium glutamate is in almost all processed food and certainly in
almost all fast food out there. All sorts of medical studies have
revealed that MSG causes obesity, along with a lot of other nasty
things. It's a chemical we should never put in our bodies, and yet it's
something that is in virtually every processed food we buy. Free
yourself from MSG by cooking from scratch at home.

8. You would probably eat less at home since you can save it for later. However, you might eat everything at a restaurant because you do not want to throw away the food you paid for.


9. Better Health: The fewer chemicals you have in your body,
the better your health will be. Studies have shown that chemicals can
cause obesity and cancer, along with neurological complaints. The better
you feed your body, the longer you will live with a greater quality of
life.





10. The last advantage in cooking your favorite recipes at home is that,
the more you get to cook recipes the more you practice and master the
dish that you like. These in turn will open doors to tweak your
own recipes from the existing recipe that you have been practicing and
maybe you can come up with your own recipe. As the saying goes practice
makes perfect, this is the best way to level up with your cooking skills
and be a chef of your own.
Above all, cooking a great meal with
your spouse or B.B.Q with your family can lead to some unforgettable
memories. Always eat and share time with your family at the table.
There's
no greater feeling than knowing you cooked a fabulous meal for
yourself, saved money, saved time and improved your health. So go ahead.
What are you waiting for? Rattle those pots and pans and enjoy!